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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.
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.
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.
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.
Cultivating Deeper Learning Instructional Videos
This DESE video series provides close-up examples of strong daily instructional practices that create the conditions for deeper learning experiences. The collection includes PK-12 examples in math, literacy/ELA, ESL, history, and science.
English Learner Education Orientation Videos For Family Members
Use this series of short 1-2 minute videos to introduce family members to English Learner Education. Available in English, Chinese, Haitian Creole, Portuguese, Spanish, and Vietnamese.
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.
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.
Inclusive Academy Video Facilitation Guide
Use this series of videos and trainer’s resources to help staff understand inclusive practices
DESE Deeper Learning Instructional Videos
See deeper learning practices in action in this series of videos featuring a range of ELA/literacy, math, history, and science classrooms PK-12.
Edwin Analytics Getting Started Guide and Videos
Edwin Analytics is a powerful reporting and data analysis tool that gives authorized districts and state level users access to new information, reports, and perspectives on education and programs that specifically support improvements in teaching and learning.
DESE Paraeducator e-Learning Modules
Use these modules to orient and train new paraeducators and provide a deeper dive into specific areas of practice.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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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