Center for Mental Health in Schools, UCLA
Approaches mental health and psychosocial concerns from the broad perspective of addressing barriers to learning and promoting healthy development. Works to improve outcomes for young people by enhancing policies, programs, and practices relevant to mental health in schools. Site includes materials, technical assistance, continuing education, in-service training, tutorials, and news and trends in the field. The Collaborative for Academic, Social, and Emotional Learning (CASEL)
Promotes coordinated, evidence-based social, emotional, and academic learning as an essential part of education from preschool though high school. Identifies and documents how SEL programming coordinates with and adds value to other approaches that address children's successful development.
Currently creating an educational leader's "tool kit" to address four fundemental issues: coordination and integration of SEL with core content curricula and other school activities; leadership and infrastructure supports necessary for high-quality SEL implementation and sustainability; training and staff development; and assessment and evaluation. Academic and Social Emotional Learning (International Bureau of Education, 2003): 10 guidelines of best-practice schools can follow to promote their students' social emotional development and academic learning. Brief summaries of research findings and practical applications are provided for each of the 10 guidelines.
SEL Packet for Parents (CASEL, 2003). This packet includes things parents can do at home and at school to promote SEL and school success, and SEL tips and recommended books for parents.
Communities in Schools (CIS)
Provides successful stay-in-school solutions at school sites by showing communities how to coordinate their public, private, and nonprofit resources so kids can get the help they need, where they need it—in the public schools. Connects needed community resources with schools.
Coalition of Community Schools
An alliance of national, state and local organizations in education K-16, youth development, community planning and development, family support, health and human services, government and philanthropy as well as national, state and local community schools networked. The Coalition advocates for community schools as the vehicle for strengthening schools, families, and communities so that together they can improve student learning. The Sustainability Planning Checklist helps community school initiatives plan for the future. Cool Schools on the Web
Middle schools around the world that are on-line and ready to work on collaborative projects with others. Developmental Studies Center
Designs in-school and after-school programs that inter-relate children’s academic, ethical, social, and emotional development in coordinated, systemic ways.
The Division of Adolescent and School Health (DASH)
CDC provides the latest data about youth risk behaviors and effective interventions that address adolescent risk behaviors.
Early Warning, Timely Response: A Guide to Safe Schools
Research-based practices designed to assist school communities identify these warning signs early and develop prevention, intervention and crisis response plans. US Department of Education. Education Policy Clearinghouse
Fully searchable database to help people access information on education policy at the national, regional, or state level. News, research, and legislation on all 50 states and the District of Columbia covering such topics as teacher quality, No Child Left Behind, charter schools, testing and special education. The database is fully searchable. Site of the American Asssociation of Colleges for Teacher Education.
Enhancing Parental Involvement through Goal-Based Interventions
From the Family Involvement Network of Educators of the Harvard Family Research Project. Exemplary and Promising Programs
US Department of Education list evaluation criteria: Evidence of efficacy, quality of program, educational significance, and usefulness to others. Federal Resources for Education Excellence
Provides quick access to hundreds of teaching and learning resources and offers teachers, federal agencies and other organizations a way to form Internet-based learning resources and Internet-based learning communities. Figure This! Mathematics Challenges for Families
Web site offered by the National Council of Teachers of Mathematics provides interesting math challenges that middle school students can do at home with their families.
Gang Resistance Education and Training Program (GREAT)
Law enforcement provides a wide range of structured community-based activities and classroom instruction for school-aged children. The desired results are a sense of competency, usefulness, and personal empowerment needed to avoid involvement in youth violence, gangs, and criminal activity. U.S. Department of the Treasury. Getting Involved in Your Child’s Education
National Education Association site includes guides for parents on topics such as understanding testing, helping your child with reading, math, and science, and getting involved in your child's school. Indicators of School Crime and Safety 2002
This is the fifth edition of this annual DOE publication. As a nation, we are committed to ensuring safe school environments for students, teachers and staff. The good news is that schools continue to be safe havens for children and youth to learn. Learning That Lasts: How Service-Learning Can Become an Integral Part of Schools, States and Communities
This publication answers the question, "What would it take to make service-learning part of every student's education experience?" based on work conducted as part of Learning In Deed: Making a Difference Through Service-Learning. London Family Court Clinic -- Bullying: Information for Parents and Teachers
An excerpt from A School-based Anti-Violence Program. Background information along with family and classroom prevention measures from the Center for Children and Families in the Justice System. Maine Project Against Bullying (MPAB)
The MPAB is funded by a Perkins grant from Maine Department of Education for 3 years. The goal of this project is to organize and present proven techniques, strategies, methodologies, and programs which support students, schools and communities in addressing the problem of bullying/harassment in children K-4. MidLink Magazine
A virtual space where any student aged 8 - 18 can be a published author. Highlights exemplary work from the most creative classrooms around the globe. A non-profit organization, supported by SAS inSchool, North Carolina State University, and the University of Central Florida. Any school, teacher, or student is invited to participate.
