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Hear Student Leaders in New Orleans Discuss What’s Needed to Shift School Safety Paradigms

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Hear Student Leaders in New Orleans Discuss What’s Needed to Shift School Safety Paradigms

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Try Out a Reflective Process for Complex Restorative Practice Dilemmas

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Try Out a Reflective Process for Complex Restorative Practice Dilemmas

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A Reflective Process for Working Through Complex Restorative Practice Dilemmas in Schools

By Krystal Wu, Lauren Trout

Description

Designed to accompany The Toolkit Before the Toolkit (Trout, 2021), this brief offers a reflective process for individuals and teams to use when facing a complex restorative practices dilemma at their school or district.

It aims to help educators consider and bridge the adaptive, relational, and structural elements of restorative practices before moving to technical solutions and strategies.

The briefprovides:

An overview of restorative practices

Grounding research about using a reflective process to transform mindsets and systems

Tips for applying this process in participants' own contexts

Description of the main steps of the process, weaving in a fictional scenario to model the process in action

Resource Details

Product Information

Copyright: 2022
Format: PDF
Pages: 16
Publisher: WestEd

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A Reflective Process for Working Through Complex Restorative Practice Dilemmas in Schools

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By Krystal Wu, Lauren Trout Designed to accompany The Toolkit Before the Toolkit (Trout, 2021), this brief offers a reflective process for individuals and teams to use when facing a complex restorative practices dilemma at their school or district.

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Go Beyond Technical Implementation of Restorative Practices

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Go Beyond Technical Implementation of Restorative Practices

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Welcome!

There's nothing that can inspire and inform quite like a good story. The most promising school practices are based on solid evidence and engrossing stories can expand the reach of these practices. Stories engage us, stay with us, help us make meaning of data, and connect us to the people and ideas behind a practice. By listening to stories, children and adults alike build empathy, deepen understanding, and learn.

In her TED Talk How Your Brain Responds to Stories - and Why They're Crucial for Leaders, former Fortune 500 executive Karen Eber explains how storytelling affects our decision-making - describing the equal importance of data and storytelling and calling the balance of those two elements "a power ballad."

Sharing stories can also help us move toward greater equity and inclusion. When we read others' stories, we practice perspective-taking and consider our own goal-setting. Research suggests that these activities might move the needle to undo bias and by changing organizational practices. And as another TED Talk, on The Danger of a Single Story, by author by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, reminds us, multiple stories - told from multiple points of view - create a more complete and accurate understanding of an experience.

It is impossible to talk about a single story without talking about power...

Stories...are defined by the principle of nkali: how they are told, who tells them, when they are told, how many stories are told, are really dependent on power.

- Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

WestEd's goal with this audio gallery is to inspire and illuminate how schools across the country can promote social and emotional well-being, connection, and equity for all students, educators, and families - through specific, compelling, and actionable real-world examples that blend story and data. These stories span the many conditions that educators must attend to as they foster whole-person learning and development - including the personal conditions that ensure individual health and well-being, the safe and supportive school environments and relationships that protect and enable learning, and the system-level community conditions within and beyond education that anchor and reinforce learners' development over time.

We hope that this balance of evidence and stories - our social-emotional power ballad - will inspire listeners to take action in their own school communities to better the learning and lives of our children and youth.

The strategies you'll hear in this audio gallery are data driven and evidence based and are brought to life through the words of and from the perspectives of the storytellers - school leaders, their teams, and in one case, a student.

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There's nothing that can inspire and inform quite like a good story. The most promising school practices are based on solid evidence and engrossing stories can expand the reach of these practices. Stories engage us, stay with us, help us make meaning of data, and connect us to the people and ideas behind a practice.

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California Center for School Climate Audio Gallery

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California Center for School Climate Audio Gallery

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The California Center for School Climate (CCSC), a California Department of Education initiative operated by WestEd, provides free support and trainings on school climate and data use to local education agencies in California.

Supports are provided to districts and schools across the state via a series of activities including school climate virtual events, data use virtual sessions, peer learning exchanges, school climate data use workshops, professional learning supports, and one-on-one consultation supports.

CCSC Goals

1. Relevant: Deliver relevant, responsive, and engaging technical assistance on a variety of school climate topics that meets LEAs and schools where they are.

2. Data: Support LEAs and schools with best practices for collecting, using, and measuring data to support equitable school climate systems change and positive school climates.

3. Connection: Serve as a connector across the state to promote and disseminate best practices.

4. Partnership: Support LEAs and schools in building partnerships with education partners in creating a supportive school climate for all.

Activities and Supports

To learn more about the activities and supports offered by the CCSC, visit these links:

Learn more about the activities, services, and resources CCSC provided in year two here.

Who Will Benefit

K-12 school district administrators

Principals and site administrators

Teacher leaders, behavior specialists, intervention coordinators

Counselors, school psychologists, and mental health professionals

We Want to Hear From You

For more information about the CCSC, please contact our team at [email protected] .

To ensure that the center offerings are relevant to local education agencies, please fill out the Inquiry Survey to guide the work of the Center.

