Resource Library

This Web resource explores how state education leaders can assess the strength and alignment of their talent management policies and practices. Tags: Teacher, Early Childhood Provider, Faculty, and Staff Well-being, Professional Development, and Supports; PreK-12 Schools

Resource Type: Best Practices, Technical Assistance Center Resources
Organization: Region 14 Comprehensive Center

This report details a series of interviews with students reflecting on their experiences with remote and hybrid learning during the COVID-19 pandemic, highlighting lessons learned for improving instructional practices and school climate. Tags: Providing Supports to Students, Young Children, and Families; PreK-12 Schools

Resource Type: Lessons Learned, Technical Assistance Center Resources
Organization: Center to Improve Social and Emotional Learning and School Safety at WestEd

This Web page summarizes findings from the CDC Adolescent Behaviors and Experiences Survey, a study on the impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic on high school students. Tags: Safe and Healthy Environments; Providing Supports to Students, Young Children, and Families; PreK-12 Schools

Resource Type: Federal Resources
Organization: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention

This Website features a curated collection of Federal resources to support education providers serving Afghan students and families. Tags: Providing Supports to Students, Young Children, and Families; PreK-12 Schools; Colleges and Universities; Racial/ethnic subgroups

Resource Type: Federal Resources
Organization: U.S. Department of Education

This Office of Elementary and Secondary Education Website hosts a collection of resources, Webinars, guidance documents, and tools, organized by topic and audience, to support the needs of school communities. Tags: Safe and Healthy Environments; Providing Supports to Students, Young Children, and Families; PreK-12 Schools

Resource Type: Federal Resources
Organization: U.S. Department of Education

This Web page offers tools and resources for supporting the social, emotional, and behavioral well-being of the whole school community. Tags: Providing Supports to Students, Young Children, and Families; Teacher, Early Childhood Provider, Faculty, and Staff Well-being, Professional Development, and Supports; PreK-12 Schools

Resource Type: Federal Resources
Organization: U.S. Department of Education

This CDC Website provides data on new COVID-19 cases and hospitalizations across the country, helping school communities monitor and plan for prevention and mitigation strategies. Tags: Safe and Healthy Environments; Early Childhood Programs; PreK-12 Schools; Colleges and Universities

Resource Type: Federal Resources
Organization: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention

This CDC quick guide offers instructions for what to do in the event of a suspected COVID-19 case in early care and education programs, including guidance on isolation and quarantine procedures. Tags: Safe and Healthy Environments; Early Childhood Programs

Resource Type: Federal Resources
Organization: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention

This guide is designed to help state education agency leaders advance educational equity by strengthening the foundation of whole-child initiatives. Tags: Providing Supports to Students, Young Children, and Families; PreK-12 Schools

Resource Type: Best Practices, Technical Assistance Center Resources
Organization: Center to Improve Social and Emotional Learning and School Safety at WestEd

This Web page provides at-home resources and activities for teaching math skills to young children. Tags: Providing Supports to Students, Young Children, and Families; Early Childhood Programs

Resource Type: Best Practices, Technical Assistance Center Resources
Organization: Regional Educational Laboratory Central

This blog post shares resources to support districts and schools in understanding the causes of teacher shortages and identifying strategies for strengthening the educator workforce and improving working conditions. Tags: Teacher, Early Childhood Provider, Faculty, and Staff Well-being, Professional Development, and Supports; PreK-12 Schools

Resource Type: Best Practices, Technical Assistance Center Resources
Organization: Region 9 Comprehensive Center

This blog post outlines lessons learned from districts integrating social emotional learning and trauma-informed practices to create safe and supportive learning environments. Tags: Providing Supports to Students, Young Children, and Families; PreK-12 Schools

Resource Type: Best Practices, Technical Assistance Center Resources
Organization: Region 9 Comprehensive Center

This research brief explores the connections between social, emotional, and academic learning, and offers equity-centered strategies for creating affirming learning environments that promote social and emotional learning. Tags: Providing Supports to Students, Young Children, and Families; PreK-12 Schools

Resource Type: Best Practices, Technical Assistance Center Resources
Organization: Center to Improve Social and Emotional Learning and School Safety at WestEd

This Web page presents findings from a research study examining the courses taken, and credits and grades received by high school graduate students in public and private schools in 2019. Tags: Providing Supports to Students, Young Children, and Families; PreK-12 Schools

Resource Type: Lessons Learned
Organization: Institute of Education Sciences; National Center for Education Statistics

This curated resource list provides access to Federal resources on school-based physical, social, emotional, and behavioral health supports for children, youth, and young adults. Tags: Safe and Healthy Environments; Providing Supports to Students, Young Children, and Families; Teacher, Early Childhood Provider, Faculty, and Staff Well-being, Professional Development, and Supports; Early Childhood Programs; PreK-12 Schools; Colleges and Universities

Resource Type: Federal Resources
Organization: U.S. Department of Education; U.S. Department of Health and Human Services

This toolkit is designed to help districts and schools communicate their progress in deploying American Rescue Plan funding to maintain safe learning environments and support students and staff. Tags: Safe and Healthy Environments; Providing Supports to Students, Young Children, and Families; Teacher, Early Childhood Provider, Faculty, and Staff Well-being, Professional Development, and Supports; PreK-12 Schools

Resource Type: Federal Resources
Organization: U.S. Department of Education

This fact sheet shares examples of how states, districts, and schools are utilizing Federal relief funding to address teacher shortages. Tags: Teacher, Early Childhood Provider, Faculty, and Staff Well-being, Professional Development, and Supports; Early Childhood Programs; PreK-12 Schools; Colleges and Universities

Resource Type: Best Practices; Federal Resources
Organization: U.S. Department of Education

This tool helps state and local education leaders plan, implement, and evaluate dual language programs. Tags: Providing Supports to Students, Young Children, and Families; PreK-12 Schools

Resource Type: Best Practices; Technical Assistance Center Resources
Organization: Midwest and Plains Equity Assistance Center

This report offers considerations for implementing equity-centered, multi-tiered systems of support (MTSS). Tags: Providing Supports to Students, Young Children, and Families; PreK-12 Schools

Resource Type: Best Practices; Technical Assistance Center Resources
Organization: Midwest and Plains Equity Assistance Center

This fact sheet defines the concepts of radical self-care and community care and provides information and resources for incorporating self and community care in equity-centered work, particularly within marginalized communities. Tags: Teacher, Early Childhood Provider, Faculty, and Staff Well-being, Professional Development, and Supports; PreK-12 Schools

Resource Type: Best Practices; Technical Assistance Center Resources
Organization: Midwest and Plains Equity Assistance Center

This blog article provides evidence-based instructional practices and resources for supporting English learners’ academic achievement. Tags: Providing Supports to Students, Young Children, and Families; PreK-12 Schools; English learners

Resource Type: Best Practices; Technical Assistance Center Resources
Organization: Region 7 Comprehensive Center

This guide for Alaska educators provides tools, examples, and strategies for reading instruction, with considerations for students who speak Alaska Native languages. Tags: Providing Supports to Students, Young Children, and Families; PreK-12 Schools

Resource Type: Best Practices; Technical Assistance Center Resources
Organization: Alaska Department of Education and Early Development; Region 16 Comprehensive Center

This practice guide by the What Works Clearinghouse offers evidence-based strategies and recommendations for delivering reading interventions for students in grades 4–9. Tags: Providing Supports to Students, Young Children, and Families; PreK-12 Schools

Resource Type: Best Practices
Organization: Institute of Education Sciences

This letter from Secretary Dr. Cardona offers clarity on recent CDC updates and provides information and resources to support school communities as they work to ensure a safe, inclusive learning environment for students with disabilities. Tags: Safe and Healthy Environments; Providing Supports to Students, Young Children, and Families; PreK-12 Schools; Children and students with disabilities

Resource Type: Federal Resources
Organization: U.S. Department of Education

This study, conducted by the Region 9 Comprehensive Center in collaboration with the Illinois State Board of Education, examines the causes of teacher shortages in Illinois. Tags: Teacher, Early Childhood Provider, Faculty, and Staff Well-being, Professional Development, and Supports; PreK-12 Schools

Resource Type: Lessons Learned; Technical Assistance Center Resources
Organization: Region 9 Comprehensive Center

This essay published by the CDC details how Out of School Time programs supported students during the 2020-2021 school year amid schools' transitions to remote learning, helping curb inequities exacerbated by the pandemic. Tags: Providing Supports to Students, Young Children, and Families; PreK-12 Schools

Resource Type: Best Practices; Lessons Learned
Organization: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention

The guide from the Environmental Protection Agency provides best practices, recommendations, and resources for improving indoor air quality in buildings to reduce the risk of the airborne spread of viruses like COVID-19. Tags: Safe and Healthy Environments; Early Childhood Programs; PreK-12 Schools; Colleges and Universities

Resource Type: Best Practices; Federal Resources
Organization: U.S. Environmental Protection Agency

This Web page shares research and examples illustrating how American Rescue Plan funds are being deployed to support school communities nationwide. Tags: Safe and Healthy Environments; Providing Supports to Students, Young Children, and Families; Teacher, Early Childhood Provider, Faculty, and Staff Well-being, Professional Development, and Supports; PreK-12 Schools

Resource Type: Federal Resources
Organization: The White House

This fact sheet provides recommendations to support education agencies with developing staffing, hiring, and retention plans for the 2021-2022 academic year and beyond. Tags: Teacher, Early Childhood Provider, Faculty, and Staff Well-being, Professional Development, and Supports; PreK-12 Schools

Resource Type: Best Practices
Organization: The New Teacher Project

This article discusses the topic of teacher shortages amidst the COVID-19 pandemic and highlights research on shifts in school staffing models. Tags: Teacher, Early Childhood Provider, Faculty, and Staff Well-being, Professional Development, and Supports; PreK-12 Schools

Resource Type: Best Practices
Organization: American Institutes for Research

This Web page presents findings from the 2022 School Pulse Panel, a study on the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic from a national sample of elementary, middle, high, and combined-grade public schools. Tags: Safe and Healthy Environments; Providing Supports to Students, Young Children, and Families; Teacher, Early Childhood Provider, Faculty, and Staff Well-being, Professional Development, and Supports; PreK-12 Schools

Resource Type: Best Practices
Organization: Institute for Education Sciences, National Center for Education Statistics

This Web page hosts a series of three videos from the National Comprehensive Center’s Community of Practice on Driving Towards Equity Through School Improvement. Tags: Providing Supports to Students, Young Children, and Families; PreK-12 Schools

Resource Type: Best Practices; Technical Assistance Center Resources
Organization: National Comprehensive Center

This guide, available in both English and Spanish languages, offers recommendations and resources for parents and families for monitoring and supporting their child(ren) with digital learning. Tags: Providing Supports to Students, Young Children, and Families; PreK-12 Schools

Resource Type: Best Practices; Federal Resources
Organization: U.S. Department of Education, Office of Educational Technology

This guide for school leaders shares digital learning principles and practices, and provides recommendations for planning, implementing, and maintaining learning programs that make use of technology and digital tools. Tags: Providing Supports to Students, Young Children, and Families; Teacher, Early Childhood Provider, Faculty, and Staff Well-being, Professional Development, and Supports; PreK-12 Schools

Resource Type: Best Practices; Federal Resources
Organization: U.S. Department of Education, Office of Educational Technology

This guide for educators provides resources and recommendations for using technology and digital tools to personalize and strengthen student learning. Tags: Providing Supports to Students, Young Children, and Families; Teacher, Early Childhood Provider, Faculty, and Staff Well-being, Professional Development, and Supports; PreK-12 Schools

Resource Type: Best Practices; Federal Resources
Organization: U.S. Department of Education, Office of Educational Technology

This fact sheet for educators shares research, guiding principles, and targeted strategies for using educational technology and digital tools with English Learners. Tags: Providing Supports to Students, Young Children, and Families; PreK-12 Schools; English learners

Resource Type: Best Practices; Federal Resources
Organization: U.S. Department of Education, Office for English Language Acquisition

This report shares preliminary data from a national survey on the impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic on public and private K-12 education during the 2019-2020 school year. Tags: Providing Supports to Students, Young Children, and Families; Teacher, Early Childhood Provider, Faculty, and Staff Well-being, Professional Development, and Supports; PreK-12 Schools

Resource Type: Lessons Learned
Organization: Institute for Education Sciences, National Center for Education Statistics

This Web page offers information and resources on student disability rights during the COVID-19 pandemic. Tags: Providing Supports to Students, Young Children, and Families; PreK-12 Schools; Children and students with disabilities

Resource Type: Federal Resources
Organization: U.S. Department of Education

This fact sheet highlights research on Career and Technical Education (CTE) and provides examples of how state education agencies plan to use American Rescue Plan funding to advance CTE in their state. Tags: Providing Supports to Students, Young Children, and Families; PreK-12 Schools

Resource Type: Innovative Spotlight; Best Practices; Federal Resources
Organization: U.S. Department of Education

This letter from Education Secretary Dr. Cardona outlines new changes in masking guidelines for schools and early childhood facilities. Tags: Safe and Healthy Environments; PreK-12 Schools

Resource Type: Federal Resources
Organization: U.S. Department of Education

The DAPP (Difference & Dissonance, Assumptions, Power, and Patterns) Tool helps school stakeholders engage in intentional reflection, develop critical consciousness, and undertake more equitable actions. Tags: Teacher, Early Childhood Provider, Faculty, and Staff Well-being, Professional Development, and Supports; PreK-12 Schools

Resource Type: Best Practices; Technical Assistance Center Resources
Organization: Midwest and Plains Equity Assistance Center

This resource offers an actionable guide for hosting a professional learning session for school district stakeholders on advancing school integration efforts. Tags: Teacher, Early Childhood Provider, Faculty, and Staff Well-being, Professional Development, and Supports; PreK-12 Schools

Resource Type: Best Practices; Technical Assistance Center Resources
Organization: Midwest and Plains Equity Assistance Center

This toolkit is designed to support state education agencies, local education agencies, and Tribal Education Departments in developing programming to advance educational outcomes for Native students. Tags: Providing Supports to Students, Young Children, and Families; PreK-12 Schools; Racial/ethnic subgroups

Resource Type: Best Practices; Technical Assistance Center Resources
Organization: National Comprehensive Center

This Web page hosts a series of Federal design principles for policymakers to consider as they seek to increase equitable access to college in high school programs. Tags: Providing Supports to Students, Young Children, and Families; PreK-12 Schools

Resource Type: Best Practices
Organization: College in High School Alliance

This fact sheet provides guidance for utilizing Federal relief funds to implement high-quality college in high school programs. Tags: Providing Supports to Students, Young Children, and Families; PreK-12 Schools

Resource Type: Best Practices
Organization: College in High School Alliance

This report for practitioners and policymakers outlines the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on college in high school programs. Tags: Providing Supports to Students, Young Children, and Families; PreK-12 Schools

Resource Type: Best Practices; Lessons Learned
Organization: College in High School Alliance

This policy snapshot summarizes various state approaches to regulation and quality assurance of college in high school programs. Tags: Providing Supports to Students, Young Children, and Families; PreK-12 Schools

Resource Type: Best Practices
Organization: College in High School Alliance

This report describes the challenges of recruiting teachers for college in high school programs and offers best practices for addressing these challenges. Tags: Teacher, Early Childhood Provider, Faculty, and Staff Well-being, Professional Development, and Supports; PreK-12 Schools

Resource Type: Best Practices
Organization: College in High School Alliance

This resource details how states, colleges, and school districts can collect and report dual enrollment program data to advance equity and student outcomes. Tags: Providing Supports to Students, Young Children, and Families; PreK-12 Schools

Resource Type: Best Practices
Organization: College in High School Alliance

This report shares research and best practices for designing state funding models that increase equity in dual enrollment programs. Tags: Providing Supports to Students, Young Children, and Families; PreK-12 Schools

Resource Type: Best Practices
Organization: College in High School Alliance

This resource offers policy recommendations for states looking to implement or expand access to programs that allow high school students to earn college credits, also known as college in high school programs. Tags: Providing Supports to Students, Young Children, and Families; PreK-12 Schools

Resource Type: Best Practices
Organization: College in High School Alliance

This fact sheet describes what social emotional learning is, what it is not, and why social-emotional learning skills matter. Tags: Providing Supports to Students, Young Children, and Families; PreK-12 Schools

Resource Type: Best Practices
Organization: Committee for Children

This fact sheet shares research on how social emotional learning can help foster positive classroom and school climates and prevent school violence. Tags: Safe and Healthy Environments; Providing Supports to Students, Young Children, and Families; PreK-12 Schools

