United We Learn: Honoring America’s Racial and Ethnic Diversity in Education

Youth and community-based organizations are working to eliminate punitive, zero-tolerance discipline from schools and replace it with restorative practices focused on strengthening school communities and relationships.

By Learning Policy Institute.

Supported by:
California Endowment and the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative

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Remaking Middle School Learning Series

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K-12 | Out-of-School Time | Science of Learning & Dev | SEL

Remaking Middle School Learning Series

Publication Year: 2021

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This series explore key aspects of young adolescent learning and development through such topics as social-emotional learning, teaching and learning, school climate and culture, and out of school time. Featuring researchers and practitioners from across the country, the packages highlight the science and offer ideas for how to put the science into practice.

By Remaking Middle School Project.

Supported by:
University of Virginia Youth-Nex Center to Promote Effective Youth Development, the Association for Middle Level Education (AMLE), the Altria Group, and the New York Life Foundation

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Reclaim Social-Emotional Learning: Centering Organizing Praxis for Holistically Safe Schools

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K-12 | Out-of-School Time | Racial Equity | SEL | Youth Voice

Reclaim Social-Emotional Learning: Centering Organizing Praxis for Holistically Safe Schools

Publication Year: 2020

Highlights examples of SEL from organizing praxis, problematizes current SEL frameworks (especially when SEL is used as another form of policing), and illuminates the connections between holistic safety and SEL.

By Communities for Just Schools Fund.

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Beyond Academic Learning: First Results from the Survey of Social and Emotional Skills

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K-12 | SEL

Beyond Academic Learning: First Results from the Survey of Social and Emotional Skills

Publication Year: 2021

The OECD’s Survey of Social and Emotional Skills (SSES) is one of the first international efforts to collect data from students, parents and teachers on the social and emotional skills of students at ages 10 and 15. This report presents the first results from this survey. It describes students’ social and emotional skills and how they relate to individual, family, and school characteristics. It also examines broader policy and socio-economic contexts related to these skills, and sheds light on ways to help education leaders and policy makers monitor and foster students’ social and emotional skills.

By Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD).

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Opportunities to Strengthen SEL Impact through Youth Participatory Action Research

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K-12 | SEL | Youth Voice

Opportunities to Strengthen SEL Impact through Youth Participatory Action Research

Publication Year: 2021

This brief considers how youth empowerment approaches and Youth-led Participatory Action Research (YPAR) may effectively promote the social-emotional wellbeing of adolescents in secondary schools.

By Penn State.

Supported by:
Robert Wood Johnson Foundation

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Winning Racial Justice in Our Schools: Resisting the Right Wing Attacks on Critical Race Theory

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K-12 | Racial Equity

Winning Racial Justice in Our Schools: Resisting the Right Wing Attacks on Critical Race Theory

Publication Year: 2021

This toolkit is a one-stop shop to understand the context of the right-wing attacks on anti-racist education, use effective talking points, get a messaging into the media, take action through local organizing, advocate for anti-racist education policies, and run for school board.

By NYU Metro Center’s Education Justice Research and Organizing Collaborative (EJ-ROC).

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How Learning Happens: Lessons Learned from Five Communities

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Adult Practice | K-12 | Out-of-School Time | Racial Equity | SEL

How Learning Happens: Lessons Learned from Five Communities

Publication Year: 2021

Shares three major lessons of the How Learning Happens project: Lesson 1. Equity must be an explicit desired outcome of all social, emotional, and cognitive programming; Lesson 2. Shifting Adult Practice Requires Time and Space for Adult Self-Care; Lesson 3. Youth Voice is a Crucial Influence in Transforming Learning Environments.

By America’s Promise Alliance.

Supported by:
Carnegie Corporation of New York, Chan Zuckerberg Initiative, NoVo Foundation, Pure Edge, Raikes Foundation, and the Wallace Foundation

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