Topic: Belonging and Wellbeing

Research/Report

Understanding Belongingness, Support, and Perseverance: An Exploratory Study of the Educational Experiences of Foster Youth in California

University of California, Los Angeles Center for Transformation of Schools

A study that explores how youth in foster care experience the foster care system, high school, and college, offering recommendations for these systems to better support these young people.

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Cultivating Relationships in Secondary Schools: Structures That Matter

Learning Policy Institute

This brief highlights structures that can foster relationship-building among students, teachers, and families in secondary schools.

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Cultivating Relationships in Secondary Classrooms: Practices That Matter

Learning Policy Institute

This brief elevates the approaches that secondary school educators and staff can use to put relationships and caring at the center of their classroom practice.

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Report / Research

Youth Civic Empowerment

YouthTruth

A report offering insight into the current state of youth civic empowerment, revealing troubling patterns of inequity in civic readiness.

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Policy Brief/Proposal

The Urgent Need for Child-Centered Artificial Intelligence Policies

National Center for Youth Law

This brief is a call to action for policymakers and stakeholders to prioritize the interests and rights of children and youth in discussions about AI regulation and policy.

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Webinar / Video / Podcast

How Bay Area Youth Distributed 2.4M

Northern California Grantmakers

A video about the Generational Recovery Fund (GRF), a youth-led, time-limited Bay Area regional pooled fund that invested in helping Black, Indigenous, and people of color (BIPOC) youth to successfully navigate their recovery from the harms of COVID-19.

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Framework/Guide

Expanding Horizons

Partnership for Children & Youth

A report that makes the case for investing in expaned learning for older youth, offers compelling evidence of their benefits, provides examples of what these programs look like in action, and charts a path forward for public policy advocates and education leaders.

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School Funding Effectiveness: Evidence From California’s Local Control Funding Formula

Learning Policy Institute

A study investigating the impacts of LCFF-induced increases in per-pupil spending on student achievement and behavioral outcomes.

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Story / Case Study / Commentary

Districts must empower teachers to lead the way for whole-child education

University of South Carolina, College of Education

An op-ed arguing for and offering creative suggestions for schools to adopt whole-child approaches.

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Research/Report

Put your money on the table: Interagency Coordination to Address the Crisis in Student Mental and Behavioral Health

WestEd

A report showing how county offices of education (COEs) play a critical role in coordinating and integrating services with other child-serving agencies to serve students and families more effectively.

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Story / Case Study / Commentary

Equitable School Funding

Californians for Justice

A webpage about the fight for equitable school funding and the Local Control Funding Formula (LCFF) in California.

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Tool / Toolkit

CASEL’s District Resource Center

CASEL: Collaborative for Academic, Social, and Emotional Learning

A collection of resources to help school districts make social and emotional learning (SEL) an integral part of every student's education.

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Tool / Toolkit

CASEL’s State Resource Center

CASEL: Collaborative for Academic, Social, and Emotional Learning

A webpage curated for state leaders and informed by the Collaborating States Initiative, to help state education agencies create and promote state-level social and emotional learning (SEL) practices and policies.

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Story / Case Study / Commentary

2023 California Scorecard of Children’s Well-Being

Children Now

An interactive online report that presents a comprehensive picture of children's health, education, and welfare in California's 58 counties for 2023.

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Policy Brief/Proposal

The 2023 Pro-Kid Policy Agenda

Children Now

A comprehensive state-level policy roadmap to ensure that all California children have the necessary supports to reach their full potential.

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Policy Brief/Proposal

The Equity 8 – California’s Key Legislative Proposals: 2023

Education Trust, Inc.

Ed Trust-West's annual analysis of the California budget and proposed legislation for 2023, identifying 8 key proposals with the potential to advance educational equity and justice for California’s students and educators.

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Community Schools Story Map

Partnership for the Future of Learning

An interactive map of stories about community schools and the impact they're having across the United States.

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Foster(ing) Youth in the California State University: Understanding the Vital Role of Campus Support Programs

University of California, Los Angeles Center for Transformation of Schools

A study providing an analysis of California State University's campus-based support programs for students with foster care experience.

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Research/Report

Community Schooling Issue 4

Berkeley Institute of Urban and Regional Development

A multimedia publication from the UCLA Center for Community Schooling featuring public scholarship to inform the collective struggle for democracy, justice, and public education.

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Story / Case Study / Commentary

An Alternative Option for Newcomer High School Students with Interrupted Formal Schooling

Stanford University Graduate School of Education, John W. Gardner Center for Youth and Their Communities

A profile of California Alternative Education describing the efforts of Rudsdale Newcomer High School.

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