Supporting the Whole Child
Strengthening cross-sector collaboration to improve student outcomes that support academic learning, including social and emotional learning, physical and mental health, and family engagement and support.
The “whole child” approach extends beyond academic learning to also include social and emotional learning, physical and mental health, and family engagement and support. In the West Region, ambitious collective-impact approaches are emerging in which stakeholders work together to break cycles of intergenerational poverty and other harmful impacts on student success. However, some of the stakeholders involved in these approaches need coaching in their use of data, especially short-term metrics to guide decisionmaking and interorganizational learning. REL West’s research and analytic support is multifaceted, allowing us to partner with education and community leaders to bring much-needed research and analytic support to this area.
- Event: Academic Mindsets and Behaviors, Prior Achievement, and the Transition to Middle School
- Report: Academic Mindsets and Behaviors, Prior Achievement, and the Transition to Middle School
- Blog: Preventing Students from Dropping Out During COVID-19 School Closures
- Event: Early indicators of High School Graduation and Academic Mindsets in Clark County School District - Community Partners Meeting
- Report: Growth mindset, performance avoidance, and academic behaviors in Clark County School District
- Report: Early indicators and academic mindset in the Clark County School District
- Blog: Preventing Students from Dropping Out During COVID-19 School Closures
- Guide: District guide for creating indicators for Early Warning Systems
- Video: When Every Student Matters: A K–12 Approach for Supporting and Promoting Graduation
- Report: When dropouts return to school: A statewide look at the characteristics and education outcomes of Utah dropouts who re-enrolled in high school
- Video: Promoting Success in the First Year of High School
- Webinar: Building Shared Knowledge: Effective Use of Multi-Tiered Student Supports as a Dropout Prevention Strategy
- Research Digest: Addressing dropouts
- Report: Students' Use of School-Based Telemedicine Service and Rates of Returning to Class After These Services in a Small Elementary School District
- Blog: How Technology Brings Health Care to Students at School
- Resource Collection: Every Student, Every Day: A Multi-Tiered Approach to Reducing Chronic Absence in Elementary School
- Materials: Parlier Attendance Materials
- Blog: Addressing Chronic Absence in Salt Lake City
- Video Collection: Attendance Matters!
- Infographic: Data visualization can help educators address chronic absence
- Webinar: Using Attendance Data for Decisionmaking: Strategies for State and Local Education Agencies
- Video: Reducing Chronic Absenteeism: Every Day Counts!
- Event: Every Day Counts
- Event: Every Day Counts: Increasing Attendance to Improve Student Outcomes in Utah
School Climate (20)
- Toolkit: Equity in Action Resource: Communication and Engagement Plan
- Toolkit: Equity in Action Resource: Building a District Equity Team
- Toolkit: Equity in Action Resource: Bias-Based Beliefs Reflection
- Webinar Series: Creating Culturally Affirming Spaces Webinar Series
- Infographic: Engaging Families to Support Students' Connectedness to School
- Infographic: Parental Involvement and Family Engagement: A Snapshot of California’s 2019 Local Indicator Data
- Blog: Engaging Students and Families from Diverse Populations During the COVID-19 Pandemic
- Brief: Research in Brief: School-Based Law Enforcement
- Blog: Reaching, Teaching, and Empowering Families During the COVID-19 Pandemic
- Event: Engaging Parents and Students from Diverse Populations in the Context of Distance Learning
- Webinar Series: Supporting the Social and Emotional Needs of Educators and Students
- Report: Short-term impacts of student listening circles on student perceptions of school climate and of their own competencies
- Report: How are middle school climate and academic performance related across schools and over time?
- Event: Strength in Voices
- Event: Transforming School Climate to Exceed LCAP Expectations
- Research Digest: School climate
- Webinar: Speak Out, Listen Up! Listening to Student Voice
- Report: The appropriateness of a California student and staff survey for measuring middle school climate
- Toolkit: Speak Out, Listen Up! Tools for using student perspectives and local data for school improvement
- Literature Review: Summary of existing school climate instruments for middle school
- Research Digest: Disability categories
- Infographic: For students with disabilities, how do high school outcomes vary by disability category?
- Report: School mobility, dropout, and graduation rates across student disability categories in Utah
- Webinar: The History and Future of Special Education: Implementing Quality Services through the Implementation of Inclusive Models
- Blog: Training the Next Generation of Youth-Serving Professionals in California's Central Valley
- Event: Understanding Youth Suicide and Effective Prevention, Intervention, and Postvention Strategies: 4th Annual Central Valley Convening
- Blog: Supporting Students at a Distance: A Discussion with Two Rural School Psychologists on Challenges and Opportunities During the COVID-19 Pandemic
- Brief: Research in Brief: School-Based Law Enforcement
- Blog: Culturally Affirming Care for Rural Students During the Pandemic: A Karuk Perspective
- Blog: School Social Work in the Time of COVID-19: When Human-Centered Work Moved Online
- Blog: Preventing Students from Dropping Out During COVID-19 School Closures
- Event: Trauma, Resilience, and the Power of Relationships: 3rd Annual Central Valley Convening
- Event: Strengthening Student Resilience: Cross-Sector Approaches for Promoting Effective Trauma-Informed and Mental Health Practices
- Event: Understanding School Mental Health Practices and Trauma-Informed Approaches: A Central Valley Convening
- Webinar Series: Identifying and Transforming Educational Inequities
- Video: Voices from the Field: The Importance of Trauma-Informed Practices
- Webinar Series: Addressing the Effects of Trauma in Schools
- Event: Supporting Student Resilience in Trauma-Sensitive Schools
- Event: Preventing and Responding to Student Suicide: Promising Strategies for Schools
- Event: Supporting Student Resiliency in Trauma-Sensitive Schools
- Webinar Series: Effective Use of Data to Address Individual Student Needs in Positive Behavioral Interventions and Supports (PBIS)