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Talking Circles: for Restorative Justice and Beyond

Learn how talking circles can serve other purposes beyond restorative justice, such as creating safe spaces, building connections and offering teachers a unique means of formative assessment. The article addresses four main areas of concern by providing background context and filling readers in on where the SEL movement has been, the strategic thinking that has guided CASEL field leaders and collaborators, and the possibilities for the future.

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6 Ways to Sustain SEL in Schools

Sustaining SEL efforts over the long term is crucial to allow children to adequately develop these skills. But that sustainability faces barriers in the form of staff turnover, limitations on resources, and competing for precious classroom time against other programs and initiatives. This article provides six key ways to support sustaining SEL PreK–12 efforts districtwide.

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Healing Centered Framework

This framework is designed to articulate what it will require to be a school district that centers healing and wellness in its work. The information aims to clarify what being “healing-centered” looks and feels like for the different members of the CPS community in different roles. It also outlines five different components of a healing-centered district that apply, in unique ways, to each stakeholder.

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Center of Wellness in Schools: Case Example

This school district is transforming schools into centers of wellness by placing mental health teams in every school in the county. No longer do students need to be in crisis to receive the mental health supports they need. This approach acknowledges that everyone can benefit from mental health support and emphasizes the importance of accessing these services before a crisis occurs.

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Leaning In and Leading Out to Renew: Navigating Lived Polycrisis School Leadership

This guidebook comes out of 10 interviews with school leaders from Arizona, Southern California, and Northern California. Interviewees, from mental health counselors to HR directors to state leads of suicide prevention. The guide is divided into two parts: Part One “Leaning In: The Gifts and Challenges that Lived-Polycrisis School Leadership Evokes; and Part Two “Leading Out: Practices for Navigating Toward Recovery & Renewal, which offers guidance for school crisis leadership beyond immediate crisis response, through recovery, and toward renewal.

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Children with Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities Can Experience Traumatic Stress: A Fact Sheet for Parents and Caregivers

This handout offers parents and caregivers information about how children with intellectual and developmental disabilities (IDD) experience traumatic stress. This fact sheet provides information on the intersection of IDD, trauma, and mental wellness; what intellectual and developmental disabilities are; how trauma might impact children with IDD; why children with IDD are at higher risk for trauma exposure; and how trauma service providers should partner with parents and caregivers. For more information on support, check out the handout, Choosing Trauma Informed Care for Children with Intellectual Disabilities, from NCTSN.

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