This NEA and Learning for Justice webinar provides guidance on how to have meaningful conversations with students about race, racism and other important topics.
Yale’s Poorvu Center for Teaching and Learning: Student Construction of Knowledge
Yale’s Poorvu Center for Teaching and Learning provides actionable ideas for helping students to learn by connecting new knowledge with prior knowledge and concepts in order to construct new meanings.
Video: Building a Belonging Classroom
An Edutopia video on Building a Belonging Classroom. “In order to learn, students need to feel safe, cared for, and emotionally connected to their teachers and each other. #HowLearningHappens”
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.
New York State: Culturally Responsive-Sustaining Education Framework
The New York State Education Department (NYSED) has their Culturally Responsive-Sustaining Education (CR-SE) framework, intended to help all stakeholders incorporate four high leverage CR-SE strategies. School leaders should reference page 34 for inclusive curriculum guidelines. District leaders should reference page 39 for inclusive curriculum guidelines.
Citizen School: Expanded Learning Time (ELT) Program Model
Partnering with external or replicating high-quality afterschool programs provides students with opportunities for academic supports and enrichment that lead to positive outcomes. The Citizen Schools ELT programming model engages students in apprenticeships (that consist of hands-on learning projects) and activities to help students develop their organizational and study skills.
High-Dosage Tutoring: Program-Family Communication
Set up a regular cycle of tutoring family communication, keeping these continual updates best practices in mind will help to increase success for your high-dosage tutoring program.
High-Dosage Tutoring: Recruiting, Selecting and Training Guides
Choosing the right people for the job is critical: tutors’ values should align with your own and tutors’ skills should be suited to their work. This toolkit has strategies and tools for tutors for recruiting, selecting and training tutors.
Strategies for Scheduling: How to Find Time to Intensify and Individualize Intervention
School days are packed, but leaders must prioritize specific tutoring times in order to truly accelerate learning. Help schools find time in the day using these three strategies for scheduling from the National Center on Intensive Intervention.
Accelerating Student Learning with High-Dosage Tutoring
Various strategies support learning acceleration, but implementing tutoring is at the core. Brown University’s Annenberg Institute outlines approaches to and research for supporting accelerating Student Learning with High-Dosage Tutoring. See page two for a one-page guide to the ten design principles for effective tutoring.