The causes of student trauma are varied and complex. The cost of lasting trauma is high. It negatively impacts a student’s current mental health, their academic performance, and their long-term ability to be productive citizens.
A roundtable with educators and district leaders sharing their wisdom on mental health and well-being during and after the pandemic. Learn how they are allocating resources to strengthen the resilience of students and further individual and collective self-care in schools.
"Building trust takes time and patience, as well as a common language so people can talk about this construct. Where do we begin?"
Four factors are at the core of developing collective expertise: student equity, instructional coherence, collaborative inquiry, and precision of pedagogy.
"...An approach that is simple in design but complex in execution. It is more than a little messy,...but is an organizational framework that can have a profound impact on student success and educator collective efficacy!"
"Potential is never set in stone; our capacity for curiosity and our thirst for knowledge and new skills should continue until our last day on Earth."
Explore the crosswalk between the PLC+ Framework and the collective efficacy cycles as well as a visual schedule of the Collective Efficacy Cycle in this introduction excerpt from Collaborating Through Collective Efficacy Cycles.
Take the Self-Efficacy Self-Assessment then explore collective efficacy in this excerpt from Collaborating Through Collective Efficacy Cycles.
Increase your peer observation skills by exploring its three components and using sample questions from Collaborating Through Collective Efficacy Cycles.
What we all need is time to focus and cut down on the noise. We need time to breathe and engage in conversations that focus on deeper impact...but we won’t get that time back until we begin taking some things off our plates.
How do teachers, students, parents, school leaders, and admin-istrators build an antiracist school system?
The cessation of overtly racist practices is not enough to halt the effects of racism. We need, in the words of Ibram X. Kendi, to become antiracists—as teachers, school leaders, parents, and community members.