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School Stability 101
Educational Protections for Students in Foster Care
A common starting point for: youth and alumni, caregivers, school and child-welfare professionals, legal and court advocates, and community supporters.
Working transcript available; video in development.
Word document; opens in a new tab.A shared foundation
What this module helps you do
Use this module to understand why school stability matters, which adults and systems share responsibility, and where to go next in the Fostering Potential Learning Library.
School moves, delayed enrollment, missing records, transportation barriers, interrupted services, and uneven follow-through can affect time, belonging, credits, and graduation. This page offers a plain-language orientation before you choose a role-specific or topic-specific pathway.
Three learning outcomes
After exploring this module, you should be able to:
See what stability protects
Explain how school changes can affect instructional time, relationships, records, credits, services, and progress toward graduation.
Recognize shared responsibility
Identify the school, child-welfare, caregiver, legal, court, and support roles that may need to coordinate rather than leaving the young person to navigate alone.
Choose a useful next pathway
Move to the role, topic, practical tool, full-session recording, or public resource that best fits the question you are trying to answer.
Current formats
Read now; watch later
Future module video
The planned video will draw from reviewed material across Sessions 1–6. No public cut, embed, final captions, or synchronized transcript exists yet.
Read the written module
The current Word document is a working proof-of-concept transcript. It may change as source, legal, youth, permission, and accessibility review continues.
Read the working transcriptWord document; opens in a new tab.Choose what fits your question
Continue by role or topic
School Stability 101 is a recommended starting point, not a required prerequisite. Go directly to the pathway that best matches what you need.
Webinar archive
Explore the source sessions
These public recordings are source material for the written module. They are not the finished School Stability 101 video.
Session 1
Ohio school-support roles, liaisons, and examples of local coordination.
Session 2
School stability, shared responsibility, and the federal legal and practice framework.
Session 3
Youth voice, school continuity, trusted adults, and the lived meaning of staying connected.
Session 4
Cross-system implementation, student-support routines, and practical coordination.
Session 5
School-based coordination, youth perspective, and practical supports across systems.
Session 6
Disability, school discipline, service continuity, and youth participation.
Optional reflection
Think about your next step
No response is collected on this proof-of-concept page.
- Which role do you play in supporting school stability?
- Which issue—school connection, enrollment, records, transportation, disability support, trusted adults, or graduation—needs the clearest next step?
- Which role or topic pathway will you explore next?
Important boundaries