TOPIC: Staffing Student Supports: New Directions

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Center Developed Documents, Resources, and Tools

Center Reports
• Expanding Educational Reform to Address Barriers to Learning: Restructuring Student Support Services & Enhancing School-Community Partnerships
• Framing New Directions for School Counselors, Psychologists, & Social Workers
• Organization Facilitators: A Change Agent for Systemic School and Community Changes
• Preparing All Education Personnel to Address Barriers to Learning & Teaching
• Key Leadership Infrastructure Mechanisms for Enhancing Student & Learning 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
• Improving School Improvement

Fact & Info Sheets and Guidance Notes
• Change Agent Mechanisms for School Improvement: Infrastructure not Individuals
• Infrastructure for Learning Supports at District, Regional, and State Offices
• Integrating Learning Supports into the Infrastructure of a Small School
• What is a Learning Support Leadership Team?
• Why School-owned Student Support Staff are So Important

Quick Finds
• Job Descriptions Related to Mental Health in Schools

Center Brief
• Center Brief: Mental Health of Children and Youth and the Role of Public Health Professionals
• Center Brief: Mental Health of Children and Youth: The Important Role of Primary Care Health Professionals
• Center Brief: Call to Action: Student Support Staff: Moving in New Directions through School Improvement
• Center Brief: Integrating Mental Health in Schools: Schools, School-Based Centers, and Community Programs Working Together

Continuing Education Module
• About Infrastructure Mechanisms for a Comprehensive Learning Support Component
• Developing Resource-Oriented Mechanisms to Enhance learning Supports
• Leadership Training: Moving in New Directions for Student Support
• Mental Health in Schools: New Roles for School Nurses

Center Policy & Program Analysis Briefs and Notes
• Balancing Cut-backs at Schools is Essential to Ensuring Equity of Opportunity
• Cut-Backs Make it Essential to Unify and Rework Student and Learning Supports at Schools and Among Families of Schools
• Enhancing Professional Development to Better Address Barriers to Learning and Teaching
• Guide for Planning Coaching for SEAs/LEAs to Establish a Unified and Comprehensive System of Learning Supports
• Mental Health in Schools: Guidelines, Models, Resources & Policy Considerations
• Proposal for Policy Legislation: Restructuring Student Support Resources and Enhancing Their Connection with Community Resources
• Toward a School District Infrastructure that More Effectively Addresses Barriers to Learning and Teaching

Guides to Practices
• Agencies Addressing Problems of Children and Youth: Pursuing a Continuum of Intervention and Working with Schools
• Beginning Steps in Personnel Development Related to Establishing a Comprehensive System of Learning Supports
• Developing a Unified and Comprehensive System of Learning Supports: First Steps for Superintendents Who Want to Get Started
• Education Leaders’ Guide to Transforming Student and Learning Supports
• Enhancing a School Board's Focus on Addressing Barriers to Learning & Teaching
• Establishing a Comprehensive System of Learning Supports at a School: Seven Steps for Principals and Their Staff
• First Steps at State Ed Agencies and School Dists in Developing a Comprehensive System of Learning Supports as an Essential Component for School Improvement & Student Success
• First Steps in Transforming Student and Learning Supports into a Unified and Comprehensive System to Address Barriers to Learning and Teaching
• Infrastructure for Learning Supports at District, Regional, and State Offices
• Leadership at a School Site for Developing a Comprehensive System of Learning Supports
• New Directions in Enhancing Educational Results: Policymakers' Guide to Restructuring Student Support Resources to Address Barriers to Learning
• New Directions for Student Support: Some Fundamentals
• Notes About the Learning Supports Facilitator Position
• School-Community Partnerships: A Guide
• Personalizing Personnel Development at Schools: A Focus on Student Engagement and Re-engagement
• Student and Learning Supports: Increasing Availability and Enhancing Student Access and Use
• Volunteers as an Invaluable Resource

Introductory Packets
• Working Collaboratively: From School-Based Teams to School-Community-Higher Education Connections

Newsletter Articles
• Mechanisms for Delivering Mental Health in School.
• Needed: A Greater Role for Learning Support Staff in In service at Every School.
• Policies and practices for Addressing Barriers to Learning: Current Status and New Directions.
• Connecting Counseling, Psychological, & Social Support Programs to School Reform
  Also see p. 8 in the above for Ideas into Practice: Resource Coordinating Teams to Integrate Programs and Services
• Safe Students/Healthy Schools: A Collaborative Process.
• School-Community Partnerships from the School's Perspective
• School Improvement: Where's Student Support
• Who at the School Addresses Barriers to Learning and Teaching?
• School Linked Services and Beyond

Resource Aid Packets
• Addressing Barriers to Learning: A Set of Surveys to Map What a School Has and What It Needs
• Frameworks for Systemic Transformation of Student and Learning Supports
• Guidelines for a Student Support Component
• Improving Teaching and Learning Supports by Addressing the Rhythm of a Year

Quick Training Aids
• Addressing Barriers to Learning: Overview of the Curriculum for an Enabling (or Learning Supports) Component

Technical Aid
• Resource Mapping and Management to Address Barriers to Learning: An Intervention for Systemic Change

Net Exchange
• In service/CE Topics, Strategies, and Resources
• Selecting and Training New Professionals

Articles
• Building Comprehensive, Multifaceted, and Integrated Approaches to Addressing Barriers to Student Learning.
• Impediments to Enhancing Availability of Mental Health Services in Schools: Fragmentation, Overspecialization, Counterproductive Competition, and Marginalization.
• Involving Teachers in Collaborative Efforts to Better Address Barriers to Student Learning
• Mental Health in Schools: Moving Forward.
• Mental Health in Schools: Expanded Opportunities for School Nurses.
• Restructuring education support services and integrating community resources: Beyond the full service school model.
• Restructuring Education Support Services: Toward the Concept of an Enabling Component.
• School Counselors and School Reform: New Directions.
• Upgrading School Support Programs through Collaboration: Resource Coordinating Teams.
• Want to Work With Schools? What is Involved in Successful Linkages?