Resource Type: Best Practices
Organization: Committee for Children

This fact sheet explains how social emotional learning skills can address and mitigate risk factors for youth suicide. Tags: Providing Supports to Students, Young Children, and Families; PreK-12 Schools

Resource Type: Best Practices
Organization: Committee for Children

This fact sheet provides research and policy recommendations for connecting social emotional learning to trauma-informed practices to create a safe and supportive learning environment. Tags: Providing Supports to Students, Young Children, and Families; PreK-12 Schools

Resource Type: Best Practices
Organization: Committee for Children

This fact sheet describes the importance of universal social emotional learning during the COVID-19 pandemic to support student mental health and well-being. Tags: Providing Supports to Students, Young Children, and Families; PreK-12 Schools

Resource Type: Best Practices
Organization: Committee for Children

This fact sheet compares the mental health supports needed by students before and during the COVID-19 pandemic, offering tiered strategies for addressing these needs in both in-person and remote learning environments. Tags: Providing Supports to Students, Young Children, and Families; PreK-12 Schools

Resource Type: Best Practices
Organization: Committee for Children

This fact sheet connects social emotional learning (SEL) to the development of digital citizenship and media literacy skills, sharing how SEL can provide a foundation for helping keep students safe online. Tags: Providing Supports to Students, Young Children, and Families; PreK-12 Schools

Resource Type: Best Practices
Organization: Committee for Children

This brief shares best practices for states to support student and adult social and emotional wellness during the COVID-19 pandemic and beyond. Tags: Providing Supports to Students, Young Children, and Families ; PreK-12 Schools

Resource Type: Best Practices
Organization: Committee for Children

This Web page outlines President Biden's comprehensive mental health strategy— a multifaceted approach to addressing the current mental health needs of youth and adults nationwide. Tags: Safe and Healthy Environments; Providing Supports to Students, Young Children, and Families; Early Childhood Programs; PreK-12 Schools; Colleges and Universities

Resource Type: Federal Resources
Organization: The White House

This guide shares at-home activities caregivers and families can use to help English Learners develop 21st-century skills. Tags: Providing Supports to Students, Young Children, and Families; PreK-12 Schools; English learners

Resource Type: Best Practices; Technical Assistance Center Resources
Organization: Mid-Atlantic Equity Consortium

This guide outlines strategies for centering student voice and perspectives in social and emotional learning. Tags: Providing Supports to Students, Young Children, and Families; PreK-12 Schools

Resource Type: Best Practices; Technical Assistance Center Resources
Organization: Region 8 Comprehensive Center

This resource describes how technology was used at the Lucy Brock Child Development Lab Program at Appalachian State University to support children and families during the COVID-19 pandemic. Tags: Providing Supports to Students, Young Children, and Families; Early Childhood Programs; PreK-12 Schools; Children and students with disabilities; English learners; Student parents; Racial/ethnic subgroups; Students from low-income backgrounds; Students in or formerly in foster care

Resource Type: Innovative Spotlight
Organization: Appalachian State University

This guidance document provides examples of challenges that migrant students and their families may experience in accessing academic and student support services during the COVID-19 pandemic and shares practices for supporting migrant families during this time. Tags: Providing Supports to Students, Young Children, and Families; Early Childhood Programs; PreK-12 Schools

Resource Type: State or Local Resources
Organization: New Mexico Public Education Department

This online training provides early childhood providers with evidence-based social and emotional learning and behavior support practices to assist young children transitioning back to in-person instruction amid the COVID-19 pandemic. Tags: Providing Supports to Students, Young Children, and Families; Teacher, Early Childhood Provider, Faculty, and Staff Well-being, Professional Development, and Supports; Early Childhood Programs

Resource Type: Best Practices; Technical Assistance Center Resources
Organization: National Center for Pyramid Model Innovations

This video details the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on young children's social and emotional wellness and provides guidance on implementing trauma-informed practices for early childhood programs. Tags: Providing Supports to Students, Young Children, and Families; Teacher, Early Childhood Provider, Faculty, and Staff Well-being, Professional Development, and Supports; Early Childhood Programs

Resource Type: Best Practices; Technical Assistance Center Resources
Organization: National Center for Pyramid Model Innovations

This series of fact sheets presents research-based practices for using extended school breaks and closures to examine and improve instructional practices to best support teachers, school staff, and students. Tags: Providing Supports to Students, Young Children, and Families; Teacher, Early Childhood Provider, Faculty, and Staff Well-being, Professional Development, and Supports; PreK-12 Schools

Resource Type: Best Practices; Technical Assistance Center Resources
Organization: National Center on Safe Supportive Learning Environments

This guide describes a system of positive and proactive practices for supporting students' social, emotional, and behavioral needs in the classroom and contains steps for implementation, practice activities, and a self-assessment. Tags: Providing Supports to Students, Young Children, and Families; PreK-12 Schools

Resource Type: Best Practices; Technical Assistance Center Resources
Organization: Center on Positive Behavioral Interventions and Supports

This Web page details behavior management strategies that teachers and school staff can use to promote positive classroom behavior and school connectedness. Tags: Providing Supports to Students, Young Children, and Families; PreK-12 Schools

Resource Type: Best Practices; Federal Resources
Organization: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention

Authored by the non-profit news organization, Chalkbeat, this article describes an increase in students' emotional and behavioral responses as they readjust to in-person learning during the COVID-19 pandemic and provides promising strategies for supporting students during this time. Tags: Providing Supports to Students, Young Children, and Families; PreK-12 Schools

Resource Type: Lessons Learned
Organization: Chalkbeat

This toolbox provides best practices and resources for acknowledging and addressing the emotional responses that whole school communities have experienced upon returning to in-person learning during the COVID-19 pandemic. Tags: Providing Supports to Students, Young Children, and Families; Teacher, Early Childhood Provider, Faculty, and Staff Well-being, Professional Development, and Supports; PreK-12 Schools

Resource Type: Best Practices
Organization: Washington State Department of Health

This fact sheet offers evidence-based strategies for using American Rescue Plan funds to address staff shortages and shares examples of states that have successfully employed these strategies. Tags: Teacher, Early Childhood Provider, Faculty, and Staff Well-being, Professional Development, and Supports; PreK-12 Schools

Resource Type: Best Practices; Federal Resources
Organization: U.S. Department of Education

This fact sheet offers evidence-based strategies for using American Rescue Plan funds to address teacher shortages and shares examples of states that have successfully employed these strategies. Tags: Teacher, Early Childhood Provider, Faculty, and Staff Well-being, Professional Development, and Supports; PreK-12 Schools

Resource Type: Best Practices; Federal Resources
Organization: U.S. Department of Education

This toolkit provides educators with strategies for managing their own wellbeing, as well as activities and tools to support students' social and emotional learning. Tags: Providing Supports to Students, Young Children, and Families; PreK-12 Schools

Resource Type: Best Practices; Technical Assistance Center Resources
Organization: Mid-Atlantic Equity Consortium

This tool provides a template for state education agencies to share their progress and best practices deploying American Rescue Plan Elementary and Secondary School Emergency Relief funds. Tags: Safe and Healthy Environments; Providing Supports to Students, Young Children, and Families; Teacher, Early Childhood Provider, Faculty, and Staff Well-being, Professional Development, and Supports; PreK-12 Schools

Resource Type: Federal Resources
Organization: U.S. Department of Education

This resource provides guidance on designing and implementing a school-based Test to Stay program as an additional mitigation strategy for maintaining in-person instruction and protecting the health and safety of students and staff amidst the COVID-19 pandemic. Tags: Safe and Healthy Environments; PreK-12 Schools

Resource Type: Best Practices
Organization: The Rockefeller Foundation

This Web page contains resources on safe music instruction throughout the COVID-19 pandemic. Tags: Providing Supports to Students, Young Children, and Families; PreK-12 Schools

Resource Type: Best Practices
Organization: National Association for Music Education

This Website for education stakeholders in the U.S. Virgin Islands shares resources related to education and the COVID-19 pandemic, including a guide for the 2021–2022 school year. Tags: Safe and Healthy Environments; Providing Supports to Students, Young Children, and Families; Teacher, Early Childhood Provider, Faculty, and Staff Well-being, Professional Development, and Support; PreK-12 Schools

Resource Type: State or Local Resources
Organization: The Virgin Islands Department of Education

This Web page provides information related to education and the COVID-19 pandemic in Guam. Tags: Safe and Healthy Environments; Providing Supports to Students, Young Children, and Families; Teacher, Early Childhood Provider, Faculty, and Staff Well-being, Professional Development, and Support; PreK-12 Schools

Resource Type: State or Local Resources
Organization: Guam Department of Education

This Website offers information and guidance related to education and the COVID-19 pandemic in the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands, including videos and answers to frequently asked questions about COVID-19 for school staff and families. Tags: Safe and Healthy Environments; Providing Supports to Students, Young Children, and Families; Teacher, Early Childhood Provider, Faculty, and Staff Well-being, Professional Development, and Support; PreK-12 Schools

Resource Type: State or Local Resources
Organization: Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands Public School System

This Website hosts American Samoa's plan for a safe return to in-person instruction during the COVID-19 pandemic, including information on mitigation strategies and continuity of academic and non-academic services. Tags: Safe and Healthy Environments; Providing Supports to Students, Young Children, and Families; Teacher, Early Childhood Provider, Faculty, and Staff Well-being, Professional Development, and Support; PreK-12 Schools

Resource Type: State or Local Resources
Organization: American Samoa Department of Education

This Web page offers information, updates, and resources related to education and the COVID-19 pandemic in Wyoming. Tags: Safe and Healthy Environments; Providing Supports to Students, Young Children, and Families; Teacher, Early Childhood Provider, Faculty, and Staff Well-being, Professional Development, and Support; PreK-12 Schools

Resource Type: State or Local Resources
Organization: Wyoming Department of Education

This Website for school districts in Vermont shares information and resources related to continuity of learning, COVID-19 testing and recommendations, and Federal relief funding. Tags: Safe and Healthy Environments; Providing Supports to Students, Young Children, and Families; Teacher, Early Childhood Provider, Faculty, and Staff Well-being, Professional Development, and Support; PreK-12 Schools

Resource Type: State or Local Resources
Organization: State of Vermont Agency of Education

This Web page provides a curated list of resources and guidance documents related to education and the COVID-19 pandemic in Nevada. Tags: Safe and Healthy Environments; Providing Supports to Students, Young Children, and Families; Teacher, Early Childhood Provider, Faculty, and Staff Well-being, Professional Development, and Support; PreK-12 Schools

Resource Type: State or Local Resources
Organization: Nevada Department of Education

This Web page shares Nebraska's Framework for School Renewal and Acceleration, which includes planned actions and considerations for the 2021-2022 school year. Tags: Safe and Healthy Environments; Providing Supports to Students, Young Children, and Families; Teacher, Early Childhood Provider, Faculty, and Staff Well-being, Professional Development, and Support; PreK-12 Schools

Resource Type: State or Local Resources
Organization: Nebraska Department of Education

This Website offers guidance and resources for Montana educators and administrators on learning acceleration, assessment, professional learning, and summer enrichment opportunities during and after the 2021–2022 school year. Tags: Safe and Healthy Environments; Providing Supports to Students, Young Children, and Families; Teacher, Early Childhood Provider, Faculty, and Staff Well-being, Professional Development, and Support; PreK-12 Schools

Resource Type: State or Local Resources
Organization: Montana Office of Public Instruction

This Web page shares information supporting health and wellness at Mississippi schools both during and after the COVID-19 pandemic. Tags: Safe and Healthy Environments; Providing Supports to Students, Young Children, and Families; Teacher, Early Childhood Provider, Faculty, and Staff Well-being, Professional Development, and Support; PreK-12 Schools

Resource Type: State or Local Resources
Organization: Mississippi Department of Education

This Website provides information and resources related to health and safety at Kansas schools during the COVID-19 pandemic. Tags: Safe and Healthy Environments; Providing Supports to Students, Young Children, and Families; Teacher, Early Childhood Provider, Faculty, and Staff Well-being, Professional Development, and Support; PreK-12 Schools

Resource Type: State or Local Resources
Organization: Kansas Department of Health and Environment

This Web page provides education stakeholders with resources and guidance on education and the COVID-19 pandemic in Idaho for the 2021–2022 school year. Tags: Safe and Healthy Environments; Providing Supports to Students, Young Children, and Families; Teacher, Early Childhood Provider, Faculty, and Staff Well-being, Professional Development, and Support; PreK-12 Schools

Resource Type: State or Local Resources
Organization: Idaho State Department of Education

This Web page provides guidance and resources for school districts, parents, and families on issues related to education and the COVID-19 pandemic in Georgia. Tags: Safe and Healthy Environments; Providing Supports to Students, Young Children, and Families; Teacher, Early Childhood Provider, Faculty, and Staff Well-being, Professional Development, and Support; PreK-12 Schools

Resource Type: State or Local Resources
Organization: Georgia Department of Education

This Web page hosts information and resources related to education and the COVID-19 pandemic in Delaware. Tags: Safe and Healthy Environments; Providing Supports to Students, Young Children, and Families; Teacher, Early Childhood Provider, Faculty, and Staff Well-being, Professional Development, and Support; PreK-12 Schools

Resource Type: State or Local Resources
Organization: Delaware Department of Education

This Website provides information and resources related to education and the COVID-19 pandemic for education stakeholders in Arkansas. Tags: Safe and Healthy Environments; Providing Supports to Students, Young Children, and Families; Teacher, Early Childhood Provider, Faculty, and Staff Well-being, Professional Development, and Support; PreK-12 Schools

Resource Type: State or Local Resources
Organization: Arkansas Department of Education

This Web page shares information and resources for Alaska school districts, families, and the public related to COVID relief funding and considerations for school closures. Tags: Safe and Healthy Environments; Providing Supports to Students, Young Children, and Families; Teacher, Early Childhood Provider, Faculty, and Staff Well-being, Professional Development, and Support; Early Childhood Programs, PreK-12 Schools

Resource Type: State or Local Resources
Organization: Alaska Department of Education and Early Development

This brief shares strategies that state education agencies may use to provide flexibilities to teacher certification policies in order to address bilingual teacher shortages. Tags: Teacher, Early Childhood Provider, Faculty, and Staff Well-being, Professional Development, and Supports; Providing Supports to Students, Young Children, and Families; PreK-12 Schools; English learners

Resource Type: Best Practices; Technical Assistance Center Resources
Organization: Region 4 Comprehensive Center

This comprehensive toolkit offers best practices and tools for local education agencies to implement or strengthen school mental health systems. Tags: Providing Supports to Students, Young Children, and Families; PreK-12 Schools

Resource Type: Best Practices; State or Local Resources
Organization: Texas Education Agency

This letter shares Federal guidance and resources for state and local education agencies welcoming Afghan children and families into their communities, highlighting the need for provision of high-quality, culturally responsive educational experiences for these students. Tags: Providing Supports to Students, Young Children, and Families; PreK-12 Schools; Racial/ethnic subgroups

Resource Type: Best Practices; Federal Resources
Organization: U.S. Department of Education

This fact sheet offers guidance and resources to support institutions of higher education (IHEs) as they consider uses of Federal funds to meet students’ basic needs. The document also includes spotlight examples of IHEs across the country engaged in student support initiatives using Federal funding. Tags: Providing Supports to Students, Young Children, and Families; Colleges and Universities

Resource Type: Best Practices; Federal Resources
Organization: U.S. Department of Education

This CDC fact sheet shares resources for state and local education agencies to start or strengthen school-based COVID-19 testing programs. Tags: Safe and Healthy Environments; PreK-12 Schools

Resource Type: Best Practices; Federal Resources
Organization: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention

This research study analyzes the implementation and impact of full-day Kindergarten programs in Oregon. Tags: Providing Supports to Students, Young Children, and Families; PreK-12 Schools

Resource Type: Best Practices; Technical Assistance Center Resources
Organization: Regional Educational Laboratory Northwest

This guide to Classification and Regression Tree (CART) analysis can help data analysts and research directors at state and local education agencies use CART analysis to inform education decisions. Tags: Providing Supports to Students, Young Children, and Families; PreK-12 Schools

Resource Type: Best Practices; Technical Assistance Center Resources
Organization: Regional Educational Laboratory Appalachia

This research report examines the funding patterns, student inclusion rates, and student academic outcomes associated with different types of Special Education Local Plan Areas in California. Tags: Providing Supports to Students, Young Children, and Families; PreK-12 Schools; Children and students with disabilities

