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.
Trauma Responsive
Creating Safe, Equitable, Engaging Schools
Creating Safe, Equitable, Engaging Schools helps school leaders make sense of the various evidence-based resources and frameworks designed to support the whole child. Addressing critical topics like restorative practices, cultural responsiveness, social and emotional learning, and family engagement, this volume offers insights on how leaders can leverage school-based teams to assess student needs and select appropriate interventions. Chapters include: building capacity of staff to lead and implement their work with passion, enthusiasm, and efficiency; engaging the strengths of all school stakeholders; implementing strong foundational supports which address diverse student and educator needs; and monitoring implementation efforts using evidence from improvement science.Spanish version availble.
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, Supporting, and Sustaining Trauma-Informed Schools System Framework
This framework presents a tiered approach to creating a trauma-informed school environment that addresses the needs of all students, staff, administrators, and families who might be at risk for experiencing the symptoms of traumatic stress. This framework offers a vision of a trauma-informed school, adhering to the “4 Rs”.
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Community Resilience Framework
The Community Resilience (CR) Framework bridges cross-disciplinary research in social determinants, early childhood development, neurobiology, and disaster preparedness and response to analyze the complex interactions between public systems, policies, and community outcomes.
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.
Conscious Discipline
Alternative approach to traditional discipline that is trauma-informed and based on SEL, with a focus on restorative practices. The website provides free resources for teachers to use in the classroom, webinars and poscasts on this topic.
Creating a Safe and Respectful Enviornment in Our Nation’s Classrooms
This training toolkit is made up of two modules that address bullying in classrooms. Specifically, it is designed for trainers to assist teachers in cultivating meaningful relationships with students while creating a positive climate in the classroom.The first module is “Understanding and Intervening in Bullying Behavior,” which addresses how to identify and effectively intervene when bullying occurs (including tips on de-escalation). The second module is “Creating a Supportive Classroom Climate,” which considers effective strategies to build a classroom climate where bullying is less likely to occur.
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Coalition for Immigant Mental Health
Illinois-based site for resources and information to support refugee/immigrant/asylee populations in communities.
Coalition to Support Grieving Students
The Coalition to Support Grieving Students is a collaboration of the leading professional organizations representing a wide range of school professionals who have come together with a common conviction: grieving students need the support and care of the school community. Their website has lots of resources for schools, including free webinars, handouts, and information on staff self-care.