Creating Safe, Equitable, Engaging Schools: A Comprehensive, Evidence-Based Approach to Supporting Students - Softcover

David Osher (author)

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1682532623 ISBN 13: 9781682532621

Publisher: Harvard Education Press, 2018

Synopsis

Creating Safe, Equitable, Engaging Schools brings together the collective wisdom of more than thirty experts from a variety of fields to show how school leaders can create communities that support the social, emotional, and academic needs of all students. It offers an essential guide for making sense of the myriad evidence?based frameworks, resources, and tools available to create a continuous improvement system.

Chapters illustrate how leaders can leverage the power of school-based teams to assess the needs of students in their school and select appropriate interventions across a wide variety of domains, including social and emotional learning, trauma, restorative practices, cultural responsiveness, and student and family engagement. Filled with recommendations gleaned from research and ongoing work in every US state and territory, Creating Safe, Equitable, Engaging Schools is a critical resource for understanding and adopting evidence-based practices and making programmatic decisions to ensure the ideal conditions for learning, growth, and development.

About this title

About the Author

David Osher is an institute fellow at American Institutes for Research.

Deborah Moroney is a managing director at American Institutes for Research and is director of the youth development and supportive learning environments practice area.

Sandra Williamson is a vice president for policy, practice, and systems change at American Institutes for Research.

From the Back Cover

Creating Safe, Equitable, Engaging Schools brings together the collective wisdom of more than thirty experts from a variety of fields to show how school leaders can create communities that support the social, emotional, and academic needs of all students. It offers an essential guide for making sense of the myriad frameworks, resources, and tools available to create a continuous improvement system.

Filled with recommendations gleaned from research and ongoing work in every US state and territory, this book is a critical resource for understanding and adopting evidence-based practices and making programmatic decisions to ensure the ideal conditions for learning, growth, and development.

"Creating Safe, Equitable, Engaging Schools is an essential read for teachers, principals, district leaders, and organizations that work with schools to create challenging and supportive environments for all students."
--Paul Cruz, superintendent, Austin Independent School District

"Osher and colleagues not only connect the dots between big ideas--deeper learning, trauma, social and emotional learning, evidence-based programs, comprehensive community planning--but they model the continuous improvement approach in the way ideas are ordered across and within the chapters. This is a masterful volume: comprehensive, accessible, and way overdue."
--Karen J. Pittman, cofounder, president and CEO, The Forum for Youth Investment

"This book provides a very usable road map for creating safe, healthy, equitable, and caring schools. The editors and contributors successfully integrate research, practice, and policy to help educators develop and implement effective and sustainable models to nurture caring schools that all children and educators deserve."
--Mark T. Greenberg, Bennett Chair of Prevention Research, Pennsylvania State University

David Osher is vice president and an institute fellow at American Institutes for Research. Deborah Moroney is a managing director at American Institutes for Research and is director of the youth development and supportive learning environments practice area. Sandra Williamson is a vice president for policy, practice, and systems change at American Institutes for Research.

Edition details

• Publisher: Harvard Education Press
• Publication date: 2018
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1682532623
• ISBN 13: 9781682532621
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 288