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

Nashville Case Study: Implementing Social Emotional Learning Across the District

Excellent Edutopia series on how Metro Nashville Public Schools is bringing coherence and alignment to social emotional learning implementation. The series hits key messages about how to position and integrate SEL so that it is part and parcel of the school culture for adults and students, not another "flavor of the month" program. The series also highlights concrete practices for elementary, middle and high schools and explains how the district uses a common SEL Walkthrough Rubric to guide implementation. Nashville is part of a network of the Collaborating Districts Initiative working with CASEL on district-wide SEL implementation.

Each article is accompanied by a video related to the article theme. (Note: There is reuse of some footage across the videos but each also includes new footage related to the specific theme of the article.)

Resource Links

• Nashville Confronts SEL Resistance Head-On (feature article in the series, why Nashville is doing this and key messaging points)
  https://www.edutopia.org/article/nashville-confronts-sel-resistance-head

• The Big Picture: Integrating SEL Across a District (features the SEL Walkthrough Rubric)
  https://www.edutopia.org/video/big-picture-integrating-sel-across-district

• SEL as a Foundation for Academics (features SEL implementation in middle school)
  https://www.edutopia.org/article/sel-foundation-academics

• Closing the Achievement Gap With SEL (features implementation in high school)
  https://www.edutopia.org/article/closing-achievement-gap-sel

• An Inside Look at Trauma-Informed Practices (school-wide approach in an elementary school)
  https://www.edutopia.org/article/inside-look-trauma-informed-practices

• How a District Integrates SEL with Academics
  https://www.edutopia.org/package/how-district-integrates-sel-academics

• MNPS SEL Walkthrough Rubric Tool 2017-1018
  

• Valor Collegiate's Compass Model & Tools - SEL at the Core
  

• CASEL District SEL Planning & Implementation Rubric

Source

Edutopia in collaboration with the National Commission for Social, Emotional, and Academic Development, with support from the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative

Innovating to Support Student Success: P.K. Yonge School Case Study

Learn how the P.K. Yonge School in Florida structured its tiered systems of support approach.  The case study includes information on how "Student Success Teams" are organized and run, how "tiering" is done, and how the staff take an integrated view of academic and social emotional or behavioral support needs. 

Resource Links

• Innovating to Support Student Success Overview

• Reaching All High School Students: A Multi-Tiered Approach

• Supporting Behavioral Needs: A Multi-Tiered Approach

• Academic Success for All Students: A Multi-Tiered Approach

• Blended Learning: Making it Work in Your Classroom

Source

Edutopia

Student School Climate Leadership Teams

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.

Resource Links

• School Climate Through Students' Eyes

• Selection Criteria for Student Leadership Teams

Source

The Center for School Climate and Learning