This series of guides describes the setup and use of the EWIMS process based on data-driven decision-making research. The aim of this guide is to support school and district efforts to systematically identify students who are showing signs of being offtrack in school (an early indicator of risk for achieving key educational milestones like on-time graduation), match these students with appropriate interventions, and monitor students’ progress within those interventions. A guide is available to support district level implementation as well as Middle and High School Implementation.

An early warning system allows educators to assign and provide appropriate interventions to at-risk students early on, during the 9th grade year, to prevent dropout before it happens.This video from the Regional Educational Laboratory Midwest (REL Midwest) summarizes research on early warning systems and dropout prevention. The video includes highlights from the research conducted by REL Midwest on behalf of the research alliances in the Midwestern states.

Cultivating Oral Language Literacy Talent in Students (COLLTS) is an early childhood program comprised of English and Spanish units that promote the development of pre-reading skills, oral language proficiency, and background and conceptual knowledge through interactive reading of high-quality children’s literature.

The ACCELL approach includes methods, resources, and tools to help teachers across the subject areas scaffold core content for ELLs. ACCELL was strategically developed from the ground up to align with college and career ready standards.

In this tool, teachers can self-assess on 10 teaching practices that support social and emotional learning for students. This can help teachers reflect and assess how well their own teaching practices support SEL for students within MTSS.

This toolkit can support instructional staff in implementing SEL practices through planning, observations, feedback, and action planning. This toolkit is only for formative purposes—not for evaluating or rating teachers. It is designed for instructional coaches, administrators, and district leaders.

This resource provides an overview of evidence-based strategies that schools and districts may use to promote equitable family engagement practices. Organized around five categories of equitable family engagement strategies, this resource includes summaries of the research on equitable family engagement as well as examples of school and district practices across the country, linking to publicly available information where possible.

This Research-to-Practice Brief is the first of its kind to 1) identify the instructional practices that promote student social-emotional learning, which in turn are critical for student academic learning. 2) showcase how three popular teacher evaluation frameworks embed practices that influence not only student academic learning but also student social and emotional competencies.

Beyond the Bell®: A Toolkit for Creating Effective Afterschool and Expanded Learning Programs contains practical resources, tips, and tools and substantive information about all aspects of program design, management, partnerships, delivery, evaluation, and improvement, along with 96 ready-to-use tools.

The Stop, Think, Act: Ready to Assess toolkit, is available at no cost from AIR SEL Solutions. It 1) highlights the importance of implementation readiness and the conditions that foster SEL and development; 2) includes assessments of learning conditions in and out of school; and 3) updates the list of available social and emotional competency assessments.