Trauma Responsive Educational Practices (TREP)
Creating and maintaining positive school climates. Resources, including framework, training and consultation to help schools make progress on becoming creating a more trauma responive environment.
Framework/Best Practices
SEL Assessment Framework: Brief Series
As the field of social and emotional learning has evolved, a variety of helpful and important ways to assess students’ social-emotional competence have emerged, including strategies for how teachers can monitor their students’ progress on social and emotional development in the classroom, and how schools can assess quality of implementation. CASEL does not yet recommend SEL measures for accountability purposes, but thsi site provides lots of ideas and potential resources to explore and download.
RULER
RULER is an evidence-based approach to social and emotional learning (SEL). RULER supports entire school communities in SEL pillars.
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.
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.
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.
Family Engagement Framework for All
Framework around how to prioritize effective relationships to drive learning at every level. Includes information on the Dual Capacity-Building Framework so leaders can use family engagement plans in their schools and districts.
Culturally Responsive-Sustaining Education Framework
The CR-S framework helps educators create student-centered learning environments that: affirm racial, linguistic and cultural identities; prepare students for rigor and independent learning, develop students’ abilities to connect across lines of difference; elevate historically marginalized voices; and empower students as agents of social change.
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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.
Critical Practices for Social Justice Education
Resource supports K-12 educators in growing their understanding of social justice principles. Each pillar – Curriculum & Instruction, Culture & Climate, Leadership, and Family & Community Engagment – has strategies that schools and districts can integrate into their practice.