SWIFT is offering Washington principals and leadership teams a virtual, blended learning event across 8 weeks in February & March. This learning series will develop school leaders’ equity mindset and understanding of the complete range of student variability, as well as lay out a pathway for their school to become an equitable and inclusive learning environment that supports students with all types of learning needs and life circumstances.

The event is for Washington education leaders only and FREE thanks to OSPI’s inclusionary practices project.

Multi-tiered System of Support (MTSS) behavioral instruction includes classroom practices supporting social and emotional learning, which in turn support student academic, behavioral and emotional success. The Gregory et al. (2015) study focused on one such practice—Restorative Practices—and the effects on student-teacher relationships and equitable school discipline.

Support of students’ social and emotional learning plays an important role in a

Multi-tiered System of Support (MTSS). Schumacher (2014) examines out-of-classroom Talking Circles impact on adolescent girls in an urban high school in terms of building friendships and developing emotional literacy skills.