Family Engagement in Schools
Toolkits and fact sheets for district leaders, school leaders and teachers to improve parent engagment in order to support and improve the learning, development, and health of children and adolescents.
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Equitable Community Engagement
Great Schools Partnership created resources and tools, which are broken up into three categories: introduction to community engagement, community conversations, and policy to help schools achieve equitable community engagement—an ongoing, two-way process of building relationships, working collaboratively to support all students, and sharing power—can result in transformative benefits for schools and their school communities.
Creating a Relationship Map
Use this Google doc to create a tool to start the Establishment, Maintaining, Restoring (EMR) Phase with students. EMR is a specific framework for understanding student-teacher relationships in which three dimensions of relationships are highlighted: establishing the relationship through positive interactions, maintaining the relationship with continued support and encouragement, and restoring the relationships as needed.
Comprehensive Guide to MTSS
Comprehensive guide that takes a deeper look at what makes up an MTSS, how it works, and some examples of schools and districts using the framework to support students and educators.
Collaborative Mental Health Care
This website aims to provide up-to-date information on collaborative activities between mental health and primary care providers. Includes many toolkits and information on youth mental health screening, practical, user-friendly resources for screening, assessment and treatment of child and youth mental health problems commonly presenting in primary care, though info can be useful to school-based practitioners.
Adult SEL Toolkit
Adult SEL Toolkit is aligned to CASEL’s Focus Area 2 for SEL implementation to help districts take a major step forward in supporting adult capacity for . Includes resources to support staff wellbeing, creating systems of support for educators, and build adult SEL capacity.
A Guide to Change: A Handbook for Activism
Online guidebook specifically for youth activism and community building; has chapters on collective care, group work, meeting facilitation.