March 2026

Help your students feel seen, heard, and supported with a Sown To Grow spring pilot!

🌷 Each issue this season, we’ll celebrate a school leading thoughtful, on-the-ground work to help students thrive. By sharing their well-being wins, lessons, and impact, we hope this helps inspire practical ideas to plant in your own community. 

Warm Jackets & Warm Connections:

How Warsaw Central School District

Built a Culture of Care

Hear the heartwarming story proving how leveraging emotional check-in insights leads to stronger student support.

🐝 Blog Buzz

Strengthen your school's Tier 1 systems to prevent escalation and reduce special education over-identification.

🌱 STG Spotlight

Read our white paper packed with new research on how schools using STG to amplify belonging achieved 2-3 times greater reductions in chronic absenteeism.

✨ Mindful Moments

Access the recording and slides from our webinar with District Administration on preventative, relationship-focused, data-driven support. 

🗓️ Upcoming Events

From spring slide concerns to testing season pressures, now is a key time to boost belonging and engagement, and increase attendance. Join us tomorrow, Thurs. 3/12, to explore newly researched ways to accelerate declines in chronic absenteeism.

📍 March 16-18 in Sacramento ~ California Association of Supervisors of Child Welfare & Attendance (CASCWA) State Conference

📍 March 15-17 in Framingham ~ Massachusetts School Counselors Association (MASCA) Conference

📍 March 18-20 in Anaheim ~ California Association of African American Superintendents and Administrators (CAAASA) Professional Development Summit

📍 March 18 at Towson University ~ The Maryland Center for Community Schools Annual Convening

Planning to attend? Let's connect in person!

🧰 Templates & Tools

Fuel student engagement with Edutopia's hands-on, collaborative STEM projects that promote community, and purposeful pathways to belonging.

🫶 Community Corner

Learn how the Superintendent of Florida’s Volusia County Schools led the district to earn an “A” state rating for the first time in 16 years.

🗞️ In the News

Unpack the recent research asserting that older students—rather than youngsters—have seen bigger performance declines following the pandemic.

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