TOPIC: Sustainability of Initiatives

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Center Developed Documents, Resources, and Tools

Hot Issue

• Moving Beyond the Concept of Integrated Student Supports

Books and Chapters

• Addressing Barriers to Learning: In the Classroom and Schoolwide
• Best Practices in the Use of Learning Supports Leadership Teams to Enhance Learning Supports
• Fostering School, Family, and Community Involvement
• Improving School Improvement

Center Policy, Reports and Briefs
• Addressing Barriers to Student Learning & Promoting Healthy Development: A Usable Research-Base
• Bringing New Prototypes into Practice: Dissemination, Implementation, and Facilitating Transformation
• Financing Mental Health for Children & Adolescents
• New Initiatives: Considerations Related to Planning, Implementing, Sustaining, and Going-to-Scale
• Systemic Change for School Improvement: Designing, Implementing, and Sustaining Prototypes and Going to Scale
• Toward a School District Infrastructure that More Effectively Address Barriers to Learning and Teaching

Guidance Notes
• Life Beyond the "Project" – Fully Integrating the Effort into the School Improvement Agenda
• Social Marketing as a Spiraling Facet of Program and Systemic Change
• Turning a Project or Pilot into a Catalyst for Systemic Change and Sustainability

Policy Notes
• Common Core State Standards and Learning Supports
• Integrated Student Supports and Equity: What's Not Being Discussed?
• Leadership Changes: Minimizing the Downside

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

Guides to Practice
• Getting from Here to There: A Guidebook for the Enabling Component
• New Directions in Enhancing Educational Results: Policymakers' Guide to Restructuring Student Support Resources to Address Barriers to Learning
• Policies and Practices for Addressing Barriers to Learning: Current Status and New Directions

Introductory Packet
• Financial Strategies to Aid in Addressing Barriers to Learning

Newsletters
• Expanding School Reform
• Expanding the Framework for School Accountability
• Sustainability and Scale-up: It's About Systemic Change

Reports
• Expanding Educational Reform to Address Barriers to Learning: Restructuring Student Support Services and Enhancing School-Community Partnerships
• Reports from the Coalition for Cohesive Policy in Addressing Barriers to Development & Learning
• Reports from the Policy Leadership Cadre for Mental Health in Schools
• Restructuring Boards of Education to Enhance Schools' Effectiveness  in Addressing Barriers to Student Learning

Aid in Toolkit
• Website Prototype for SEA, LEA, and School Learning Supports System

Resource Aid Packet
• A Set of Surveys to Map What a School Has and What It Needs

Technical Aid Packet
• Resource Mapping and Management to Address Barriers to Learning

Training Tutorial
• Creating the Infrastructure for an Enabling (Learning Support) Component to Address Barriers to Student Learning

Training & Presentation Resources
• Brief Overview of Major Concepts from E.M. Rogers' Work on Diffusion of Innovations
• Brief Overview of Malcolm Gladwell’s Concept of the Tipping Point
• Change Agent Mechanisms for School Improvement: Infrastructure not Individuals
• Diffusion Theory and Knowledge Dissemination, Utilization, and Integration in Public Health
• Diffusion: In Pursuit of Action
• Dissemination Focused on Diffusion: Some Guidelines
• Excerpts from Child Trends' series of Research-to Results Briefs on Adopting, Implementing, Sustaining, and Replicating Evidence-Based Practices
• Intro to Multi-Level Community Based Culturally Situated Interventions
• Making and Disseminating Recommendations is Not Sufficient
• Policy Implications for Advancing Systemic Change for School Improvement
• Some Key References Related to Enabling System Change
• Some Key Terms Related to Enabling System Change
• Some Recent Work Related to Systemic Change Involving Innovation in Complex Organizations
• Systemic Change and Empirically-Supported Practices: The Implementation Problem
• Systemic Change for School Improvement

Technical Assistance Sampler
• A Sampling of Outcome Findings from Interventions Relevant to Addressing Barriers to Learning
• Thinking About and Accessing Policy Related to Addressing Barriers to Learning

Articles
• "Fundamental concerns about policy for addressing barriers to student learning."
• On Sustaining of Project Innovations as Systemic Change.
• Reframing Mental Health in Schools and Expanding School Reform.
• Scaling-Up Reforms Across a School District.
• The School Leader’s Guide to Student Learning Supports: New Directions for Addressing Barriers to Learning.
• Toward a scale-up model for replicating new approaches to schooling.

Relevant Documents, Resources, and Tools on the Internet
• Annie E. Casey Foundation: Rebuilding Communities
• Building and Sustaining School-University Partnerships in Rural Settings: One Approach for Improving Special Education Service Delivery
• Coalition Sustainability: Long-Term Successes and Lessons Learned
• Evaluation's Role in Supporting Initiative Sustainability
• National School Public Relations Association
• Strengthening Community Networks: The Basis for Sustainable Community Renewal
• Sustainability planning and resource development for youth mentoring programs, National Mentoring Center
• Sustaining Community Partnership Across Transition in District Leadership
• Sustaining School Improvement in a High-Need School

Related Agencies and Websites
• Annie E. Casey Foundation
• Community Toolbox
• Northwest Regional Educational Laboratory

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