Millions of people use the Community Tool Box each year to get help taking action, teaching, and training others in organizing for community development. Dive in to find help assessing community needs and resources, addressing social determinants of health, engaging collaborators, action planning, building leadership, improving cultural competency, planning an evaluation, and sustaining your efforts over time.
Guide to Strategic Planning identifies the key steps and variety of methods schools and districts can use to get input and facilitate buy-in from students, teachers, staff, parents, and other community members.
The purpose of this protocol is to provide a structure for analyzing the process participants have used to make changes in their practice, and for linking that process to Inquiry. This protocol highlights the changes educators constantly make in their practice,and gives them a way to think more systematically about the questions and data they use to inform those changes.
This article describes a social-emotional learning approach shared by Dr. Shawn Genwright that shows some early reflections of success in supporting school communities.
Explores approaches to centering student voice, building authentic relationships and cultivating community with Molly Josephs, the creator of This Teenage Life, a youth-driven, story-sharing podcast that started as a school club.
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Unconscious bias can shape the responses of even the most well-intentioned educators. But you can check yourself—one teacher shares how.
Bridging and Belonging series includes a 2-minute animated video and downloadable curricula that dives into how social responses to collective anxiety are greatly shaped by the stories presented in places like schools.
This report offers a framework for understanding the relationship between community trauma and violence. It outlines specific strategies to address and prevent community trauma and foster resilience using techniques from those living in affected areas.
Dr. Camara Jones shares four allegories on “race” and racism. She hopes that these “telling stories” empower you to do something different, and that you will remember them and pass them on. Dr. Jones is a family physician and epidemiologist whose work focuses on the impacts of racism on the health and well-being of the nation. She seeks to broaden the national health debate to include not only universal access to high quality health care, but also attention to the social determinants of health (including poverty) and the social determinants of equity (including racism).
This framework was developed to help broaden understandong of and address the many ways in which racism and colonialism can affect our work. Can be applied to school systems and community organizations.
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