TOPIC: Barriers to Learning

The following represents a sample of information to get you started and is not meant to be exhaustive.
Also, be aware that usually there are other items on the Quick Find menu that are related to a topic such as this one and may have additional relevant links to resources of interest.
(Note: Clicking on the following links causes a new window to be opened. To return to this window, close the newly opened one).

Center Developed Documents, Resources and Tools

Books and Chapters
• Addressing Barriers to Learning: In the Classroom and Schoolwide
• Improving School Improvement
• Embedding Mental Health as Schools Change
• Addressing trauma and other barriers to learning and teaching: Developing a comprehensive system of intervention
• School-wide Approaches to Addressing Barriers to Learning and Teaching
• Whole Person, Whole School
  

Quick Finds
• Children and Poverty
• Children of Alcoholics & Substance Abusers
• Cultural Competence and Related Issues
• Domestic Violence
• Foster Care
• Homeless Children and Youth - Education
• Immigrant Students and Mental Health
• Juvenile Justice Systems - Mental Health Needs
• Prevention for Students "At Risk".
• Teen Pregnancy and Prevention.

Introductory Packet
• Assessing to Address Barriers to Learning
• Cultural Concerns in Addressing Barriers to Learning

ejournal/Newsletter Articles
• Addressing Barriers to Learning: Closing Gaps in Policy & Practice
• Behavior Problems: What's a School to Do?
• Denying Social Promotion Obligates Schools to Do More to Address Barriers to Learning
• Easing the Impact of Student Mobility: Welcoming & Social Support
• Promoting Youth Development and Addressing Barriers
• Re-engaging Students in Learning at School
• School Dropout Prevention: A Civil Rights and Public Health Imperative
• Transforming Student/Learning Supports: What We’ve Learned so Far

Practice Notes
• About Trauma-Informed Practices in Schools
• Re-engaging Disconnected Students Online and at School: Focus on Intrinsic Motivation
• Working with disengaged students
• Welcoming Strategies for Newly Arrived Students and Their Families
• Many Schools, Many Students: Equity in Addressing Barriers (Fact Sheet)
• Fidgety Students
• Group Work in Education: Addressing Student Concerns
• Disengaged Students
• Students in Distress
• Supporting Students Experiencing Adjustment Problems as School Starts
• The MTSS Continuum: Essential but Not Comprehensive Enough – How to make it Better

Information Resource
• About Anxiety Attacks
• About School Adjustment
• About Social Anxiety and Schools
• About Teacher Mental Health
• Addressing Barriers to Successful Middle School Transition
• Back-to-School Anxiety
• Barriers, Buffers, & Youth Development
• Early Language Develoment Problems
• Examples of MTSS in Practice
• In-Class Presentations: A Potential Barrier to Success at School?
• Impact of the COVID-19 Pandemic on Low-Income College Students
• Gender Bias Faced By Girls and What We Can Do: One Student’s Perspective and Appended Information from the Center
• LGBTQ+ Students: Family Reactions and School Support
• More About Risk and Resilience
• Students and Anxiety Problems
• Trauma: A Barrier to Learning and Teaching
• About Trauma-Informed Practices in Schools
• Understanding Student Aggressive Behavior: Examples of Relevant Research
• Understanding Diversity to Better Address Barriers to Learning

Policy Notes
• Addressing Barriers to Student Learning: Closing Gaps in School/Community Policy and Practice
• Common Core State Standards and Learning Supports
• Evolving School Improvement Planning for Addressing Barriers to Learning and Teaching
• Expanding School Improvement Policy to More Effectively Address Barriers to Learning and Teaching

Resource Aid Packet
• Addressing Barriers to Learning: A Set of Surveys to Map What a School Has and What It Needs
• After-School programs and Addressing Barriers to Learning

Technical Assistance Samplers
• A Sampling of Outcome Findings from Interventions Relevant to Addressing Barriers to Learning

Quick Training Aids
• Attention problems in school
• Behavior problems in school

Continuing Education Module
• Addressing Barriers to Learning: New Directions for Mental Health in Schools
• Enhancing Classroom Approaches for Addressing Barriers to Learning: Classroom-Focused Enabling

Center Brief
• Addressing Barriers to Student Learning & Promoting Healthy Development: A Usable Research-Base
• A Look at Gaming Culture and Gaming Related Problems: From a Gamer’s Perspective
• Youth Gangs and Schools

Articles
• Building comprehensive, multifaceted, and integrated approaches to address barrriers to student learning
• Creating Successful School Systems Requires Addressing Barriers to Learning and Teaching
• Expanding school improvement policy to better address barriers to learning and integrate public health concerns
• A school-wide component to address barriers to learning

Guides to Practice
• New Directions in Enhancing Educational Results: Policymakers' Guide to Restructuring Student Support Resources to Address Barriers to Learning
• Steps and Tools to Guide Planning and Implementation of a Comprehensive System to Address Barriers to Learning and Teaching
• Determinants of Students’ Problems

Other Relevant Documents, Resources, and Tools on the Internet


Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACEs)

• ACE prevention toolkit
• About adverse childhood experiences
• Impact of adverse childhood experiences
Strategies for Learning Improvement

• The Achievement Gap Initiative
• The Barriers of using Education Technology for Optimizing the Educational Experience of Learners
• Chronic Early Absence
• Community Interventions to Promote Healthy Social Environments: Early Childhood Development and Family Housing
• In Parsing the Achievement Gap: Baselines for Tracking Progress
• Student Health and Academic Achievement
• Title I - Improving the Academic Achievement of the Disadvantaged
• Breaking Down Barriers: Housing, Neighborhoods, and Schools of Opportunity
• Housing and Schools: Working Together To Reduce the Negative Effects of Student Mobility
• Measuring the Opportunity Gap for Children from Birth to Age Eight and Understanding Barriers to Access
• Neighborhood-Level Interventions to Improve Childhood Opportunity and Lift Children Out of Poverty
• Preventing Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACEs): Leveraging the Best Available Evidence
• Racial/Ethnic Bias and Health: Scientific Evidence, Methods, and Research Implications

School Problems

• Context matters: Diagnosing and targeting local barriers to success at school
• How maternal Family and Cumulative Risk Affect Absenteeism
• Disability and barriers to education: evidence from Nepal
• Perceived Barriers to Education and Career: Ethnic and Gender Differences

Info Sheets/Fact Sheets/Reports

• Measuring Poverty

COVID-19
• Risk and Resilience in Family Well-Being During the COVID-19 Pandemic
• The impact of COVID-19 on student experiences and expectations: Evidence from a survey
• Effects of COVID-19 on College Students’ Mental Health in the United States: Interview Survey Study

Related Agencies and Websites
• National Center for Children in Poverty

For updated references to this topic, go to Google Scholar

---


We hope these resources met your needs. If not, feel free to contact us for further assistance. For additional resources related to this topic, use our search page to find  organizations, websites and documents.  You may also go to our technical assistance page or contact ltaylor@ucla.edu for more specific technical assistance requests.

If our website has been helpful, we are pleased and encourage you to use our site or contact our Center in the future.