National Alternative Education Association (NAEA)
All volunteer organization that provides a forum through conferences and publications to enhance the quality of alternative education so as to reduce the number of youth who are at high risk of expulsion, suspension, or dropping out of school; and to return out-of-school youth to school or to otherwise engage them in work and educational activities that increase their chances of becoming productive and healthy citizens. (Website currently under construction 08/04/04) The National Assembly on School-Based Health Care
Serves as a membership organization and collegial home for professionals dedicated to the implementation of school-based health centers. National Center for Education Statistics (NCES)
Federal entity of the Department of Educaton for collecting and analyzing data related to education in the US and other nations.
National Dropout Prevention Center/Network
Functions as a clearinghouse and research center as well as a provider of technical assistance. Features include statistics and facts, an effective strategies database, articles, publications, and policy initiatives. By Clemson University. North Carolina Center for the Prevention of School Violence
Resource center that promotes and supports safer schools and positive youth development, aims to understand the problems of school violence and develop solutions. Departmental resource of the North Carolina Department of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention.
The Nuts and Bolts of Implementing School Safety Programs (PDF 352K)
A guide for teachers, principals, and school administrators trying to find the right school safety program. The manual identifies programs from around the country and describes the resources needed to implement each program.
OFFICE OF SAFE AND DRUG-FREE SCHOOLS
The Office of Safe and Drug-Free Schools (OSDFS) administers, coordinates, and recommends policy for improving quality and excellence of programs and activities related school and violence prevention and education. Preventing Youth Hate Crime: A Manual for Schools and Communities
Provides schools and communities with programs and resources that can be used in preventing youth hate crime and hate-motivated behavior. Prevention Strategies that Work
Describes prevention practices that K-8 public school administrators have found to be effective in accelerating school performance, increasing readiness for learning, and reducing problem behaviors; Derives from six different research partnerships between public schools and universities across the United States. Each team focused on students with -- and at risk of developing --emotional and behavioral disorders. Compiled by the Center For Effective Collaboration And Practice (CECP). All projects in this guide received funding from the U.S. Department of Education, Office of Special Education Programs.
Public Education Network's School and Community Services Initiative
Addresses the challenge of meeting the non-academic needs of children to help ensure that students are at their best, academically and socially. The initiative takes a child-centered, coordinated-services perspective that recognizes the role of schools, families, and community agencies in the lives of children. Resiliency: Developing Resiliency in Urban Youth
Monograph from the North Central Regional Educational Laboratory discusses the characteristics of resilient children and how to build protective processes within and around children so that they overcome risk at critical decision-making moments in their lives. The paper outlines a research-based definition of resilience, four major protective mechanisms that foster resilience, and examples of strategies that help to build those protective processes for students.
