Policies – Page 3

Fostering Belonging, Transforming Schools: The Impact of Restorative Practices

August 5, 2024

Learn how exclusionary discipline practices like suspensions and expulsions can increase misbehavior and negatively impact school climate, particularly among Black students, who face disproportionate rates of these punishments. Discover how restorative practices, which focus on conflict resolution and community building, can address the root causes of misbehavior, reduce racial disparities, and improve overall school climate and academic engagement.

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Essentials for Childhood Framework and Resources

August 5, 2024

Essentials for Childhood famework proposes strategies and resources communities can consider to promote the types of relationships and environments that help children grow up to be healthy and productive citizens so that they, in turn, can build stronger and safer families and communities for their children.

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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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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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Communities for Just Schools Fund

August 5, 2024

Communities for Just Schools Fund is a national collaborative that links philanthropy with the power of grassroots organizing to transform schools. Program areas include grantmaking, technical assistance & capacity-building, Community of Practice, federal strategies, narrative power-building, and member programming.

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Center to Improve Social and Emotional Learning and School Safety

August 5, 2024

This website is a resource for state and local education leaders interested in advancing their work to support positive school climate efforts, social and emotional development and well-being and other initiatives related to serving the whole person for students and educators. Includes resources such as a guide to examine some common root causes of staff resistance and offers actionable strategies for leaders to mitigate its effects.

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Building Statewide Awareness for SEL

August 5, 2024

This site contains lots of social emotional learning resources for educators and principals, including toolkits for advocacy like sample letters to the editor. The website has research articles, strategy toolkits and other resources that support the work to support SEL in your school or district.

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Being Anti-Racist is Central to Trauma-Informed Care: Principles of an Anti-Racist, Trauma-Informed Organization

August 5, 2024

Systems and organizations must shift beyond performative action toward becoming antiracist and trauma-informed. This resource offers actionable principles and strategies that organizations can implement to make this move toward fundamental transformation. The goal of this resource is to light a fire in the bellies of systems, their leaders, and their agents to adopt conscious efforts and actions that promote equity, healing, and justice. This cannot be achieved by inspiring systems to simply think differently about individuals negotiating racism in their daily lives – they must act differently.

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Advancing Racial Justice In Our Policies, Institutions, and Culture

August 5, 2024

The Race Forward toolkits provide comprehensive guidance for civil servants, artists, and cultural practitioners on implementing and strengthening racial equity strategies within their organizations and public institutions. They include actionable steps, challenges to anticipate, and success stories to aid in the strategic and equitable assessment of policies, practices, and programs.

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Why We Need an Anti-Racist Approach to Social and Emotional Learning

August 5, 2024

Anti-racist approach to SEL takes a view that recognizes and values the diverse social and emotional skills students bring with them to the classroom. It also relates students’ individual social and emotional struggles to their lived experience with racial injustice and social inequity.

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