This brief shares learnings from BELE district partnerships around the fifth Essential Action: invest in staff. To support this Essential Action, CASEL developed the Transformative (tSEL) Adult Learning Series, a set of six interactive workshops that build an opportunity for adults themselves to deepen their self-awareness and discover how they can curate equitable learning environments…

This playbook from the BELE Network represents the culmination of BELE’s contributions to the education space. It is designed to be a tool for folks across the education space to leverage research-backed, role-specific resources that offer a path to bring practices and policies that center student experience to the classroom.

*Resource Coming Soon* Measuring What Matters: District Policy provides a starting point of district policy actions for local- and district-level policymakers to consider in the development of policies that  center student experience in their systems, and thus advance equity and student success. These policy actions are examples of district-level actions that could help to create…

*Resource Coming Soon* State Policies for Supporting Student Experience seeks to provide a starting point of state policy actions for state-level policymakers to consider in the development of policies that  center student experience in their systems, and thus advance equity and student success. These policy actions are examples of state-level actions that could help to…

Recommendations from UChicago Consortium and PERTS for successfully implementing new policies and practices based on data from student experience surveys, like Cultivate and Elevate, that address universal pain points.

This paper explores five key actions that can be taken to effectively implement student-centered data systems in creating learning environments where all young people feel seen, heard, and able to achieve. Paired with practical examples, these key actions were generated in partnership with BELE learning partners and their experience working with districts to implement Elevate,…

This BELE learning brief highlights how near-peer mentors and Youth Organizing Coaches can help school districts listen to and respond to the experiences of students. The brief explores four key insights on how the role can be implemented in schools to uplift student voices and support education leaders to partner more meaningfully with students.

The Center for Public Research and Leadership at Columbia University worked with the BELE Network to identify bright spot organizations and school systems that are embracing equity-oriented principles with promising effect. This report details four bright spots that are effectively building equitable learning environments, including Kingmakers of Oakland, Equal Opportunity Schools, Mineola Public Schools, and…

The fourth BELE learning brief explores how an elementary school in one of CASEL’s BELE districts worked to build authentic caregiver and community partnerships throughout a year-long project to transform an existing mural. The brief explores three key conditions to sustain authentic partnerships among caregivers, community members, educators, and school leaders.

Yonkers Public Schools worked with the Bank Street Education Center to increase the number of Black and Latinx students receiving supportive, growth-oriented feedback about their learning in math. Emphasizing the interconnectedness of positive learning experiences, this case study shows their success and what they did.