Guides to Policy And Program Development/practice

• Guidebooks (also see Books & Monographs)
  • Steps and Tools to Guide Planning and Implementation of a Comprehensive System to Address Barriers to Learning and Teaching

  • Fostering School, Family, and Community Involvement. Guidebook in series, Safe and Secure: Guides to Creating Safer Schools (Guide 7). Portland, OR: Northwest Regional Educational Laboratory.

  • Sustaining School and Community Efforts to Enhance Outcomes for Children and Youth: A Guidebook and Tool Kit

  • School-Community Partnerships: A Guide

  • What Schools Can Do to Welcome and Meet the Needs of All Students and Families (SP)

  • Mental Health and School-Based Health Centers

  • Common Psychosocial Problems of School Aged Youth: Developmental Variations, Problems, Disorders and Perspectives for Prevention and Treatment

  • New Directions in Enhancing Educational Results: Policymakers' Guide to Restructuring Student Support Resources to Address Barriers to Learning

  • Getting from Here to There: A Guidebook for the Enabling Component

  • A Guide to the Enabling Component (one of the New American School Models)

• Guidance Notes
  • Turning a Project or Pilot into a Catalyst for Systemic Change and Sustainability

  • Is the School Year Off to a Good Start?

  • Schools Helping Students Deal with Loss

  • Addressing School Adjustment Problems

  • Dropout Prevention

  • Homework is a Mental Health Concern

  • Gateways to Resources for Enhancing Positive Outcomes for all Students

  • Integrating Learning Supports into the Infrastructure of a Small School

  • The Relationship of Response to Intervention and Systems of Learning Supports

  • Fully Integrating Student/Learning Supports into the School Improvement Agenda

  • Pursuing Opportunities for Moving Proactively from the Margins into the Mainstream of School Improvement

  • Life Beyond the "Project" –– Fully Integrating the Effort into the School Improvement Agenda

  • What will it cost? - No New Dollars!

  • Infrastructure for Learning Supports at District, Regional, and State Offices

  • About Planning and Action for the Mental Health Needs of Students and School Staff in the Aftermath of a Natural Disaster

• Practice Notes
  • Notes on Transition Planning for College

  • Volunteers as an Invaluable Resource

  • Guiding and Supporting Volunteers

  • Turning Big Classes into Smaller Units

  • Response to Intervention

  • About Motivation

  • Addressing School Adjustment Problems

  • Bullying: A Major Barrier to Student Learning

  • Common Behavior Problems at School: A Natural Opportunity for Social and Emotional Learning

  • Countering the Over-pathologizing of Students' Feeling & Behavior: A Growing Concern Related to MH in Schools

  • Developing Systems at a School for Problem Identification, Triage, Referral, and Management of Care

  • Grief and Loss

  • Involving Parents in Counseling

  • Making MOUs Meaningful

  • Natural Opportunities to Promote Social-Emotional Learning and MH

  • Obesity and Mental Health

  • Prereferral Interventions

  • Prescription Drugs Abuse Among Youth

  • School Response to Natural Disasters

  • Suicidal Crisis

  • Supporting Successful Transition to Ninth Grade

  • Welcoming Strategies for Newly Arrived Students & Their Families

  • When a Student Seems Dangerous to Self or Others

  • Working with Disengaged Students

• Tools
  • Toolkit: Rebuilding Student Supports into a Comprehensive System for Addressing Barriers to Learning and Teaching

    This kit is divided into five sections.

    Section A contains a set of brief documents clarifying the imperative for rebuilding and providing a big picture for policy makers, administrators, and other stakeholders. These include: briefs clarifying the rationale and frequently asked questions about rebuilding student supports; examples of policy formulations; prototypes of guidelines and standards; and a prototype for a school district proposal

    Section B describes some planning tools for initial and ongoing planning of the rebuilding process. These include: reframing intervention; reworking infrastruction; and capacity building.

    Section C includes tools related to phasing-in the new system such as: planning phase-in; and ongoing capacity building.

    Section D contains some considerations about systemic change.

    Section E highlights a topical Quick Find Clearinghouse that is readily accessed through a menu (direct website addresses are provided). The menu of over 130 specific Quick Finds covers topics related to disaster response, classroom management, motivation (including engagement and re-engagement in classroom learning), social and emotional development, and much more. Some of the Quick Finds provide links directly to staff/stakeholder development and training aids and tutorials and continuing education modules.

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