TOPIC: Enabling (or Learning Supports) Component and Rethinking and Restructuring Student Supports

With respect to providing resources, we suggest that those concerned with learning more proceed in stages. See, for example:

>Notes on Capacity Building in Stages for Rebuilding Supports for Learning

Key aids for capacity building are organized with respect to three stages: Stage I: Understanding Some Basics and Tools for Enhancing Readiness and Momentum; Stage II: Initial Capacity Building; and Stage III: Development & Sustainability

Access: http://smhp.psych.ucla.edu/summit2002/NewDirectionsSomeResources.pdf

• The School Leader's Guide to Student Learning Supports: New Directions for Addressing Barriers to Learning (2006). Corwin Press.
  
  http://smhp.psych.ucla.edu/corwin/bookannouncement.htm

• Leadership Training: Moving in New Directions for Student Support
  http://smhp.psych.ucla.edu/pdfdocs/contedu/movinginnewdirections.pdf

• The Implementation Guide to Student Learning Supports in the Classroom and Schoolwide: New Directions for Addressing Barriers to Learning (2006) Corwin Press.
  
  http://smhp.psych.ucla.edu/corwin/bookannouncement.htm

• Steps and Tools to Guide Planning and Implementation of a Comprehensive System to Address Barriers to Learning and Teaching
  http://smhp.psych.ucla.edu/pdfdocs/stepsandtoolstoguideplanning.pdf

>Examples of related resources

Developing Comprehensive, Multifaceted, and Integrated Approaches

• Addressing Barriers to Learning: Overview of the Curriculum for an Enabling (or Learning Supports) Component
• Introduction to a component for Addressing Barriers to Student Learning
• A School-Wide Component to Address Barriers to Learning
• Building comprehensive, multifaceted, and integrated approaches to address barriers to student learning
• CSSS - Hawaii's Comprehensive Student Support System... a multifaceted approach that encompasses & enhances MH in schools
• Guides for the Enabling Component -- Addressing Barriers to Learning and Enhancing Healthy Development (Guides to practice)

  1. Getting from Here to There: A Guidebook for the Enabling Component
  2. A Guide to the Enabling Component

Reframing Staff Roles and Functions

• Best Practices in the Use of Resource Teams to Enhance Learning Supports
• Organization Facilitators: A Key Change Agent for Systemic School and Community Changes
• Framing New Directories for School Counselors, Psychologists, and Social Workers
• Resource Mapping and Management to Address Barriers to Learning: An Intervention for Systemic Change
• Improving Teaching and Learning Supports by Addressing the Rhythm of a Year (Resource Aid Packet, 2003)
• Needed: A Greater Role for Learning Support Staff in Inservice at Every School (Newsletter article, Winter, 2003)

More on Restructuring Student Supports

• Expanding Educational Reform to Address Barriers to Learning: Restructuring Student Support Services and Enhancing School-Community Partnerships (Center Report, Oct.`99)
• FACT SHEET - What is a Learning Support Resource Team?
• A Sampling of Outcome Findings from Interventions Relevant to Addressing Barriers to Learning
• Connecting Counseling, Psychological, & Social Support Programs to School Reform (Newsletter article, Winter, `00)
• Summit on New Directions for Student Support (Newsletter Article, Fall 2002)
• Expanded School Reform
• Expanding the Framework for School Accountability
• Restructuring Education Support Services: Toward the Concept of an Enabling Component

Relevant Publications

• A policy and practice framework to guide school-community connections (Taylor & Adelman, 1998. Rural Special Education Quarterly, 17,62-70)
• A school-wide component to address barriers to learning (Adelman, Taylor, & Schnieder, 1999. Reading and Writing Quarterly, 15, 277-302)
• Aligning school accountability, outcomes, and evidence-base practices. (Adelman & Taylor 2002. Data Matters, #5, 16-18)
• Building comprehensive, multifaceted approaches to address barriers to student learning (Adelman & Taylor, 2002. Childhood Education, 78, 261-268)
• Classroom Climate (Adelman & Taylor, 2005. In S. W. Lee (Ed) Encyclopedia of School Psychology, Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage)
• Connecting schools, families, and communities. (Taylor & Adelman, 2000. Professional School Counseling, 3, 298-307)
• Education reform: Broadening the focus (Adelman, 1995. Psychological Science, 6, 61-62)
• Establishing school-based collaborative teams to coordinate resources: A case study (Lim & Adelman, 1997. Social Work in Education, 19, 266-278)
• Guide 7: Fostering school, family, and community involvement (Adelman & Taylor, 2002. In Guidebook series: Safe and Secure: Guides to Creating Safer Schools. Northwest Regional Educational Lab)
• Involving teachers in collaborative efforts to better address barriers to student learning (Adelman & Taylor, 1998. Preventing School Failure, 42, 55-60)
• Looking at school health and school reform policy through the lens of addressing barriers to learning (Adelman & Taylor, 2000. Children Services: Social Policy, Research, and Practice, 3, 117-132)
• Mapping a School's Resources to Improve their Use in Preventing and Ameliorating Problems (Adelman & Taylor, 2006. In C. Franklin, M. B. Harris, & P. Allen-Mears (Eds.) School Social Work and Mental Health Workers Training and Resource Manual Oxford University Press)
• Moving prevention from the fringes into the fabric of school improvement (Adelman & Taylor, 2000. Journal of Educational and Psychological Consultation, 11, 7-36)
• On sustainability of project innovations as systemic change (Adelman & Taylor, 2003. Journal of Educational and Psychological Consultation, 14, 1-26)
• Reorganizing Student Supports to Enhance Equity (Adelman & Taylor, 2006. In E. Lopez, G. Esquivel, S.Nahari (Eds.) Handbook of Multicultural School Psychology)
• Restructuring education support services: Toward the concept of an enabling component (Adelman, 1996. Kent, OH: American School Health Association)
• Scaling-up reforms across a school district (Taylor, Nelson, & Adelman, 1999. Reading and Writing Quarterly, 15, 303-326)
• School-community relations: Policy and practice (Taylor & Adelman, 2003. In Fishbaugh, et al., (Eds.), Ensuring safe school environments: Exploring issues– seeking solutions. Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum)
• School counseling, psychological, and social services (Adelman, 1998. In E. Marx & S.F. Wooley, with D. Northrop (Eds.), Health is academic: A Guide to coordinated school health programs. Teachers College)
• Toward a scale-up model for replicating new approaches to schooling (Adelman & Taylor, 1997. Journal of Educational and Psychological Consultation, 8, 197-230)
• Upgrading school support programs through collaboration: Resource Coordinating Teams Rosenblum, DiCecco, Taylor, & Adelman, 1995. Social Work in Education, 17, 117-124)

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