Building a Trans-Inclusive School Environment
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Courageous Conversations
This video is based on the “compass” from Glenn Singleton’s book: Courageous Conversations About Race. It was created to help us understand how we each process and engage with information about race. Using this compass is also a way to understand the reactions of others during difficult conversations. Knowing which quadrant you are in can help you have more productive conversations.
Embodies Anti-Racist Education
Embodies Anti-Racist Education site provides various opportunities to engage in anti-racist education.
The Three E’s of Trauma
This brief video, part of Center for Childhood Resilience’s Introduction to Trauma course, explains SAMSHA’s definition of trauma, which helps us understand how trauma can impact students in our schools.
Understanding Trauma
This video explores the effects of trauma on children, highlighting signs such as emotional distress, behavioral changes, and relationship difficulties, while emphasizing the importance of recognizing these signs and providing a supportive, safe environment for healing.
Reimaginando del Apoyo a la Salud Mental de los Migrantes
Curso para proveedores no de salud mental, como personal de refugios y promotores de salud, enfocado en estrategias universales.
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HR Toolkit for Racial Equity
This resource comes from W.K. Kellogg Foundation’s work that includes recommended tools and resources for implementing racial equity strategies as part of a human resources function. This resource can be valuable to human resources and culture and equity professionals. It may also be useful to any leader doing internal organizational transformation work in school communities.
Principals’ Social & Emotional Competence: a Key Factor in Creating Caring Schools
School principals have substantial impacts on many aspects of their schools, including school climate and culture, teacher well-being and retention, and students’ school success. As such, the personal and professional development of principals is a key element in creating a caring school in which adults and children feel welcomed, cared for, and challenged. It is now recognized that principals experience substantial job-related stress which can compromise their personal well-being as well as their leadership. Surprisingly, the social and emotional development and well-being of principals has received little attention.
This brief provides a conceptual model of the Prosocial School Leader, which has two components. The first is the principal’s own social and emotional competence (SEC) and the ability to handle stress and model caring and culturally competent behaviors with staff and students. The second component is an enhanced model of leadership in which principals are the prosocial leaders whose responsibility is to ensure that all staff, students, parents, and community members feel safe, cared for, respected, and valued. Principals’ SECs, well-being, and leadership form the foundation that influences the effective implementation of social and emotional learning (SEL), school climate, teacher functioning and well-being, family and community partnerships, and downstream student outcomes.
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Students Exploring Gender Identity
Teachers play an important role in establishing and maintaining healthy environments for students to learn and grow. As leaders and guides in setting and maintaining the culture of their classrooms and school communities, teachers are critical in establishing welcoming, respectful, and safe environments, explaining expectations for student interactions, and modeling inclusive language, which continues to evolve over time. This primer and podcast help teachers understand how they can support students who are exploring gender identity.