Learning & Instruction

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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Checking yourself for bias in the Classroom

August 5, 2024

Unconscious bias can shape the responses of even the most well-intentioned educators. But you can check yourself—one teacher shares how.

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Best Practices in Universal Screening for Social, Emotional, and Behavioral Outcomes: An Implementation Guide

August 5, 2024

The purpose of this guide is to summarize the current state of research and practice related to universal SEB screening and provide practical and defensible recommendations.

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Beyond the ACE Score: Perspectives from the NCTSN on Child Trauma and Adversity Screening and Impact

August 5, 2024

Provides an overview of the concepts of Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACEs) and childhood trauma, highlights the gaps that remain in our understanding of the impact of childhood trauma and adversity on mental and physical health, and describes how these terms (childhood trauma vs. adversity) differ. This resource also offers providers, family advocates, and policymakers recommendations for ways in which ACEs and other childhood trauma-related concepts and resources can be combined to advance care for children and families who have experienced trauma.

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BounceBack

August 5, 2024

An adaptation of CBITS, the Bounce Back program helps school-based clinicians work with children in Kindergarten through fifth grade. Like CBITS, the program is intended for students exposed to at least one traumatic event who are experiencing traumatic stress symptoms.

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Brown vs. Board and the Doll Test

August 5, 2024

This article describes how the Doll Test, conducted by psychologists Kenneth and Mamie Clark, communicated the influence of race, color and status on the self-esteem of children

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Building Comminity through Restorative Circles

August 5, 2024

Article from Edutopia provides an overview of using restorative talking circles in schools

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Adult SEL Toolkit

August 5, 2024

Adult SEL Toolkit is aligned to CASEL’s Focus Area 2 for SEL implementation to help districts take a major step forward in supporting adult capacity for . Includes resources to support staff wellbeing, creating systems of support for educators, and build adult SEL capacity.

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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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