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Child Mind Institute Video Library

This sizeable collection of short videos features expert clinicians and psychologists sharing tips on a wide range of social emotional and mental health topics — everything from helping students with a learning difference build confidence, to screen time, to parenting pre-teens, to spotting possible signs of disabilities.

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The Ultimate Guide to UDL

This great round up of resources compiled by Katie Novak, a UDL leader in Massachusetts and beyond, covers a huge amount of territory: UDL basics and video explainers, common misconceptions, a UDL implementation rubric, a UDL assessment flowchart, what to look for to evaluate UDL implementation in classrooms, recommended books and much more.

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Multi-Tiered Supports through Early Warning Systems (High School)

This resource focuses on implementing early warning systems, with a focus on the “ABCs” (absenteeism, behavior referrals, and course failure) which are highly predictive indicators for dropping out. Includes staffing, scheduling, and other resource shift examples, and highlights “do now” and “build toward” practices.

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New Teacher Toolkit: Support for New Teachers

This robust new teacher support resource collection includes a Growing Teachers Playbook with five models for sheltering and developing rookie teachers, a video featuring teachers talking about their first year as a teacher, a tool to assess if your school has established the conditions for growing great teachers, case studies, and much more.

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Curriculum Matters: IMplement MA Professional Learning Practices Video Series

Use this video collection to learn about ways educators in schools across Massachusetts are transforming professional learning using a variety of collaborative and lesson internalization methods.

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Massachusetts Guidance for AI in K-12 Education & AI Literacy for Educators Training Module

This guidance and AI Literacy for Educators training module are designed to help districts that opt to move forward with AI develop thoughtful, responsible, and equitable approaches. Grounded in the Commonwealth’s educational vision, they offer a foundation for local policy development, educator training, AI literacy, and the creation of adaptive systems that evolve alongside emerging technologies.

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Better Together: Massachusetts Family School Partnership Fundamentals Training Module

The Better Together training module helps educators think about and do family partnership. The module is based on the Massachusetts Family, School, and Community Partnership Fundamentals. It includes research, family voice videos, practice spotlights, and a Fundamentals Reflection Process Tool Kit school and district teams can use to identify the next stage or level of their family school partnership.

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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, and includes recipes for strengthening school culture, creating strong student success teams, engaging family members as partners, building community partnerships and coalitions, and much more.

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Student Learning Experience Report

This EDWIN report helps school and district leaders understand equity gaps in students’ learning experiences with effective educators; for example, the report shows how often students had assignments with different types of teachers over the past one to five years. This series of three videos and related guidance explain how the report works and how to interpret and use the data.

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DESE Sustainable Improvement Video Series

Listen to staff and leadership from schools tell their unique school improvement stories in this video collection, originally created to spotlight successful school turnaround practices. Topics include school culture, data practices, instructional improvement, career pathways, MTSS, family engagement, and more.

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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. 

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