Creating a foundation of effective relationships with caregivers By the BELE Network CASEL’s latest brief in the BELE Learning Series, Collaborating With Communities and Caregivers: Conditions for Building Authentic Partnerships, focuses on the fourth EA: Partner with Caregivers and Communities. A community-led racial reckoning at King Elementary began when someone…

Dr. Gisele C. Shorter speaks with The 16:1 Podcast about the BELE Network and prioritizing student experience. Dr. Gisele C. Shorter, Director of National Education Strategy at the Raikes Foundation, was recently featured on The 16:1 Podcast, a show about education, teaching, & learning. Her conversation with hosts Katie Day…

District-Level Learnings from the Field By the BELE Network In order to create learning environments where all students can thrive academically, socially, and emotionally, school districts must design schoolwide systems and structures that center students. This is at the core of the BELE Network’s first Essential Action, making systems human-centered…

Insights From the Caregiver Community By the BELE Network To holistically educate young people, school leaders must engage caregivers as co-designers of their students’ learning environments. This is at the core of the BELE Network’s fourth Essential Action: Partner with Caregivers and Communities. In practice, that means creating opportunities that…

An overview of the BSCA education funds By the BELE Network With the school year well underway, educators have an opportunity to redefine what they mean by student safety. Parents are justifiably concerned about their kids’ safety at school, and Congress has made important investments in protecting students. Those investments…

By Karen VanAusdal (Senior Director of Practice at CASEL), Melissa Schlinger (Vice President of Practice and Programs at CASEL), and Tyrone Martinez-Black (Practice Integration Specialist) Imagine walking into your child’s high school, where members of the marching band are performing outside the building. Student greeters hold the doors open and…

By Education Resource Strategies Creating equitable outcomes for all students requires identifying and exposing existing inequities within school systems. One shining example is Columbus City Schools, which appointed Dr. Dionne Blue in 2020 as its first Chief Equity Officer to address equity and inclusion for all students, families, employees, and…

By Dr. Irvin Scott In my work with system and school leaders around the country, creating more equitable experiences and outcomes for students has taken center stage — and even more so as we look to recover from the pandemic. Identifying and exposing inequities in outcomes and experiences is a…

By Education Resource Strategies We’re halfway through the ESSER timeline, which means that it’s time to get serious about resource equity. As district leaders embark upon their ESSER Halftime Reviews to figure out how to use the remaining two years of ESSER funds, it’s important to take a new look…