Resource Type: Best Practices; Technical Assistance Center Resources
Organization: Regional Educational Laboratory West

This descriptive research study explores the outcomes of a Career and Technical Education (CTE) credential requirement in Virginia schools. Tags: Providing Supports to Students, Young Children, and Families; PreK-12 Schools

Resource Type: Best Practices; Technical Assistance Center Resources
Organization: Regional Educational Laboratory Appalachia

This toolkit supports state and local education agencies’ engagement initiatives to incorporate feedback from Tribes in their decisions about use of Federal stimulus funds. The toolkit also offers resources for culturally responsive education for indigenous students and reinforces intentional and sustained collaboration between schools and tribal communities. Tags: Providing Supports to Students, Young Children, and Families; PreK-12 Schools; Racial/ethnic subgroups

Resource Type: Best Practices; Technical Assistance Center Resources
Organization: National Comprehensive Center

This brief provides an overview of cost-effectiveness analysis, outlining how this analysis can inform school and district decisions about the use of American Rescue Plan funds. Tags: Providing Supports to Students, Young Children, and Families; PreK-12 Schools

Resource Type: Best Practices; Technical Assistance Center Resources
Organization: Region 5 Comprehensive Center

The National Comprehensive Center is convening three Communities of Practice (COPs), providing opportunities for state education agencies and their local partners to discuss issues facing their communities and build capacity to address these issues. These COPs will engage participants in topics related to the COVID-19 pandemic and strategic uses of stimulus funds. Tags: Providing Supports to Students, Young Children, and Families; PreK-12 Schools

Resource Type: Best Practices; Technical Assistance Center Resources
Organization: National Comprehensive Center

In this letter, Education Secretary Dr. Cardona shares evidence-based practices for addressing teacher and staff shortages using Federal relief funds and highlights examples of how state education agencies and local school districts are implementing these practices. Tags: Teacher, Early Childhood Provider, Faculty, and Staff Well-being, Professional Development, and Supports; PreK-12 Schools

Resource Type: Best Practices; Federal Resources
Organization: U.S. Department of Education

This Federal resource provides guidance and answers to frequently asked questions regarding uses of Federal relief funds to address current transportation-related challenges facing schools, including bus driver shortages. Tags: Providing Supports to Students, Young Children, and Families; PreK-12 Schools

Resource Type: Best Practices; Federal Resources
Organization: U.S. Department of Education

This Federal resource details four important strategies for keeping schools open for in-person learning in 2022 and protecting the health and safety of students and staff: vaccination, testing programs, collaboration with local health departments, and monitoring community transmission levels. Tags: Safe and Healthy Environments; PreK-12 Schools

Resource Type: Best Practices; Federal Resources
Organization: U.S. Department of Education

This fact sheet outlines the Biden-Harris Administration's commitments and initiatives to increase COVID-19 testing in PreK-12 schools. Tags: Safe and Healthy Environments; PreK-12 Schools

Resource Type: Best Practices; Federal Resources
Organization: The White House

This free, online course by the Federal Emergency Management Agency supports childcare providers' preparedness for a variety of threats and hazards, including infectious disease outbreaks. The course includes safety considerations for child-care centers, preschools, and after-school and summer programs. Tags: Safe and Healthy Environments; Providing Supports to Students, Young Children, and Families; Early Childhood Programs

Resource Type: Best Practices; Federal Resources
Organization: Readiness and Emergency Management for Schools Technical Assistance Center

This infographic for state and local education agency staff shares examples of research reviews to illustrate the basic elements of high-quality research and help users identify evidence-based interventions. Tags: Teacher, Early Childhood Provider, Faculty, and Staff Well-being, Professional Development, and Supports; PreK-12 Schools

Resource Type: Best Practices; Technical Assistance Center Resources
Organization: Regional Educational Laboratory West

This infographic helps state and local education agency staff understand the basic elements of high-quality research to identify evidence-based interventions. Tags: Teacher, Early Childhood Provider, Faculty, and Staff Well-being, Professional Development, and Supports; PreK-12 Schools

Resource Type: Best Practices; Technical Assistance Center Resources
Organization: Regional Educational Laboratory West

This infographic helps users understand and interpret effect sizes in the context of research on policies, curricula, interventions, and programs. Tags: Teacher, Early Childhood Provider, Faculty, and Staff Well-being, Professional Development, and Supports; PreK-12 Schools

Resource Type: Best Practices; Technical Assistance Center Resources
Organization: Regional Educational Laboratory West

This tool helps guide state education agency staff in reviewing their attendance guidance and supports to local education agencies, as well as identifying opportunities to strengthen guidance and supports across an array of instructional settings. Tags: Providing Supports to Students, Young Children, and Families; PreK-12 Schools

Resource Type: Best Practices; Technical Assistance Center Resources
Organization: Student Engagement and Attendance Center

This tool helps guide local education agency staff in reviewing and strengthening attendance policies to increase attendance and student engagement across an array of instructional settings. Tags: Providing Supports to Students, Young Children, and Families; PreK-12 Schools

Resource Type: Best Practices; Technical Assistance Center Resources
Organization: Student Engagement and Attendance Center

This research study examines the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic and related school closures on student learning across 17 Illinois school districts. Tags: Providing Supports to Students, Young Children, and Families; PreK-12 Schools

Resource Type: Best Practices
Organization: Regional Educational Laboratory Midwest

This guide, based on a research study by the Institute of Education Sciences, provides districts with information and tools to implement a text-messaging program to improve elementary student attendance. Tags: Providing Supports to Students, Young Children, and Families; PreK-12 Schools

Resource Type: Best Practices; Innovative Spotlight
Organization: Institute of Education Sciences

This comprehensive Web page provides up-to-date information about COVID-19 vaccines for children and teens, including current Centers for Disease Control and Prevention recommendations, how to find a vaccine, how to talk to children and teens about COVID-19 vaccines, and research supporting vaccine safety. Tags: Safe and Healthy Environments; PreK-12 Schools

Resource Type: Federal Resources
Organization: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention

Developed by the U.S. Department of Education in collaboration with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, this dashboard shares current COVID-19 data and the impact of COVID-19 on K-12 schools. Tags: Safe and Healthy Environments; PreK-12 Schools

Resource Type: Federal Resources
Organization: U.S. Department of Education

In this Surgeon General's Advisory, Dr. Vivek Murthy addresses the mental health impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic on children and youth, discussing long-standing challenges as well as actionable steps that communities, including families and schools, can take to mitigate the effects of the pandemic and protect youth mental health. Tags: Providing Supports to Students, Young Children, and Families; PreK-12 Schools; Colleges and Universities

Resource Type: Best Practices; Federal Resources
Organization: Office of the Surgeon General

This short fact sheet provides answers to common questions that families may have about school-based COVID-19 testing programs. Tags: Safe and Healthy Environments; PreK-12 Schools

Resource Type: Best Practices
Organization: The Rockefeller Foundation

This one-page guide offers resources to help schools implement COVID-19 testing programs. Tags: Safe and Healthy Environments; PreK-12 Schools

Resource Type: Best Practices
Organization: The Rockefeller Foundation

This toolkit for educators provides strategies for building positive, trusting relationships with students. Tags: Safe and Healthy Environments; Providing Supports to Students, Young Children, and Families; PreK-12 Schools

Resource Type: Best Practices
Organization: Turnaround for Children

This guide offers resources for district leaders to use in implementing systems-level supports to ensure that social emotional learning is integrated into the full educational experiences of their students, families, staff, and community. Tags: Providing Supports to Students, Young Children, and Families; PreK-12 Schools

Resource Type: Best Practices; Technical Assistance Center Resources
Organization: Center to Improve Social and Emotional Learning and School Safety at WestEd

This Web page shares simple, fun activities for families and caregivers to support and strengthen young English learners' language development at home. The activities are downloadable, available in multiple languages, and are accompanied by videos demonstrating the activities in use. Tags: Providing Supports to Students, Young Children, and Families; PreK-12 Schools; English learners

Resource Type: Best Practices; Technical Assistance Center Resources
Organization: Regional Educational Laboratory West

This article is part of the "Ask a REL" series, where researchers respond to questions from the education field with research literature reviews. In this Q&A, researchers respond to a question on how to increase enrollment of candidates of color in teacher education programs. Tags: Teacher, Early Childhood Provider, Faculty, and Staff Well-being, Professional Development, and Supports; PreK-12 Schools; Racial/ethnic subgroups

Resource Type: Best Practices; Technical Assistance Center Resources
Organization: Regional Educational Laboratory West

This article is part of the "Ask a REL'' series, where researchers from Regional Educational Laboratories respond to questions from the education field with research literature reviews. In this Q&A, researchers respond to the question "What factors support academic performance or achievement among Native American, American Indian, Native Alaskan, or other indigenous populations in the United States?" Tags: Providing Supports to Students, Young Children, and Families; PreK-12 Schools; Racial/ethnic subgroups

Resource Type: Best Practices; Technical Assistance Center Resources
Organization: Regional Educational Laboratory West

This training series aims to help schools and districts improve their school discipline policies and practices. The series guides users through using data to analyze current practices, identifying evidence-based interventions, developing an action plan to address policies disproportionately affecting students of color or students with disabilities, and integrating ongoing continuous improvement practices. Tags: Providing Supports to Students, Young Children, and Families; PreK-12 Schools; Children and students with disabilities; Racial/ethnic subgroups

Resource Type: Best Practices; Technical Assistance Center Resources
Organization: Regional Educational Laboratory Northwest

This video highlights one school district's strategies for improving educational outcomes for Black students and connects these strategies to a research review of promising practices educators can use to support Black students. The video is accompanied by a viewing guide and the full research review. Tags: Providing Supports to Students, Young Children, and Families; PreK-12 Schools; Racial/ethnic subgroups

Resource Type: Best Practices; Implementation Stories; Technical Assistance Center Resources
Organization: Regional Educational Laboratory Midwest

This series of fact sheets offers strategies for educators to incorporate student voice and family voice into classroom experiences, thereby promoting culturally responsive learning environments. Tags: Providing Supports to Students, Young Children, and Families; PreK-12 Schools

Resource Type: Best Practices; Technical Assistance Center Resources
Organization: Regional Educational Laboratory Pacific

This blog post shares examples of schools and districts creating safe and strengths-based environments to facilitate equitable learning for Black and Latinx students. Tags: Providing Supports to Students, Young Children, and Families; PreK-12 Schools; Racial/ethnic subgroups

Resource Type: Best Practices; Technical Assistance Center Resources
Organization: Regional Educational Laboratory West

This presentation reflects one local education agency's initiatives to share their reopening plan and mitigation strategies with their school community. Tags: Safe and Healthy Environments; PreK-12 Schools

Resource Type: Best Practices; State or Local Resources
Organization: Iberville STEM Academy

This planning document shares reopening guidance and best practices from the University of Memphis' Early Learning & Research Center. Tags: Safe and Healthy Environments; Early Childhood Programs

Resource Type: State or Local Resources
Organization: University of Memphis

This planning document shares reopening guidance and best practices from the University of Memphis' University Middle School. Tags: Safe and Healthy Environments; PreK-12 Schools

Resource Type: State or Local Resources
Organization: University of Memphis

This workbook is a baseline plan district leaders can use to inform policies and operational decisions about reopening schools following closures due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Tags: Safe and Healthy Environments; Providing Supports to Students, Young Children, and Families; PreK-12 Schools

Resource Type: Best Practices
Organization: Chiefs for Change

This plan outlines one county's operational approach to reopening schools and maintaining in-person instruction in the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic. Tags: Safe and Healthy Environments; PreK-12 Schools

Resource Type: State or Local Resources
Organization: Marin County Office of Education

This tip sheet provides 10 tips for educators and school personnel to support the implementation of Psychological First Aid before, during, and after emergency events. Tags: Providing Supports to Students, Young Children, and Families; PreK-12 Schools

Resource Type: Best Practices; Technical Assistance Center Resources
Organization: Readiness and Emergency Management for Schools TA Center

This TA Snapshot describes cybersecurity for schools and steps education agencies can take, with the collaboration of parents, to protect student privacy while increasing the use of digital learning and video-sharing platforms in response to COVID-19. Tags: Safe and Healthy Environments; PreK-12 Schools

Resource Type: Best Practices; Technical Assistance Center Resources
Organization: Readiness and Emergency Management for Schools TA Center

This mobile application for education agencies allows personnel to walk around buildings and grounds and conduct a site assessment. The app equips practitioners with information and knowledge about fundamental site assessment topics, allows users to add locality- and state-specific questions, and exports site assessment data for data analysis and recordkeeping. Tags: Safe and Healthy Environments; PreK-12 Schools; Colleges and Universities

Resource Type: Best Practices; Technical Assistance Center Resources
Organization: Readiness and Emergency Management for Schools TA Center

This flyer accompanies Regional Education Laboratory Central's "Using Assessments to Identify and Address COVID-19 Learning Gaps" webinar. The flyer shares questions to consider as well as links to evidence-based recommendations and additional resources. Tags: Teacher, Early Childhood Provider, Faculty, and Staff Well-being, Professional Development, and Supports; PreK-12 Schools

Resource Type: Best Practices; Technical Assistance Center Resources
Organization: Regional Educational Laboratory Central

This webinar presents considerations and strategies for conducting assessments as students return to school during and following the COVID-19 pandemic. Tags: Teacher, Early Childhood Provider, Faculty, and Staff Well-being, Professional Development, and Supports; PreK-12 Schools

Resource Type: Best Practices; Technical Assistance Center Resources
Organization: Regional Educational Laboratory Central

This research article describes a nationwide study of communication practices regarding school meal service delivery during COVID-19-related school closures. Tags: Providing Supports to Students, Young Children, and Families; PreK-12 Schools

Resource Type: Best Practices
Organization: Washington University at St. Louis

This virtual training guide focuses on higher ed emergency operations plans (EOPs), including the recommended planning process and key considerations for creating, revising, and enhancing high-quality EOPs. The six-step planning process is flexible and can be adapted to accommodate an institution’s unique characteristics and situation. Tags: Safe and Healthy Environments; Colleges and Universities; Children and students with disabilities

Resource Type: Best Practices; Technical Assistance Center Resources
Organization: Readiness and Emergency Management for Schools TA Center

This fact sheet describes cybersecurity considerations for institutions of higher education (IHEs). The fact sheet includes background information on threats facing IHE systems and networks and provides strategies to prepare for threats, respond to and recover from threats, as well as details on how this topic relates to overall emergency operations plan development and school safety, security, emergency management, and preparedness. Tags: Safe and Healthy Environments; Colleges and Universities

Resource Type: Best Practices; Technical Assistance Center Resources
Organization: Readiness and Emergency Management for Schools TA Center

This Web page shares Long Beach Community College's ongoing restorative approach to acknowledging and repairing the harm done by systemic racial injustice and inequity. Tags: Safe and Healthy Environments; Colleges and Universities; Racial/ethnic subgroups

Resource Type: State or Local Resources
Organization: Long Beach Community College District

This resource includes information to help PreK-12 school districts use Federal COVID-19 relief funding for school building improvements. Tags: Safe and Healthy Environments; Providing Supports to Students, Young Children, and Families; Teacher, Early Childhood Provider, Faculty, and Staff Well-being, Professional Development, and Supports; PreK-12 Schools

Resource Type: Innovative Spotlight
Organization: Center for Green Schools

This interactive guide for administrators, educators, and staff provides resources for safe and supportive physical education and health education during the COVID-19 pandemic, including considerations for in-person, remote, and hybrid models of instruction. Tags: Safe and Healthy Environments; Providing Supports to Students, Young Children, and Families; Teacher, Early Childhood Provider, Faculty, and Staff Well-being, Professional Development, and Supports; PreK-12 Schools; Children and students with disabilities; English learners; Racial/ethnic subgroups; Students from low-income backgrounds

Resource Type: Best Practices
Organization: Society of Health and Physical Educators America

This playbook offers detailed, step-by step guidance to support educators, leaders, and their public health partners implement COVID-19 testing programs in schools. Tags: Safe and Healthy Environments; PreK-12 Schools

Resource Type: Best Practices
Organization: Testing for America

This operational guidance includes strategies and recommendations to help school leaders support their eligible students and employees in getting vaccinated against COVID-19. Tags: Safe and Healthy Environments; PreK-12 Schools

Resource Type: State or Local Resources
Organization: North Carolina Department of Health and Human Services

This toolkit shares public health guidance for COVID-19 prevention in school settings, including detailed information on mitigation measures and considerations for health equity. Tags: Safe and Healthy Environments; PreK-12 Schools

