Resources

April 2024

The Wisconsin Department of Education (DPI) is on the forefront of implementing best practices to support school mental health. This includes their work on creating a Wisconsin School Mental Health Framework, which articulates how to build a Comprehensive School Mental Health System (CSMHS), and their work on Trauma Sensitive Schools (TSS).

December 2023

The Minnesota Department of Education (MDE), together with the Region 10 Comprehensive Center (R10CC), conducted a survey of educators in Minnesota public schools to better understand which schools are implementing competency-based education (CBE) practices and to learn more about their goals, successes, and challenges. These insights will help others develop policies and practices that support learner-centered approaches in our schools.

October 2023

This brief summarizes what we learned from three Minnesota school districts who participated in cohort learning experiences with the Collaborative Minnesota Partnerships to Advance Student Success (COMPASS), a statewide education system designed to support schools’ and districts’ efforts to accelerate student learning that offers professional development opportunities with various levels of support.

August 2023

This report describes and synthesizes implementation determinants and strategies to promote uptake and sustained implementation of comprehensive school mental health and trauma-sensitive practices in schools. The present synthesis of studies and reports emphasizes use of relevant and efficient practices with empirical support at the state, district, and school levels to promote comprehensive school mental health and trauma-sensitive practices.

August 2023

This report summarizes the key principles underlying comprehensive school mental health and trauma sensitive schools. The present synthesis of studies and reports emphasizes core features, key principles, and associated core components.

May 2023

This impact story describes our partnership with the National Comprehensive Center (NCC) to support the Wisconsin Department of Public Instruction (DPI) and AI/AN representatives to address early learning challenges and opportunities for American Indian or Alaskan Native (AI/AN) children and families. Circles of Reflection engages state, tribal, and local education agencies in cycles of issue discovery, stakeholder engagement, and implementation planning to provide high quality, motivating educational experiences that improve Native students’ academic attainment.

May 2023

This impact story describes our ongoing collaboration with the Minnesota Department of Education since 2020 to roll out a statewide MTSS framework along with an aligned suite of resources intended to guide schools’ and districts’ continuous improvement efforts toward ensuring positive social, emotional, behavioral, developmental, and academic outcomes for every student.

March 2023

The Community Schools model is an evidence-based strategy that centers equity and shared decisionmaking, and enhances educational opportunities for students. The primary purpose of this guidebook is to support a learning community that promotes the growth, quality, and sustainability of Community Schools across Wisconsin. This guidebook is intended for district and school leaders who are in earlier stages of Community Schools planning as well as those in implementation stages. In addition, advocates for Community Schools and policy can use this guidebook to get a better sense of the landscape of Community Schools in Wisconsin.

February 2023

This guidebook shares what strategies are currently being used for the recruitment and retention of teachers of color in Minnesota.

January 2023

This policy brief examines one type of “leak” in the Wisconsin educator pipeline, a leak in the number of recent graduates from one of the state’s 40+ educator preparation programs (EPPs) electing to work in Illinois or Minnesota public schools.