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The Role of Healing in Equity Leadership —

The Role of Healing in Equity Leadership — | Schools, Families, and Community Resources | Scoop.it
There are a wide variety of definitions and ways in which people understand healing that have medical, spiritual, and indigenous roots. We at NEP believe that healing is a holistic process and journey to restore and experience health and wholeness to one’s mind, body, and spirit.
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Belonging Design Principles | Othering & Belonging Institute

Belonging Design Principles | Othering & Belonging Institute | Schools, Families, and Community Resources | Scoop.it
Design Principles for Building Belonging Across our planet, people are looking for effective ways to build just, equitable, and inclusive institutions that serve and support everyone.
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Transforming Local Communities Through Artistic Leadership

Transforming Local Communities Through Artistic Leadership | Schools, Families, and Community Resources | Scoop.it
How artists, communities, and funders can come together to effectively promote local change.
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Brief: Centering Multilingual Families in California Community Schools

Brief: Centering Multilingual Families in California Community Schools | Schools, Families, and Community Resources | Scoop.it
🆕 Hot off the press! @SEALedEQUITY and @CommSchoolsLX released a research brief with strategies around community schools that school and district leaders can easily implement to support multilingual families. ➡️ Check out 4 integrated approaches to strengthen family-school partnerships: https://bit.ly/3CkgPyo #EnglishLearners #CommunitySchools #DualLanguageLearners #Family #EquitableEducation
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Hmong is a ‘dying’ language – but it’s being preserved at this Fresno school

Hmong is a ‘dying’ language – but it’s being preserved at this Fresno school | Schools, Families, and Community Resources | Scoop.it
Many children of Hmong immigrants do not know their parents' native language well. The community does not have a separate nation in Southeast Asia.
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Community Schools Forward

Community Schools Forward | Schools, Families, and Community Resources | Scoop.it
Community Schools Forward is a partnership of four organizations collaborating with education practitioners, researchers, and leaders across the country to strengthen the community schools field.
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Murmurations: Accountable Endings

Murmurations: Accountable Endings | Schools, Families, and Community Resources | Scoop.it
The end of a world built on toxic ideas of supremacy can make way for a better, more collective and connected existence, writes adrienne maree brown.
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Professional Learning Series on Community Schools

Professional Learning Series on Community Schools | Schools, Families, and Community Resources | Scoop.it
The U.S. Department of Education virtual Professional Learning Series takes an in-depth look at how community schools can transform student learning and outcomes. The series examines programs from across the country, explores ways that community school approaches can further whole child learning, and digs into the ways that pandemic federal relief funding (including American Rescue Plan funds) have been used to support community schools.
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Home

Home | Schools, Families, and Community Resources | Scoop.it
We are a collaborative network of educators, families, and community partners working to cultivate equitable, culturally thriving, socio-ecological systems learning and ethical decision-making using field-based science education in outdoor places, including gardens, for children in Read more…
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Immigrant and Refugee Children: A Guide for Educators and School Support Staff

Immigrant and Refugee Children: A Guide for Educators and School Support Staff | Schools, Families, and Community Resources | Scoop.it
Now, more than ever, these vulnerable students need advocates in schools.
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Centering Diverse Parents in the CRT Debate

Centering Diverse Parents in the CRT Debate | Schools, Families, and Community Resources | Scoop.it
Parents of color and parents of conscience, whose children make up the majority of students in public education, must be centered in conversations on race and inclusive education.
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4 Ways to Plan for the Success of Newcomer English Language Learners

4 Ways to Plan for the Success of Newcomer English Language Learners | Schools, Families, and Community Resources | Scoop.it
To help newly arrived English language learners feel welcome, teachers can represent their cultures and languages in the classroom.
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Cities and towns across California only get the libraries they can afford

Cities and towns across California only get the libraries they can afford | Schools, Families, and Community Resources | Scoop.it
California public libraries depend on local funding, creating wide disparities among communities across the state.
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Targeted Universalism Bibliography | Othering & Belonging Institute

PUBLICATION BY WENDY AKE   |   UPDATED: AUGUST 25, 2023  
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Building Power for Healthy Communities

