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Cultivating Mindfulness to Nurture Student Learning and Well-Being

This collection of resources, vetted and compiled by the National Center to Improve Social and Emotional Learning and School Safety, support states, districts, and schools as they serve students throughout COVID-19 and assist educators in advancing racial justice and creating equitable systems. Access this important and timely guidance.

Sponsored by the Aspen Institute, this archived webinar explores how distance learning offers both opportunities and imperatives to re-establish relationships during school closure — and discusses new ways that students, parents, and educators are connecting to advance the work of schools.

Join the Center for Evidence-Based Crime Policy and the WestEd Justice & Prevention Research Center for an online conversation series that aims to connect research and evidence to policy and practice in order to reduce racial and ethnic disparities in the criminal justice system. The first archived discussion examined whether police training on such critical topics as implicit bias, de-escalation, and community policing, for example, lead to more equitable outcomes.

In all content areas, in person and remotely, educators can cultivate, and motivate, learners who are guided by their curiosity and rewarded with the thrill of discovery. To make this happen for every learner, educators must focus on the research about how humans learn. Gain insights from WestEd’s Making Sense of SCIENCE.

Build reading momentum through a REL West webinar on storybook reading, culturally affirming instruction, and connecting with parents and families. The webinar kicks off a four-part series that includes opportunities for educators to discuss and share their practice.

This webinar series, hosted by REL West, the Region 15 Comprehensive Center, and the National Center to Improve Social and Emotional Learning and School Safety, highlights the importance of attending to the social and emotional needs of educators and students during and after the COVID-19 pandemic.

Due to school site closures, many school psychologists shifted their practices to work in an almost entirely virtual environment. Explore how two psychologists in rural school communities are grappling with the fallout of halting in-person counseling sessions and the challenges of building and maintaining relationships with students virtually.

Teachers and other child-serving professionals have unique opportunities to develop deep, consistent, long-term relationships with the students in their care, including those experiencing trauma. Read this two-part article (one and two) to learn how a coherent trauma-healing system can inform classroom practices, schoolwide culture and climate, and systemwide supports. 

Offered as part of the Leading Equity Virtual Summit 2021, this virtual presentation examines the first step to building trusting and mutually respectful classroom relationships: personal reflection. Unpack how culturally responsive teachers consistently reflect on and recognize how cultural identity, privilege, and biases manifest in the classroom.