Learning & Instruction

Culturally Responsive Curriculum Scorecard Toolkit

August 5, 2024

This tool provides key questions for those accountable for moving classrooms and schools toward cultural responsiveness) and what should be addressed as they prepare for their next steps. The questions are designed to encourage a critical reflection on the process of scoring, identifying systemic barriers, opportunities, and supports for a culturally responsive curriculum, and planning the next steps.

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Cycle of Risk: The Intersection of Poverty, Violence, and Trauma; 2017 report

August 5, 2024

This report presents the need for both a rapid response and a long-term approach to reducing violence. By taking a comprehensive approach, there is continued caution, so that reform does not perpetuate the very inequities and conditions that have led to violence in our communities.

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Creating a Sense of Belonging: Young People Identify Ways to Build Welcoming Environments

August 5, 2024

This brief article outlines seven concrete ways to create a school environment in which youth of color know they belong.

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Creating Classroom Calm Corners

August 5, 2024

This video explores about how classoom can use calming corners as part of their SEL and mental health promotion work to support students.

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Creating Restorative Justice Spaces in Schools

August 5, 2024

A comprehensive toolkit to help guide schools through the process of planning and designing spaces in schools that can be uased for peacemaking, calming centers and restorative practices.

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Creating Safe, Equitable, Engaging Schools

August 5, 2024

Creating Safe, Equitable, Engaging Schools helps school leaders make sense of the various evidence-based resources and frameworks designed to support the whole child. Addressing critical topics like restorative practices, cultural responsiveness, social and emotional learning, and family engagement, this volume offers insights on how leaders can leverage school-based teams to assess student needs and select appropriate interventions. Chapters include: building capacity of staff to lead and implement their work with passion, enthusiasm, and efficiency; engaging the strengths of all school stakeholders; implementing strong foundational supports which address diverse student and educator needs; and monitoring implementation efforts using evidence from improvement science.Spanish version availble.

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Creating School Active Shooter/Intruder Drills

August 5, 2024

Keeping our school campuses safe from active shooters or intruders is one component of a school emergency plan. Part of being prepared is planning safety drills. The type of drills or exercises your school conducts should map on to your school emergency operations plan. This fact sheet provides guidance on steps to consider when performing an active shooter/ intruder drill.

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Creating, Supporting, and Sustaining Trauma-Informed Schools System Framework

August 5, 2024

This framework presents a tiered approach to creating a trauma-informed school environment that addresses the needs of all students, staff, administrators, and families who might be at risk for experiencing the symptoms of traumatic stress. This framework offers a vision of a trauma-informed school, adhering to the “4 Rs”.

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Community Resilience Framework

August 5, 2024

The Community Resilience (CR) Framework bridges cross-disciplinary research in social determinants, early childhood development, neurobiology, and disaster preparedness and response to analyze the complex interactions between public systems, policies, and community outcomes.

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Conscious Discipline

August 5, 2024

Alternative approach to traditional discipline that is trauma-informed and based on SEL, with a focus on restorative practices. The website provides free resources for teachers to use in the classroom, webinars and poscasts on this topic.

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