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. …

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. …

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…

Policies that create space for schools to better support their students — By David Nitkin, Partner at Transcend Students, teachers, and schools have faced unprecedented trauma over the last two years. But across the country, countless communities are seizing this moment to not just recover from the crisis, but also use it as an opportunity for reinventing education long after the immediate…

Helping school boards stay focused on their priority: our children — By Carrie Douglass & Ethan Ashley If there’s one thing the majority of parents in the United States can get behind, it’s that schools’ first priority is preparing students for future success and careers in a culturally diverse world. …

By Gisele C. Shorter Greetings BELE Community, As we kick off 2022, I continue to be deeply grateful for everyone who remains devoted to creating an education system that ensures all children thrive and supports the adults who make that possible. While 2021 may have exposed deep fault lines within…