Events

In this webinar, leading researchers and practitioners will discuss building supportive school communities that proactively protect against the perpetration of school violence. Speakers will address the evidence on restorative practices, which provide an alternative to exclusionary discipline and can improve safety, student achievement, mental health, and the conditions under which they work well.

In this webinar, national and state education leaders and policymakers discussed effective policy approaches for fostering safe school environments supported by federal and state funding.

Experts discussed ways to support students experiencing homelessness, focusing on student enrollment, learning, and mental health.

This webinar series explores the various elements of whole child policy featured in the Whole Child Policy Toolkit and shares insights from state and district policymakers who have engaged in efforts to shift toward whole child education.

This webinar explored the actions states can take to redesign curriculum, instruction, assessments, and accountability systems in line with the science of learning and development. Experts and state leaders who have taken on this work discussed lessons learned.

In this webinar, experts and researchers discussed advancements in the growing evidence base of social and emotional learning and what the findings from this evidence mean for research, practice, and policy.

In this webinar, state and local presenters shared policies and practices from states that have taken different approaches to implementing mixed delivery systems that support children’s access to consistent, high-quality learning in all settings.

The Learning Policy Institute was well represented at the AERA 2023 Annual Meeting in Chicago, IL, from April 13–16, 2023. LPI researchers presented their research on a range of topics, including the science of learning and development; school leadership; and teacher recruitment, retention, and turnover.

What actions can states take to ensure that resources are invested equitably and efficiently for whole child design? This webinar focused on the strategies and lessons learned from experts and state leaders who have taken on this work.

Building adult capacity and expertise for whole child design is a key part of developing effective whole child learning systems. Among the elements of capacity building explored in this webinar were: approaches to building strong teacher preparation systems, providing high-quality mentoring and induction programs and professional development, and supporting staff well-being.