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Discusses the impact of poverty on student achievement and social capital among poor children. Focuses on issues that may be addressed in the classroom, such as physical arrangement and management strategies. Includes classroom arrangement strategies, establishing rules of conduct and appropriate consequences, and both preventing disruptive behavior and responding the needs that underlie that behavior.
Discusses the role of high school teachers in supporting a positive school climate. Includes promising approaches to increasing access to effective teaching for under served students and policy recommendations for creating a positive school climate.
Highlights the research, policies, and practices that are transforming schools, supporting teachers, and empowering youth voice. Each blog discusses a different issue related to discipline disparities and presents suggestions for how to promote positive relationships between teachers and students.
Offers guidance for how to build character among students and their teachers, with a focus on goal setting. Contains four suggestions: 1) Keep a character record book; 2) Make goal strips; 3) Do a goal-setting bulletin board; and 4) Set 100 goals.
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).
Provides guidance for the types of measures related to social and emotional learning and development and school climate available for states and districts to use. This guide shares important factors to consider when deciding on a resource or tool for measuring social and emotional learning and school climate.
Offers prevention, implementation, and schoolwide strategies that can be used to reduce problematic behavior that interferes with the ability of students to attend to and engage fully in instructional activities and uses the What Works Clearinghouse standards to rate the quality of evidence supporting each of the behavioral prevention and intervention programs and practices discussed.
Provides an in depth explanation on what student centered learning is, how it has impacted student learning, how it has impacted teacher's methods of teaching, and how it has changed the structure of the school by examining the case study of a small school in Maine that is the in midst of using this innovative approach to education.
Provides educators with an overview of social and emotional learning (SEL) and school-family partnerships (SFPs), a discussion of the important relationship of SFPs and SEL, and strategies to promote children's social, emotional, and academic development using school-family partnerships.
Identifies the instructional practices that promote student social-emotional learning, which in turn are critical for student academic learning. The brief also showcases how three popular teacher evaluation frameworks embed practices that influence not only student academic learning but also student social and emotional competencies.