Resource Type: State or Local Resources
Organization: North Carolina Department of Health and Human Services

This guide offers a foundation for the implementation of social emotional learning programs throughout the State of New Mexico, representing both best practices for student success and a coordinated, trauma-informed response to student needs brought on by the COVID-19 pandemic. Tags: Providing Supports to Students, Young Children, and Families; PreK-12 Schools

Resource Type: Best Practices
Organization: New Mexico Public Education Department

This guide from the New Mexico Public Education Department supports the State’s districts, charter schools, and communities in determining their plans and strategies for reopening schools in 2020–2021. Tags: Safe and Healthy Environments; PreK-12 Schools

Resource Type: Best Practices; State or Local Resources
Organization: New Mexico Public Education Department

This resource shares health and safety guidance from the CDC for preventing the spread of COVID-19 in home child care settings. Tags: Safe and Healthy Environments; Early Childhood Programs

Resource Type: Federal Resources
Organization: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention

This resource shares health and safety guidance from the CDC for preventing the spread of COVID-19 in child care facilities. Tags: Safe and Healthy Environments; Early Childhood Programs

Resource Type: Federal Resources
Organization: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention

This flowchart supports school administrators in responding to potential COVID-19 concerns among students. Tags: Safe and Healthy Environments; PreK-12 Schools

Resource Type: Federal Resources
Organization: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention

These case studies help systems simulate COVID-19 testing during a typical school day for students, staff, and families. The resources can be used to test processes, identify gaps, refine plans, and share those plans with the community. Tags: Safe and Healthy Environments; PreK-12 Schools

Resource Type: Best Practices
Organization: Chiefs for Change

This resource is designed for school and district leaders to use as they consider common questions regarding COVID-19 screening, testing, and vaccination programs for their education systems. Tags: Safe and Healthy Environments; PreK-12 Schools

Resource Type: Best Practices
Organization: Chiefs for Change

This series of interactive tabletop exercises can help districts develop and refine their COVID-19 testing program. The exercises guide educators as they consider key questions such as how often to test students and staff; where and how to set up testing facilities; how to obtain consent for testing; and how to manage inventory, collect samples, communicate test results, track testing data, and dispose of personal protective equipment. Tags: Safe and Healthy Environments; PreK-12 Schools

Resource Type: Best Practices
Organization: Chiefs for Change

This set of "day in the life" simulations can help school administrators and planners simulate a typical school day for students, staff, and families. These exercises help test proposed processes, identify gaps, refine plans, and support information-sharing with the school community. Tags: Safe and Healthy Environments; PreK-12 Schools

Resource Type: Best Practices
Organization: Chiefs for Change

This guide shares considerations for implementing and scaling behavioral telehealth supports for students. Tags: Providing Supports to Students, Young Children, and Families; PreK-12 Schools; Racial/ethnic subgroups

Resource Type: Best Practices; State or Local Resources
Organization: Children Youth Community Rhode Island

This guide presents research on personalized approaches to meeting student needs, highlighting lessons learned from pandemic-related school closures and the subsequent transition to distance learning. Tags: Providing Supports to Students, Young Children, and Families; PreK-12 Schools

Resource Type: Best Practices
Organization: City Year, Inc.

This learning renewal guide from the State of Illinois was produced in collaboration with over 300 local stakeholders and provides recommendations to school districts, community colleges, and universities on how to strategically deploy Federal COVID-19 relief funding. Tags: Safe and Healthy Environments; Providing Supports to Students, Young Children, and Families; Teacher, Early Childhood Provider, Faculty, and Staff Well-being, Professional Development, and Supports; Early Childhood Programs, PreK-12 Schools, Colleges and Universities; Children and students with disabilities; English learners

Resource Type: State or Local Resources
Organization: Office of Illinois Governor JB Pritzker

This comprehensive guide offers considerations for reopening arts and physical education programs following school closures related to the COVID-19 pandemic. Tags: Safe and Healthy Environments; PreK-12 Schools; Children and students with disabilities

Resource Type: State or Local Resources
Organization: Arizona Department of Education

This resource outlines one university's approach to reopening campus in the Spring 2021 semester. Tags: Safe and Healthy Environments; Colleges and Universities

Resource Type: Best Practices; State or Local Resources
Organization: Heritage Christian University

This resource provides results from an enhanced national survey on the differentiated role that out-of-school-time (OST) programs play in youth development compared with home and school, how parents assess quality in OST programs, and the impact of COVID-19. Parents have three priorities that they want OST programs to address: addressing their children’s social and emotional health, providing them with physical outdoor activities, and helping them discover their passion and purpose. Tags: Providing Supports to Students, Young Children, and Families; PreK-12 Schools

Resource Type: Best Practices
Organization: Edge Research, Learning Heroes

This brief shares three major lessons learned when America’s Promise Alliance worked with five communities to extend and deepen their efforts to support young people’s social, emotional, and cognitive development. Lesson 1: Equity must be an explicit desired outcome of all social, emotional, and cognitive programming; Lesson 2: Shifting adult practice requires time and space for adult self-care. Lesson 3: Youth voice is a crucial influence in transforming learning environments. Tags: Providing Supports to Students, Young Children, and Families; PreK-12 Schools

Resource Type: Best Practices
Organization: America's Promise Alliance

This district self-assessment outlines the beliefs, policies, and practices critical to building and fostering culturally responsive and sustaining learning environments, and it aims to support districts in developing and investing in such environments. Tags: Providing Supports to Students, Young Children, and Families; PreK-12 Schools

Resource Type: Best Practices
Organization: Metropolitan Center for Research on Equity and the Transformation of Schools at New York University

This collection of tools, including a conversation guide, student survey, and reflection tool, aim to elevate youth voices in order to redesign schools into equitable environments for 21st-century learning. Tags: Providing Supports to Students, Young Children, and Families; PreK-12 Schools

Resource Type: Best Practices
Organization: Transcend

This list of external, individual resources offers support to States, districts, and schools as they serve students throughout the COVID-19 pandemic. Tags: Providing Supports to Students, Young Children, and Families; PreK-12 Schools

Resource Type: Best Practices; Technical Assistance Center Resources
Organization: Center to Improve Social and Emotional Learning and School Safety at WestEd

This suite of resources is intended to support schools, districts, and States in advancing racial justice and creating more equitable systems. Tags: Providing Supports to Students, Young Children, and Families; PreK-12 Schools

Resource Type: Best Practices; Technical Assistance Center Resources
Organization: Center to Improve Social and Emotional Learning and School Safety at WestEd

This presentation discusses how approaches to school safety have evolved to become more comprehensive. In the past, school safety had focused primarily on emergency preparedness, whereas school safety approaches now include preventative strategies related to physical safety, school climate, mental health, and more. The presentation also highlights the collaboration of three State agencies on a strategic framework and guidance for the field on the State’s comprehensive approach to school safety. Tags: Providing Supports to Students, Young Children, and Families; PreK-12 Schools

Resource Type: Best Practices; Technical Assistance Center Resources
Organization: Center to Improve Social and Emotional Learning and School Safety at WestEd

This recorded session is the first in the Leading Voices online conversation series, highlighting scholarly and practitioner perspectives on education issues. This session supports the creation of conditions necessary for equitable teaching and learning. In this session, WestEd staff lead a conversation with the Program Manager for Safe and Supportive Learning Environments at the New Mexico Public Education Department and the Director of Social and Emotional Learning in Atlanta Public Schools. Tags: Providing Supports to Students, Young Children, and Families; PreK-12 Schools

Resource Type: Best Practices
Organization: WestEd

This toolkit is a resource on implementing restorative practices. Many educators mistakenly assume that restorative practices are merely responsive, focused on repairing harm to relationships as an alternative to traditional disciplinary approaches that focus on punitive responses to rule infractions. On the contrary, restorative practices are characterized by proactive relationships, connection, and community transformation. Tags: Providing Supports to Students, Young Children, and Families; PreK-12 Schools

Resource Type: Best Practices; Technical Assistance Center Resources
Organization: Center to Improve Social and Emotional Learning and School Safety at WestEd

This audio gallery helps educators equitably serve the whole-person needs of their communities. Each audiocast shares a story from an American public school or district, describing its innovative, evidence-based approach to this work. Each audiocast is paired with a brief that summarizes the story and offers related resources. The series also includes a companion implementation guide that will help educators adapt these practices for their own schools. Tags: Providing Supports to Students, Young Children, and Families; PreK-12 Schools

Resource Type: Best Practices
Organization: WestEd

This report details a study by the Regional Educational Laboratory West on the predictive relationship between academic mindsets and behaviors among grade 5 students in Nevada and their academic outcomes in grade 6. Authors highlight the importance of the middle school years for later academic success. Tags: Providing Supports to Students, Young Children, and Families; PreK-12 Schools

Resource Type: Best Practices; Technical Assistance Center Resources
Organization: Regional Education Laboratory West

This public television program focuses on research-based evidence related to student and family engagement and changes in learning supports throughout the pandemic. The program presents strategies and promising practices used by two Illinois districts to support students with disabilities and English learner students during the pandemic and into the future. Tags: Providing Supports to Students, Young Children, and Families; PreK-12 Schools; English Learners; Children and students with disabilities

Resource Type: Best Practices; Technical Assistance Center Resources
Organization: Regional Education Laboratory Midwest

This Web page hosts a series of easy-to-use guides designed to help families, afterschool providers, and other caregivers support children in kindergarten through grade 3 with early reading instruction. Tags: Providing Supports to Students, Young Children, and Families; PreK-12 Schools

Resource Type: Best Practices; Technical Assistance Center Resources
Organization: Regional Education Laboratory Midwest

This Web page hosts a series of easy-to-use guides designed to help families, afterschool providers, and other caregivers support children in kindergarten through grade 3 with early math instruction. Tags: Providing Supports to Students, Young Children, and Families; PreK-12 Schools

Resource Type: Best Practices; Technical Assistance Center Resources
Organization: Regional Education Laboratory Midwest

This resource supports educators in building family partnerships to enhance students’ literacy development at school and at home. Tags: Providing Supports to Students, Young Children, and Families; PreK-12 Schools; Students from low-income backgrounds

Resource Type: Best Practices; Technical Assistance Center Resources
Organization: Region 8 Comprehensive Center

This report summarizes identified resources and tools that can be used by instructional teams to evaluate and assess bias in curricular materials. Tags: Providing Supports to Students, Young Children, and Families; PreK-12 Schools

Resource Type: Best Practices; Technical Assistance Center Resources
Organization: Region 8 Comprehensive Center

This handout describes a fall 2019 Community Math Night event. Materials include a facilitator’s guide, with planning tools, activities, and handouts, and a presentation on math attitudes and growth mindset that is intended to be shared with educators and families at the beginning of the event. Tags: Providing Supports to Students, Young Children, and Families; PreK-12 Schools

Resource Type: Best Practices; Technical Assistance Center Resources
Organization: Regional Education Laboratory Appalachia

This handout describes a spring 2019 Community Math Night event. Materials include a facilitator’s guide, with planning tools, activities, and handouts, and a presentation on math attitudes and growth mindset that is intended to be shared with educators and families at the beginning of the event. Tags: Providing Supports to Students, Young Children, and Families; PreK-12 Schools

Resource Type: Best Practices; Technical Assistance Center Resources
Organization: Regional Education Laboratory Appalachia

This report is a compilation of essays, articles, and research on the question: how do we, as a society, value and support rural students and families? Tags: Providing Supports to Students, Young Children, and Families; PreK-12 Schools; Racial/ethnic subgroups; Students from low-income backgrounds; LGBTQIA students, Undocumented students

Resource Type: Best Practices; Technical Assistance Center Resources
Organization: Region 1 Equity Assistance Center (Center for Education Equity)

This resource guide helps district and school leaders increase equity by shifting mindsets away from historical and systemic inequalities and by acting to provide equity-centered leadership. Tags: Safe and Healthy Environments; PreK-12 Schools

Resource Type: Best Practices; Technical Assistance Center Resources
Organization: Region 1 Equity Assistance Center (Center for Education Equity)

This handbook outlines evidence-based practices to support historically underserved students during the pandemic and return to school; it is available in both English and Spanish languages. Tags: Teacher, Early Childhood Provider, Faculty, and Staff Well-being, Professional Development, and Supports; PreK-12 Schools; English Learners; Children and students with disabilities

Resource Type: Best Practices; Technical Assistance Center Resources
Organization: Region 3 Comprehensive Center

This Web page highlights Western Oregon University's community outreach activities, designed to promote COVID-19 vaccination and distribute health and wellness information, resources, and supplies to the surrounding community. Tags: Providing Supports to Students, Young Children, and Families; Early Childhood Programs; PreK-12 Schools

Resource Type: Best Practices; Implementation Stories
Organization: Western Oregon University

This presentation contains general information regarding the U.S. Department of Education's Back-to-School Week event, including daily agendas, presenter information, and topical resources spanning the 5-day event. Tags: Safe and Healthy Environments; Providing Supports to Students, Young Children, and Families; Teacher, Early Childhood Provider, Faculty, and Staff Well-being, Professional Development, and Supports; Early Childhood Programs; PreK-12 Schools; Colleges and Universities

Resource Type: Best Practices; Federal Resources; Technical Assistance Center Resources
Organization: U.S. Department of Education

This resource is intended to supplement the information in the ED COVID-19 Handbook, Volume 1: Strategies for Safely Reopening Elementary and Secondary Schools; Volume 2: Roadmap to Reopening Safely and Meeting All Students’ Needs; and Volume 3: Strategies for Safe Operation and Addressing the Impact of COVID-19 on Higher Education Students, Faculty, and Staff by providing focused information and resources to promote mental health and social and emotional well-being among students. Tags: Safe and Healthy Environments; Early Childhood Programs; PreK-12 Schools; Colleges and Universities

Resource Type: Best Practices; Federal Resources
Organization: U.S. Department of Education

This fact sheet presents the Biden Administration’s announcement of a plan to ensure that, if a vaccine is authorized for children ages 5-11, it will be quickly distributed and made conveniently and equitably available to families across the country. This announcement is in anticipation of the Federal Drug Administration’s independent advisory committee meeting on October 26, 2021, and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s independent advisory committee meeting on November 2-3, 2021. Tags: Safe and Healthy Environments; Early Childhood Programs; PreK-12 Schools

Resource Type: Best Practices; Federal Resources
Organization: The White House

This webinar provides safe, research-based strategies and ideas for teaching music education in the general music education classroom during the 2021-22 school year. Tags: Providing Supports to Students, Young Children, and Families; PreK-12 Schools

Resource Type: Best Practices
Organization: National Association for Music Education

This website provides information about, and examples from, Healthy Davis Together, which supports a safe and healthy return to face-to-face instruction. Healthy Davis Together is a joint project between the City of Davis and the University of California, Davis with the goal to facilitate a coordinated and gradual return while preventing the spread of COVID-19 in the Davis community. Healthy Davis Together brings together epidemiology and health promotion both in the city and on campus. Tags: Safe and Healthy Environments; PreK-12 Schools

Resource Type: Best Practices; State or Local Resources
Organization: Healthy Davis Together

This video showcases the strategies employed by the Upward Bound Program at the University of Puerto Rico, noting how program staff adapted to the COVID-19 pandemic and strengthened relationships among staff and students. Tags: Providing Supports to Students, Young Children, and Families; PreK-12 Schools

Resource Type: Implementation Stories; Lessons Learned
Organization: University of Puerto Rico- Rio Piedras

This Web page provides safe, research-based strategies and ideas for teaching music education during the 2021-22 school year. Tags: Safe and Healthy Environments; PreK-12 Schools

Resource Type: Best Practices
Organization: National Association for Music Education

This report focuses on the importance of the student support staff. Even before the COVID-19 pandemic, the educational mission at too many schools was thwarted because of multifaceted factors that interfere with youngsters' learning and performance. The pandemic enlarged the pool of students experiencing learning, behavior, and emotional problems. This lamentable state of affairs revitalized long-standing calls to hire more student support staff. Tags: Providing Supports to Students, Young Children, and Families; PreK-12 Schools

Resource Type: Best Practices
Organization: The Center for Mental Health in Schools & Student/Learning Supports

This press release celebrating National School Lunch Week during the week of October 10-16, 2021, as declared by President Biden, provides valuable resources and information to support healthy meals for students as the country works to recover from the pandemic. Tags: Providing Supports to Students, Young Children, and Families; PreK-12 Schools

Resource Type: Best Practices; Federal Resources
Organization: U.S. Department of Agriculture

