Safe and Successful Schools Framework
This framework provides policy recommendations and best practices for improving school safety for children and youth, and includes a section on actions principals can take to promote safe and successful schools.
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Resources on Personal Pronouns
This website provides information about why pronouns matter in a straight forward way. Access the resources provided to use in student, staff, and family learning events, newsletter, or link to their page in your email signature and share this information and your support of LLBTQ+ communities.
Responsible Decision-Making: a Step-by-Step Guide
Download this PDF on responsible decision making: the process of making choices by identifying a decision, gathering information, and assessing alternative resolutions. Using a step-by-step decision-making process can help you make more deliberate, thoughtful decisions in schools by organizing relevant information and defining alternatives. This approach increases the chances that you will choose the most satisfying alternative possible.
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Responsive Classoom
Responsive Classroom is a student-centered, social and emotional learning approach to teaching and discipline. It is comprised of a set of research, and evidence-based practices designed to create safe, joyful, and engaging classrooms and school communities for both students and teachers.
Restorative Justice in Oakland Schools
This video offers an inside look at the use of restorative circles in a high school.
Resources for Clinicians for the Treatment of Depression in Children & Adolescents
Resources for depression in youth for clinicians, such as information on CBT and psychotherapy, as well as webinars.
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Resources for Crisis and Grief in Schools
Compiled online resources to support students through crisis and loss.
Resources for Schools after a Shooting
Compiled resources for schools and caregivers to understand common reactions about a catestropic event such as a school shooting, how to support students and school communities, and includes guides and fact sheets.
Rainbows for All Children
Rainbows’s mission is to create a community that connects children with the support they need to navigate grief and heal from loss. Rainbows provides training and support groups to schools around programs and resources for schools to support students dealing with grief and loss.
Reclaim Social-Emotional Learning: Centering Organizing Praxis for Holistically Safe Schools Report
In 2020 Communities for Just Schools Fund worked with national network of partners (youth, parent, and teacher-led organizing groups) to press back on harmful narratives about safety — and to instead place conversations about safety into the more holistic, appropriate container of culturally-affirming social-emotional learning (SEL). Through the year-long Community of Practice, they collected survey data from partners about their work related to safety and SEL. The findings from this year-long exploration of culturally-affirming SEL are detailed in this report.