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Creating Cultures of Care: Supporting the Whole Child through Trauma-Informed Practice

January 28, 2020

This brief offers a framework for how trauma-informed practice complements positive youth development, while illustrating the bridge between theory and practice. You’ll read about the work of two specific communities- one in Oregon and one in Missouri- which are engaged in collaborative, on-the-ground efforts to make healthy schools that support all young people the norm and not the exception.

Type: Resource

TAG: Healthy Schools

promises: Effective Education, A Healthy Start, Safe Places

campaigns & initiatives: Every School Healthy

Achieving a 90 Percent Graduation Rate Webinar: Making Effective Work-Based Learning Real for All Students

April 24, 2019

hear from Urban Alliance, which provides underserved high school seniors with training, internships, & mentoring that build the social, emotional, and cognitive skills they need to succeed in life after high school.

Type: Resource

promises: Effective Education

SOURCE: America's Promise Alliance, Everyone Graduates Center at Johns Hopkins University, Civic, Alliance for Excellent Education

Building Systems of Integrated Student Support

April 08, 2019

This resource provides state-by-state and issue-specific analyses of how state laws address the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s Whole School, Whole Community, Whole Child (WSCC) model.

Type: Resource

promises: Effective Education

SOURCE: Boston College Center for Optimized Student Support, Center for Promise

campaigns & initiatives: How Learning Happens

The District Resource Center supports systemic SEL implementation

March 29, 2019

The DRC shares learnings from CASEL’s Collaborating Districts Initiative, a partnership with districts representing 1+ million students across the U.S. Based on these efforts to study and scale social and emotional learning, the DRC provides a framework to support high-quality, systemic SEL implementation. This process is intended to embed SEL into every aspect of a district’s work and students’ educational experiences.

Type: Resource

promises: Effective Education

SOURCE: CASEL Foundation

campaigns & initiatives: How Learning Happens

From A Nation At Risk: To A Nation At Hope

March 12, 2019

A growing movement dedicated to the social, emotional, and academic well-being of children is reshaping learning and changing lives across America. On the strength of its remarkable consensus, a nation at risk is finally a nation at hope. Find out more and get involved.

Type: Resource

promises: Effective Education, Caring Adults, Safe Places, A Healthy Start, Opportunities to Help Others

channels: Social and Emotional Learning

SOURCE: National Commision on Social, Emotional, & Academic Development

Using Policy to Create Healthy Schools: Resources to Support Policymakers and Advocates

January 31, 2019

Using Policy to Create Healthy Schools provides state-by-state and issue-specific analyses of how state laws address the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s Whole School, Whole Community, Whole Child (WSCC) model

Type: Resource

promises: Effective Education, Caring Adults, Safe Places, A Healthy Start

SOURCE: Child Trends

campaigns & initiatives: Every School Healthy, How Learning Happens

Responding to Trauma through Policies that Create Supportive Learning Environments

January 31, 2019

This brief introduces a Trauma-Informed Policy Framework to Create Supportive Learning Environments to help state officials create supportive learning environments that meet the needs of students ...

Type: Resource

promises: Effective Education, Caring Adults, Safe Places, A Healthy Start

channels: Social and Emotional Learning

SOURCE: Child Trends

campaigns & initiatives: How Learning Happens

State laws promoting social, emotional, and academic development leave room for improvement

January 15, 2019

Policymakers increasingly recognize that social and emotional development plays a critical role in students’ ability to learn, and are enacting policies to encourage the integration of social and emotional learning (SEL) into school curricula.

Type: Resource

promises: A Healthy Start, Effective Education

channels: Social and Emotional Learning

SOURCE: Child Trends

campaigns & initiatives: How Learning Happens

Recess Checkup

December 03, 2018

One of Playworks’ most popular tools to-date is the Recess Checkup, a short 3-5 minute online quiz designed to help educators identify strengths and surface areas for improvement on their playground. 

Type: Resource

TAG: Healthy Schools

promises: Effective Education, Safe Places

channels: Health and Wellness

SOURCE: Playworks

campaigns & initiatives: Every School Healthy, GradNation Campaign

Recess Lab

December 03, 2018

With more than 20 years of experience working with elementary schools, Playworks launched Recess lab to support principals, teachers and other school staff to rediscover the power of play.  Schools with a healthy culture of play see fewer fights, fewer injuries, and fewer trips to the principal’s office - and students com back to class ready to learn.

Type: Resource

TAG: Healthy Schools

promises: Safe Places, Effective Education, A Healthy Start

channels: Health and Wellness, Thriving

SOURCE: Playworks

campaigns & initiatives: Every School Healthy, GradNation Campaign