Center for MH in Schools & Student/Learning
Supports
What's New From the Center?
2024 – Over the previous years, our analyses of prevailing school improvement legislation, planning, and literature have
delineated fundamental deficiencies, especially with respect to enhancing equity of opportunity and closing the achievement gap.
As
schools recover from the pandemic, there are opportunities to move forward
in making essential changes.
With this in mind,
a major facet of our work in 2023 is to focus school improvement policy and planning on:
(1) moving school improvement from a two- to a three-component policy and practice framework (That is, expanding from a primary focus on instruction and management/government concerns to fully integrate a third primary component directly concerned with improving how schools address barriers to learning and teaching.)
(2) integrating a deep understanding of motivation – especially intrinsic motivation and personalized teaching
(3) reframing of remediation and special education emphasizing personalized special assistance that is applied in and out of classrooms and practiced in a sequential and hierarchical manner.
(4) transforming student and learning supports into a unified, comprehensive, and equitable system designed to address barriers to learning and teaching and re-engage disconnected students and families.
(5) reworking the leadership structure for whole school improvement
(6) enhancing school-community collaboration by establishing a collaborative operational infrastructure that enables weaving together resources to address shared concerns
(7) expanding the framework for school accountability
(8) providing guidance for substantive, scalable, and sustainable systemic changes
For details see the resources listed below.
All New Center Resources (Reports, Briefs, Information Resources. Packets, Practice Notes) are Reported Each Month in the Center UPDATEs section of ENEWS and Entered into the
Resource Catalogue.
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Community of Practice --
"Weekly Practitioner"
https://smhp.psych.ucla.edu/practitioner.htm
5/15/24
>What will best meet the needs of all students and staff:
Adding Some More Mental Health Services at Schools
OR
Developing a Unified, Comprehensive, and Equitable
Student and Learning Supports System?
>Discipline's impact on student mental health
>Links to a few other relevant shared resources
5/8/24
> "How can my district provide leadership in reducing community violence?"
>About concerns that arise in addressing school/community violence
>Is there something special about middle school?
>Links to a few other relevant shared resources
Access to previous Practitioners
https://smhp.psych.ucla.edu/practitioner.htm
Examples of previous discussions
>Looking to improve the school's role in enhancing mental health?
>Can the impact of social determinants on child and adolescent mental
health be altered?
>Some indicators of youth risk behavior show encouraging trends
>About mental health in schools as a platform for transforming
student/learning supports
>Students Thrive with Positive Experiences (and so do school staff)
>What problems arise when additional MH professionals are brought into a school?
>Focusing on Mental Health in Schools from a Public Health Perspective
>Countering the Impending Tidal Wave of Unnecessary Referrals for
Special Assistance and Special Education
>About Developing Kindness and Compassion & Promoting MH
>Time for Straight Talk about Mental Health Services and MH in Schools
>Evolving Community Schools and Transforming Student/Learning Supports
>How are various sources of funding being braided to improve/transform
student/learning supports?
>Can youth empowerment enhance violence prevention?
>Student anxiety, aggressive behavior, school climate, & other related concerns
>How should schools improve discipline practices?
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ENEWS*
>REENGAGING DISCONNECTED STUDENTS
Also
- Continuing Education Through Quick links to online resources
- A few Stories Excerpted from Various News Sources
Comments and
sharing from the field
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Recent Hot Topics & Issues & Commentaries
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Net Exchange
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