This fact sheet provides information about Federal civil rights laws that protect students with mental health disabilities. It includes scenarios that illustrate when the U.S. Department of Education might investigate a potential violation; gives schools and postsecondary institutions a list of action steps to create an environment responsive to students with mental health disabilities; and provides educational and crisis resources for students, families, and educators. Tags: Providing Supports to Students, Young Children, and Families; PreK-12 Schools; Colleges and Universities; Children and students with disabilities

Resource Type: Best Practices; Federal Resources
Organization: U.S. Department of Education

This resource can help school administrators work to ensure student and staff safety during in-person learning. Issues that this resource addresses include vaccinations; masks; physical distancing; testing and screening; close contacts, contact tracing, and quarantine; isolation; sports and activities; mealtime; ventilation; community transmission; and funding. Tags: Safe and Healthy Environments; PreK-12 Schools

Resource Type: Best Practices; Federal Resources
Organization: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention

These presentation materials highlight the National Center for Systemic Improvement's Thought Leader Conversation Series and accompany a presentation on the intersection of race and disability and equitable access to high-quality school experiences for Black students. Tags: Providing Supports to Students, Young Children, and Families; PreK-12 Schools; Racial/ethnic subgroups; Children and students with disabilities

Resource Type: Best Practices; Federal Resources; Technical Assistance Center Resources
Organization: U.S. Department of Education, National Center for Systemic Improvement

These presentation materials provide an overview of barriers facing children and youth who meet the McKinney-Vento definition of homeless and the educational rights and services for which they qualify. The presentation also shares national data on student homelessness and strategies for partnering with education staff serving as homeless liaisons to support positive student trajectories. Tags: Providing Supports to Students, Young Children, and Families; PreK-12 Schools; Students experiencing homelessness

Resource Type: Best Practices; Federal Resources; Technical Assistance Center Resources
Organization: U.S. Department of Education, National Center for Homeless Education

This presentation outlines key strategies to building more effective school-community partnerships to promote college access for historically underserved students. Tags: Providing Supports to Students, Young Children, and Families; PreK-12 Schools; Colleges and Universities

Resource Type: Best Practices; Federal Resources; Technical Assistance Center Resources
Organization: U.S. Department of Education, The Double Discovery Center at Columbia University

This presentation details current historic investments in early childhood programs and shares resources to support State and local education agencies' implementation of high-quality, equity-focused early learning programs. Tags: Providing Supports to Students, Young Children, and Families; Early Childhood Programs

Resource Type: Best Practices; Federal Resources; Technical Assistance Center Resources
Organization: U.S. Department of Education, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services

This presentation provides resources for reenergizing educators and reengaging school communities, underscoring the importance of stakeholder engagement and shared decision-making. Tags: Teacher, Early Childhood Provider, Faculty, and Staff Well-being, Professional Development, and Supports; PreK-12 Schools

Resource Type: Best Practices; Federal Resources; Technical Assistance Center Resources
Organization: U.S. Department of Education, State Implementation and Scaling-up of Evidence-based Practices, National Implementation Research Network, U.S. Office of Special Education Programs

This presentation describes a new toolkit released by the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development Choice Neighborhoods Office. The toolkit provides resources for public housing authorities, housing providers, and their partners to support resident communities during the COVID-19 pandemic and beyond. Tags: Providing Supports to Students, Young Children, and Families; PreK-12 Schools

Resource Type: Best Practices; Federal Resources; Technical Assistance Center Resources
Organization: U.S. Department of Education, U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development

This presentation summarizes best practices in engaging and supporting English learners, their families, and their communities and shares supplemental resources to help schools implement these practices. Tags: Providing Supports to Students, Young Children, and Families; PreK-12 Schools; English learners

Resource Type: Best Practices; Federal Resources; Technical Assistance Center Resources
Organization: U.S. Department of Education, Office of English Language Acquisition

This presentation describes the importance of mental health services and a positive school climate for the whole school community, particularly in the context of stress and trauma caused by the COVID-19 pandemic. The presentation also highlights implementation examples and key resources to support State initiatives. Tags: Providing Supports to Students, Young Children, and Families; PreK-12 Schools

Resource Type: Best Practices; Federal Resources; Technical Assistance Center Resources
Organization: U.S. Department of Education, Office of Special Education and Rehabilitative Services, Old Dominion University

These presentation materials highlight the Green Ribbon Schools award and the U.S. Department of Education's role in sustainable schools, climate, and infrastructure. Tags: Safe and Healthy Environments; PreK-12 Schools

Resource Type: Best Practices; Federal Resources; Technical Assistance Center Resources
Organization: U.S. Department of Education

This presentation describes one organization's comprehensive public safety model for reducing community-based violence. Tags: Safe and Healthy Environments; Providing Supports to Students, Young Children, and Families; PreK-12 Schools

Resource Type: Best Practices; Federal Resources; Technical Assistance Center Resources
Organization: U.S. Department of Education, Newark Community Street Team

This presentation highlights available resources to support education agencies' understanding of Federal requirements regarding online safety and security and includes information on how education stakeholders can engage in virtual learning while protecting student data and privacy. Tags: Safe and Healthy Environments; PreK-12 Schools

Resource Type: Best Practices; Federal Resources; Technical Assistance Center Resources
Organization: U.S. Department of Education, Student Privacy Policy Office

This presentation shares updated Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) guidance for COVID-19 prevention in schools in the 2021-22 school year and includes resources to support schools' implementation of CDC-recommended mitigation strategies. Tags: Safe and Healthy Environments; PreK-12 Schools

Resource Type: Best Practices; Federal Resources; Technical Assistance Center Resources
Organization: U.S. Department of Education, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention

This presentation provides an overview of how intensive intervention and data-based individualization can be used to optimize student learning. The materials also include resources to help educators make use of their data to inform instruction. Tags: Providing Supports to Students, Young Children, and Families; PreK-12 Schools

Resource Type: Best Practices; Federal Resources; Technical Assistance Center Resources
Organization: U.S. Department of Education, National Center on Intensive Intervention

These presentation materials contain information on research-informed practices for accelerating student learning, such as high-dosage tutoring, project-based learning, and dual enrollment. The presentation also includes links to additional resources and practice guides from the What Works Clearinghouse. Tags: Providing Supports to Students, Young Children, and Families; PreK-12 Schools

Resource Type: Best Practices; Federal Resources; Technical Assistance Center Resources
Organization: U.S. Department of Education, Institute of Education Sciences

This suite of resources provides information and support regarding quarantine practices for K-12 schools. Quarantine means staying home for 14 days after you are exposed to someone who has been diagnosed with COVID-19. You can be infected with the virus that causes COVID-19 but may not show symptoms for up to 14 days. Even though you may not show symptoms, you can still spread the virus. Tags: Safe and Healthy Environments; PreK-12 Schools

Resource Type: Best Practices; Federal Resources
Organization: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention

As K-12 schools resume in-person learning, school administrators must respond quickly when someone with COVID-19 has been in the school or at a school event. Case investigation helps a person who has COVID-19 recall everyone they have had close contact with while they may have been infectious. Through contact tracing, the identified close contacts are notified of their potential exposure. Case investigation and contact tracing are most effective when combined with other prevention strategies Tags: Safe and Healthy Environments; PreK-12 Schools

Resource Type: Best Practices; Federal Resources
Organization: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention

While fewer children and youth have been sick with COVID-19 compared to adults, the COVID-19 pandemic still affects them. Children and youth are dealing with new challenges, like social distancing, changes to their routines, and a lost sense of security and safety, making them especially vulnerable to feeling stressed, anxious, or depressed. The tools on this Web page were created to teach skills that can help children and youth cope with some of the challenges associated with the pandemic. Tags: Providing Supports to Students, Young Children, and Families; Early Childhood Programs; PreK-12 Schools

Resource Type: Best Practices
Organization: National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine

This brief provides an overview of infant and early childhood mental health consultation for policymakers and program leaders. Tags: Providing Supports to Students, Young Children, and Families; Early Childhood Programs

Resource Type: Best Practices
Organization: Early Childhood Training and Technical Assistance Systems

As K-12 schools resume in-person learning, school administrators must be prepared to respond quickly when someone with COVID-19 has been in the school or at a school event. In these instances, case investigation and contact tracing serve as important strategies for reducing the transmission of SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19. The resources available at this weblink can help schools take the steps necessary for case investigation and contact tracing, including communicating with families and stakeholders. Tags: Safe and Healthy Environments; PreK-12 Schools

Resource Type: Best Practices; Federal Resources
Organization: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention

This resource from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is designed to assist schools and districts in addressing the health and academic needs of LGBTQ students. This self-assessment tool was created to help school and district staff understand current policies, programs, and practices that may contribute to safe, inclusive environments where all youth can be successful. Tags: Providing Supports to Students, Young Children, and Families; PreK-12 Schools; LGBTQIA students

Resource Type: Best Practices; Federal Resources
Organization: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention

This suite of resources from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention includes a variety of resources on classroom management approaches that may help strengthen school connectedness. Materials include example strategies, tools, and templates that school staff can use to apply these approaches in their face-to-face, virtual, or blended learning modes. Tags: Providing Supports to Students, Young Children, and Families; PreK-12 Schools

Resource Type: Best Practices; Federal Resources
Organization: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention

The Health Education Curriculum Analysis Tool (HECAT) is an assessment tool developed by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in partnership with health education experts from state and local education agencies, schools, colleges and universities, and national organizations. The HECAT is aligned with the National Health Education Standards and is based on the Characteristics of Effective Health Education. Tags: Providing Supports to Students, Young Children, and Families; PreK-12 Schools

Resource Type: Best Practices; Federal Resources
Organization: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention

This resource from the U.S. Department of Education provides information on how COVID-19 relief funds can be used to address the impact of lost instructional time as a result of the pandemic, including strategies to address student social, emotional, and academic needs; support parents and caregivers; and use of assessment data to support student learning. Tags: Providing Supports to Students, Young Children, and Families; PreK-12 Schools

Resource Type: Best Practices; Federal Resources
Organization: U.S. Department of Education

This Webpage from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention includes important information for schools, parents, and caregivers on steps schools can take to help ensure student safety in educational settings. Tags: Safe and Healthy Environments; PreK-12 Schools

Resource Type: Best Practices; Federal Resources
Organization: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention

This robust suite of resources from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention includes information on the importance of COVID testing in K-12 educational settings and a communication toolkit for schools that school administrators can use to teach parents, students, and staff about school testing programs and encourage participation. Many of these materials are customizable and can be adapted according to the school’s needs. Tags: Safe and Healthy Environments; PreK-12 Schools

Resource Type: Best Practices; Federal Resources
Organization: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention

This document describes the extensive, multiplatform learning resources from the Public Broadcasting Service that have played an important role in supporting virtual, hybrid, and in-person learning through broadcast, on-demand video streaming, Web portals, mobile apps, interactive newsletters, and other information sources. Tags: Safe and Healthy Environments; Providing Supports to Students, Young Children, and Families; Teacher, Early Childhood Provider, Faculty, and Staff Well-being, Professional Development, and Supports; Early Childhood Programs, PreK-12 Schools

Resource Type: Innovative Spotlight
Organization: Corporation for Public Broadcasting: Public Broadcasting Service

The School District of New Richmond in New Richmond, Wisconsin has a variety of helpful resources on its Website as it moves forward to in-person learning in the 2021-22 school year. Tags: Safe and Healthy Environments; Providing Supports to Students, Young Children, and Families; Teacher, Early Childhood Provider, Faculty, and Staff Well-being, Professional Development, and Supports; PreK-12 Schools

Resource Type: Best Practices; Implementation Stories; Lessons Learned
Organization: School District of New Richmond

Vaccination is our leading public health strategy to end the COVID-19 pandemic. Getting school communities vaccinated will go a long way in preventing outbreaks before they happen and help to ensure students can remain learning in person at school. All over the country, leaders from all sectors are mobilizing to help young Americans get their COVID-19 vaccination. We are relying on education, health, and community leaders to lead the way. As part of back-to-school efforts, we are asking school districts nationwide to host pop-up vaccine clinics in their schools and neighborhoods. Tags: Safe and Healthy Environments; PreK-12 Schools

Resource Type: Best Practices
Organization: U.S. Department of Health and Human Services

This toolkit has resources for school district leaders, teachers, parent leaders, and school supporters that want to help increase confidence in and uptake of COVID-19 vaccines in their school communities, answer questions, and outline school guidance about COVID-19. It includes information from CDC and new, tailored materials from the HHS COVID-19 Public Education Campaign. Tags: Safe and Healthy Environments; PreK-12 Schools

Resource Type: Best Practices
Organization: U.S. Department of Health and Human Services

This Web page hosts a variety of health-related resources relevant to COVID-19 and institutions of higher education (IHEs). Resources include webinars, guides, research briefs, and workshops to support IHE communities in best practices around operation and continued supports in the era of COVID-19. Tags: Safe and Healthy Environments; Colleges and Universities

Resource Type: Best Practices; State or Local Resources
Organization: American College Health Association

This collective bargaining agreement describes how Boston Public Schools utilizes masks with a clear panel in circumstances when the visibility of a speaker’s mouth is necessary. This resource offers an innovative model for accommodating diverse student and staff needs while adhering to COVID-19 safety protocols. Tags: Safe and Healthy Environments; PreK-12 Schools

Resource Type: Innovative Spotlight; State or Local Resources
Organization: Boston Public Schools

The U.S. Department of Education’s COVID Handbook Volume 1 focuses on ensuring the physical safety of elementary and secondary school settings. The handbook aligns with guidance from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Tags: Safe and Healthy Environments; PreK-12 Schools

Resource Type: Best Practices; Federal Resources
Organization: U.S. Department of Education, Office of Planning, Evaluation and Policy Development

This website provides information related to the Federal Retail Pharmacy Program, designed to provide vaccinations to the American public through community partnerships with local pharmacies. By promoting and facilitating COVID-19 vaccination, this program supports the goal of keeping educators, teachers, and staff safe. Tags: Safe and Healthy Environments; PreK-12 Schools; Colleges and Universities

Resource Type: Best Practices
Organization: The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention

The U.S. Department of Education’s COVID Handbook Volume 2 focuses on addressing the needs of students, including their social, emotional, academic, and other needs. Tags: Providing Supports to Students, Young Children, and Families; PreK-12 Schools

Resource Type: Best Practices; Federal Resources
Organization: U.S. Department of Education, Office of Planning, Evaluation and Policy Development

This Web page shares information on Tulsa Public Schools' summer learning and enrichment program — "Ready, Set, Summer!" This summer program leverages community partnerships to provide students access to fun, engaging, and supportive summer learning experiences at no cost. Tags: Providing Supports to Students, Young Children, and Families; PreK-12 Schools

Resource Type: Implementation Stories; Lessons Learned; State or Local Resources
Organization: Tulsa Public Schools

This Web page hosts resources designed to assist schools in communicating about a death and providing supports in response to COVID-19-related deaths and trauma, in order to facilitate healthy coping, adaptation, and bereavement. The page contains specific strategies, links to additional resources, and sample adaptable resources for communicating with the school community. Tags: Providing Supports to Students, Young Children, and Families; PreK-12 Schools

Resource Type: Best Practices
Organization: National Association of School Psychologists

This document provides strategies for school mental health professionals to support students and staff who are coping with mental health challenges generated by an infectious disease outbreak. The resource describes the need to communicate a realistic, informed, and balanced message and includes four practical interventions school mental health professionals can use to aid students and staff. Tags: Teacher, Early Childhood Provider, Faculty, and Staff Well-being, Professional Development, and Supports; PreK-12 Schools

Resource Type: Best Practices
Organization: National Association of School Psychologists

This document shares recommendations and resources that support the mental health and well-being of those who care for students at home and in school. The document offers strategies to aid caregivers in reducing the effects of various stressors and includes links to resources that share in-depth methods for addressing the emotional challenges experienced by caregivers, their students, and others. Tags: Teacher, Early Childhood Provider, Faculty, and Staff Well-being, Professional Development, and Supports; Early Childhood Programs; PreK-12 Schools; Colleges and Universities

Resource Type: Best Practices
Organization: National Association of School Psychologists

This document for caregivers provides guidance for caring for students remotely during the COVID-19 pandemic and offers considerations for cultural and linguistic awareness when meeting families’ needs. The document supports caregivers in recognizing common student reactions to the pandemic and knowing how to respond and when to seek additional help. Tags: Providing Supports to Students, Young Children, and Families; Teacher, Early Childhood Provider, Faculty, and Staff Well-being, Professional Development, and Supports; PreK-12 Schools

