Framework/Best Practices

Mental Health & Schools: Best Practices to Support Our Students: Implication to Policy, Systems and Practice

This report highlights the current strengths and barriers related to promoting healthy outcomes for students living with mental health concerns, and provides actionable recommendations and strategies to ensure that all children and families have access to the services and supports they need in order to thrive.

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Healing Centered Engagement

Flourish Agenda provides training and consultation to equip schools, youth agencies, foundations, and local governments with strategies, trainings, and tools that enhance learning and healthy development for youth. Also offers an online Healing Centered Engagement certifcate program.

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Framework for Safe and Successful Schools

A framework supported by educators for improving school safety and increasing access to
mental health supports for children and youth. Efforts to improve school climate, safety, and learning are not separate
endeavors. They must be designed, funded, and implemented as a comprehensive school-wide approach that facilitates
interdisciplinary collaboration and builds on a multitiered system of supports.

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Culturally Responsive Teaching and the Brain

Website of Dr. Zaretta Hammond that offers insight/answers to our collective and individual questions about how to help students become confident and competent learners. Highlights lessons learned in schools and classrooms with teachers who are successful with diverse students, focusing on how to take everyday strategies and practices and put them to work in classrooms to be more culturally responsive.

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Centering Student Experience: A Playbook for Improving Student Outcomes by Centering Student Experience

Regardless of role, we each have a part to play in shaping the conditions that impact student learning and improving the experiences of students. This playbook, which is a curated culmination of actionable best practices, tools, and resources created by the BELE Network — can serve as a first step or a guide to going deeper. It is designed to be a tool used across the education space to leverage research-backed, role-specific resources that offer a path to bring practices and policies that center student experience to the classroom.

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