Flourish Agenda provides training and consultation to equip schools, youth agencies, foundations, and local governments with strategies, trainings, and tools that enhance learning and healthy development for youth. Also offers an online Healing Centered Engagement certifcate program.
This article provides an overview of Dr. Shawn Ginwright’s Healing Centered framework that can be applied to schol environments.
This article brings together “healing schools” with trauma-informed care, restorative justice, and multicultural education coming together under one integrated framework. Authors call for creation of healing schools because: 1) Schools can play a valuable role in promoting healing and well-being among the students and families with whom they engage and 2) Many urban schools themselves need healing because they have become systems of toxic environments for adults and youth alike. Framework includes four key values: relationships, safety, belonging, and agency.
Toolkits and fact sheets for district leaders, school leaders and teachers to improve parent engagment in order to support and improve the learning, development, and health of children and adolescents.
This toolkit provides districts and schools with practical planning and evaluation tools that support efforts to engage all families, particularly those of underrepresented and underserved students.
Family Engagement Toolkit: Continuous Improvement Through an Equity Lens Read More »
This guide will equip you with the strategies and tools you need to meaningfully and continuously engage families in their children’s learning and development. By the end, you’ll understand common barriers to engaging families, equity-centered and technology-supported strategies for connecting with caregivers, and methods for enabling family engagement with survey data.
Family Engagment in Schools: A Comprehensive Guide Read More »
Based on existing research and best practices, the Dual Capacity-Building Framework for Family-School Partnerships is designed to support the development of family engagement strategies, policies, and programs. It is not a blueprint for engagement initiatives, which must be designed to fit the particular contexts in which they are carried out. Instead, the Framework should be seen as a compass, laying out the goals and conditions necessary to chart a path toward effective family engagement efforts that are linked to student achievement and school improvement.. Website with resources to understand the reasons why educators and families have struggled to build trusting and effective partnerships.
Great Schools Partnership created resources and tools, which are broken up into three categories: introduction to community engagement, community conversations, and policy to help schools achieve equitable community engagement—an ongoing, two-way process of building relationships, working collaboratively to support all students, and sharing power—can result in transformative benefits for schools and their school communities.
Alex Shevrin Venet talks about her book, Equity-Centered Trauma-Informed Education on the Teaching in Higher Ed podcast.
This webinar builds from the compendium of equity and SEL, with panelists Rose Prejean-Harris, Angela Ward, and Eric Moore sharing their insights and expertise as district leaders who implement evidence-based practices and data-driven continuous improvement processes for social and emotional learning, school climate, and other whole person initiatives. The session specifically delves into practical methods for using data to advance equitable outcomes.
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