Building a Trans-Inclusive School Environment
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Conscious Discipline Brain State Model
A multidisciplinary approach based on three distinct brain-body states in adults and children that drive behavior.
Making Connections: Culturally Responsive Teaching & the Brain
Elena Aguliar interviews Zaretta Hammond about her book, Culturally Responsive Teaching and The Brain: Promoting Authentic Engagement and Rigor Among Culturally and Linguistically Diverse Students. Read about how cultural responsiveness is more of a process than a strategy. It begins when a teacher recognizes the cultural capital and tools students of color bring to the classroom.
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Toxic Stress and Development
This video is part three of the “Three Core Concepts in Early Development” series from the Center on the Developing Child at Harvard University and the National Scientific Council on the Developing Child.
Building Strong Brains: Tennessee ACE’s Initiative a Facilitator’s Guide
Tennessee ACEs Initiative is a major statewide effort to establish TN as a national model for how a state can promote culture change in early childhood based on a philosophy that preventing and mitigating adverse childhood experiences, and their impact, is the most promising approach to helping TN children lead productive, healthy lives and ensure the future prosperity of the state.
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Students Who Have Experienced a Crisis
Handout to help teachers respond to students who may need support after a crisis.
We Don’t “Move on” from Grief. We Move Forward with it.
This video is helpful to use when talking about grief with high school students. Writer and podcaster Nora McInerny shares wisdom about life and death. Her candid approach to something that will affect us all, she encourages us to shift how we approach grief. “A grieving person is going to laugh again and smile again,” she says. “They’re going to move forward. But that doesn’t mean that they’ve moved on.”
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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.
Creating Identity-Safe Schools and Classrooms
This research report addresses the ways in which practitioners can build inclusive and affirming school environments with keen attention to identity safety that can support all students in feeling safe, protected, and valued in school environments. A growing body of research points to effective school-based practices and structures, described below, that educators can use to foster the identity safety that nurtures student achievement, positive attachments to school, and a genuine sense of belonging and membership for each student.
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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