Cultural Inclusiveness and Equity WISE Resources
Module 4: Supporting Students Experiencing Distress from a Cultural Inclusiveness and Equity Lens
Glossary
This resource includes definitions for key terms used throughout the Cultural Inclusiveness and Equity WISE course.
Resources
This is a contact sheet that educators can use to maintain information about mental health providers in the school and community. It can be useful when attempting outreach to providers for consultation and when making referrals.
Reflections for Compassionate Responding
This reflection guide engages educators in questions about their disciplinary practices to support educators with exploring how disciplinary actions may be connected to student culture and identity. This resource also includes questions educators can use in their process of responding to student behavior with compassion.
The Connection Between Student Behaviors and Emotional Needs
This resource provides a table that lists common challenging behaviors that students demonstrate and some potential things the child may be thinking, feeling or attempting to communicate with the behaviors. This resource is intended to help educators be mindful of how behaviors are connected to emotional needs. It also provides some questions to support educators with responding to behaviors with compassion.
NAMI Identity and Cultural Dimensions
This resource provides information about mental health in the different marginalized communities. It includes helpful resources to identify culturally responsive mental health services and supports.
Developed by the National Alliance on Mental Illness
School Mental Health Referral Pathways Toolkit
In this toolkit from SAMHSA, recommendations for schools to enact systems for referring students for mental health treatment are outlined. A robust chapter highlights cultural and linguistic considerations for referring.
Developed by the Now Is The Time Technical Assistance Center
PBIS Cultural Responsiveness Field Guide
In this field guide, systems and structures for culturally responsive implementation of Positive Behavioral Interventions and Supports are outlined.
Developed by the Center on Positive Behavioral Interventions & Supports
NAACP Legal Defense Fund's Dismantling the School-to-Prison Pipeline Toolkit
In this toolkit, the NAACP shares statistics, trends, and strategies for overcoming the school-to-prison pipeline. Educators should pay special attention to the ways that responses to student behavior may lead to negative long term outcomes, including incarceration.
Developed by the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Inc.
The Center for Racial Justice in Education Resource Library
In the resource library curated by the Center for Racial Justice in Education, many resources for discussing race and bias, navigating work with diverse families, and ways to integrate culturally relevant content in the classroom and school setting are provided.
Developed by the Center for Racial Justice in Education
Widening Mental Health Treatment Gap in Schools
In this brief article, statistics related to the demographic disparities and gaps based on presenting mental health concerns in school mental health are described.
Developed by the National Education Association
How To Be An Equity Advocate Manual
In this toolkit, educators and school leaders are guided through seven actionable steps to advocating for racial equity in school systems.
Developed by the Leading Equity Center
Transforming Education Resource Library
This curated collection includes many resources that provide educators and other practitioners with actionable, evidence-based strategies, information, and promising practices for embedding whole child approaches within the education system. Some highlights include a six-part series on SEL for educators and a school leader self-reflection tool.
Developed by Transforming Education
Integrating Equitable Supports in the Classroom
This resource provides guidance to educators on how to integrate equitable supports in the classroom for students with mental health disorders and/or with other disabilities that impact their learning needs.
CIE Module 4 Action Planning Worksheet
This worksheet can be used to develop an action plan to support educators with applying a cultural inclusiveness and equity lens in addressing the needs of students experiencing distress.