Healing-Centered Schools: Teachers as Leaders
This resource includes slides from presentation about Healing Centered Schools, whichi provdes an overview of this concept and how to start planning for implmentation.
Guiding Principles for Creating Safe, Inclusive, Supportive, and Fair School Climates
This resource identifies five guiding principles and suggests actions schools and school districts can take to create inclusive, safe, supportive, and fair learning environments. The resource also lists federal resources to support these efforts.
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Fostering Resilient Learners
This is the 2016 online version of Fostering Resilient Learners, which helps cultivate a trauma-sensitive learning environment for students across all content areas, grade levels, and educational settings.
Family Engagement Surveys
Compilation of survey tools to use with families that you can save and download.
Educator Wellness: A Whole School Approach to Improve Staff Stress and Retention and Student Achievement
This infogrphic illustrates educator wellness, which is the impact of a school’s organizational and individual systems (e.g., culture and climate, employee training and supports, etc.) on staff social, emotional, physical, and mental well-being. This influences staff stress through four main sources that create positive or negative working conditions and ultimately impacts the teaching and learning environment for students.
Cycle of Risk: The Intersection of Poverty, Violence, and Trauma; 2017 report
This report presents the need for both a rapid response and a long-term approach to reducing violence. By taking a comprehensive approach, there is continued caution, so that reform does not perpetuate the very inequities and conditions that have led to violence in our communities.
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Creating School Active Shooter/Intruder Drills
Keeping our school campuses safe from active shooters or intruders is one component of a school emergency plan. Part of being prepared is planning safety drills. The type of drills or exercises your school conducts should map on to your school emergency operations plan. This fact sheet provides guidance on steps to consider when performing an active shooter/ intruder drill.
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.
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.
CARE assessment (Culturally responsive, anti-racist, and equitable) tool
The CARE assessment (Culturally responsive, anti-racist, and equitable) tool meausres schools on these 5 domains of a CARE school are: (1) Teaming and Collaboration; (2) School Climate; (3) School Discipline; (4) Curricula and Teaching Practices; and (5) Professional Development.Each indicator includes a few ways schools may demonstrate success in each area. The included examples are not exhaustive but illustrative, and ratings in each domain can be used as a starting place for quality improvement initiatives. This assessment tool provides suggestions for action planning that can be tailored to meet your school’s needs using the resources in the SHAPE resource library.
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