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Supporting Transgender, Non-binary and gender Nonconforming Students

This 3-minute video, created from a resource from Chicago Public Schools, provides best practice on how to respond to pushback regarding supporting Transgender, Non-Binary & Gender Non-comforming Students. It provides general examples; however, your responses may vary depending on the relationship you have with the individuals you are communicating with.

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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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Resilience Resources for Schools

The NC Center for Resilience and Learning is a whole school, whole child framework working with districts and schools across the state to create trauma-informed learning environments that are safer and more supportive for ALL students. Check out their Resource page for online courses, worksheets, and additional tools for your school’s resilience toolbox.

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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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5 Strategies for Developing a Schoolwide Culture of Healing

While the term ‘trauma-informed care’ is important, it is incomplete,” says Dr. Shawn Ginwright. One of its shortcomings is that it leads people to think of trauma as only an individual experience instead of thinking about it in terms of systems or contexts. Ginwright explains how we need to have a broader perspective of how the environment – where young people live and play – can be traumatizing, This article describes 5 parts of healing centered engagement:

culture
agency
relationships
meaning
aspirations

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Developing Teacher Resilience & Resilient School Cultures

Teacher resilience in a pandemic is a timely topic for America’s superintendents. This literature review focuses on teacher resilience and retention, with relevance for building resilient school cultures. The question guiding analysis of studies was, “What factors and processes contribute to teacher resilience and the ability to overcome adversity?” Findings were that individual and contextual factors of resilience impact teachers’ ability to persevere, as well as schools’ capacity to retain novice teachers. Resilience is associated with retention, job satisfaction, and other positive outcomes. Actions for developing teacher resilience and resilient school cultures are identified. K–12 teachers who attend to factors of resilience can better adapt and overcome adversity. School district leaders who encourage teacher resilience can foster resilient school cultures 

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