Integrating Student Wellness Efforts Across Multiple Initiatives

Presenters

Jon EylerFollow

First Presenter's Institution

Collaborative Learning Solutions

First Presenter's Brief Biography

Dr. Jon Eyler is a widely recognized expert on topics of equity, educational improvement, and educational psychology. He works with leadership teams across the nation to implement integrated systems of support and to lead adaptive change around educator mindset and perception. He has held various teaching and leadership positions in both PK-12 and higher education. Dr. Eyler is the founder and CEO of Collaborative Learning Solutions, a leading educational consulting firm headquartered in California. The firm is relentlessly committed to improving outcomes for historically marginalize youth - particularly outcomes related to culture and climate. Since 2010, the firm has supported more than 165 education agencies across 8 states and 3 countries with a collective impact on more than 1.6 million students.

Document Type

Event

Primary Strand

Mental Health

Relevance to Primary Strand

Schools and districts are trying to implement multiple mental health strategies; however, the organization of those strategies and the integration into an education setting is often overlooked. This session provide a framework for integrating multiple mental health efforts/strategies

Alignment with School Improvement Plan Topics

Climate and Culture

Brief Program Description

With an increasing demand for mental health supports in schools and a projected decrease in resources looming on the horizon, strategic integration is the name of the game.

Summary

Exhausted by bouncing around from initiative to initiative? Challenged by figuring out how to balance and integrate multiple systems and structures within your district? This presentation addresses the essential elements a district’s leadership team should consider when aligning processes and procedures to provide access for all students, no matter what their needs are. We’ll provide a sustainable framework outlining strategies on how to structure teams for greater collaboration to impact the development of effective and efficient systems. This information will be paired with concrete examples of how districts across the nation have operationalized these concepts and put them into practice.

Evidence

The integrated framework is influence by the following sources:

National Scientific Council on the Developing Child. (2015). Supportive Relationships and Active Skill-Building Strengthen the Foundations of Resilience: Working Paper 13. http://www.developingchild.harvard.edu

Bryk, A. S., Gomez, L. M., Grunow, A., & LeMahieu, P. G. (2015). Learning to improve: How America’s schools can get better at getting better. Harvard Education Press.

Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching, (2018) The Six Core Principles of Improvement

Darling-Hammond, L., Flook, L., Cook-Harvey, C., Barron, B., & Osher, D. (2020). Implications for educational practice of the science of learning and development. Applied Developmental Science, 24(2), 97-140.

Learning Objective 1

Have a framework for integrating multiple initiatives

Learning Objective 2

Identify 5 high leverage areas for integration

Learning Objective 3

See examples of how other education agencies have integrated initiatives

Recommended Citation

Eyler, Jon, "Integrating Student Wellness Efforts Across Multiple Initiatives" (2023). Southeast Conference on School Climate. 103.
https://digitalcommons.georgiasouthern.edu/secsc/2023/2023/103

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