MOSAIC Helps Teen Move Forward from Depression
This article explores the collaboration between Springfield, IL high schools and a local hospital’s mental health services to meet the needs of students.
Trauma Responsive
MTSS 4 Success
The “Trauma-Informed Care” page on the MTSS4Success website provides resources and guidance for implementing trauma-informed practices within Multi-Tiered Systems of Support (MTSS). It highlights strategies to create supportive environments for students affected by trauma, emphasizing the importance of understanding trauma’s impact on learning and behavior.
Must-Have Books to Teach Social-Emotional Skills
Suggestions on books about kindness, confidence, hope, courage, bravery, responsibility, friendship, and self-awareness to grow your students’ social-emotional skills.
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Maslow’s Hierarchy of Needs
Maslow’s hierarchy of needs is a motivational theory in psychology comprising a five-tier model of human needs, often depicted as hierarchical levels within a pyramid. Use the resources on this website and short video in staff and family presentations to share information on how students’ need for safety and belonging is vital in their success in school.
MedStar Resource Library
The MedStarWISE resources page offers various tools and materials to promote wellness and improve work environments for healthcare professionals. It also includes a resource library and educator wellbeing workbook
Listening Guide for Reflections from the Field: Strategic Communications for State System Leaders Navigating Times of Social Conflict
This listening guide was developed to support individual and group reflection as you listen to the audiocast Making the Case: Strategic Communications for State System Leaders Navigating Times of Social Conflict. It is part of a portfolio of resources that aims to provide state system leaders with practical guidance and vivid approaches to strategic communications in our current context of social and political polarization. The call to action in the audiocast is: effective strategic communications is values-driven and bi-directional.
It is fueled by deep listening, patient persistence, and authentic relationships.
Levels of Racism: a theoretical framwork and a gardner’s tale
Article presents a theoretic framework for understanding racism on 3 levels: institutionalized, personally mediated, and internalized. This framework is useful for raising new hypotheses about the basis of race-associated differences in health outcomes, as well as for designing effective interventions to eliminate those differences, and provides allegories to help illustrate the impacts of the different levels of racism.
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Kimberlé Crenshaw: What is Intersectionality?
Kimberlé Crenshaw, a civil rights advocate and professor at UCLA School of Law and Columbia Law School, talks about intersectional theory, the study of how overlapping or intersecting social identities—and particularly minority identities—relate to systems and structures of discrimination. This video provides a clear and concise way to explain what intersectionality is and why it is important for schools to understand it.
Leading by Convening: A Blueprint for Authentic Engagment
This module provides an overview of the IDEA Partnership blueprint on Leading by Convening. It outlines the essential habits that leaders need to cultivate authentic engagment and build allied relationship across groups. The tools and learning activities help groups identify their values and shared interests, and work together to improve practice.
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Integrated Trauma and Healing Framework
This framework describes trauma and healing in these ways: trauma is the harmful interruption of safety, agency, dignity and/or belonging, which are fundamental needs of all human beings. Trauma is embodied in 5 levels: individual, collective, systemic, intergenerational and/or historical; trauma is experienced in the body-brain, overwhelming our ability to cope with and integrate thoughts, sensations, and emotions connected to an experience; and pathways to healing occur anytime we do anything that restores and/or promotes safety, agency, dignity and belonging and moves bodies towards integration and wholeness.