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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 a series of webinars that address campus public safety, how positive school climate can enhance school safety, and incorporating the needs of international students into emergency planning and management.
Provides a list of tools that practitioners working to prevent substance misuse can use to assess their community’s readiness to address identified needs, and to prioritize those needs accordingly. The list includes 5 surveys and outlines what dimensions are covered by them, from whom key data is collected, key elements of the survey, and instrument considerations.
Provides a website that contains the latest scientific knowledge on effective policies, practices, and programs, including "evidence based programs," for youth and their families, schools, and communities.
The Consortium of Universities of the Washington Metropolitan Area has issued a new report on preventing gun violence, which asserts that mental health services should be treated as a crucial part of any solution and that the root causes, namely poverty and economic insecurity, should be addressed.
Fewer than 100 of the more than 1,400 community and technical colleges in the country have Head Start centers on campus. Meanwhile, Head Start programs are struggling to enroll children, with up to 180,000 childcare and early learning slots unfilled, according to a press release from the partners. Community colleges will allow Head Start centers to operate on campuses rent-free.
A pilot program from the California Community College system helps homeless students find and pay for housing. College of the Redwoods is one of 14 campuses that provides this assistance to students who need help with housing. A 2019 survey of community college students found that 60% of participants had been housing insecure in the past year and 19% had been homeless. A full half of those surveyed had been food insecure in the past month.
An emerging debate over plans to arm some George Washington University police officers on the D.C. campus near the White House shows enduring tensions over how best to protect college communities nationwide from gun violence. On one side are administrators who argue that they need every possible tool to prevent mass shootings and respond to fast-moving threats.
Discusses a persistent barrier to supporting social and emotional learning (SEL) in schools—the lack of high quality, reliable, and valid SEL assessments—and the innovative research supported by IES to tackle this challenge.
Highlights the need to broaden the focus on supporting social and emotional learning to creating systemic changes that equitably integrate efforts to support social, emotional, and academic development. The report identifies six key policy areas critical to integrating efforts to holistically support both social and emotional needs and academic learning for students.