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

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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

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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

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

Conditions for Learning Surveys→

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Sample question from Conditions for Learning Survey.

The Conditions for Learning surveys (CFL) were developed collaboratively and field-tested by districts and Massachusetts Department of Elementary & Secondary Education staff involved in the Urban Leaders Network for School Climate & Student Support. The CFL metric and survey tools focus on the holistic “conditions” (including social emotional learning) students need in order to learn in a school setting. The CFL contains surveys around the following domains: school climate, academic engagement, social emotional learning, parent & family engagement, and systems of student support, with surveys for students, staff, and families. Schools and districts are welcome to utilize these survey tools.

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Conditions for Learning Surveys

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

 

The School Climate Survey Suite→

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Cover page of the School climate survey suite document.

The School Climate Survey Suite is a set of four multidimensional surveys to measure student, teacher, administrator, faculty, and family perceptions of school climate. The surveys are brief, reliable, and valid for assessing perceived school climate among students in Grades 3-12. Teams can use each survey separately or in combination to assess perceptions. Each survey includes a set of demographic questions about the participant and a number of questions related to school climate with Likert-scale response option.

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School Climate Survey Suite

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OSEP Technical Assistance Center on Positive Behavioral Interventions and Supports, University of Oregon

 

How Learning Happens: Supporting Students’ Social, Emotional, and Academic Development→

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As the nation is becoming increasingly interested in how children learn, efforts like the landmark consensus report issued by the National Commission’s Council of Distinguished Scientists are providing new insights. This report, “The Evidence Base for How We Learn: Supporting Students’ Social, Emotional, and Academic Development,” unites scholars from multiple fields to affirm the interconnectedness of the social, emotional, and academic components of learning. Take a look starting at page 9 to see "What We've Learned."

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How Learning Happens:  Supporting Students' Social, Emotional, and Academic Development

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National Commissions on Social, Emotional, and Academic Development

National Center for Safe Supportive Learning Environments Website Resources→

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The National Center on Safe Supportive Learning Environments (NCSSLE) is a training and technical assistance (TTA) center funded by the U.S. Department of Education’s Office of Safe and Healthy Students to help address the many factors that result in disciplinary problems and affect conditions for learning, such as bullying, harassment, violence, and substance abuse. Due to the growing concern over school climate and disproportionate rates of suspensions and expulsions in the nation’s schools, over the past few years, NCSSLE has developed a number of materials related to this topic. Additionally, NCSSLE has increased the number of resources housed in the NCSSLE website to help school districts better address their approaches to school climate and discipline while safeguarding student’s civil rights.       

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National Center for Safe Supportive Learning Environments

Key Implementation Insights from the Collaborating Districts Initiative for SEL

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CASEL's 2017 report on the Collaborating Districts Initiative (CDI), a six-plus year effort to study and scale high-quality, evidence-based academic, social and emotional learning in 10 of the largest, most complex school systems in the country:  Anchorage, Austin, Chicago, Cleveland, Nashville, Oakland, Sacramento, Washoe County (NV), Atlanta and El Paso.

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Key Insights from the Collaborating Districts Initiative

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The Collaborative for Academic, Social, and Emotional Learning (CASEL)

Navigating Social and Emotional Learning from the Inside Out - Guide to 25 Evidence-Based SEL Programs for Elementary

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There are many social emotional learning programs out there. This report provides a comprehensive report on 25 evidence-based social emotional learning programs for elementary school. Developed for the Wallace Foundation and released in March 2017, the report profiles both lesson-based/curriculum and non-curricular approaches.

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Navigating SEL from the Inside Out:  Looking Inside & Across 25 Leading SEL Programs

SEL Programs Evaluated

In-School, Lesson-Based Curricula: The 4Rs Program, Caring School Community, Character First, Competent Kids, Caring Communities, I Can Problem Solve, Lions Quest, The Mutt-i-grees Curriculum, Open Circle, The PATHS Program, Positive Action , RULER, Second Step, SECURe, Social Decision Making/Problem Solving Program, Too Good for Violence, We Have Skills, Wise Skills

In-School, Non-curricular Approaches:  Conscious Discipline, Good Behavior Game, Playworks, Responsive Classroom, Program Profiles

Out-of-School Time Programs:  Before the Bullying, A.F.T.E.R School Program, Girls on the Run, WINGS for Kids

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The Wallace Foundation, Harvard Graduate School of Education

PEAR Holistic Student Assessment (HSA)

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The PEAR Holistic Student Assessment (HSA) is a universal social-emotional assessment tool (student survey) that can help you better understand each student's unique strengths and needs.  The assessment is based on PEAR's Clover Model of youth development, covering the following 4 domains:

  • Active Engagement (engaging with the world physically)

  • Assertiveness (expressing voice and choice)

  • Belonging (social connection and relationships)

  • Reflection (thought and meaning-making)

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PEAR Holistic Student Assessment

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Partnerships in Education and Resilience (PEAR) Institute, Harvard Medical School, McLean Hospital

Student School Climate Leadership Teams

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School Climate through Students' Eyes

A lot of school climate and culture is "what's happening when adults are busy doing other things."  Use these resources from the Center on School Climate & Learning to involve a variety of students (not just natural or known leaders) in gathering student voice and pinpointing aspects of school climate/culture that need work and strategies for addressing them.

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The Center for School Climate and Learning

How Students Thrive: Positive Youth Development in Practice

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School culture and climate is a critical component to any school.  This paper can help a school or district explore how to design schools around young people in order to support them on their positive youth development, including the importance of caring, trusting, and supportive relationships, high expectations, voice, choice and contribution, intentionally engaging learning experiences and consistency.

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How Students Thrive: Positive Youth Development in Practice  

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Springpoint Schools