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Insights from the Field: Learnings from Organizational Journeys in Centering Equity

This anthology of three papers lifts up the journeys of nonprofit organizations across the country that are focusing on centering racial equity within their internal programming and operations. This report surfaces learning in three specific areas: leadership perspectives in stewarding organizational race equity journeys; organizational approaches to cultivating a supportive culture for racial equity work; and organizational approaches for fostering individual journeys toward shared racial equity practice.

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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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Reducing Barriers to Family Engagement

This toolkit from Panorama outlines ways school districts can understand and address common barriers to engagement with families. It also provides information on the Panorama Family-School Relationships Survey, which uses questions to identify what family members perceive as obstacles to engaging with their child’s school, schools can set goals and improve family-school partnerships in targeted, data-driven ways. 

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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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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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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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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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Equity Matters: Confronting Implicit Bias

This webinar delves into implicit biases—the subconscious biases we all have that influence how we respond to others. To create equitable classrooms, educators must acknowledge their own biases and take steps to confront them. Better understand what implicit bias is and how it affects school climate as well as ways to confront implicit bias within ourselves and help students to do likewise.

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