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Building a Culture of Care: Section 3 of Trauma-Informed, Resilience-Oriented Schools Toolkit

Section 3 of Trauma-Informed, Resilience-Oriented Schools Toolkit. A trauma-informed, resilience-oriented school honors the need to prioritize the well-being of all staff. Compassion fatigue and burnout are increasingly prevalent when staff members work daily with students who are impacted by trauma and toxic stress. This reading aims to increase awareness and understanding of compassion fatigue, burnout, and compassion resilience. Learn about how to encourage wellness assessment and seek feedback from staff on resilient culture, implement individual and district-wide adaptations to promote resilience in staff. 

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Spotlight Dr. Patrice Payne: Advancing Racial Justice and Educational Equity Learning Series

Part of the Advancing Racial Justice and Educational Equity Learning Series. Learn from the experience and expertise of Dr. Patrice Payne, school administrator, and her 18-year journey in educational equity, gaining strategies and insights to advance equity and foster inclusive learning environments.

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Key Practices for Community Schools Transformation

The six key practices for school transformation are illustrated on this infographic from the Community Schools Forward Framework, informed by both research and practice. The framework shows the integrated nature of the key practices and emphasizes the enabling conditions (i.e., trusting relationships, inclusive decision-making, a shared vision, and actionable data) and supportive infrastructure that must be in place for effective implementation.

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Trans Student Educational Resources

A youth-led organization dedicated to transforming the educational environment for trans and gender non-conforming students through advocacy and empowerment. In addition to their focus on creating a more trans-friendly education system, their mission is to educate the public and teach trans activists how to be effective organizers. Justice for trans and gender nonconforming youth is contingent on an intersectional framework of activism. Ending oppression is a long-term process that can only be achieved through collaborative action.

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New Mexico Community Schools: Improving Student Opportunities and Outcomes

This brief from the Learning Policy Institute highlights lessons learned from New Mexico’s investment in community schools. Drawing on profiles of three sites that received state implementation grants, we find that community schools implementing the key practices at the center of New Mexico’s community schools framework are seeing improvement across a range of indicators, including growth in test scores, increased graduation rates, reduced chronic absence, increased student engagement and connectedness, improved school climate, greater access to mental and physical health care, and stronger family engagement. Key to achieving these outcomes were state investments to support hiring school coordinators and to provide professional development and technical assistance.

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Building Resilience and a Trauma Informed School

Baskerville Elementary is a public school located in North Carolina, in a small city setting that has seen many natural disasters in the past few years. Reada bout how their principal sought buy-in from the school community to create a trauma-informed school. A Resilience Team was built with leaders of the school to take the next step beyond training and awareness and begin to implement trauma-informed change and strategies school-wide. heck out additional learning and resources from the NC Center for Resilience and Learning

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Every Student Matters: Cultivating Belonging in the Classroom

This educator discusses how if students feel anxious socially, they will not be open to taking academic risks, so building a culture of belonging has become his greatest priority. He clarifies what he means by “belonging;” it’s not about “fitting in”—students’ individuality and uniqueness should always be valued. Belonging in the classroom means ensuring that all students feel welcomed, comfortable, and part of the school family. These five strategies can help ensure that students feel they belong in your classroom. 

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The Spectrum of Trauma-Savvy Practice (worksheet)

When examining building and district-wide practices, it is common for ratings in all four of the categories. The goal of this worksheet is to identify both your areas of strength as well as those areas still in need of improvement. As you
reflect on each category and definition, there is a space provided to allow you to document your current practices either as an individual, building, or district with the ultimate goal of becoming trauma-invested.

The book, Fostering Resilient Learners, presents case studies, research, stories, and practical, easy-to-implement strategies to help students living with trauma thrive in the classroom. The book includes strategies to help education professionals build strong relationships and create a safe space to enable students to learn at high levels, and adopt a strengths-based approach that helps professionals recalibrate how destructive student behaviors are viewed and to perceive what students need to break negative cycles. Check out their website for lots more information. www.fosteringresilientlearners.org

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Cultivating Resilience in Schools Toolkit

The Cultivating Resilience in Schools toolkit is intended to be used by school-based leadership teams, which include representation across all areas and key collaborators, to establish systems and structures for building resilient schools and learning communities. It should be used in consideration of contextual, cultural, and social factors unique to each organization and everyone within the organization. Its comprehensive approach help makes connections and authentic relationships among educators, students and families, and promote positive school climate and culture, with an emphasis on classroom culture, safety and wellness. 

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