The return to school every fall is an exciting time that can also be overwhelming. The Be Well website offers educators easy-to-use tools—including meditation and yoga videos—for fostering calm and well-being in the face of stress.

In this conversation, WestEd’s Rebeca Cerna and special guest Julian Berkowitz-Sklar, a graduating senior at Saratoga High School in California, discuss students’ pivotal role in helping education leaders implement new school climate practices.

Students in one New Orleans classroom are cultivating student leadership and gaining a deeper understanding of what it means to be safe at school. In this blog post, the students discuss how their school and communities could benefit from supportive, affirming systems.

A new guide for education leaders offers practical strategies to support teacher well-being. The guide includes suggestions for improving safety and security, connectedness and belonging, and more to help education leaders co-create educational environments that are systems of wellness.

WestEd’s Safe and Supportive Learning Environments professional learning helps educators develop the capacity to foster favorable learning conditions in their classrooms and communities. Learn how to adapt practices, lead improvement, and more.

WestEd has identified and tested solutions, which, when applied with fidelity, can not only accelerate math learning in the wake of the pandemic but also support improved math achievement over the long run.

Safe Spaces provides educators and early learning and care providers with free, online, trauma-informed professional learning modules in English and Spanish. In this Q&A, WestEd experts discuss why the modules were created, how the training aligns with the latest research, and more.