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

Section B
Designing and Planning a Unified and Comprehensive System of Learning Supports

Reworking Leadership Infrastructure

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• Improving Student/Learning Supports Requires Reworking the Operational Infrastructure
  Pulls together the Center's work on reworking mechanisms designed to ensure schools and districts pay systematic attention to how they use resources for addressing barriers to learning and promoting healthy development.
  
  Access: https://smhp.psych.ucla.edu/pdfdocs/reworkinfra.pdf

• Leadership Infrastructure: Is What We Have What We Need?
  A tool outlining a four step process that can be used by planners and decision makers to map and analyze current infrastructure.
  
  Access: https://smhp.psych.ucla.edu/summit2002/tool%20infrastructure.pdf

• Leadership at a School Site for Developing a Comprehensive System of Learning Supports

  Examples of job descriptions are provided for both an administrative and staff lead for a learning supports component.
  Access: https://smhp.psych.ucla.edu/pdfdocs/studentsupport/toolkit/aidd.pdf

• Notes on Leadership Infrastructure at a Small School
  Obviously, a small school has less staff and other resources than most larger schools. Nevertheless, the three major functions necessary for school improvement remain the same in all schools, namely (1) improving instruction, (2) providing learning supports to address barriers to learning and teaching, and (3) enhancing management and governance. These notes highlights the needed roles and functions that call for a change in current operational and organizational infrastructure at the school site.
  
  Access: https://smhp.psych.ucla.edu/pdfdocs/infra small school notes.pdf

• Notes on Infrastructure for Learning Supports at District, Regional, and State Offices
  Highlights roles and functions related to developing a comprehensive learning supports system that call for a change in current operational and organizational infrastructure at these levels.
  
  Access: https://smhp.psych.ucla.edu/pdfdocs/studentsupport/toolkit/aidk.pdf
  Access: https://smhp.psych.ucla.edu/pdfdocs/reworkinfra.pdf

One Page Handout on What is a Learning Supports Leadership Team?

Basic description of the functions and composition of a school-site leadership team for system development to enhance how a school addresses barriers to learning and teaching and re-engages disconnected students.

Access: https://smhp.psych.ucla.edu/pdfdocs/resource%20coord%20team.pdf

Guide to enhancing school-community infrastructure and weaving resources together

Discusses school-community collaboratives as key mechanisms for braiding school and community resources and stresses ways to optimize the functioning or such groups.

Access: https://smhp.psych.ucla.edu/pdfdocs/studentsupport/toolkit/aidg.pdf

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