Teachers & Leaders

Student Engagement in Online Classes: Tips for Teachers Based on Trauma-Informed Approaches and Social and Emotional Learning (SEL) Strategies

As schools pivot to online teaching, student engagement in the virtual classroom environment has become an urgent and important topic to be addressed. This tip sheet provides concrete strategies that teachers can incorporate into their online teaching to increase engagement with students of middle and high school. The authors present a framework based on trauma-informed (TI) approaches and social and emotional learning (SEL) strategies to ensure students feel safe, connected, engaged, and ready to learn.

Scenario Planning

Scenario Planning is a method to prepare for a range of plausible futures based on a set of different “uncertainties.” This video provides an overview of scenario planning and outlines an eight step process to create a set of scenarios to use in responding to an immediate crisis as well as for long term planning.

Better Together: A Coordinated Response for Principals and District Leaders

It is no secret that successful school leadership starts with the principal. District leadership must prioritize the needs of principals who in turn, will empower the school-based crisis response teams to address the needs of the school community. This brief provides readers with a structured approach to manage the social-emotional well-being of the adults in the school building, post COVID-19 closures. The phrase, “better together,” has never been truer as school communities embark on the uncharted territory of virtual, hybrid and/or physical re-entry after an extended school closure.

After Action Review Guide

An After-Action Review (AAR) is a process that creates an environment for a team to analyze a situation and review what worked, what didn’t work, and what can be done to improve moving forward. This guide includes the basic questioning protocol for an AAR.

Teachers and Leaders: Native Teachers, Culture, and History Quick Reference

This quick reference describes the importance of Native teachers and educational leaders, stressing that all student learning is enhanced when it is rooted in historical and cultural knowledge.

Teachers and Leaders Brief

This brief explores ways in which state education agencies, local education agencies, tribal education departments, schools, and educator preparation programs can support teachers and leaders as they preserve Native culture, knowledge, and language to improve the lives of Native children and youth. Specifically, this brief covers preparing and recruiting Native teachers and educational leaders; developing an Native knowledge educator preparation program curriculum and professional learning for current teachers; and certifying tribal speakers and culture experts to teach in schools.

Schools' First and Forever Responders: Preparing and Supporting Teachers

Schools’ First and Forever Responders: Preparing and Supporting Teachers in the Time of COVID-19 elevates a rationale and considerations for evidence-based strategies and innovative approaches to support teachers and teacher candidates during and following the COVID-19 crisis. Because teachers are the most vital in-school education resource, supporting the teacher workforce through the disruptions created by COVID-19 is essential to ensure continuity of learning for students. As schools and districts rush to meet immediate workforce needs, longer term planning is critical in light of looming budget declines. For each of the considerations highlighted in the brief, we cite re search or examples from other states and districts that can be helpful to learn more and guide decision-making.

Enhancing Equitable Access to Effective Educators with a Human Capital Management System

Creating coherence among and maximize impact of targeted programs within a statewide human capital management system to improve the preparation, recruitment, retention, and advancement of current and future teachers and leaders. 

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Associated States

Increasing Equitable Access to Effective Educators Through Development, Support, and Advancement Along the Career Continuum

Exploring human capital management models and practices to develop, support, and advance teachers along the career continuum while keeping them in classrooms to increase disadvantaged students' access to the most effective teachers. 

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Ongoing
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1
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2020-2027
Associated States

Strengthening and Diversifying the Educator Workforce

This project provides resources and strategies for state education agency (SEA) leaders related to recruiting and retaining teaches in rural settings through Grow Your Own (GYO) policies and programs.

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This project supports the teacher pipeline, helping state education agency (SEA) leaders and Regional Centers learn about recruiting and retaining teachers in rural settings using the Grow Your Own (GYO) policies and programs as case studies.

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This project supports the teacher pipeline, helping state education agency (SEA) leaders and Regional Centers learn about recruiting and retaining teachers in rural settings using the Grow Your Own (GYO) policies and programs as case studies.

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