Podcast aims to provide leaders with practical guidance and vivid approaches to strategic communications in our current context of social and political polarization. The call to action in the audiocast is: effective strategic communications is values-driven and bi-directional.
It is fueled by deep listening, patient persistence, and authentic relationships.
Organization within Illinois that provides advocacy, professional development, needs assessment, action planning and implementation to communties and organizations wanting to develop adult social and emotional leanring, restorative practices, clutire and climate work in schools, bullying prevention, and healing-centered work.
Using this strategy, school staff identify youth who do not currently have positive connections with school adults during a private meeting. Those students are then paired with a supportive adult mentor within the school. Throughout the year, mentors support each other through the successes and challenges of building relationships with students, and school administrators routinely communicate with staff to determine how well the process is going. At the end of the year, the staff convenes to talk about how their efforts may have positively affected students.
The School Mental Health resource page provides a comprehensive collection of tools, guidelines, and research to support integrating mental health services and strategies within educational settings. It also includes a list of websites and free resources to help support youth, families, schools, and communities impacted by violence.
Download the Psychological First Aid (PFA) mobile app to accompany PFA training, which is an evidence-informed modular approach to help children, adolescents, adults, and families in the immediate aftermath of disaster and terrorism. It includes helpful and easy to access information and strategies to implement during times of crises.
film underscores the challenges Black girls face with insights from multiple experts across the country who have worked extensively in the fields of social and criminal justice, gender equality and educational equity, giving context to the crisis and providing a roadmap for how our educational system and those who interact with Black girls can provide a positive rather than punitive response to behaviors that are often misunderstood or misrepresented.
Pushout: the Criminalization of Black Girls in Schools Read More »
Whole-Hearted School Counseling offers engaging and creative counseling resources for K-12 educators, including activities, worksheets, and lesson plans. The website aims to support students’ social-emotional development with practical tools and strategies. This free infographic provides questions to help children solve problems.
Race Forward provides training to help people develop skills and strategies to understand, challenge, and address structural and institutional racial inequities. Their website has lots of resources, including videos, podcasts and toolkits to help individuals and communities, including schools build knowledge and skills around dismantling racism.
Reflections on the state of education today and what it means to support social justice and be an anti-racist educator. Conversation with Dr. Pedro Noguera, national educational leader and Dean of the University of Southern California’s Rossier School of Education.
Race, Equity, and the State of Education: A Conversation with Dr. Pedro Noguera Read More »
This website is designed to support individuals and groups working to achieve racial equity; and offers tools, research, tips, curricula, and ideas for people who want to increase their understanding and help those working for racial justice.
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