Resource Type: Best Practices
Organization: National Association of School Psychologists

This document for school crisis response teams provides specific suggestions for the immediate school response to the threat presented by COVID-19 to in-person learning. These suggestions guide the reader in developing an emergency operations plan and taking actions to address communication and warning; public, medical, and mental health; continuity of operations; and recovery. Tags: Safe and Healthy Environments; PreK-12 Schools

Resource Type: Best Practices
Organization: National Association of School Psychologists

This short tool is designed to help district and school leaders select evidence-based practices and interventions that meet their needs and fit within their educational contexts. The printable tool contains key questions and considerations, as well as additional resources to support educators in choosing an intervention that fits best within their unique education system. Tags: Providing Supports to Students, Young Children, and Families; PreK-12 Schools

Resource Type: Best Practices; Technical Assistance Center Resources
Organization: Regional Educational Laboratory West

This research article describes a case study of how four large, urban school districts implemented emergency school feeding programs to serve families during the COVID-19 pandemic. The study addresses equity within this context, examining how the implementation strategies that were used to improve access to nutrition assistance affected communities of color and low-income areas. Tags: Providing Supports to Students, Young Children, and Families; PreK-12 Schools; Students from low-income backgrounds

Resource Type: Best Practices
Organization: Washington University at St. Louis

This research brief from the Nutrition and Obesity Policy Research and Evaluation Network provides a summary of the initial pandemic response regarding feeding students during COVID-19 related school closures and recommendations for communication and outreach during the 2020-21 school year and beyond. Tags: Providing Supports to Students, Young Children, and Families; PreK-12 Schools

Resource Type: Best Practices
Organization: Washington University at St. Louis

This resource provides guidance on addressing the needs of higher education students, faculty, and staff. Topics include physical safety, social and emotional needs, and other important supports for the higher education community. Tags: Safe and Healthy Environments; Providing Supports to Students, Young Children, and Families; Teacher, Early Childhood Provider, Faculty, and Staff Well-being, Professional Development, and Supports; Colleges and Universities

Resource Type: Best Practices; Federal Resources
Organization: U.S. Department of Education, Office of Planning, Evaluation and Policy Development

This resource includes North Carolina’s robust operational and public health guidance for its K-12 schools and childcare programs. The North Carolina Department of Health and Human Services is proud to have taken the lead in North Carolina to coordinate its public health response against COVID-19 and has supported the North Carolina Department of Public Instruction. Tags: Providing Supports to Students, Young Children, and Families; Early Childhood Programs; PreK-12 Schools

Resource Type: Best Practices; State or Local Resources
Organization: North Carolina Department of Health and Human Services

This COVID Data Tracker Weekly Review provides an up-to-date interpretive summary of the previous week’s key data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s COVID Data Tracker. Tags: Safe and Healthy Environments; Early Childhood Programs; PreK-12 Schools; Colleges and Universities

Resource Type: Best Practices; Federal Resources
Organization: The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention

This Website provides up-to-date information on the operation of youth and summer camps during the COVID-19 pandemic. The site contains sections on promoting vaccination, planning and preparing for camp, choosing safer activities, and providing specific guidance both for camps where everyone is fully vaccinated and for camps that include a mix of vaccinated and unvaccinated people. Tags: Safe and Healthy Environments; PreK-12 Schools

Resource Type: Best Practices
Organization: The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention

This handbook provides guidance to administrators, educators, and parents by sharing practical, evidence-based strategies to enhance student learning and social and emotional well-being, whether in person or online, and offers suggestions on how to implement these strategies as schools reopen. Additionally, the handbook has a section on ensuring equity within reopening plans, recognizing the disproportionate impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on historically underserved communities. Tags: Safe and Healthy Environments; Early Childhood Programs; Racial/ethnic subgroups

Resource Type: Best Practices
Organization: American Psychological Association

This resource includes a variety of hands-on activities that families can do together. This office serves diverse families from different backgrounds. Tags: Providing Supports to Students, Young Children, and Families; Early Childhood Programs

Resource Type: Best Practices
Organization: Executive Office on Early Learning, State of Hawaii

In this webinar, panelists discuss best practices for supporting children as they return to in-person learning. Presenters identify priority social and emotional teaching practices for the preschool classroom, practices to support children entering kindergarten, and practices that support partnerships with families. Tags: Teacher, Early Childhood Provider, Faculty, and Staff Well-being, Professional Development, and Supports; Early Childhood Programs

Resource Type: Best Practices; Technical Assistance Center Resources
Organization: National Center For Pyramid Model Innovations

This practice guide provides early childhood administrators and teams with considerations for supporting children, families, and staff during and after reopening for in-person programming. The guide is linked to numerous practical strategies and printable materials, and provides information and key considerations for staff wellness, family engagement, universal social and emotional promotion practices, and targeted interventions to address specific social and emotional concerns. Tags: Providing Supports to Students, Young Children, and Families; Early Childhood Programs

Resource Type: Best Practices; Technical Assistance Center Resources
Organization: National Center For Pyramid Model Innovations

This resource provides a variety of research literature related to COVID-19 and children and young people, particularly on the transmission and spread of COVID-19. Tags: Safe and Healthy Environments; Early Childhood Programs

Resource Type: Best Practices
Organization: Don't Forget the Bubbles

This resource provides helpful information on important standards to help ensure the physical safety of childcare centers. Tags: Safe and Healthy Environments; Early Childhood Programs

Resource Type: Best Practices
Organization: Bipartisan Policy Center

This toolkit includes a variety of resources to support staff in school settings and childcare programs. Tags: Safe and Healthy Environments; Early Childhood Programs

Resource Type: Best Practices
Organization: The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention

This online resource was developed to support early childhood program administrators, directors, and classroom practitioners prepare for program reopening. The guide shares developmentally appropriate practices and resources to support smooth transitions back to in-person programs for infants, toddlers, and their families. Tags: Teacher, Early Childhood Provider, Faculty, and Staff Well-being, Professional Development, and Supports; Early Childhood Programs; Children and students with disabilities

Resource Type: Best Practices; Technical Assistance Center Resources
Organization: The Early Childhood Learning and Knowledge Center (ECLKC)

This storybook helps young children and families talk about their feelings about the COVID-19 pandemic. The story invites conversations about COVID-19, ways that families and communities are working to stay safe, family and community strengths, common challenges and reactions, ways that families support children and each other, and expressions of gratitude for frontline workers. At the end of the book, a caregiver guide provides options for parents for using the story with their children. Tags: Providing Supports to Students, Young Children, and Families; Teacher, Early Childhood Provider, Faculty, and Staff Well-being, Professional Development, and Supports; Early Childhood Programs; English learners

Resource Type: State or Local Resources; Technical Assistance Center Resources
Organization: The National Child Traumatic Stress Network (NCTSN)

This resource guide highlights strategies and provides information on how some Child Care and Development Fund grantees have leveraged partnerships and funding to support implementation. Topics include support for the social and emotional wellness of children, families, and providers; implementation considerations; social and emotional wellness initiatives and delivery strategies; promotion of social and emotional competence, as well as mental health, in infants and young children; and more. Tags: Providing Supports to Students, Young Children, and Families; Early Childhood Programs; Children and students with disabilities; Racial/ethnic subgroups; Students from low-income backgrounds

Resource Type: Best Practices; Technical Assistance Center Resources
Organization: Early Childhood Training and Technical Assistance System (ECTTAS)

This toolkit supports institutions of higher education (IHEs) in planning, promoting, and sharing information regarding COVID-19 vaccines. The toolkit is intended both for IHEs that require vaccination and for IHEs with people on campus who have and have not been vaccinated. This resource is accompanied by Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Guidance for IHEs. These resources provide recommendations and tools to help protect students, faculty, and staff and slow the spread of COVID-19. Tags: Safe and Healthy Environments; Colleges and Universities

Resource Type: Federal Resources
Organization: The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention

This online guide provides up-to-date Federal resources and recommendations to support safe operation of institutions of higher education (IHEs) during and after the COVID-19 pandemic. The guide offers information on mitigation and prevention measures, such as vaccination and testing, and provides specific guidance for advancing health equity among IHE communities. Tags: Safe and Healthy Environments; Colleges and Universities; Children and students with disabilities; International students; Racial/ethnic subgroups

Resource Type: Federal Resources
Organization: The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention

This resource offers policy recommendations for meeting the social, emotional, mental health, and academic needs of students; supporting learning acceleration; attracting and stabilizing a diverse educator workforce; providing equitable access to 21st-century learning tools and technology; creating and maintaining safe and supportive learning environments; and successfully implementing expanded learning. Tags: Providing Supports to Students, Young Children, and Families; PreK-12 Schools; Racial/ethnic subgroups; Students from low-income backgrounds

Resource Type: Best Practices
Organization: FutureEd at Georgetown University's McCourt School of Public Policy

This fact sheet synthesizes crisis response guidance from Federal agencies, national professional associations, federally funded research collaboratives, and technical assistance centers. The resource shares trauma-informed planning strategies to guide and support a successful transition back to school. Tags: Teacher, Early Childhood Provider, Faculty, and Staff Well-being, Professional Development, and Supports; PreK-12 Schools; Students from low-income backgrounds; Students experiencing homelessness; Students in or formerly in foster care

Resource Type: Best Practices; Technical Assistance Center Resources
Organization: Regional Educational Laboratory Mid-Atlantic

This Website details the partnership established between North Carolina school districts and the ABC Science Collaborative in order to reopen schools with informed decision-making processes and evidence-based practices that are grounded in the collection and analysis of local data. Tags: Safe and Healthy Environments; PreK-12 Schools

Resource Type: Best Practices; State or Local Resources
Organization: ABC Science Collaborative

This Web page is a hub for continued learning resources for families and educators. The Web page hosts Webinars, policy and practice updates, and best practices for continued learning; resources are available in English and Spanish languages. Tags: Providing Supports to Students, Young Children, and Families; PreK-12 Schools; Racial/ethnic subgroups

Resource Type: Best Practices; Technical Assistance Center Resources
Organization: Region II Equity Assistance Center (IDRA EAC-South)

This report describes how a statewide task force used participatory, evidence-informed, data-driven processes and community-stakeholder partnerships to develop strategies for accelerating learning and addressing educational inequities. Tags: Providing Supports to Students, Young Children, and Families; PreK-12 Schools

Resource Type: Best Practices; Technical Assistance Center Resources
Organization: Region 2 Comprehensive Center

This video provides an overview of research-based mitigation strategies for safe in-person music education and performing arts activities. Tags: Safe and Healthy Environments; PreK-12 Schools

Resource Type: Best Practices
Organization: NAMM Foundation

This Website was developed by the National Institutes of Health and some of its partners to help school districts and other organizations calculate the amount of COVID-19 testing that might be necessary, given particular circumstances. The Website also includes information about the likely cost of testing programs. Tags: Safe and Healthy Environments; PreK-12 Schools

Resource Type: Innovative Spotlight; Best Practices; Federal Resources
Organization: Consortia for Improving Medicine with Innovation & Technology, Massachusetts Institute of Technology Institute for Data Systems and Society, National Institute of Biomedical Imaging and Bioengineering, National Institutes of Health

This image shows a model of a physically distanced classroom layout for English learners in a cooperative learning setting. This model can serve as an example of using physical space and personal protective equipment to create classrooms that facilitate both safe and healthy environments and interactive learning. Tags: Providing Supports to Students, Young Children, and Families; PreK-12 Schools; English Learners

Resource Type: Implementation Stories; Lessons Learned
Organization: Surry County Schools

This Website offers a resource guide to support schools navigating remote learning and developing virtual options for students and families. It provides resources on access to technology, equity, campus visits and college admissions, professional development, student and family engagement, and other topics. Tags: Providing Supports to Students, Young Children, and Families; PreK-12 Schools

Resource Type: State or Local Resources
Organization: Washington Student Achievement Council

This guidance document provides districts and schools with a framework for reopening that includes required actions and recommended best practices. This student-centered guidance is grounded in equity and local flexibility and stresses the critical importance of family engagement in the reopening process. Tags: Safe and Healthy Environments; Providing Supports to Students, Young Children, and Families; PreK-12 Schools

Resource Type: Implementation Stories; Lessons Learned; State or Local Resources
Organization: Region 2 Comprehensive Center

This guidance document supports districts in completing the 2020-21 school year while planning and preparing for the start of the 2021–22 school year. It outlines guidance on fiscal and operational management, communication and engagement with families, assessment of student learning, academic delivery and support, social emotional learning delivery and support, learning environment considerations, and effective use of Federal Elementary and Secondary School Emergency Relief funds. Tags: Safe and Healthy Environments; Providing Supports to Students, Young Children, and Families; PreK-12 Schools

Resource Type: State or Local Resources
Organization: Region 12 Comprehensive Center

This fact sheet summarizes the research and benefits of summer enrichment programs and outlines evidence-based strategies for implementing successful summer programs. The fact sheet spotlights examples of effective programs and provides implementation tips and additional resources for district leaders and educators to create and sustain summer enrichment programs in their school communities. Tags: Providing Supports to Students, Young Children, and Families; PreK-12 Schools

Resource Type: Best Practices
Organization: Afterschool Alliance

This guide details research and best practices on the expanded learning field, which encompasses programs that offer before-school, afterschool, summer learning, and extended day or expanded learning time. This document outlines nine guiding principles to guide districts and schools in partnering with and uplifting expanded learning programs to support the re-engagement of students, especially students from historically underserved communities. Tags: Providing Supports to Students, Young Children, and Families; PreK-12 Schools

Resource Type: Best Practices
Organization: Afterschool Alliance

This resource provides examples of how to support students in teacher preparation programs as the country recovers from the pandemic. Examples serve to support both teacher candidates and school systems. Tags: Providing Supports to Students, Young Children, and Families; PreK-12 Schools; Racial/ethnic subgroups

Resource Type: Innovative Spotlight
Organization: National Center for Teacher Residencies (NCTR)

This Website for education leaders, teachers, and school staff provides information and resources to support virtual teaching and remote learning. Together, these resources outline best practices in the use of learning management systems, digital tools and practices, media-rich interactions, data and assessment systems, and feedback systems to guide differentiated learning experiences for individual student needs. Tags: Providing Supports to Students, Young Children, and Families; PreK-12 Schools

Resource Type: Best Practices; State or Local Resources
Organization: Virginia Department of Education, Office of Learning and Innovation

This Website provides resources related to Just in Time Mathematics Quick Checks — formative assessments that align to the 2016 Virginia Mathematics Standards of Learning. These assessments and linked resources are designed to help teachers identify students with unfinished learning throughout the school year and assist in planning instruction to fill potential gaps. Tags: Providing Supports to Students, Young Children, and Families; PreK-12 Schools

Resource Type: Best Practices; State or Local Resources
Organization: Virginia Department of Education, Department of Learning and Innovation

This infographic provides guidance for parents and guardians, school and childcare facilities, and health care providers on assessing children with COVID-19 symptoms or exposure. Tags: Safe and Healthy Environments; Early Childhood Programs, PreK-12 Schools

Resource Type: State or Local Resources
Organization: Virginia Department of Education

This school district's COVID-19 Web page includes a variety of resources that the district developed to support the reopening of its schools. These resources demonstrate the district’s efforts to bring students, educators, and staff back to school safely and address the academic, social, emotional, and other needs of all students and families as the district moves forward from the pandemic. Tags: Safe and Healthy Environments; Providing Supports to Students, Young Children, and Families; PreK-12 Schools

Resource Type: Implementation Stories; Lessons Learned; State or Local Resources
Organization: Davis Joint Unified School District

This Website hosts free, practitioner-oriented resources for school mental health providers, educators, and parents to help support students with the crisis and loss associated with the COVID-19 pandemic. Resources include presentations for professional development, fact sheets, practical tools, articles, and links to additional resource Websites. The Website also contains guidance documents on how to use selected resources. Tags: Providing Supports to Students, Young Children, and Families; PreK-12 Schools; Children and students with disabilities; Military-connected students

Resource Type: Best Practices
Organization: Coalition to Support Grieving Students

This back-to-school plan crafted by a school district was implemented in the fall of 2020. Throughout the school year, the district effectively managed the challenges of the pandemic with nearly 3,400 students across six school buildings. Tags: Safe and Healthy Environments; Providing Supports to Students, Young Children, and Families; PreK-12 Schools

Resource Type: Implementation Stories; Lessons Learned; State or Local Resources
Organization: Brookings School District

