TOPIC: Classroom-based Learning Supports/Classroom Focused Enabling

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Center Developed Resources and Tools

Chapter in Transforming Student and Learning Supports: Developing a Unified, Comprehensive, and Equitable System
• Classroom-Based Learning Supports

Self-study Survey
• Classroom-based Learning Supports
  

Information Resource
• About School and Classroom Climate
• About School Engagement and Re-Engagemnt
• Enhancing Classroom Teachers' Capacity to Successfully Engage All Students in Learning:
  It's the Foundation of Learning Supports
• About School Adjustment
• In-Class Presentations: A Potential Barrier to Success at School?
• Making Collaborative/Cooperative Learning Effective in Classrooms
• Project Based Learning and Student Engagement
• Promoting Staff Well-being and Preventing Burnout as Schools Re-open
  
  

Guidebook
• RTI and Classroom & Schoolwide Learning Supports: A Guide for Teachers and Learning Supports Staff

Continuing Education Module
• Personalizing Learning and Addressing Barriers to Learning: Two Continuing Education Units
• Continuing Education Module: Enhancing Classroom Approaches for Addressing Barriers to Learning: Classroom-Focused Enabling
• Accompanying Readings and Tools: Enhancing Classroom Approaches for Addressing Barriers To Learning: Classroom Focused Enabling
• Engaging and Re-engaging Students and Families: Four Units for Continuing Education

Articles, Books, and Policy Reports
• A School-Wide Component to Address Barriers To Learning
• Addressing Barriers to Learning: In the Classroom and Schoolwide
• Classroom Climate
• Early School Adjustment Problems: Some Perspectives and a Project Report
• Implementing Response to Intervention in Context
• Enhancing Student/Learning Supports in Classrooms
• Involving Teachers in Collaborative Efforts to Better Address Barriers to Student Learning
• Matching Students and Instruction: The Dilemma of Grouping Students
• Opening the Gates: Learning Supports at Elizabeth Learning Center
• Personalizing Classroom Instruction to Account for Motivational and Developmental Differences .
• Student Engagement and Disengagement: An Intrinsic Motivation Perspective and a Mental Health Concern
• The Implementation Guide to Student Learning Supports in the Classroom and Schoolwide
• Whole Person, Whole School

Newsletter Articles
• School Improvement Requires Developing, Supporting, and Retaining Quality Teachers (Spring, '12)
• Enhancing Classroom Climate for All Students (Fall, '11)
• Challenges and Opportunities in the Classroom (Winter, '08)
• Opening the Classroom Door (Spring, '01)
• Featured Newsletter article (Winter, '02), Re-engaging Students in Learning at School.
• Enabling Learning in the Classroom: A Primary Mental Health Concern (Spring '98)

Policy Notes
• Common Core State Standards and Learning Supports
• Teachers Cant Do it Alone!

Quickfind
• Classroom Management
• The Enabling Component: Addressing Barriers to Learning by Enabling Students to Succeed
• Motivation

Quick Training Aid
• Re-engaging Students in Learning

Resource Aid Packets
• Classroom-based Approaches to Enable and Re-engage Students in Classroom Learning: A Self-Study Survey in: Addressing Barriers to Learning: A Set of Surveys to Map What a School Has and What it Needs
• Volunteers to Help Teachers and Schools Adress Barriers to Learning (Technical Aid Packet)

Technical Assistance Sampler
• A Sampling of Outcome Findings from Interventions Relevant to Addressing Barriers to Learning
• Appendix A: Classroom Focused Enabling - Small Classes/Small Schools
• Appendix A: Classroom Focused Enabling - Prereferral Intervention Efforts
• Appendix A: Classroom Focused Enabling - Tutoring
• Appendix A: Classroom Focused Enabling - Alternative Schools
• Appendix A: Classroom Focused Enabling - Health/Mental Health Education

Practice Notes
• Improving Working Relationships Inside the Classroom
• Learning Supports: Enabling Learning in the Classroom
• Minimizing Referrals Out of the Classroom
• The MTSS Continuum: Essential but Not Comprehensive Enough – How to make it Better
• Prereferral Interventions
• Response to Intervention
• School Improvement Requires Addressing Staff Concerns at the Right Time
• Supporting Students Experiencing Adjustment Problems as School Starts
• Talking with Kids When Assisting with Learning
• Talking with Kids
• Turning Big Classes into Smaller Units
• Volunteers as an Invaluable Resource
• Working with Disengaged Students

Tools for Practice
• Classroom-based Approaches to Enable and Re-engage Students in Classroom Learning: A Self-Study Survey
• The Implementation Guide to Student Learning Supports in the Classroom and Schoolwide

Guidance Notes
• Engaging and Re-engaging Students in Learning at School

• Actualizing characteristics of successful schools for young adolescents through co-teaching
• A Guide to Schoolwide Planning for Paraeducator Supports
• Academic Achievement in the High School Years: The Changing Role of School Engagement
• Building and Sustaining a Collaborative Educational Team: Teachers and Paraprofessionals
• The Cascading Effects of Reducing Student Stress: Cooperative Learning as a Means to Reduce Emotional Problems and Promote Academic Engagement
• Classroom Paraprofessional and Teachers Serving Students with Disruptive Behaviors: A Study of Professional Relationships
• Classroom support for teachers
• Conceptualizing the Problems and Possibilities of Interprofessional Collaboration in Schools (2018). S. Stone & J. Charles. Children & Schools, 40, 185–192.
• Considering the Possible Relationship between Personalized Learning and Service Learning: A Historical and Pragmatic Perspective
• Differentiated staffing in the classroom
• Educational Commission of the States
• Effective Teacher Professional Development
• The Effectiveness of the Project-Based Learning Approach as a Way to Engage Students in Learning
• Equity, Connection, and Engagement in the School Context to Promote Positive Youth Development
• Improving Students' Relationships with Teachers to Provide Essential Supports for Learning
• Inquiry vs direct instruction
• Making the Shift to a Co-Teaching Model of Instruction: Considering Relational Trust as a Precursor to Collaboration
• Maximize Paraprofessional Services
• A Multidisciplinary Perspective on Person-Environment Fit: Relevance, Measurement, and Future Directions
• National Resource Center for Paraeducators
• One Step at a Time: A Traditional School’s Journey Into Personalized Learning
• Paraeducator Resource and Learning Center
• Project based learning: a literature review
• Project based learning: research review
• Promoting Student Well-Being Through Classroom Interventions
• The Protective Role of Teacher-Student Relationships Against Peer Victimization and Psychosocial Distress
• Responsive Classrooms: A Practical Approach for Teaching Children to Care
• School Turnaround Learning Community
• Students' Perceptions of Teachers: Implications for Classroom Practices for Supporting Students' Success
• Supporting primary school students' mental health needs: Teachers' perceptions of roles, barriers, and abilities
• Supporting students with mental health challenges in the classroom
• A Systematic Review of Research on Personalized Learning: Personalized by Whom, to What, How, and for What Purpose(s)?
• Team/Collaborative Teaching
• "Teachers Often See the Red Flags First": Perceptions of School Staff Regarding Their Roles in Supporting Students with Mental Health Concerns
• Teachers' role in establishing a safe, supportive learning environment
• Team Teaching: Teaming Teachers Offer Tips
• Title 1 Non-Regulatory Guidance for Paraprofessionals

• Association for Supervision and Curriculum Development
• National Center on Universal Design for Learning
• National Middle School Association

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