Building Power for Healthy Communities | Schools, Families, and Community Resources | Scoop.it
A decade of learning about power building from The California Endowment’s “Building Healthy Communities” initiative
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Occasional Paper Series Occasional Paper Series Issue 49 Indigenous Pedagogies: Land, Water, and Kinship

Occasional Paper Series Occasional Paper Series Issue 49 Indigenous Pedagogies: Land, Water, and Kinship | Schools, Families, and Community Resources | Scoop.it

Occasional Paper Series Occasional Paper Series Issue 49 Indigenous Pedagogies: Land, Water, and Kinship Introduction by Anna Lees and Megan Bang Indigenous communities, across lands and waters, engage in and build complex knowledge systems emergent from particular values and ways of perceiving...

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Book Lists —

Book Lists — | Schools, Families, and Community Resources | Scoop.it
The Conscious Kid is an education, research and policy organization that supports families and educators in taking action to disrupt racism, inequity and bias...
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NameDrop - a name pronunciation service

NameDrop - a name pronunciation service | Schools, Families, and Community Resources | Scoop.it
No name should ever be mispronounced. NameDrop allows you to record your name and share it with the world
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Building School Communities for Students Living in Deep Poverty

Building School Communities for Students Living in Deep Poverty | Schools, Families, and Community Resources | Scoop.it
More than 5 million children in the United States are living in deep poverty. Researchers suggest that deep poverty-responsive schools—for instance, schools funded according to fair school finance formulas, designed around community schools principles, and centered on whole child teaching and learning—can address the full range of children’s needs and help heal trauma associated with living in deep poverty.
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Federal Policies That Contribute to Racial and Ethnic Health Inequities and Potential Solutions for Indigenous Children, Families, and Communities

Federal Policies That Contribute to Racial and Ethnic Health Inequities and Potential Solutions for Indigenous Children, Families, and Communities | Schools, Families, and Community Resources | Scoop.it
Much work has been done by Indigenous Peoples and the federal government to understand the ways in which policies contribute to health inequities and to develop potential policy solutions. With that existing work in place, we recommend the Committee look to two additional resources to understand...
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Welcome to the Collaborative Indigenous Research Digital Garden! | Collaborative Indigenous Research

Welcome to the Collaborative Indigenous Research Digital Garden! | Collaborative Indigenous Research | Schools, Families, and Community Resources | Scoop.it
Welcome to the Collaborative Indigenous Research Digital Garden! Our aim in creating the CIR Digital Garden is to promote and expand the field of Collaborative Indigenous Research. We wish to highlight the methods, ethics, theories of change, and forms of knowledge mobilization present in...
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Booklists

Booklists | Schools, Families, and Community Resources | Scoop.it
Here are more than 90 carefully selected lists of multicultural and social justice books for children, young adults, and educators.  We partner with Bookshop. New Activism and Organizing Africa Afro-Latinx American Indians Arabs and Arab Americans Art
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Tools & Resources

Tools & Resources | Schools, Families, and Community Resources | Scoop.it
A $3B investment in the CCSPP provides resources that can promote the transformation of education & child-serving systems. The potential for progress is huge, but so are the prospects for unintended consequences.
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Great set of resources on Community Schools.

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National Day of Racial Healing 2023 - W.K. Kellogg Foundation

National Day of Racial Healing 2023 - W.K. Kellogg Foundation | Schools, Families, and Community Resources | Scoop.it
The 2023 National Day of Racial Healing will be Jan. 17 as a time to contemplate our shared values and create the blueprint together for #HowWeHeal from the effects of racism. This annual observance is hosted by the W.K. Kellogg Foundation (WKKF) and was created with and builds on the work and learnings of the Truth, Racial Healing & Transformation (TRHT) community partners.
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When students' basic needs are met by community schools, learning can flourish - MindShift

When students' basic needs are met by community schools, learning can flourish - MindShift | Schools, Families, and Community Resources | Scoop.it
Community schools use a whole child approach so the pressure isn’t solely on teachers to attend to students’ academics, social emotional wellbeing and basic needs.
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