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How to Take a “Both And” Approach to SEL and Academics This Summer
Check out this article from PanoramaEd.com about how to integrate SEL and academic content into summer learning programs. Suggestions include promoting student voice and choice – for instance, by seeking student input on learning goals or prioritizing project-based learning – as well as using trauma-informed instructional techniques and incorporating SEL objectives for class units.
How Transparency Can Transform School Culture
Simple steps like sharing notes from district meetings, school board presentations and trainings are ways to be transparent within a school community. Establishing a voice on social media to celebrate successes, seek input and share struggles will also aid in your efforts while modeling this method of transparency for staff. For insights and inspiration, read this article from …
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I Could Be Changing the World Right Now, But Instead I’m Solving for X
An article that provides strategies for educators on designing homework or class assignments that encourage students to connect classwork to their personal life to enhance learning.
Identifying Barriers: Creating Solutions to Improve Family Engagement
“This project began with a forthright question. Amidst racism, historical trauma, poverty, unstable neighborhoods, and systemic inequities in education, what will it take for nondominant students, families, and their communities to thrive? he Family Leadership Design Collaborative (FLDC) is a national network of scholars, practitioners, and family and community leaders who seek to center racial …
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Improving Student Engagement and Attendance During COVID-19 School Closures
This promising practices brief explores research on monitoring and promoting attendance and engagement in online learning and summarizes the findings from conversations with a small number of school districts about their transition to remote learning as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic. The brief provides a resource to states and districts on promising practices in …
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In-Person Activities to Distance Learning Activities
An article on how “many of the strategies educators and leaders use during in-person settings can also be used in the distance learning environment — they just look a bit different.”
Information Brief: RTI Scheduling Processes for Middle Schools
School days are packed, but leaders must prioritize specific tutoring times in order to truly accelerate learning. This brief from the National Center on Response to Intervention has helpful approaches to and questions for optimal scheduling. See page four to learn more about how other institutions have established daily intervention classes.
Integrating SEL into Staff and Grade-Level Meeting
Covers key ways to integrate SEL: The Three Signature SEL Practices for Adult Learning tool for incorporating three critical elements into any student or adult class, meeting, or engagement and Using Grade-Level and Content Area Team Meetings to Support SEL tool, which provides guidance for using grade-level team meetings to address four areas: supportive classroom …
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Integrating Social and Emotional Learning throughout the School System: A Compendium of Resources for District Leaders
For evidence based SEL supports appropriate for both district and school leaders, download this guide by the Center to Improve Social and Emotional Learning and School Safety at WestEd. It provides resources that are fully integrated into the educational experiences of students, families, staff and the community.
Intercultural Development Research Association
Intercultural Development Research Association Transforming education by putting children first. IDRA’s mission is to achieve equal educational opportunity for every child through strong public schools that prepare all students to access and succeed in college.
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