Transforming Student and Learning Supports - Developing a Unified, Comprehensive, and Equitable System

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Equity of opportunity is treated as a civil-rights foundation, and transforming student and learning supports is positioned as the essential lever for enabling it. The resource centers on redesigning supports to better remove barriers to learning and teaching, while re-engaging disconnected students. It outlines key transformation concerns, reframes policy and intervention, maps six support arenas across school and classroom systems, and provides operational phases, mechanisms, and lessons for implementing change.

LanguageEnglish

CategoryHealthcare

FormatPDF

Pages204

Reading Time8 h 34 min

AccessFree to download

Preface

Introduction: Tweaking is Not Enough – The Imperative for Transformation

Part I: Reframing for Transformation: Introduction: Four Fundamental and Interrelated Transformation Concerns

1. Viewing School Improvement through Additional Lenses

2. Reframing Policy

3. Reframing Intervention for Student and Learning Support

Part II. Six Arenas for Classroom and School-wide Student & Learning Supports

Introduction: Enhancing Equity of Opportunity for Success at School

4. Classroom-based Learning Supports to Enable Learning and Teaching

5. Supports for Transitions

6. Home Involvement, Engagement, and Re-engagement in Schooling

7. Community Outreach and Collaborative Engagement

8. Crises Assistance and Prevention

9. Student and Family Special Assistance

Part III. Making it Happen

Introduction: Escaping Old Ideas and Moving Forward

10. Major Phases and Key Facets of Transforming Student & Learning Supports

11. A Reworked Operational Mechanisms for Daily Implementation

12. Processes and Lessons Learned in Facilitating Systemic Transformation

Coda: Five Essential Elements of a Unified and Comprehensive System of Learning Supports

Appendices

Transforming Student and Learning Supports: Developing a Unified, Comprehensive, and Equitable System* January, 2015 Equity of opportunity is fundamental to enabling civil rights; transforming student and learning supports is fundamental to enabling equity of opportunity. *This book was prepared by Howard Adelman and Linda Taylor (email contact: adelman@psych.ucla.edu Ltaylor@ucla.edu) . Adelman and Taylor co-direct a national Center at UCLA (see [http://smhp.psych.ucla.edu](http://smhp.psych.ucla.edu) ). To facilitate efforts to transform student and learning supports, this resource is freely accessible online at [http://smhp.psych.ucla.edu/pdfdocs/book/book.pdf](http://smhp.psych.ucla.edu/pdfdocs/book/book.pdf) . Permission to reproduce is granted. A key focus of the Center is on enhancing equity of opportunity for student success at school and beyond. The Center stresses transforming student and learning supports to better address barriers to learning and teaching and re engage disconnected students. A range of other relevant resources for schools are freely accessible on the Center’s website at [http://smhp.psych.ucla.edu/](http://smhp.psych.ucla.edu/) Two young ones playing restaurant: "How do you want your steak?" "Medium. " "I'm sorry, we only have large. " To those whose answers make us think. Contents Preface Introduction: Tweaking is Not Enough – The Imperative for Transformation 1 Part I: Reframing for Transformation: Introduction: Four Fundamental and Interrelated Transformation Concerns 5 1. Viewing School Improvement through Additional Lenses 7 2. Reframing Policy 11 3. Reframing Intervention for Student and Learning Support 13 Part II. Six Arenas for Classroom and School-wide Student & Learning Supports: 23 Introduction: Enhancing Equity of Opportunity for Success at School 4. Classroom-based Learning Supports to Enable Learning and Teaching 25 5. Supports for Transitions 39 6. Home Involvement, Engagement, and Re-engagement in Schooling 47 7. Community Outreach and Collaborative Engagement 59 8. Crises Assistance and Prevention 69 9. Student and Family Special Assistance 77 Part III. Making it Happen 95 Introduction: Escaping Old Ideas and Moving Forward 10. Major Phases and Key Facets of Transforming Student & Learning Supports 97 11. A Reworked Operational Mechanisms for Daily Implementation 101 12. Processes and Lessons Learned in Facilitating Systemic Transformation 108 Coda: Five Essential Elements of a Unified and Comprehensive System of 119 Learning Supports Appendices 123 A. Expanding the Accountability Framework for Schools B. Standards for a Learning Supports Component C. Self Study Surveys D. District Level Operational Infrastructure E. Facilitative Mechanism's Functions and Interrelationship F. Major Tasks of Mentors and Coaches G. Benchmarks for Monitoring and Improving Transformation Exhibits Exhibit A: Student and Learning Supports: Much activity, Much Fragmentation! Exhibit B: Fundamental and Interrelated Transformation Concerns Exhibit 1. 1: Examples of Conditions That Can Increase Barriers to Learning Exhibit 1.2: Many Students Experience Barriers to Learning Exhibit 2. 1: Expanded Policy Prototype Exhibit 3. 1: A Learning Supports Component to Address Barriers and Re-engage Students in Classroom Instruction Exhibit 3.2: Prototype for Six Content Arenas Exhibit 3.3: Intervention Continuum: Interconnected Subsystems Exhibit 3.4: Intervention Prototype Framework for a Unified and Comprehensive System of Learning Supports Exhibit 4. 1: Key Facets of Enhancing Learning Supports in Classrooms Exhibit 4.2: Prototype Framework for Enhancing Classroom Learning Supports Exhibit 4.3: Special Assistance Sequence and Hierarch Exhibit 5. 1: Key Transitions and Examples of Supports for Transitions Exhibit 5.2: Prototype Framework for Addressing Transition Concerns Exhibit 6. 1: General T

FAQs

Why is transforming student and learning supports considered essential?

It is presented as fundamental to enabling equity of opportunity, which is framed as a civil-rights foundation for student success.

What problem does the resource aim to address in schools?

It targets barriers to learning and teaching and the need to re-engage disconnected students through transformed supports.

How is the transformation implemented in practice?

The resource describes major phases, key facets, reworked operational mechanisms, and processes for facilitating systemic transformation, culminating in five essential elements of a unified system.

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