Full Description
Creating Safe, Equitable, Engaging Schools brings together the collective wisdom of more than thirty experts from a variety of fields to show how school leaders can create communities that support the social, emotional, and academic needs of all students. It offers an essential guide for making sense of the myriad evidence?based frameworks, resources, and tools available to create a continuous improvement system.
Chapters illustrate how leaders can leverage the power of school-based teams to assess the needs of students in their school and select appropriate interventions across a wide variety of domains, including social and emotional learning, trauma, restorative practices, cultural responsiveness, and student and family engagement. Filled with recommendations gleaned from research and ongoing work in every US state and territory, Creating Safe, Equitable, Engaging Schools is a critical resource for understanding and adopting evidence-based practices and making programmatic decisions to ensure the ideal conditions for learning, growth, and development.
Contents
Introduction
Part I
Build Capacity
ONE
Building Readiness and Capacity
David Osher
TWO
Leading, Coordinating, and Managing for Equity with Excellence
Catherine Barbour, Kevin Dwyer, and David Osher
THREE
Guiding and Planning Improvement for Equity with Excellence
Catherine Barbour, R. Jason LaTurner, and David Osher
FOUR
Selecting the Right Programs, Strategies, and Approaches
David Osher and Allison Dymnicki
FIVE
Funding a Comprehensive Community Approach
Frank Rider, Elizabeth V. Freeman, Aaron R. Butler, Sara Wraight, and David Osher
Part II
Engage
SIX
The Centrality of Cultural Competence and Responsiveness
Karen Francis and David Osher
SEVEN
Engaging Students in Creating Safe, Equitable, and Excellent Schools
Robert V. Mayo and David Osher
EIGHT
Partnering with Families
Lacy Wood, Trina Osher, and David Osher
NINE
Partnering with Communities
Vanessa Coleman and David Osher
TEN
Out-of-School Time Programs
Deborah Moroney, Jessica Newman, and David Osher
Part III
Act
ELEVEN
Building a Schoolwide Foundation for Social-Emotional and Academic Support
Sandra Williamson and David Osher
TWELVE
Building and Restoring School Communities
Greta Colombi, Robert V. Mayo, Manolya Tanyu, David Osher, and Amy Mart
THIRTEEN
Creating Respectful and Inclusive Schools
Jeffrey M. Poirier, Ilene Berman, Kathleen Guarino, Fausto Alejandro LÓpez, and David Osher
FOURTEEN
Multitiered Systems of Support
Stephanie Jackson, Juliette Berg, Sandra Williamson, and David Osher
FIFTEEN
Selective Strategies
Allison Dymnicki, Kimberly Kendziora, Sandra Williamson, and David Osher
SIXTEEN
Indicated Strategies
Allison Gruner Gandhi, Kimberly Kendziora, and David Osher
SEVENTEEN
Social and Emotional Learning Matters
Jessica Newman, Allison Dymnicki, Edward Fergus, Roger P. Weissberg, and David Osher
EIGHTEEN
Educators Matter
Nick Yoder, Lynn Holdheide, and David Osher
NINETEEN
Academic Interventions—Use with Care
Terry Salinger and David Osher
Part IV
Improve
TWENTY
Continuous Improvement
Aaron R. Butler, Jason Katz, Jessica Johnson, David Osher, Jill Pentimonti, and Sam Neiman
APPENDIX A
Funding a Comprehensive Community Approach to Equity with Excellence
APPENDIX B
Tools and Resources to Support School Improvement Efforts
Notes
Acknowledgments
About the Editors
About the Contributors
Index
