Instructional Environment

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The instructional environment refers to the instructional, behavioral, and personal aspects of the classroom experience.

An extensive amount of research has linked positive academic environments to higher student achievement and graduation rates.

 

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Examines how children across the United States were faring before the COVID-19 pandemic began. Identifies multi-year trends comparing statistics from 2010 to 2018 and utilizes this information to help shape policymakers, researchers, and advocates' work to build stronger futures for children, families, and communities.

What We’ve Learned About Creating Safe, Equitable, And Engaging Schools

Shares six key principles that are essential to student learning, including the importance of relationships and the integration of social and emotional learning. Strategies to meaningfully collaborate to build core aspects of these principles are then shared.

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Shares effective practices to work in remote learning spaces. Provides students and families alternatives in navigating the new normal of COVID-19.

Shows connection between school nutrition and social and emotional climate (SEC) and learning (SEL). This research brief describes the SEL core competencies and provides examples of school nutrition policies and practices that reflect each competency. 

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Summarizes evidence-based, positive, proactive, and responsive classroom behavior intervention and support strategies for teachers. These tools can help teachers capitalize on instructional time and decrease disruptions, which is crucial as schools are held to greater academic and social accountability measures for all students. 

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