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Redesign Teaching & Learning to Transform Students' Daily Experience
Elevate in Action: West Buffalo Charter School Case Study
Over 5 Elevate cycles, teachers at West Buffalo Charter School partnered with their students and each other to make schoolwide improvements in multiple learning conditions. This case study reveals the steps taken and key insights from the process.
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Review & Respond to Data on Experience, Learning & Well-Being
Learning Conditions Are an Actionable, Early Indicator of Math Learning
Teachers can accelerate learning by creating motivating classroom conditions. Highlighting the Elevate framework, this research brief focuses on quantifying the relationship between math achievement and the Elevate learning conditions, as well as variability in conditions over time. Key highlights include:
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Redesign Teaching & Learning to Transform Students' Daily Experience
Abolish the Bell
The Abolish the Bell Podcast Collective is a movement for reimagining education rooted in a radical legacy of organizing and resistance. The Podcast takes a hard look at the complex history of the education system — what we teach, how we teach it, and why it matters — and envisions a world beyond the system…
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Leverage Policy & Allocate Resources for Equity & Well-Being
Empty Seats at Powerful Tables: The State of School Boards in America
This report analyzes a large-scale, first-of-its-kind survey of elected school board members from across the country, focusing on education leaders of colors. A deeper understanding of their perspectives, priorities, experiences, and challenges is critical to recruiting more diverse candidates and ultimately driving school boards to address structural racism in education.
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Center & Share Power with BIPOC Families, Caregivers & Community
Insights from the Caregiver Community: Building Authentic School & Family Partnerships
This brief highlights key learnings from CASEL’s pilot SEL Dialogue Series for Caregiver-School Partnerships, which took place at a high school in Chicago, Ill., during Spring, 2022. It hones in on 4 insights towards creating authentic school-family partnerships, each with a corresponding set of recommendations for school leaders.
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Redesign Systems & Structures to Create Conditions for Human Thriving
District-Level Learnings From the Field: What Needs to be True When Redesigning School District Systems and Structures for Human Thriving?
Part of the BELE learning series, this paper explores insights from our equity initiatives in partner districts. It focuses on the conditions necessary to create equitable learning environments that enhance the student experience, and where districts should focus their efforts to sustain meaningful change.
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Review & Respond to Data on Experience, Learning & Well-Being
Abigail Echo-Hawk on the art and science of ‘decolonizing data’
In this article, Abigail Echo-Hawk, the Chief Research Officer of the Seattle Indian Health Board, talks about what it means to decolonize data in her context of providing health services for indigenous communities. This discussion goes into how data is communicated through a deficit-based framework, how to add a cultural lens in thinking about data,…
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Center & Share Power with BIPOC Families, Caregivers & Community
Engaging Families to Better Understand Students: Home Visits
There is no better source for learning about a student than the child’s parent(s) or guardians. Yet teachers can go months or even the whole year without any significant interaction with the families of their students. Intentional family engagement, therefore, is a critical aspect of creating a sense of classroom belonging. It allows for a…