Six Ways to Sustain Social-Emotional Learning in Schools
This brief article explores ways to support sustaining SEL PreK–12 efforts like relationship building districtwide.
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Self-Healing Communities
This article presents a model with demonstrated success in improving rates of many interrelated and intergenerational health and social problems by investing in the people most at risk and reducing and preventing the root cause of these problems: Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACEs). The Self-Healing Communities Model (SHCM) builds the capacity of communities to
intentionally generate new cultural norms and thereby improve health, safety and productivity for current and future generations.
MOSAIC Helps Teen Move Forward from Depression
This article explores the collaboration between Springfield, IL high schools and a local hospital’s mental health services to meet the needs of students.
Making Space: Affinity groups offer a platform for voices often relegated to the margins.
Students need to be able to be themselves at school—and that’s where affinity groups come in. A group of students who share an identity are going to relate to each other in ways they can’t with peers who can’t or don’t understand their experience. It’s about safety and, in some cases, about fundamental issues of injustice.
Is Your School Using Toxic Positivity To Exploit You? The 5 Biggest Red Flags
There are a lot of ways to improve teachers’ lives, and not all of them are things a principal has control over. But one thing that every school can do regardless of their budget is crack down on toxic positivity. This article describes what is meant by “Toxic posivitiy” and what harm it can do.
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Implicit bias may help explain high preschool expulsion rates for black children
This brief article about Dr. William Gilliam’s research from Yale Child Study Center explains how impliciat bias impacts preschool expulsion rates.
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In Schools, Honest Talk about Racism Can Reduce Discrimination
This article highlights how new laws make it harder for teachers to discuss racism and inequality, but psychological evidence shows these conversations dispel causes of bias and distress.
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How to Plan Your Own Classroom Circle
This website focuses on Positive Behavior Interventions and Supports (PBIS) and provides resources, training, and consulting services to help schools create positive learning environments. The site offers tools for educators to implement evidence-based practices that support student behavior and academic success. The Circle Planning Guide is a free resource from a blog post on her site, “How to Plan Your Own Classroom Circle.”
How to Promote Collective K-12 Staff Well-Being in 2024
This article explores how to identify teacher burnout and promote collective K-12 staff well-being to increase professional retention and student achievement.
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Healing-Centered Environments Fill gaps in Educator Wellness
This article asks the question: how we can get better at cultivating the well-being of our people? This educator writes about looking to healing-centered environments to fill gaps in educator wellness.
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