Every Student Matters: Cultivating Belonging in the Classroom
These five strategies can help ensure that students feel they belong in your classroom.
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Evidence Based Practices for Equity in Schools
Website to help schools in their equity by providing a broad range of services — research and evaluation, professional learning, technical assistance, and policy guidance — that are tailored to the needs of our clients. A nonpartisan partner, WestEd generates knowledge and apply evidence and expertise to improve policies, systems, and practices.
Exposure in Cognitive Behavioral Therapy
This video, which is part of the Center for Childhood Resilience’s CBT course, provides an overview of using exposure in the treatment with youth with anxiety.
District 186 opens new peace rooms in three high schools
News story about Springfield IL schools using peace rooms in high schools to ensure students have a safe space to talk about what they’re going through.
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Doll Test : the Effects of Racism on Children
The “doll test” is a psychological experiment designed in the 1940s in the USA to test the degree of marginalization felt by African American children caused by prejudice, discrimination and racial segregation. Given the considerable increase of the phenomenon of migration in Europe in recent years the filmmakers decided to re-create the test with Italian children in 2016.
Educator Self-Care Resources
Individual self-care planning involves identifying and incorporating specific self-care strategies for promoting resilience and maintaining a healthy work–life balance (e.g., exercise, good nutrition, supportive networks). Individual self-care plans involve scheduling restorative activities, recognizing personal triggers, and planning an action response that supports well-being. Compiled resources include links to local and national resources and tools for educators, including a Compassion Resilince Toolit for Schools.
Educator Wellness Webinars
This 4-session recorded webinar series includes handouts and resources on educator well-being and to support educators tap into their resiliency skills, increase self-compassion, create self-care routines, build a practice of gratitude and appreciation and celebrate – even those small successes – to support wellbeing.
Educator Wellness: A Whole School Approach to Improve Staff Stress and Retention and Student Achievement
This infogrphic illustrates educator wellness, which is the impact of a school’s organizational and individual systems (e.g., culture and climate, employee training and supports, etc.) on staff social, emotional, physical, and mental well-being. This influences staff stress through four main sources that create positive or negative working conditions and ultimately impacts the teaching and learning environment for students.
Effectiveness of Restorative Justice in US K-12 Schools: a Review of Quantitative Research
This 2020 article provides an overview of restorative justice (RJ) in US K-12 schools, discusses implementation challenges, and summarizes the most recent two decades of quantitative studies regarding the effectiveness of RJ at achieving a range of outcomes. While RJ has become increasingly popular, there is still relatively little quantitative research regarding its effective-ness. Still, available evidence suggests that RJ programs can improve school climates and reduce student misbehavior and school discipline. Results are more mixed regarding RJ’s impact on bullying, student absenteeism, and academic performance.