Creating Restorative Justice Spaces in Schools
A comprehensive toolkit to help guide schools through the process of planning and designing spaces in schools that can be uased for peacemaking, calming centers and restorative practices.
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Compasssion Resilince Toolit for Schools
In efforts to build resilience in our students, this organziation advocates for examining our capacity personally and professionally to model that which we strive to build. This toolkit explores the protective factors that build and maintain compassion resilience. toolkit will explore the protective factors that build and maintain compassion resilience.
Child Trauma Toolkit for Educators
The Child Trauma Toolkit for Educators is a resource that provides school administrators, teachers, staff, and concerned parents with basic information about working with traumatized children in the school system. The toolkit is made up of 10 fact sheets that discuss various aspects of trauma in schools and how educators and parents can respond. It describes how a child’s response to trauma can negatively affect learning and behavior in school, and how school administrators, teachers, and staff can help reduce the impact of trauma on the students in their care.
Child Opportunity Index (COI)
The Child Opportunity Index (COI) measures and maps the quality of resources and conditions like these that matter for children’s healthy development in the neighborhoods where they live. Schools and community providers can use COI’s databases, which provide a composite index of children’s neighborhood opportunity that contains data for every neighborhood (census tract) in the U.S. from every year for 2012 through 2021. It is comprised of 44 indicators in three domains (education, health and environment, and social and economic) and 14 subdomains.
Campaign for Trauma Informed Policy and Practice
The website center shares toolkits, case studies, videos, webinars, events, and podcasts that guide a comprehensive approach to developing trauma-informed policies and practices.
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Building Statewide Awareness for SEL
This site contains lots of social emotional learning resources for educators and principals, including toolkits for advocacy like sample letters to the editor. The website has research articles, strategy toolkits and other resources that support the work to support SEL in your school or district.
Building Resilience Toolkit: Self-Care Guide for All Staff
This information is from the Traimer’s Guide for Staff Self-Care. Each section contains learning objectives to guide your attention to major points in the material. Answering questions for reflection after each section will help assess your progress toward achieving each learning objective. To obtain the maximum benefit from the material, we urge you to write thoughtful responses where they are sought, complete the inventories and lists, and respond to the questions for reflection. The module ends with you creating a custom self-care plan.
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Best Practices for Serving LGBTQ Students
This guide helps school leaders ensure all students feel safe, seen and capable of success, as well as helps schools ensure the curriculum is representative and that the school climate fosters open and respectful dialogue among all students and staff.
Adverse Childhood Experiences Prevention Resource for Action
Adverse Childhood Experiences Prevention Resource for Action emphasizes the preventability of Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACEs) and the importance of creating safe, stable, nurturing environments for children. It outlines strategies and provides recommendations for evidence-based practices. Collaboration across sectors is also highlighted.
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Advancing Racial Justice In Our Policies, Institutions, and Culture
The Race Forward toolkits provide comprehensive guidance for civil servants, artists, and cultural practitioners on implementing and strengthening racial equity strategies within their organizations and public institutions. They include actionable steps, challenges to anticipate, and success stories to aid in the strategic and equitable assessment of policies, practices, and programs.
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