Stay Informed

To receive updates about CCSC events and resources, subscribe to the California Safe and Supportive Schools Newsletter.

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California Center for School Climate (CCSC)

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The California Center for School Climate (CCSC), a California Department of Education initiative operated by WestEd, provides free support and trainings on school climate and data use to local education agencies in California.

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Learn from Student Perspectives on Reimagining School Safety

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Learn from Student Perspectives on Reimagining School Safety

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In this 17-minute video, students and their teacher from Bard Early College in New Orleans discuss school safety and how it can be reimagined to promote positive elements like interconnection, belonging, and student voice and agency.

The students participated in a pre-college course in Leadership and Social Justice that used the Reimagining School Safety Guide from the national Center for Social and Emotional Learning and School Safety as a required text. The guide defines school safety; what it is (and is not), who gets to define it, how it is achieved, and at what cost to students, educators, and the communities they come from.
Accompanying Resources: Printable Transcript

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Shifting School Safety Paradigms with Students at the Center: Perspectives from Students at Bard Early College New Orleans - SEL Center

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In this 17-minute video, students and their teacher from Bard Early College in New Orleans discuss school safety and how it can be reimagined to promote positive elements like interconnection, belonging, and student voice and agency.

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Learn from a New Orleans Educator's Approach to Reimagining Safety

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Learn from a New Orleans Educator's Approach to Reimagining Safety

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This Guide shares the experience of one educator who adapted the Reimagining School Safety Guide to use in her classroom with pre-college students in New Orleans, Louisiana. It provides practical insights on how to use the Guide in a school setting with students as part of an effort to reconsider and shift paradigms of school safety.
Key Insights

The Reimagining School Safety Guide can be adapted for a young adult audience and used to engage them in discussing and shifting school safety paradigms.

For students, school safety is not a "neutral" topic; it is something they experience every day in the physical and social ways they engage with their school and the people in it. Thus, they are an essential partner for addressing challenges in school safety and contributing to efforts to reimagine what safety means and how to achieve it. Doing so takes commitment from the adults facilitating these conversations to effectively engage students in safe, supportive, and equitable ways.

Educators must continuously examine their mindsets and practices to cultivate safe and supportive learning environments where students feel comfortable providing authentic feedback about their schools' safety challenges.

Who is the Guide for?
The Guide is for educators and school site leaders-particularly those for students in middle school, high school, pre-college, and college-who are looking to include student perspectives in addressing school safety issues. Find actionable ideas to create a classroom that cultivates safety, inclusion, and engaged conversations about school safety, and explore school safety issues and specific strategies for engaging students in discussions about it.

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Engaging Students as Leaders to Reimagine School Safety: An Educator Case Story - SEL Center

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This Guide shares the experience of one educator who adapted the Reimagining School Safety Guide to use in her classroom with pre-college students in New Orleans, Louisiana. It provides practical insights on how to use the Guide in a school setting with students as part of an effort to reconsider and shift paradigms of school safety.

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Deepen Your Understanding of Creating a Culture of Care

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Deepen Your Understanding of Creating a Culture of Care

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Creating a Culture of Care: A Guide for Education Leaders to Develop Systems and Structures That Support Educator Well-Being

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This guide is for education leaders at all levels-local, regional, and state-in charge of supporting their education staff. It offers practical information and guidance to help education leaders co-create educational environments that are systems of well-being.

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Reimagining School Safety: A Guide for Schools and Communities

By Lauren Trout, Christina Pate, Reimagining School Safety: A Guide for Schools and Communities, Joe McKenna

Description

While school safety ideas and practices have evolved over the last several decades, the variety of school safety tools, policies, and degrees of success highlights a need for more conversation about the very concept of safety: what it is (and isn't), who gets to define it, how it's achieved, and at what cost.

In shifting how safety is defined so that it is not the absence of violence but the existence of systems and structures that support mutual care, belonging, and interconnection, schools' policies, practices, and values shift towards creating strong communities and places of collaborative learning.

The purpose of this guide is to support education professionals reimagine and redefine school safety such that safety is not the absence of a negative but rather the existence of positive elements like interconnection, belonging, voice, and agency. Further, working from this paradigm of safety and centering the lived experiences of students and families-especially those who have been kept furthest from institutional power-can be a key component of designing systems that are more equitable and sustainable.

This interactive guide pulls from different frameworks and concepts, including complex adaptive systems, restorative justice, co-designing, and design thinking, to provide educators, school leaders, and district administrators with mindsets, strategies, and grounded examples of what is possible by reimagining school safety.

Resource Details

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Copyright: 2022
Format: PDF
Pages: 41
Publisher: WestEd

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Reimagining School Safety: A Guide for Schools and Communities

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This interactive guide provides educators, school leaders, and district administrators with mindsets, strategies, and grounded examples of what is possible by reimagining school safety.

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Learn more about WestEd's Safe and Supportive Learning Environments Body of Work

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Learn more about WestEd's Safe and Supportive Learning Environments Body of Work