Out-of-school factors profoundly affect learning, particularly for historically marginalized communities, and the COVID-19 crisis has only intensified the need to address these factors. Many schools seek to offer target responses to the needs of students and families via social-emotional learning, trauma-informed practices, wraparound services, and connections to community services.

Systemic whole-child approaches to student support can be a powerful way to organize these diverse resources and to close opportunity and achievement gaps. District and school administrators, leaders, and student support staff can benefit from an opportunity to deepen understanding of integrated approaches to student support, as well as the ways in which such an approach is aligned with equity opportunities in our schools. This session will provide guidelines for systematizing student support with participation by a panel of educators who have moved in this direction.

After participating in this session, educators will:

• Identify benefits of a systemic, comprehensive approach to student support during Covid and beyond
• Gain familiarity with ways systemic student support can help schools deliver social/emotional learning, wraparound, and other supports to promote whole-child development
• Identify ways in which integrated student support aligns with equity initiatives in our schools