This resource describes some of the strategies that a school district implemented to support students and families during the pandemic. Tags: Providing Supports to Students, Young Children, and Families; PreK-12 Schools

Resource Type: Implementation Stories; Lessons Learned
Organization: Massena Central School District

This document describes research and best practices related to virtual or hybrid instructional models and addresses barriers to equity such as the digital divide. The document provides resources to assist district leaders and educators in using educational technology to engage students and to assist parents and caregivers in supporting remote learning from home. Tags: Teacher, Early Childhood Provider, Faculty, and Staff Well-being, Professional Development, and Supports; Early Childhood Programs; PreK-12 Schools; Children and students with disabilities; English learners; Students experiencing homelessness; Students in or formerly in foster care

Resource Type: Best Practices; Innovative Spotlight
Organization: International Society for Technology in Education (ISTE)

This advisory memo describes how States can assist local education agencies in distributing authorized Federal funds to implement strong infection prevention and control programs throughout their school systems. This memo provides a funding framework that includes details on one-time and ongoing expenses, additional fiscal priorities and considerations, and recommended investments to support educational equity. Tags: Safe and Healthy Environments; PreK-12 Schools

Resource Type: Best Practices
Organization: The COVID Collaborative, Harvard’s Edmond J. Safra Center, Brown School of Public Health, and New America

This document serves as a scientific consensus, explaining the research and evidence on infection prevention and control programs in schools. The information provided in this document, aligned to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention guidance on layered mitigation strategies, includes details on ventilation and filtration, testing and tracing, physical distancing, cleaning and disinfection, vaccines, masks and handwashing. Tags: Safe and Healthy Environments; PreK-12 Schools

Resource Type: Best Practices
Organization: The COVID Collaborative, Harvard’s Edmond J. Safra Center, Brown School of Public Health, and New America

This operational guide to school-based infection prevention and control provides recommendations and considerations for State and local leaders to return to in-person learning safely and sustainably. The guide also includes case studies on schools and districts that have reopened safely, sharing practical advice and insight into "what works" in the field. Tags: Safe and Healthy Environments; PreK-12 Schools

Resource Type: Best Practices
Organization: The COVID Collaborative, Harvard’s Edmond J. Safra Center, Brown School of Public Health, and New America

This online workshop features charter sector experts providing real-world applications on leading teams through change, maintaining a strategic focus, tracking success, and sustaining impact. Each module in the series includes three components — a webinar with implementation strategies, a guided self-reflection workbook, and an interview with a school leader putting the information into a real-world context. Tags: Providing Supports to Students, Young Children, and Families; PreK-12 Schools; Racial/ethnic subgroups

Resource Type: Best Practices; Technical Assistance Center Resources
Organization: National Charter School Resource Center

This online workshop provides school leaders and directors of academic learning with an overview of English language instruction and available resources to support English learners. The workshop consists of five learning modules, two brief profiles, and lessons learned from two Charter School Programs grantees providing high-quality options for students acquiring English. One of the five modules included in this resource is focused on supporting students following the COVID-19 pandemic. Tags: Providing Supports to Students, Young Children, and Families; PreK-12 Schools; English learners

Resource Type: Best Practices; Technical Assistance Center Resources
Organization: National Charter School Resource Center

This toolkit provides an understanding of how to build a comprehensive schoolwide plan for family engagement since expectations and strategies for educator-to-family engagement changed dramatically throughout COVID-19 and will continue to evolve in a post-COVID world. The toolkit includes a chapter on “Crisis Management and School Closures” engagement strategies. Tags: Providing Supports to Students, Young Children, and Families; PreK-12 Schools

Resource Type: Best Practices; Technical Assistance Center Resources
Organization: National Charter School Resource Center

This resource describes a data-driven school improvement process using reflective and diagnostic questions to help administrators identify where they are in their journey to achieve success before or during school reopening. The tool provides a step-by-step guide to assess if a school is on track to achieving or sustaining their specific organizational definition of success. Tags: Providing Supports to Students, Young Children, and Families; PreK-12 Schools

Resource Type: Best Practices; Technical Assistance Center Resources
Organization: National Charter School Resource Center

This webinar series on school reopening highlights best practices and effective strategies for creating and strengthening partnerships between educational institutions and families. Tags: Providing Supports to Students, Young Children, and Families; PreK-12 Schools

Resource Type: Best Practices; Technical Assistance Center Resources
Organization: Collaborative Action for Family Engagement Center – Maryland and Pennsylvania Statewide Family Engagement Center

This webinar features a diverse range of panelists highlighting trauma-informed family engagement practices in Maryland and Pennsylvania. Panelists from state and local education agencies to community-based organizations discuss strategies for addressing trauma and supporting the well-being of families and educators. Tags: Providing Supports to Students, Young Children, and Families; Teacher, Early Childhood Provider, Faculty, and Staff Well-being, Professional Development, and Supports; Early Childhood Programs; PreK-12 Schools

Resource Type: Best Practices; Technical Assistance Center Resources
Organization: Collaborative Action for Family Engagement Center – Maryland and Pennsylvania Statewide Family Engagement Center

In this webinar, panelists review research literature on COVID-19 and school reopening, describing best practices in remote and hybrid learning options, and outlining a case study in which data and analytics were used to inform the reopening of Pennsylvania schools. Tags: Safe and Healthy Environments; PreK-12 Schools

Resource Type: Best Practices; Technical Assistance Center Resources
Organization: Regional Educational Laboratory Mid-Atlantic

This infographic provides easy-to-read summaries of research on school reopening. The resource highlights recent findings that support the effectiveness of mitigation strategies in reopening schools safely and reducing risk of COVID-19 transmission among students and staff. Tags: Safe and Healthy Environments; PreK-12 Schools

Resource Type: Best Practices; Technical Assistance Center Resources
Organization: Regional Educational Laboratory Mid-Atlantic

This memo describes the operations and outcomes of a research-practice partnership between the Regional Educational Laboratory Mid-Atlantic and Pennsylvania Department of Education. The memo provides details on the organizations' three-part project, which included a literature review of public health and education research, interviews with Pennsylvania education stakeholders, and a computational modeling project to inform the reopening of Pennsylvania schools. Tags: Safe and Healthy Environments; PreK-12 Schools

Resource Type: Best Practices; Technical Assistance Center Resources
Organization: Regional Educational Laboratory Mid-Atlantic

In this webinar, panelists discuss effective strategies to support literacy development during and after the COVID-19 pandemic. The webinar features both literacy experts sharing evidence-based strategies educators can use to support their students and practitioners offering insight into the strategies they plan to use to support early literacy instruction in their classrooms. Tags: Providing Supports to Students, Young Children, and Families; Early Childhood Programs; PreK-12 Schools; English learners; Children and students with disabilities

Resource Type: Best Practices; Technical Assistance Center Resources
Organization: Regional Educational Laboratory Midwest

This blueprint — designed with input from in-person and remote educators, leaders, researchers, professional learning providers, and technical assistance providers — strives to detail the indicators of learning programs that successfully integrate equity, well-being, and academics. Tags: Providing Supports to Students, Young Children, and Families; PreK-12 Schools

Resource Type: Best Practices; Technical Assistance Center Resources
Organization: Center to Improve Social and Emotional Learning and School Safety

This fact sheet highlights evidence-based practices that schools and local education agencies can consider when developing or updating their continuity of learning plans. Tags: Providing Supports to Students, Young Children, and Families; Teacher, Early Childhood Provider, Faculty, and Staff Well-being, Professional Development, and Supports; PreK-12 Schools; Students from low-income backgrounds

Resource Type: Best Practices; Technical Assistance Center Resources
Organization: Regional Educational Laboratory Mid-Atlantic

This brief highlights key themes that emerged in the early childhood education field as a result of COVID-19 and some considerations for successfully reopening and sustaining safe and quality programs. This brief is one of a series of five briefs, along with a comprehensive report and interactive map created in response to a Virtual Listening Tour study done in 2020. Tags: Providing Supports to Students, Young Children, and Families; Teacher, Early Childhood Provider, Faculty, and Staff Well-being, Professional Development, and Supports; Early Childhood Programs; Racial/ethnic subgroups; Children and students with disabilities; Students from low-income backgrounds

Resource Type: Best Practices
Organization: University of Florida, Lastinger Center for Learning

This resource shares insights and best practices for school leaders and educators to use in establishing communication systems that serve their school communities and advance equitable outcomes, acknowledging community trauma related to the COVID-19 pandemic and ongoing systemic racism. This website describes and hosts an associated toolkit to support implementation of communication standards and principles. Tags: Providing Supports to Students, Young Children, and Families; PreK-12 Schools

Resource Type: Innovative Spotlight; Best Practices
Organization: Brooklyn Laboratory Charter School

This guide contains research, best practices, and stories from the Career and Technical Education (CTE) field on operation and delivery methods during and following the COVID-19 pandemic. The guide provides information on several topics including how the CTE field adapted during the pandemic, equity in the field and targeted supports for underserved students, and where opportunities exist for innovation in reopening. Tags: Safe and Healthy Environments; Providing Supports to Students, Young Children, and Families; PreK-12 Schools

Resource Type: Best Practices
Organization: Association for Career and Technical Education

This resource includes one educator's suggestions and advice on continuing to reopen schools and addressing the academic, social, and emotional needs of students and teachers. Tags: Safe and Healthy Environments; Providing Supports to Students, Young Children, and Families; Teacher, Early Childhood Provider, Faculty, and Staff Well-being, Professional Development, and Supports; PreK-12 Schools

Resource Type: Implementation Stories; Lessons Learned
Organization: Individual Educator

This guide outlines policies and procedures that promote the health and safety of teachers and children when reopening early childhood programs in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic. Created through local city and state partnerships, this resource provides detailed operational guidance on a range of topics, from enhanced safety and mitigation strategies to early childhood social and emotional health. Tags: Safe and Healthy Environments; Early Childhood Programs

Resource Type: Best Practices
Organization: Lasell University Holway Early Childhood Centers

This comprehensive toolkit for early childhood centers and providers outlines guidelines and strategies for safely operating during recovery from the COVID-19 pandemic. This resource is available in both the English and Spanish languages. Tags: Safe and Healthy Environments; Early Childhood Programs

Resource Type: State or Local Resources
Organization: North Carolina Department of Health and Human Services

This document shares ways in which child care directors and family child care homes can support their staff in getting COVID-19 vaccinations. Tags: Safe and Healthy Environments; Early Childhood Programs

Resource Type: State or Local Resources
Organization: North Carolina Department of Health and Human Services

This presentation provides an overview of the campus's reopening plans. The presentation outlines the university's planning and implementation procedures for maintaining a safe and healthy environment. Tags: Safe and Healthy Environments; Colleges and Universities

Resource Type: Implementation Stories; Lessons Learned; State or Local Resources
Organization: Purdue University Fort Wayne

This resource guide outlines the reopening plans of the university and includes detailed information regarding campus policies, procedures and specific COVID-19 protocols. Tags: Safe and Healthy Environments; Colleges and Universities

Resource Type: State or Local Resources
Organization: Virginia Union University

This report summarizes information gathered from surveys distributed to PreK program staff about local communication and remote learning strategies, technology capabilities and challenges during the COVID-19 emergency. Tags: Teacher, Early Childhood Provider, Faculty, and Staff Well-being, Professional Development, and Supports; Early Childhood Programs

Resource Type: State or Local Resources
Organization: North Carolina Department of Health and Human Services

This webinar series assists university faculty and staff and external community members with learning strategies to reduce stress and improve health and well-being during times of stress, such as the COVID-19 pandemic. Tags: Providing Supports to Students, Young Children, and Families; Teacher, Early Childhood Provider, Faculty, and Staff Well-being, Professional Development, and Supports; Colleges and Universities

Resource Type: Implementation Stories; Lessons Learned; Innovative Spotlight
Organization: Ohio State University

This website is a resource hub for COVID-19 mitigation resources and student support services. The website hosts daily COVID-19 surveys for students and staff, a student reopening plan and information on the school’s Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security Act emergency grants. Tags: Safe and Healthy Environments; Colleges and Universities

Resource Type: State or Local Resources
Organization: The General Theological Seminary

This report outlines the safety protocols, mitigation strategies and support services established in response to the COVID-19 pandemic at the university. The report includes a matrix utilized for responding to direct and indirect exposures among campus employees. Tags: Safe and Healthy Environments; Colleges and Universities; Racial/ethnic subgroups; students from low-income backgrounds; Student veterans; Military-connected students

Resource Type: Implementation Stories; Lessons Learned
Organization: Hallmark University

This website serves as a resource hub for COVID-19 guidelines and information at the university and is utilized to sustain safe in-person operations. The collection of resources includes a COVID-19 dashboard; university statements; testing, reporting and vaccination information; and health and safety guidelines for students, researchers, faculty and staff. Tags: Safe and Healthy Environments; Colleges and Universities

Resource Type: Implementation Stories; Lessons Learned
Organization: Texas State University

This guide outlines the reopening plans of the college and includes detailed information on safety protocols and campus policies. Tags: Safe and Healthy Environments; Colleges and Universities

Resource Type: State or Local Resources
Organization: Orleans Technical College

This guide outlines the reopening plans of the university, providing detailed information on safety protocols and campus policies. The guide includes plans for reopening safety protocols, ongoing health monitoring, COVID-19 testing and mitigation strategies, and emergency response management. Tags: Safe and Healthy Environments; Colleges and Universities

Resource Type: State or Local Resources
Organization: University of Connecticut

This program profile highlights the modification of a construction materials lab to provide students with hands-on experience while maintaining a safe environment for in-person instruction at the university. The profile describes prior lab operations, newly developed Centers for Disease Control and Prevention-compliant operations, and lessons learned from students’ experiences throughout the changes made to the university's instructional strategies. Tags: Safe and Healthy Environments; Colleges and Universities

Resource Type: Implementation Stories; Lessons Learned
Organization: Missouri University of Science and Technology

This program profile outlines the COVID-19 mitigation strategies and lessons learned at a Veterans Upward Bound Program. Tags: Safe and Healthy Environments; Colleges and Universities; Students from low-income backgrounds; First-generation college students; Student veterans; Military-connected students

Resource Type: Best Practices; State or Local Resources
Organization: Pima County Community College District- East Campus

This program profile describes the college’s approach to implementing mitigation strategies and preparing for and sustaining in-person operations safely. The profile details the impacts on TRIO students of the COVID-19 pandemic, the college’s subsequent mitigation measures and the lessons learned from students' experiences. Tags: Safe and Healthy Environments; Colleges and Universities; Children and students with disabilities; First-generation college students; Students from low-income backgrounds

Resource Type: Implementation Stories; Lessons Learned; State or Local Resources
Organization: Columbia College

This virtual conference offers keynote presentations and breakout sessions over a wide range of topics, including The Science and Theory of Hope, The Pandemic Brain, and Creating Trauma-Responsive Schools that Foster Resilient Environments for Youth & Adults. Tags: Safe and Healthy Environments; Teacher, Early Childhood Provider, Faculty, and Staff Well-being, Professional Development, and Supports; Colleges and Universities; Students from low-income backgrounds

Resource Type: Best Practices; Implementation Stories; Lessons Learned
Organization: Washington Student Achievement Council

This innovative spotlight profile describes the college's COVID-19 hotline. This telephone line addresses questions and concerns and provides information to the college community regarding campus shutdowns and the transition to remote learning. Tags: Safe and Healthy Environments; Providing Supports to Students, Young Children, and Families; Colleges and Universities; First-generation college students

Resource Type: Implementation Stories; Lessons Learned; Innovative Spotlight
Organization: Massachusetts College of Liberal Arts

This guide outlines the university's reopening plan and lists strategies used by the institution to address challenges caused by COVID-19, such as adapting services and implementing mitigation measures. Tags: Safe and Healthy Environments; Colleges and Universities

Resource Type: State or Local Resources
Organization: University of the Potomac

This guide outlines phased reopening and continued education schedules for the university. The guide provides implementation considerations regarding COVID-19 mitigation strategies, curriculum and instructional models, and health and wellness strategies. Tags: Safe and Healthy Environments; PreK-12 Schools

Resource Type: State or Local Resources
Organization: University of Memphis

This program profile outlines the COVID-19 mitigation strategies and lessons learned at a music education program. Tags: Safe and Healthy Environments; PreK-12 Schools

Resource Type: Implementation Stories; Lessons Learned
Organization: Mona Shores Public Schools Music Department

