Family & Community Context

Cultural Inclusiveness and Equity WISE Resources

This site houses a compilation of resources that are referenced in the Cultural Inclusiveness and Equity WISE online course, which is a 3-part training package that includes a free self-paced online course, video library featuring practicing teachers and students, comprehensive resource collection and website for K-12 educators on mental health literacy. Resources include topics such as understanding and supporting students experiencing adversity, the impact of trauma and adversity on learning behavior, and classroom strategies to support students.

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Culturally Responsive Curriculum Scorecard Toolkit

This tool provides key questions for those accountable for moving classrooms and schools toward cultural responsiveness) and what should be addressed as they prepare for their next steps. The questions are designed to encourage a critical reflection on the process of scoring, identifying systemic barriers, opportunities, and supports for a culturally responsive curriculum, and planning the next steps.

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Communities for Just Schools Fund

Communities for Just Schools Fund is a national collaborative that links philanthropy with the power of grassroots organizing to transform schools. Program areas include grantmaking, technical assistance & capacity-building, Community of Practice, federal strategies, narrative power-building, and member programming.

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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.

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