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Community of Practice --
"Weekly Practitioner"
https://smhp.psych.ucla.edu/practitioner.htm

3/4/26
>Are Teens experiencing a "grind" culture and is it affecting their Mental Health?
>Improving Students' Relationships with Teachers
>Reengaging Disconnected Students
>Links to a few other relevant shared resources

2/18/26
>Prevention and more
>Pursuing "open mic" activities in ways that avoid doing harm
>Why transform K-12 student/learning supports?
>Links to a few other relevant shared resources

2/11/26
>How much can a neighborhood impact educational outcomes?
>About referring students for emotional support
>Anticipating student protests with a view to their well-being
>Links to a few other relevant shared resources

2/4/26
>Impact of peers on academic ambitions
>Improving student/learning supports at rural schools
>About Crosswell Drive Elementary School (Sumter, SC)
>Links to a few other relevant shared resources

1/21/26
>What K-12 Trends to watch for in 2026
>A Bit About Resilience and Student/Learning Supports
>Protective Factors and Children’s Subjective Well-being
>Links to a few other relevant shared resources

1/14/26
>What’s been learned from efforts to address learning loss?
> Prevention yields threat reduction
>About School Climate
>Links to a few other relevant shared resources

1/7/26
>Do mentors give students hope?
>How are the different causes of behavior problems at school understood?
>Rethinking how schools address student misbehavior & disengagement
>Links to a few other relevant shared resources

Examples of previous discussions

>Are we over-pathologizing young people's mental health?
>Do Students Disengage -- then, Dropout?
>School improvement: Moving into the age of Implementation Science
>About the Difficulty in Disseminating New Approaches
>Appreciations for what has been accomplished
>Links to a few other relevant shared resources
>How will education cuts impact students?
>Why is it important to have student voices at the table?
>A student's perspective on a school cell phone ban
>How are schools facilitating factors that promote resilience?
>Redefining the resilience narrative
>Student Surveillance vs. Privacy: Another dilemma for schools
>What is the role of school leadership in enhancing students’ equity of opportunity?
>Helping others bring children happiness
>What contributes to depressed mood among adolescents?
>About children in foster care
>How Important is What This Middle School Student Has to Say?
>How unified and comprehensive are "whole-school" approaches?
>It's not about just throwing money at problems: Making Money Matter
>Working on Recovery
>Supporting Social and Emotional Development in 2025
>Advocating for Change in Providing Student/Learning Supports
>Are schools responsible for supporting staff mental wellness?
>Supporting students during and after a crisis
>Behavior Problems: What's a teacher to do?
>Student news broadcasts as a platform for participatory civics
>Adverse and Positive Childhood Experiences and Resilience
>"Holidays" are Special Social and Emotional Development Opportunities
>Are you part of a school stakeholder collaborative?
>Supporting students impacted by threat of family deportation
>Positive working relationships in the classroom
>Concerns about online therapy for adolescents
>End of the year? ... No, not for the school year!
>Are schools protecting students' mental health?
>What do those in the field say about what student/learning supports are most helpful?
>About socioeconomic factors and achievement gaps
> Let's face it: MTSS is not a unified, comprehensive, and equitable student support system
>Preventing truancy
>About Addressing Poverty: What’s a School's Role?
>Demonstrating that mental health in schools is worth the investment
>Promoting positive mental health in schools
>Colleague asks for "real" examples of schools addressing prevention
>About Engaging students in active learning
>Are school boards important??
>Impact of homework on students and families
>About new directions for addressing youth mental health
>Will Tier 3 interventions reduce school shootings?
>About Relationship Building at School
>What do you think about online/telephone counseling for students?
>Rethinking universal mindfulness programs in schools
>Should schools use student well-being surveys to guide policy/practice?
>How should schools use artificial intelligence and also cope with misuses?
>Looking for a list of behavioral/mental health evidence based interventions for use in schools
>Does MTSS contribute to the marginalization of disabled students?
>Student voice and mental health in schools
>Prevention, promotion, & strength-based approaches to youth mental health
>What's involved in recruiting and retaining school professionals?
>>Enhancing Ongoing Alliances Between Teachers and Student/Learning Support Staff
>Who's Really Interested in TRANSFORMING Student and Learning Supports?
>Schools need to consider "fit" in adopting interventions
>A related concern about fitting evidence-based treatment to the person, not the diagnosis
>What's being done about youth who have disconnected from school?
>About "at-risk" youth
>Showing and Receiving Kindness: An Example of a Natural Opportunity for SEL
>Can there be too much talk about mental health?
>Artificial Intelligence in the classroom
>Can unnecessary student mental health referrals be reduced?
>Increasing Concern About the Complexity of Attendance Problems
>Absenteeism: Yet Another Reason for Transforming Student/Learning Supports
>Social-Emotional Curriculum Isn’t a Good Fit for Every Student
>Paraprofessionals and student/learning supports
>Shifting discipline from consequences to prevention
>The impact of students' sense of belonging on their learning
>What will best meet the needs of all students and staff:
>Adding Some More Mental Health Services at Schools
OR
Developing a Unified, Comprehensive, and Equitable Student and Learning Supports System?
>Discipline's impact on student mental health
>About concerns that arise in addressing school/community violence
>Some indicators of youth risk behavior show encouraging trends
>About mental health in schools as a platform for transforming student/learning supports
>Students Thrive with Positive Experiences (and so do school staff)
>What problems arise when additional MH professionals are brought into a school?
>Focusing on Mental Health in Schools from a Public Health Perspective
>Countering the Impending Tidal Wave of Unnecessary Referrals for Special Assistance and Special Education
>About Developing Kindness and Compassion & Promoting MH
>Time for Straight Talk about Mental Health Services and MH in Schools
>Evolving Community Schools and Transforming Student/Learning Supports
>How are various sources of funding being braided to improve/transform student/learning supports?
>Can youth empowerment enhance violence prevention?
>Student anxiety, aggressive behavior, school climate, & other related concerns
>How should schools improve discipline practices?