Framework/Best Practices

Family Engagement Framework

June 27, 2025

Based on existing research and best practices, the Dual Capacity-Building Framework for Family-School Partnerships (Version 2) is designed to support the development of family engagement strategies, policies, and programs. It is not a blueprint for engagement initiatives, which must be designed to fit the particular contexts in which they are carried out. Instead, the Framework should be seen as a compass, laying out the goals and conditions necessary to chart a path toward effective family engagement efforts that are linked to student achievement and school improvement.

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Trauma-Informed Programs & Practices for Schools (TIPPS)

August 5, 2024

This guide gives school and district leaders, teachers, and other
professional staff a comprehensive overview of trauma-informed
schools and strategies. The guide provides background on adversity, trauma, and the role of schools, describes a system framework for trauma-informed schools and offer a series of guiding principles and strategies that
align with 10 Trauma-Informed Programs and Practices in Schools
(TIPPS) pillars, which are based in research on adversity and resilience.

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Transformative Social and Emotional Learning Framework & Standards (Oregon 2023)

August 5, 2024

Oregon’s Transformative SEL Standards help provide a well-rounded education that teaches to the whole child, builds on their strengths, perspectives, and contributions, and guides the interactions and relationships between students and adults. SEL equips students with the skills needed for
college, career, and life. Transformative SEL Standards help build capacity for strengthening equity-focused school cultures that support student and adult well-being. A focus on Transformative SEL enables students and adults to be affirmed in their identities, where they can develop a sense of agency and belonging, engage in collaborative problem-solving, and deepen their curiosity about the kind of society they want to make a reality.

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Tips for Building a Data Culture in Your School Building

August 5, 2024

When school policies and practices are informed by data, inequities in education can be identified and redressed. This website provides questions and competencies that can be utilized to help your school community build a data culture in your school building.

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Safe and Successful Schools Framework

August 5, 2024

This framework provides policy recommendations and best practices for improving school safety for children and youth, and includes a section on actions principals can take to promote safe and successful schools.

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Safe & Supportive Learning: Physical Safety

August 5, 2024

The Safe and Supportive Learning resource on physical safety provides information and tools to help schools create safe physical environments. It covers topics such as emergency preparedness, violence prevention, and infrastructure safety, offering guidelines and strategies to ensure the well-being of students and staff.

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Reclaim Social-Emotional Learning: Centering Organizing Praxis for Holistically Safe Schools Report

August 5, 2024

In 2020 Communities for Just Schools Fund worked with national network of partners (youth, parent, and teacher-led organizing groups) to press back on harmful narratives about safety — and to instead place conversations about safety into the more holistic, appropriate container of culturally-affirming social-emotional learning (SEL). Through the year-long Community of Practice, they collected survey data from partners about their work related to safety and SEL. The findings from this year-long exploration of culturally-affirming SEL are detailed in this report.

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Principles of an Anti-Racist, Trauma-Informed Organization

August 5, 2024

This guide offers actionable principles that organizations and child-serving systems can implement to move toward the fundamental transformation of becoming anti-racist and trauma-informed. This list of principles is a companion document to the Being Anti-Racist is Central to Trauma- Informed Care: Principles of an Anti-Racist, Trauma-Informed Organization resource, which includes further explanation and strategies for how organizations can put these principles into action.

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Pause-Reset-Nourish to Promote Wellbeing

August 5, 2024

Pause-Reset-Nourish (PRN)* to Promote Wellbeing; Provides information about the specific self-care strategy of Pause-Reset-Nourish, or PRN. This fact sheet acknowledges the levels of stress that professionals may experience and offers a way to address unwanted symptoms and promote and replenish wellbeing and enhance resilience.

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Nactional Center for Pyramid Model Innovations (NON PBIS Districts)

August 5, 2024

The Pyramid Model is a framework of evidence-based practices for promoting young children’s healthy social and emotional development.

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