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District Profile: Tuscaloosa City Schools
This profile describes Tuscaloosa City School’s innovative and successful approaches to promoting authentic family and community collaboration (FCC). It delves into Tuscaloosa’s efforts to overcome challenges related to building trust with families and creating staff capacity to maintain strong relationships.
Early Warning Intervention and Monitoring System
Regional Education Laboratory (REL) created this easy seven step process to implement early warning indicators in a school or across a district.
ED School Climate Surveys
Leaders’ support of student-centered learning experiences that foster belonging and ignite student agency, identity and voice will build towards inclusive and affirming environments. Districts can utilize the School Climate Survey to collect and act on reliable, nationally-validated school climate data in real-time.
Educating the Whole Child: Improving School Climate to Support Student Success
Incorporate elements of identify-safe learning experiences that promote student achievement and attachment to school. To learn more about these practices, download Educating the whole child: Improving school climate to support student success, by Linda Darling-Hammond and Channa Cook-Harvey
Education and Career Plan (ECP) template and guides
Students who create a plan during high school that they update and revise year-to-year with guidance from caring, knowledgeable adults are both better prepared for life after high school and more aware of how their educational and career plans are interconnected. When students know what courses and activities align to their interests and goals for …
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Education in a Pandemic: The Disparate Impacts of COVID-19 on America’s Students
This Report from the US Department of Education tells part of a developing story by offering a series of snapshots from mid-March 2020, when many schools shifted abruptly to remote learning, to mid-April 2021. This developing story prompts eleven observations about how widely—and inequitably—the pandemic appears to have impacted America’s students during this time. The …
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Educator Personal Assessment and Reflection Tool
A tool that provides a framework and process for staff to reflect on their own social and emotional growth.
EdWorkingPaper: A Blueprint for Scaling Tutoring Across Public Schools
Various strategies support learning acceleration, but implementing tutoring is at the core. Some tutoring models use recent college graduates who receive stipends and a recent paper from Brown University presents a scalable model where high school students tutor elementary students via an elective class, college students work in middle schools via federal work-study and college students are …
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Embrace
A SEL hub on a district’s website to promote SEL skills and well-being across the whole community.
Emotional Wellness Checklist
Emotional wellness is the ability to successfully handle life’s stresses and adapt to change and difficult times. Download this NIH Emotional Wellness Checklist which highlights evidence-based tips for living well and improving your mental health and emotional wellness. Share this practical tool with staff at the district and school level.
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