Family & Community Partnership

Centering Student Experience: A Playbook for Improving Student Outcomes by Centering Student Experience

August 5, 2024

Regardless of role, we each have a part to play in shaping the conditions that impact student learning and improving the experiences of students. This playbook, which is a curated culmination of actionable best practices, tools, and resources created by the BELE Network — can serve as a first step or a guide to going deeper. It is designed to be a tool used across the education space to leverage research-backed, role-specific resources that offer a path to bring practices and policies that center student experience to the classroom.

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Centering Student Voices to Build Community and Agency

August 5, 2024

Explores approaches to centering student voice, building authentic relationships and cultivating community with Molly Josephs, the creator of This Teenage Life, a youth-driven, story-sharing podcast that started as a school club.

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Bridging and Belonging series

August 5, 2024

Bridging and Belonging series includes a 2-minute animated video and downloadable curricula that dives into how social responses to collective anxiety are greatly shaped by the stories presented in places like schools.

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Adverse Community Experiences and Resilience: a Framework for Addressing and Preventing Community Trauma

August 5, 2024

This report offers a framework for understanding the relationship between community trauma and violence. It outlines specific strategies to address and prevent community trauma and foster resilience using techniques from those living in affected areas.

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Allegories on Race

August 5, 2024

Dr. Camara Jones shares four allegories on “race” and racism. She hopes that these “telling stories” empower you to do something different, and that you will remember them and pass them on. Dr. Jones is a family physician and epidemiologist whose work focuses on the impacts of racism on the health and well-being of the nation. She seeks to broaden the national health debate to include not only universal access to high quality health care, but also attention to the social determinants of health (including poverty) and the social determinants of equity (including racism).

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