School designs supporting caring, continuous student-teacher relationships better address trauma and strengthen achievement than traditional factory-model schools¶
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Currency · newest study 2020 · checked against its sources 2026-10-20 (automated, 1 of 1 entry) · not reviewed by a person
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q2 i? School designs that support caring and continuity in student-teacher relationships are more able to address trauma and strengthen achievement than traditional factory-model schools. → Darling-Hammond 2020
Evidence¶
Darling-Hammond 2020¶
Darling-Hammond, L., Schachner, A., & Edgerton, A. K. (with Badrinarayan, A., Cardichon, J., Cookson, P. W., Jr., Griffith, M., Klevan, S., Maier, A., Martinez, M., Melnick, H., Truong, N., Wojcikiewicz, S.). (2020). Restarting and reinventing school: Learning in the time of COVID and beyond. Palo Alto, CA: Learning Policy Institute. http://learningpolicyinstitute.org/product/restarting-reinventing-school-covid
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The Priority 5 section opens by citing research comparing relationship-centered school designs with traditional factory-model schools on trauma response and achievement. No effect size or specific study is printed.
"Research shows that school designs that support caring and continuity in student–teacher relationships are more able to address trauma and strengthen achievement than traditional factory model schools."
Discussion¶
Learner Variables¶
- Time and Continuity — predictor: learners who differ on it differ in outcomes
- Social Supports — outcome: instruction changes it
Related Claims¶
- High implementation of trauma-engaged practices was associated with higher elementary students' caring-others perceptions — related
- Co-regulation strategies were reported to create a safe, positive classroom climate and to help youth manage emotions — related
- A field guide asserts that authentic family–school partnerships benefit student achievement and argues that without staff training and coaching the school–family divide persists — related
- Ivy's principal identifies building culture and relationships as his foremost leadership responsibility for student learning — related
- Using co-regulation strategies helped facilitators and youth build warm, trusting relationships — related
- Intensive remediation alone will not meet students' needs and, if segregating and stigmatizing, can deepen inequality and trauma — a narrower finding that bears on this claim
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School designs supporting caring, continuous student-teacher relationships better address trauma and strengthen achievement than traditional factory-model schools |
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School designs supporting caring, continuous student-teacher relationships better address trauma and strengthen achievement than traditional factory-model schools |
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2020 |
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