Wraparound Replication Cookbook: Recipes for Creating Strong School Culture and Addressing Social Emotional Barriers to Learning

This cookbook is the result of the Massachusetts Wraparound Zone Initiative - an initiative aimed at helping schools tackle both academic and non-academic barriers to student learning.  A rigorous evaluation of the Massachusetts Wraparound Zone Initiative (5 districts, 30 schools) conducted by the American Institutes of Research found that wraparound strategies made a significant contribution to improved student outcomes, particularly those related to student behavior, student support, and family engagement. This handbook represents the best thinking and strategy "recipes" on how to support the social emotional aspects of learning:

• Addressing school culture and the social emotional aspects of learning

• Rethinking systems for holistically identifying and addressing student academic and social emotional needs

• Creating focused partnerships and coalitions

• Treating parents as full partners

• Big district and state takeaways

• How to get started and how to manage priorities coherently

• Profiles of six districts and the strategies they used

• Links to resources, tools, templates and more

Resource Links

Wraparound Zone Cookbook

Individual Recipes

1. Doing a Welcoming School Walkthrough

2. Creating a School Culture Team

3. Rethinking Recess

4. Students as Culture Builders

5. Assessing Student Strengths & Needs

6. Student Success Teams (Student Support Teams, Child Study Teams, Whole Child Support Teams)

7. Mobilizing around a Tiered System of Supports Framework

8. Tracking Student Support

9. Mapping Your Resources

10. Creating Deep Wraparound Partnerships

11. Managing Partnership Development at Your School

12. Organizing as a Coalition of Partners

13. Academic Parent Teacher Teams

14. Parent House Parties | Academic Support Parties

15. Rethinking Parent Academies and Cafes: Pooling Community Resources

Wraparound Video Series - hear Mass educators, students, staff, parents and partners highlight their strategies and the impact

• Why Wraparound Works

• School Culture and the Social Emotional Aspects of Learning

• Understanding and Supporting Student Strengths and Needs

• Focused Partnerships & Coalitions

• Parents as Full Partners

Source

Massachusetts Department of Elementary and Secondary Education and School & Main Institute