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UCLA When it comes to policy, the Carnegie Task Force on Education has stressed: School systems are not responsible for meeting every need of their students. But... when the need directly affects learning, the school must meet the challenge.TRANSCRIPT
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New Directions for Student & Learning Supports
Developing a Unified & Comprehensive System of Learning Supports
to Address Barriers to Learning and Teaching &
Re-engage Disconnected Students
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Some Major Concerns
High student dropout rates High teacher turnover Continuing achievement gap So many schools designated as low performing High stakes testing is taking its toll Overcoming the Plateau effect
Teachers shouldn’t be expected to do it alone!
I.Why is a system of learning supports imperative for school improvement policy?
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When it comes to policy, the Carnegie Task Force on Education has stressed:
School systems are not responsible for meeting every need of their students.
But . . .
when the need directly affects learning, the school must meet the challenge.
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The Challenge:Barriers to Learning/Development/Parenting/Teaching
Range of Learners
Motivationally ready and able
Not verymotivated/lackingprerequisite
skills/different rates& styles/minorvulnerabilities
Avoidant/ very deficient in capabilities
No barriers
Barriersto
Learning,Development,
Parenting,Teaching
TraditionalParenting &
Teaching
DesiredOutcomes
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For most youngsters, it’s more about Environmental Conditions
Neighborhood Family School and Peers
than about Individual deficits
And, of course, a holistic approach emphasizes>Protective Buffers (strengths, resiliency)>Promoting Full Development
Stressing the Full Range of Barriers to Learning/Development/Parenting/Teaching
What has been the long-standing approach to student problems in
districts and schools?
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Current approach to addressing barriers at schools
Talk about fragmented!!!
Psychological Testing
Violence & Crime
Prevention
Special Education
After-School Programs
HIV/Aids PreventionPupil Services
DistrictJuvenile Court
Services
Community-Based Organizations
Mental Health Services Social
Services
HIV/AIDS Services Child
Protective Services
Pregnancy Prevention
Counseling
Codes of Discipline
Physical Education
HealthEducation
Clinic
Health Services
Nutrition Education
School Lunch Program
Drug Prevention
Drug Services
Smoking Cessation for Staff
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What this means for systemic change:
Current situation is that the efforts to provide supports to address barriers are Marginalized in policy and practice.
This leads to
Fragmentation
Poor cost-effectiveness (up to 25% of a school budget used in too limited and often redundant ways)
Counterproductive competition for sparse resources (among school support staff and with community-based professionals who link with schools)
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Why the Marginalization?
A Policy Problem
Direct Facilitation of Learning & Development
Instructional / Developmental Component
Management Component
Governance and Resource Management
Safe schools &
Some Student & Family Assistance
Besides offering a small amount of school-owned student "support” services, schools outreach to the community to add a few school-based / linked services.
II. Expanding School Improvement Policy & Reframing Student and Learning Supports
Clearly, there are some student and learning supports; what’s missing is a dedicated, unified, and comprehensive component directly focused on:
(1) addressing barriers to learning and teachingAND
(2) re-engaging students who have become disconnected from classroom instruction and schools
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Governance and Resource Management (Management Component)
The need is to move from the prevailing two-component policy framework to a three-component framework to
develop a unified and comprehensive system of supports
Addressing Barriers to Learning/Teaching (Enabling or Learning Supports Component)
Direct Facilitation of Learning (Instructional Component)
Examples of Initiatives, programs and services at schools that belong under the umbrella >positive behavioral supports
>programs for safe and drug free schools
>bi-lingual, cultural, and other diversity programs
>compensatory education programs
>family engagement programs
>special education programs
>mandates stemming from the No Child Left Behind Act & other federal programs
Toward a Unified & Comprehensive System of Interventions
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A Unifying Concept for Working with Schools
Range of Learners
No barriers
BarriersTo
Learning,Developme
nt, Teaching
Instructional
Component
ClassroomTeaching
+Enrichmen
tActivity
DesiredOutcomes
(High Expectations& Accountability)
(High Standards)
Motivationally ready and able
Not very motivated/ lacking prerequisite skills/ different rates & styles/ minor vulnerabilities
Avoidant/ very deficient in capabilities
Enabling or Learning Supports
Component
(1) Addressing Interfering Factors
(2) Re-engaging Students in Classroom Instruction
A Comprehensive Intervention Framework
Consists of
a full Continuum of Interventions&
An organized and delimited set of Content Arenas
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Levels of Intervention Continuum:Interconnected Subsystems for
Meeting the Needs of All Students
Systems for PromotingHealthy Development &
Preventing Problemsprimary prevention – includes
universal interventions(low end need/low cost
per individual programs)
Systems of Early Interventionearly-after-onset – includes
selective & indicated interventions(moderate need, moderate
cost per individual)
Systems of Caretreatment/indicated
interventions for severe andchronic problems
(High end need/high costper individual programs)
School Resources (facilities, stakeholders, programs, services)
Community Resources (facilities, stakeholders, programs, services)
See examplesavailable from UCLA Center
See examplesavailable from UCLA Center
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Categories of Basic Content Arenas for Student/Learning Supports Intervention
Classroom-BasedApproaches to Enable Learning
CrisisAssistance &Prevention
Supportfor
Transitions
Home Involvement /Engagement in Schooling
Student &Family
Assistance
Community Support
OperationalInfrastructure>ComponentLeadership
>team & workgroups
See Examples & Surveys from UCLA Center
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Combined Continuum and Content Arenas Levels of Intervention
Systems for Promoting Healthy Development & Preventing Problems
Systems for Early Intervention (Early after problem onset)
Systems of Care
ContentArenas
Classroom-FocusedEnablingCrisis Assistance & Prevention
Support for TransitionsHomeEngagementin Schooling
CommunitySupport
Student & Family Assistance
Activity: Mapping & Analyzing Learning Supports
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Focus on Mechanisms for Connecting Resources Across a Family of Schools, a District, and Community-Wide
HighSchools
MiddleSchools
ElementarySchools
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LearningSupports
Leadership Team
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Learning SupportsLeadership Council
School DistrictResources, Management,
& Governing Bodies
LearningSupports
Leadership Team
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Learning SupportsLeadership Council
Community Resources,Management, & Governing Bodies
LearningSupports
Leadership Team
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“What the best and wisest parent wants for his [or her] own child, that must the community
want for all of its children. Any other ideal for our schools
is narrow and unlovely; acted upon, it destroys our democracy.”
John Dewey
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UCLA Web site The Center at UCLA has extensive resources which
are free and readily accessible online. These include:
Resources to help meet daily needs related to student learning, behavior, and emotional concerns
Policy and practice analyses to help rethink current student and learning supports
A toolkit to help design and implement a unified & comprehensive learning supports system, and more . . .
http://smhp.psych.ucla.edu/
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Online Technical Assistance
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