Description Creating Safe, Equitable, Engaging Schools brings together the collective wisdom of more than thirty experts from a variety of fields to show how school leaders can create communities that support the social, emotional, and academic needs of all students.
It offers an essential guide for making sense of the myriad evidence based frameworks, resources, and tools available to create a continuous improvement system.
Chapters illustrate how leaders can leverage the power of school-based teams to assess the needs of students in their school and select appropriate interventions across a wide variety of domains, including social and emotional learning, trauma, restorative practices, cultural responsiveness, and student and family engagement.
Filled with recommendations gleaned from research and ongoing work in every US state and territory, Creating Safe, Equitable, Engaging Schools is a critical resource for understanding and adopting evidence-based practices and making programmatic decisions to ensure the ideal conditions for learning, growth, and development.
About the Author David Osher is vice president and an institute fellow at American Institutes for Research.
Deborah Moroney is a managing director at American Institutes for Research and is director of the youth development and supportive learning environments practice area.
Sandra Williamson is a vice president for policy, practice, and systems change at American Institutes for Research.