TOPIC: Policy Related to Addressing Barriers to Learning

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Center Developed Documents, Resources and Tools

Books and Chapters
• Embedding School Health into School Improvement Polic
• Improving School Improvement
• Placing Prevention into the Context of School Improvement
• School-community relations: Policy and practice
• School Improvement: A Systemic View of What's Missing and What to Do About It

Information Resources
• Enhancing the Blueprint for School Improvement in the ESEA Reauthorization: Moving From a Two- to a Three-Component Approach
• Policy Implications for Advancing Systemic Change for School Improvement
• Some Data to Consider in Pursuing School Improvement Policy and Practice

Policy Analysis and Reports
• A Concerned Analysis of Arizona’s ESSA Draft Plan for Supporting All Students
• ESSA, Equity of Opportunity, and Addressing Barriers to Learning
• Expanding School Improvement Policy to More Effectively Address Barriers to Learning and Teaching
• Moving Toward a Comprehensive System of Learning Supports: The Next Evolutionary Stage in School Improvement Policy and Practice
• New Directions for School & Community Initiatives to Address Barriers to Learning: Two Examples of White Papers to Inform and Guide Policy Makers
• New Directions for School Improvement Policy
• Piecemeal Policy Advocacy for Improving Schools Amounts to Tinkering and Works Against Fundamental System Transformation
• School Improvement Implications of the President’s Plan for Making Schools Safer and Increasing Access to Mental Health

Guides
• Board Policy Prototype for a Unified and Comprehensive System of Learning Supports
• Information Resource: Policy Implications for Advancing Systemic Change for School Improvement
• New Directions in Enhancing Educational Results: Policymakers' Guide to Restructuring Student Support Resources to Address Barriers to Learning

Reports, Briefs, & Alerts
• Balancing Cut-backs at Schools is Essential to Ensuring Equity of Opportunity
• A Center Policy & Practice Analysis Brief: School Attendance Problems: Are Current Policies & Practices Going in the Right Direction?
• A Center Policy Report for Addressing Barriers to Student Learning: Closing Gaps in School/Community Policy and Practice
• A Center Policy Report: Policies and Practices for Addressing Barriers to Student Learning: Current Status and New Directions
• Center Policy Report: An Initial Look at Texas Policy Related to Mental Health in Schools
• Expanding Policy Leadership for Mental Health in Schools: Report from the Mini-Summit
• Mental Health in Schools: Guidelines, Models, Resources, & Policy Considerations
• Should Policy Specify a Formal Role for Schools Related to Mental Health?
• What are States Doing to Help Schools Address Barriers to Learning and Teaching?

Practice Notes
• About Policy and Practice Trends for Reducing Truancy.

Policy Notes
• Mental Health in Schools: An Opportunity to Embed the Field into School Improvement Policy and Practic
• Some Points About Influencing Policy.

Articles
• Building Comprehensive, Multifaceted, and Integrated Approaches to Addressing Barriers to Student Learning.
• Expanding school improvement policy to better address barriers to learning and integrate public health concerns.Policy Futures in Education, 9
• Fundamental Concerns About Policy for Addressing Barriers to Student Learning
• Looking at School health and School Reform Policy Through the Lens of Addressing Barriers to Learning.
• Mental Health and Social Services: Results From the School Health Policies and Programs Study 2006
• A Policy and Practice Framework to Guide School-Community Connections.
• Towards a Comprehensive Policy Vision for Mental Health in Schools.
• Turning around, transforming, and continuously improving schools: Policy proposals are still based on a two rather than a three component blueprint

EJOURNAL/Newsletters
• Transforming Student/Learning Supports: What We’ve Learned so Far
• Center Report: Summit on New Directions for Student Support (November, 2002)
• Policies and Practices for Addressing Barriers to Learning: Current Status and New Directions, (Fall, '96)
• Open Letter to the Secretary of Education.(Summer, '98)
• Addressing Barriers to Learning: Closing Gaps in Policy and Practice (Summer, '97)

Reports from the Coalition for Cohesive Policy in Addressing Barriers to Development & Learning
• Initial Tasks and Guiding Frameworks: Coalition for Cohesive Policy in Addressing Barriers to Development & Learning: report from the Steering Committee
• The Policy Problem and a Resolution to Guide Organizations Working toward Policy Cohesion (October 1999)
• Proposal for Policy Legislation: Restructuring Student Support Resources and Enhancing Their Connection with Community Resources (August 2000)
• Coalition for Cohesive Policy in Addressing Barriers to Development and Learning: 1999 Report from the Steering Committee
• Coalition for Cohesive Policy in Addressing Barriers to Development and Learning: 1998 Report from the Steering Committee

Technical Assistance Sampler
• Technical Assistant Sampler: Thinking About and Accessing Policy Related to Addressing Barriers to Learning

Net Exchange
• Policy Information