Raise the Bar: Lead the World Resource Spotlight

Supporting Students in Effective Transitions: What Students Have to Say

In this fact sheet, the Region 9 Comprehensive Center shares research and recommendations for supporting students transitioning from non-traditional schools to traditional schools. Backed by a literature review and several student focus groups, the resource provides insight into students’ experiences and tips to help youth-serving adults best support students during these transitions.

Promising Practices Clearinghouse: Literacy Scholars

This spotlight from the North Carolina Department of Public Instruction’s Promising Practices Clearinghouse details the development and implementation of the Literacy Innovation Leaders Initiative. This initiative provides pre-service teacher candidates in educator preparation programs (Literacy Scholars) with training in high-quality literacy instruction, as well as a stipend and ongoing coaching, and allows them to gain clinical experience serving students in nearby school districts.

Well-Being, Academic, and Life Skill Development for Supportive Student Learning Environments: A District Self-Assessment

This tool from the Region 17 Comprehensive Center helps school districts assess the strength of their support systems for students’ well-being, academic, and life skill development (WALSD). District teams can use this self-assessment to better understand and improve aspects of their WALSD systems, including capacity, implementation, student participation and engagement, and partnerships.

Advancing Education Effectiveness: Interconnecting School Mental Health and School-Wide PBIS, Volume 2: An Implementation Guide

This implementation guide by the Center on Positive Behavioral Interventions and Supports outlines how an Interconnected Systems Framework (ISF) can be used to create a single delivery system for both educational and mental health services for students. The guide provides step-by-step strategies for developing and implementing an ISF and offers insight into how this framework ensures that both services interact efficiently and effectively.

Equity by Design: Equity-Oriented Social, Emotional, and Behavioral Screening

This brief by the Midwest and Plains Equity Assistance Center describes the need for equity-centered screening to assess students’ social, emotional, and behavioral (SEB) needs. The resource outlines the role of SEB screening in supporting equity and shares seven key considerations for developing and implementing equity-focused SEB screening within a Multitiered Systems of Support framework.

Learn more at
https://bestpracticesclearinghouse.ed.gov/