Unconditional Education: Supporting Schools to Serve All Students

After decades of reform, America's public schools continue to fail particular groups of students; the greatest opportunity gaps are faced by those whose achievement is hindered by complex stressors, including disability, trauma, poverty, and institutionalized racism. When students' needs overwhelm the neighborhood schools assigned to serve them, they are relegated to increasingly isolated educational environments. Unconditional Education (UE) offers an alternate approach that transforms schools into communities where all students can thrive. It reduces the need for more intensive and costly future remediation by pairing a holistic, multi-tiered system of supports with an intentional focus on overall culture and climate, and promotes systematic coordination and integration of funding and services by identifying gaps and eliminating redundancies to increase the efficient allocation of available resources. This book is an essential resource for mental health and educational stakeholders (i.e., school social workers, therapists, teachers, school administrators, and district-level leaders) who are interested in adopting an unconditional approach to supporting the students within their schools.

Author: Robin Detterman,Jenny Ventura,Lihi Rosenthal
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 04/16/2019
Pages: 232
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.75lbs
Size: 9.10h x 6.10w x 0.60d
ISBN: 9780190886516

About the Author
Robin Detterman, MEd, is Executive Director of School Partnerships at the Seneca Family of Agencies.

Jenny Ventura, MSW, is Director of Model Implementation and Assessment of Unconditional Education at the Seneca Family of Agencies.

Lihi Rosenthal, MEd, is the Executive Director of Education at the Seneca Family of Agencies.

Ken Berrick is the founder and Chief Executive Officer of Seneca Family of Agencies.