Safe and Secure: Guides to Creating Safer Schools
The Northwest Regional Educational Laboratory’s series of eight guidebooks intended to build a foundation of information that will assist schools and districts in developing safe learning environments. These guides provide information and resources that support comprehensive safe school planning efforts and assist educators in obtaining current, reliable, and useful information on topics that should be considered as they develop safe school strategies and positive learning environments. Guides can be downloaded free of charge. Safe and Sound: An Educational Leader's Guide to Social and Emotional Learning (SEL) Programs
The guide offers educators objective information about 80 nationally available programs that promote social and emotional learning (SEL) designed for general education classrooms. The rating table in the guide also lists documented behavioral outcomes such as violence prevention and reductions in drug use. Search Institute Asset List
At the heart of the institute's work is the framework of 40 developmental assets, which are positive experiences and personal qualities that young people need to grow up healthy, caring, and responsible. The institute has blended the literature on child development with the framework of assets for adolescents to identify parallel, developmentally appropriate sets of assets for infants, toddlers, preschoolers, and elementary-age children. School-based Prevention
Research article by Mark Greenberg and other CASEL scholars in the journal American Psychologist. The authors make a compelling case for school-based prevention, summarizing findings of key studies of comprehensive SEL (Social Emotional Learning)-based prevention programming. School Change: Beyond Islands of Excellence: What Districts Can Do to Improve Instruction and Achievement in All Schools
Report from the Learning First Alliance describes how five high-poverty districts improved student performance through district-wide strategies. The need to engage stakeholders beyond the school and district in reform efforts emerges as one of six key findings. Parental and community involvement also play an important role. The Learning First Alliance is a permanent partnership of 12 leading educational associations that have come together to improve student learning in America's public schools. School-Family Partnerships (SFP)
The Leadership Module for Family-School Partnerships provides school leadership teams with information about school variables that affect parent participation. They summarize research in family-school partnerships and present activities and reflective questions. A PowerPoint presentation is also available. School Health Program Funding Information
The School Health Program Finance Project database contains information on federal, foundation, and state-specific funding sources for school health programs. SoundOut.org
This website, is a program of Washington-based the Freechild Project, contains information about involving students in planning, research, teaching, evaluating, and advocating. Testing the Testers 2003: An Annual Ranking of State Accountability Systems
Princeton Review focuses on the policies that determine the overall character and effectiveness of each accountability system. Awarded 46 states grades of B+ or better on the quality of the tests themselves, but there was much wider variation in rankings of other accountability practices and policies. The U.S. Department of Education
Provides useful and timely information about programs, policies, people, and practices that exist at the Department. This place is a great entry point to the information at the U.S. Department of Education as well as in much of the education community. What Kids Can Do
Articles about youth projects and activities in schools and communities. Works by youth including art, poetry, essays, stories, radio public service announcements. What Parents and Teachers Really Mean by Parental Involvement
Public Agenda Online looks at the ways parents and teachers agree—and disagree—about what parents should be doing in their kids' schools.
What Works Clearinghouse
The U.S. Department of Education's Institute of Education Sciences chose seven initial Evidence Report topics for systematic review in its first year: Interventions for Beginning Reading, Curriculum-based Interventions for Increasing K-12 Math Achievement, Preventing High School Dropout, Programs for Increasing Adult Literacy, Peer-Assisted Learning in Elementary Schools: Reading, Mathematics, and Science, Interventions to Reduce Delinquent, Disorderly, and Violent Behavior in and out of School, Interventions for Elementary English Language Learners: Increasing English Language Acquisition and Academic Achievement. The studies reviewed for each topic will be determined by an exhaustive search of published and unpublished research literature, including submissions from program and product developers. Yale Child Study Center's School Development Program (SDP)
SDP is the organization charged with implementing the Comer Process in school communities. The Comer Process, a school and system-wide intervention formulated by Dr. James P. Comer, at the Yale University School of Medicine's Child Study Center, aims to bridge child psychiatry and education. The Comer Process provides a structure as well as a process for mobilizing adults to support students' learning and overall development. It is a different way of conceptualizing and working in schools and replaces traditional school organization and management with an operating system that works for schools and the students they serve. Dr. Comer uses a metaphor of six developmental pathways to characterize the lines along which children mature--physical, cognitive, psychological, language, social, and ethical. The SDP school community uses the six developmental pathways as a framework for making decisions that will benefit children. In schools using the Comer Process, far more is expected from the students than just cognitive development. Youth Who Have Caused School-Associated Violent Deaths: Checklist of Characteristics
National School Safety Center checklist of behaviors that could indicate a youth’s potential for harming him/herself or others; derived from tracking school-associated violent deaths in the United States from July 1992 to the present; includes the School Associated Violent Deaths Report.
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