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Discusses implementing programs that ensure school safety and academic success, covering what makes up Iowa's program as an example. Demonstrates Iowa's success via participation in standard LEA implementation activities and their Safe School Certification Program as well as via completing items on an implementation checklist.
Includes information for schools that want to get moving right away to improve school climate. This toolkit contains an implementation readiness guide, sample plan, and details six steps that can move a school through a change process.
Provides a unifying framework for schools, families, and communities to understand, select, and organize their learning supports (i.e., strategies, programs, and practices used to create conditions to enhance learning).
Describes how REL Midwest will partner with multiple school districts to build school leaders’ capacity in using data to reduce disparities among student groups in their sense of belonging, disciplinary actions, and absenteeism through the Data-Informed Leadership for Equity (DILE) partnership.
Describes an approach that incorporates professional learning as well as training and tools around culturally responsive practices, sense of belonging, and supporting the use of data.
Presents two successful partnerships between schools and state health departments to improve health and education outcomes for youth with chronic illnesses.
PITTSFIELD — Consultants hired by the Pittsfield Public Schools to look at school safety issues have started to share their findings with district leaders after more than six months of study and community conversations.
In an effort to address a surge in gun violence, an initiative in Springfield, Massachusetts aims to give youth access to community centers, Boys and Girls Clubs, and social service agencies as well as the myriad of programs they provide such as mentoring, counseling, tutoring, and recreation.
Students at schools across the Merrimack Valley were able to benefit from improved math programming; parents could attend meetings more conveniently; and schools recognized new learning styles in curriculums.
SPRINGFIELD, Mass. (WGGB/WSHM) - The Chief of Child Psychiatry at Baystate Medical Center told Western Mass News that there are both long-term and short-term effects that can result from bullying, and he advised parents to make sure their children know that they’re supported by practicing open communication. Following the allegations of racist bullying against students in Southwick, we wanted to get answers on the mental health impact.