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Student Wellbeing

What sets the stage for student learning? EdSource Today reports on major school reform initiatives rooted in improving the physical, emotional and behavioral health of children and teens. Strategies include social and emotional skill-building, trauma-informed teaching and school-based health centers. The goal: Attendance improves, discipline referrals fall, teen pregnancy rates drop and engagement in learning increases.
June 21, 2018

Discipline reform gets boost in California budget

Efforts to expand California's ban on suspending students for “willful defiance," now limited to K-3 grades, also still in play.

David Washburn
June 20, 2018

California budget deal includes extra funding for students with lowest test scores

Persistence pays off for Assemblywoman Shirley Weber with a compromise resulting in $300 million in one-time spending.

John Fensterwald
June 20, 2018

California falls short in underwriting meals for state's youngest children

Continued lack of state investment in Child and Adult Care Food Program means fewer child care providers can offer free meals.

Franny Wong
June 18, 2018

Pride Month resources to support LGBTQ students

Advocates say students need to feel safe to focus on learning.

Erin Brownfield
June 17, 2018

Modest school safety measures making way through California Legislature

A flurry of state legislation aimed at making schools safer was proposed after the Parkland school massacre. Here’s where the various proposals stand now.

David Washburn
June 12, 2018

Why California’s rural areas are seeing a surge in homeless youth

Wildfires, floods and soaring housing costs have left thousands of families homeless in outlying areas of the state.

Carolyn Jones
June 11, 2018

New all-girls public school in LA implements strategy to boost math achievement

The district-run math-and-science school opened in 2016 and already has a waiting list of 400.

Carolyn Jones
June 11, 2018

How rewarding positive behavior turned around our school

Breaking the chain of misbehavior and punishment by recognizing students for what they do right.

Chelsea Ramirez and Jacob Rosario
June 6, 2018

Gavin Newsom knows what it is like to struggle with reading

The likely future governor of California opens a window to the painful world of dyslexia experienced by millions of children and adults.

Louis Freedberg
June 4, 2018

Will state budget deal include expanded ban on 'willful defiance' suspensions?

Tucked inside Gov. Jerry Brown’s May Revision of the state budget is a proposal to extend California's ban on suspensions for “willful defiance” in early elementary grades.

David Washburn
May 16, 2018

The art of engagement: classroom management now matters more in teacher training

The current era of discipline reform in California is putting greater emphasis on an aspect of teaching that has long gotten the short shrift in teacher credentialing programs.

David Washburn
May 15, 2018

Resources often don't match rhetoric for restorative justice in California schools

While awareness of restorative justice is high among school officials statewide, budgets for programs remain tiny in most school districts.

David Washburn
May 14, 2018

A South LA high school's journey back from the brink

Augustus F. Hawkins High, which is situated at the crossroads of multiple gang territories, almost died at its birth. A commitment to restorative justice helped save it.

David Washburn
May 13, 2018

The rise of restorative justice in California schools brings promise, controversy

Many tout the practice as a groundbreaking alternative to zero-tolerance policies and a way to alleviate discipline disparities, while some say it's being oversold as a quick fix.

David Washburn
May 7, 2018

New science test must be part of California's school accountability system

State must signal importance of science to accelerate implementation of new science standards.

Jill Grace and Vincent Stewart