Historically, many of our systems have been structured to label students, rather than identify and remedy gaps in instruction, support, and access to opportunities. Too many systems offer inadequate responses to learning and behavioral difficulties in ways that disproportionately affect students of color. We’re here to help.
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Visionary educators know that student social and emotional well-being are an essential part of student success. We can help you design your classroom instruction and social-emotional supports around positive relationships and inclusive, restorative practices.
We can support you to:
Meaningful, effective work is never done alone. We work in close collaboration with schools and districts to support their students, and with expert organizations — both local and national — to support our work.
Combining excellent instruction with rigorous data analysis, we help schools and districts make sure students are getting the right kinds of academic and social-emotional support as soon as they need it.
Together, we can improve systems that meet students’ needs, including:
* Dyslexia is a specific learning disability associated with word reading difficulties, poor spelling, and trouble with reading fluently.
** A Multi-Tiered System of Supports (MTSS) is a framework that enables schools to readily identify and address the academic and non-academic needs of all students, including targeted interventions for students as soon as they need them.
Special education is connected to complex policies and demands for compliance and accountability. We can support you in building better systems to address student needs and meet federal, state, and local legal requirements.
We can help you to:
We are deeply honored to share our new Guidebook for the People, the result of more than two years of dialogue, sharing, and learning with educators, healers, and restorative justice practitioners that explores how we might integrate Multi-Tiered Systems of Support (MTSS) with restorative practices.
Based on the science of reading, learn the five critical components of reading instruction in order to teach all students, including English learners and those with word reading difficulties, such as dyslexia, to be strong readers.
New courses start September 15 & October 20.
Zaretta Hammond discusses how social-emotional learning embedded into instruction and implemented with a culturally responsive lens can garner success for all students, particularly Black and Brown students.
