Family Engagement in Schools
Toolkits and fact sheets for district leaders, school leaders and teachers to improve parent engagment in order to support and improve the learning, development, and health of children and adolescents.
Staffing & Preparation
Critical Practices for Social Justice Education
Resource supports K-12 educators in growing their understanding of social justice principles. Each pillar – Curriculum & Instruction, Culture & Climate, Leadership, and Family & Community Engagment – has strategies that schools and districts can integrate into their practice.
Culturally Responsive Teaching and the Brain
Website of Dr. Zaretta Hammond that offers insight/answers to our collective and individual questions about how to help students become confident and competent learners. Highlights lessons learned in schools and classrooms with teachers who are successful with diverse students, focusing on how to take everyday strategies and practices and put them to work in classrooms to be more culturally responsive.
Discussing Race, Racism and Police Violence
The resources below can help spur much-needed discussion around implicit bias and systemic racism, but they can also help inspire us all to enact the changes that will create a more just society.These resources can help spur much-needed discussion around implicit bias and systemic racism, but they can also help inspire us all to enact the changes that will create a more just society.
Cognitive Behavioral Therapy for Schools (CBITS) trauma intervention
Eveidence-based school-based group intervntion for students grades 5-12 who have expereinced trauma.
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Consultancy Protocol
The purpose of this protocol is to provide a structure for analyzing the process participants have used to make changes in their practice, and for linking that process to Inquiry. This protocol highlights the changes educators constantly make in their practice,and gives them a way to think more systematically about the questions and data they use to inform those changes.
Checking yourself for bias in the Classroom
Unconscious bias can shape the responses of even the most well-intentioned educators. But you can check yourself—one teacher shares how.
BounceBack
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.
Bridging and Belonging series
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.
Adult SEL Toolkit
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.