This webinar series helps equip adolescents from 10 to 14 years of age with easily digestible and important knowledge and skills to sustain well-being during and after the COVID-19 pandemic. The series was designed to assist the children of university faculty and staff and children in the external community with learning strategies to reduce stress and improve health and well-being during times of stress such as the COVID-19 pandemic. Tags: Providing Supports to Students, Young Children, and Families; PreK-12 Schools

Resource Type: Best Practices
Organization: Ohio State University

This resource provides an example of an employee code of personal responsibility for following safety protocols on a college campus. The resource includes practical instructions and guidelines on how to follow these safety protocols. Tags: Safe and Healthy Environments; Colleges and Universities

Resource Type: State or Local Resources
Organization: Lakeland Community College

This series of short video modules assists students in adjusting to remote learning by preparing them to navigate classes on an online learning platform. Video topics include strategies for success, getting organized, tips from professors and students, and a review of resources available at the college. Tags: Providing Supports to Students, Young Children, and Families; Colleges and Universities; Students from low-income backgrounds; First-generation college students; Student parents; Student veterans; Military-connected students

Resource Type: Implementation Stories; Lessons Learned; Innovative Spotlight
Organization: Lakeland Community College

This spreadsheet offers a sample of reporting and discussion guides for personal protective equipment (PPE) and safety protocols management used by the college’s Emergency & Risk Team. The spreadsheet includes data on PPE inventory distribution and collection, COVID-19 testing inventory and methodology, and a daily overview of safety protocols and completion of tasks in an Incident Command System format. Tags: Safe and Healthy Environments; Colleges and Universities

Resource Type: Implementation Stories; Lessons Learned; Innovative Spotlight
Organization: Benedict College

This resource for educators and administrators offers policy recommendations for developing initiatives and protocols for listening to youth, developing youth leadership capacity and establishing policies that ensure that individual students are supported in self-determination and goal setting. Tags: Providing Supports to Students, Young Children, and Families; PreK-12 Schools; Students from low-income backgrounds

Resource Type: Best Practices
Organization: Center for Educational Improvement

This resource for educators and administrators offers policy recommendations for incorporating visioning strategies into educational settings. The resource briefly describes the visioning process and its uses, and shares visioning strategies to increase social and educational equity. Tags: Providing Supports to Students, Young Children, and Families; Teacher, Early Childhood Provider, Faculty, and Staff Well-being, Professional Development, and Supports; PreK-12 Schools; Children and students with disabilities; Racial/ethnic subgroups; Students from low-income backgrounds; LGBTQIA students

Resource Type: Best Practices
Organization: Center for Educational Improvement

This implementation profile shares a success story from the college's TRIO Talent Search program. By using data, developing local partnerships and collaborating with school district information technology managers, this program provided grade-specific support to students during pandemic-related school closures. Tags: Safe and Healthy Environments; Providing Supports to Students, Young Children, and Families; Teacher, Early Childhood Provider, Faculty, and Staff Well-being, Professional Development, and Supports; PreK-12 Schools; Colleges and Universities; Students from low-income backgrounds; First-generation college students

Resource Type: Implementation Stories; Lessons Learned
Organization: University of Cincinnati, Clermont College

This program profile highlights how the institute adapted its TRIO Upward Bound program for virtual instruction to continue supporting students during the COVID-19 pandemic. Over the past summer, the program provided each student a laptop, school supplies, standardized test preparatory materials and an Internet hotspot as well as offered students college-preparatory courses, tutoring and life-skills trainings Monday through Friday. Tags: Providing Supports to Students, Young Children, and Families; PreK-12 Schools; Students from low-income backgrounds; First-generation college students

Resource Type: Implementation Stories; Lessons Learned
Organization: West Virginia University Institute of Technology

This report shares research and provides recommendations for increasing student achievement and well-being. The report, produced in partnership with the Johns Hopkins Institute for Education Policy, offers recommendations on transitioning from the agrarian school calendar to a longer and more flexible academic year; implementing new staffing models; focusing on the social and emotional well-being and skills of students; and adopting high-quality instructional materials with robust teacher supports and curriculum-aligned formative and summative assessments. Tags: Safe and Healthy Environments; Providing Supports to Students, Young Children, and Families; PreK-12 Schools; Children and students with disabilities; English learners

Resource Type: Best Practices
Organization: Chiefs for Change

This portal provides educators and school staff with information about initiatives, services and resources offered by the New Hampshire Department of Education’s Office of Social and Emotional Wellness. The portal also houses wellness toolkits for issues related to COVID-19 as well as other relevant wellness issues such as bullying and suicide prevention. Tags: Providing Supports to Students, Young Children, and Families; Teacher, Early Childhood Provider, Faculty, and Staff Well-being, Professional Development, and Supports; PreK-12 Schools

Resource Type: State or Local Resources
Organization: New Hampshire Department of Education

This library of visual iconography helps clarify the back-to-school process and presents public health and school reopening information in ways that support community engagement, feedback and accountability. Tags: Safe and Healthy Environments; Providing Supports to Students, Young Children, and Families; PreK-12 Schools

Resource Type: Innovative Spotlight
Organization: Brooklyn Laboratory Charter School

This guide shares strategies for providing equitable and inclusive learning environments and for developing student agency. The guide aggregates the leading research and strategies from experts in sociology, psychology, special education, educational equity, social justice and student-centered education to support educators in this work. Tags: Providing Supports to Students, Young Children, and Families; PreK-12 Schools; Children and students with disabilities; Racial/ethnic subgroups

Resource Type: Innovative Spotlight
Organization: Brooklyn Laboratory Charter School

This resource shares public health communication templates and guidance for districts, administrators and teachers. Templates are available for a variety of situations including instructional model changes, positive cases and closures, and alerts for parents when a student is showing symptoms of COVID-19. Tags: Safe and Healthy Environments; PreK-12 Schools

Resource Type: Best Practices; Innovative Spotlight
Organization: Brooklyn Laboratory Charter School

This instructional program scheduling map builds on the charter school's strategic reopening documents to provide best practices for physical distancing as schools reopen. The blueprint provides guidance on how best to rearrange teams of educators and groups of students to ensure that those receiving in-person instruction can do so safely. Tags: Safe and Healthy Environments; PreK-12 Schools

Resource Type: Best Practices; Innovative Spotlight
Organization: Brooklyn Laboratory Charter School

This playbook shares research-based frameworks for effective success coaching and offers guidance on building success coaching capacity in all adults. This playbook shares strategies for growing and using a network of success coaches to holistically support students and accelerate academic progress. Tags: Providing Supports to Students, Young Children, and Families; Teacher, Early Childhood Provider, Faculty, and Staff Well-being, Professional Development, and Supports; PreK-12 Schools; Racial/ethnic subgroups; Students from low-income backgrounds

Resource Type: Innovative Spotlight
Organization: Brooklyn Laboratory Charter School

This guide shares the charter school's experience utilizing a collaborative and community-based planning process for reopening. The guide outlines how the school gathered stakeholder input, built partnerships and incorporated public health guidance to develop a strategic reopening approach. Tags: Safe and Healthy Environments; PreK-12 Schools

Resource Type: Best Practices; Innovative Spotlight
Organization: Brooklyn Laboratory Charter School

This sample learner profile provides guidance and strategies for supporting a student with Autism Spectrum Disorder who receives instruction in a general education setting. The profile shares best practices on providing specialized services, monitoring progress, ensuring access to core content and taking into account other considerations. Tags: Providing Supports to Students, Young Children, and Families; Teacher, Early Childhood Provider, Faculty, and Staff Well-being, Professional Development, and Supports; PreK-12 Schools; Children and students with disabilities

Resource Type: Best Practices
Organization: Diverse Learners Cooperative

This sample learner profile provides guidance and strategies for supporting a student with Autism Spectrum Disorder who receives instruction in a self-contained setting and participates in alternative assessment. The profile describes the importance of maintaining continuity in individualized education plans and shares key considerations for safely providing specialized services as school buildings reopen. Tags: Providing Supports to Students, Young Children, and Families; Teacher, Early Childhood Provider, Faculty, and Staff Well-being, Professional Development, and Supports; PreK-12 Schools; Children and students with disabilities

Resource Type: Best Practices
Organization: Diverse Learners Cooperative

This sample learner profile shares strategies for optimizing school accessibility and learning outcomes for a student with a reading disability. The profile offers recommendations and guidance that school teams may use to support students with a reading disability across school reopening scenarios. Tags: Providing Supports to Students, Young Children, and Families; Teacher, Early Childhood Provider, Faculty, and Staff Well-being, Professional Development, and Supports; PreK-12 Schools; Children and students with disabilities

Resource Type: Best Practices
Organization: Diverse Learners Cooperative

This resource describes New Mexico’s strategy to addressing student needs related to accelerated learning in the wake of the pandemic. The resource includes four steps to guide New Mexico schools and districts in this area: 1. development of a school level plan, including elements of such a plan; 2. a resource for designing schedules and staff considerations; 3. a short description of allowable uses of relief funds to support student academic needs; and 4. a resource list for addressing students' needs in a holistic manner. Tags: Providing Supports to Students, Young Children, and Families; PreK-12 Schools; Children and students with disabilities; English learners; Racial/ethnic subgroups; Students from low-income backgrounds

Resource Type: Best Practice; State or Local Resources
Organization: New Mexico Public Education Department

This program profile for State and local education agencies contains links to the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency's technical suite of guidance and training webinar series under the Indoor Air Quality Tools for Schools Program. Tags: Safe and Healthy Environments; PreK-12 Schools

Resource Type: Best Practices; Federal Resources
Organization: United States Environmental Protection Agency

This action guide for practitioners describes how and why to implement integrated student support systems during and after the COVID-19 pandemic. The guide offers a school self-assessment tool and a series of practice and research briefs to guide implementation. Tags: Safe and Healthy Environments; Providing Supports to Students, Young Children, and Families; Teacher, Early Childhood Provider, Faculty, and Staff Well-being, Professional Development, and Supports; PreK-12 Schools

Resource Type: Best Practices
Organization: Boston College Center for Optimized Student Support

This toolkit for State policymakers and school leaders provides detailed information on systems of integrated student support. The toolkit outlines the core components of integrated student support models and offers policy and research contexts for understanding how and why to implement integrated wraparound services to support students' academic and nonacademic needs. Tags: Safe and Healthy Environments; PreK-12 Schools

Resource Type: Best Practices
Organization: Boston College Center for Optimized Student Support

This brief for practitioners and policymakers draws upon interdisciplinary sciences and evidence-based implementation models to provide guidance for building effective integrated student support systems. Tags: Safe and Healthy Environments; Providing Supports to Students, Young Children, and Families; Teacher, Early Childhood Provider, Faculty, and Staff Well-being, Professional Development, and Supports; PreK-12 Schools

Resource Type: Best Practices
Organization: Boston College Center for Optimized Student Support

This webinar collection for teachers provides guidance for serving diverse learners during the COVID-19 pandemic. Each professional development video session is 15-20 minutes, providing quick strategies to elevate best instructional practices and empower staff to effectively meet student needs. Tags: Providing Supports to Students, Young Children, and Families; PreK-12 Schools; English learners; Children and students with disabilities

Resource Type: Best Practices
Organization: Diverse Learners Cooperative

This tool serves as a collaborative resource for paraprofessionals and special educators to identify best practices that serve all learners. It also includes strategies for paraprofessionals to support students behaviorally, both during in-person and virtual learning contexts. Tags: Providing Supports to Students, Young Children, and Families; PreK-12 Schools; Children and students with disabilities

Resource Type: Best Practices
Organization: Diverse Learners Cooperative

These resources help schools create reentry plans that maximize accessibility for diverse learners and provide various reentry scenarios (e.g., in-person vs. hybrid in-person and virtual) with guiding questions and key considerations to ensure an inclusive educational environment for all learners. Tags: Providing Supports to Students, Young Children, and Families; PreK-12 Schools; English learners; Children and students with disabilities

Resource Type: Best Practices
Organization: Diverse Learners Cooperative

This sample learner profile shares guidance on optimizing school accessibility and learning outcomes for English learner students who recently immigrated to the United States. The profile highlights a variety of considerations and strategies for supporting these students across school reopening scenarios. Tags: Providing Supports to Students, Young Children, and Families; Teacher, Early Childhood Provider, Faculty, and Staff Well-being, Professional Development, and Supports; PreK-12 Schools; English learners

Resource Type: Best Practices
Organization: Diverse Learners Cooperative

This report provides findings and recommendations from a task force, established in November 2020, to discuss the mental health crisis in school systems around the world. The report provides a range of recommendations for policymakers and teachers to safeguard mental well-being in schools during the COVID-19 pandemic. Tags: Providing Supports to Students, Young Children, and Families; PreK-12 Schools

Resource Type: Best Practices
Organization: Varkey Foundation

This toolkit provides easy-to-implement tools and ideas to prioritize staff well-being. These resources guide administrators to care for staff so they feel supported and heard and to continue to prioritize relationships and staff well-being throughout the year. Tags: Teacher, Early Childhood Provider, Faculty, and Staff Well-being, Professional Development, and Supports; PreK-12 Schools

Resource Type: Best Practices
Organization: BARR Center

This toolkit provides strategies and resources promoting teacher well-being, including a back-to-school checklist, self-care activities and additional tips for stress management and connecting with colleagues. Tags: Teacher, Early Childhood Provider, Faculty, and Staff Well-being, Professional Development, and Supports; PreK-12 Schools

Resource Type: Best Practices
Organization: BARR Center

This resource helps officials assess the current level of COVID-19 transmission risk in schools and provides best practices for implementing prevention strategies. Using a phased prevention approach, this resource illustrates how a consistent use of prevention strategies supports a safe return to in-person instruction. Tags: Safe and Healthy Environments; PreK-12 Schools

Resource Type: State or Local Resources
Organization: Virginia Department of Education

This website provides resources to support district and school leaders with implementing reopening guidance issued by the Council of Chief State School Officers. The site includes a series of three briefs and a communications toolkit. Tags: Safe and Healthy Environments; Providing Supports to Students, Young Children, and Families; Teacher, Early Childhood Provider, Faculty, and Staff Well-being, Professional Development, and Supports; PreK-12 Schools

Resource Type: Best Practices
Organization: National Association of Secondary School Principals (NASSP)

This brief is the third in a series designed to support school leaders in implementing the Restart & Recovery guidance developed by the Council of Chief State School Officers. This brief focuses on academic success, including curriculum and instruction, assessment and professional learning. Tags: Safe and Healthy Environments; Providing Supports to Students, Young Children, and Families; Teacher, Early Childhood Provider, Faculty, and Staff Well-being, Professional Development, and Supports; PreK-12 Schools

Resource Type: Best Practices
Organization: National Association of Secondary School Principals (NASSP)

This brief is the second in a series designed to support school leaders in implementing the Restart & Recovery guidance developed by the Council of Chief State School Officers. This brief focuses on staff and student well-being, connection and tailored student support services. Tags: Safe and Healthy Environments; PreK-12 Schools; Racial/ethnic subgroups; English learners; Undocumented students; Children and students with disabilities; LGBTQIA students

Resource Type: Best Practices
Organization: National Association of Secondary School Principals (NASSP)

This brief is the first in a series designed to support school leaders in implementing the Restart & Recovery guidance developed by the Council of Chief State School Officers. This brief focuses on system-level strategies for recovery, including engagement; curriculum; technology; staffing; scheduling; and leading, managing and improving. Tags: Safe and Healthy Environments; Providing Supports to Students, Young Children, and Families; Teacher, Early Childhood Provider, Faculty, and Staff Well-being, Professional Development, and Supports; PreK-12 Schools

Resource Type: Best Practices
Organization: National Association of Secondary School Principals (NASSP)

This website contains the school's collection of resources to support reopening and continued operation during and after the COVID-19 pandemic. The site includes resources for administrators, teachers, students and families. Tags: Safe and Healthy Environments; Providing Supports to Students, Young Children, and Families; Teacher, Early Childhood Provider, Faculty, and Staff Well-being, Professional Development, and Supports; PreK-12 Schools

Resource Type: Best Practices; State or Local Resources
Organization: Wayne-Westland Community Schools 

This resource provides practical tips for parents, guardians, caregivers, administrators, teachers, paraprofessionals and students to navigate the challenges of returning to school while maintaining physical and mental health. Tags: Safe and Healthy Environments; Providing Supports to Students, Young Children, and Families; PreK-12 Schools; Children and students with disabilities

Resource Type: Best Practices
Organization: American Occupational Therapy Association

This resource is a reopening pledge, designed to ensure the safety of the faculty, staff, students and families of the university. Tags: Safe and Healthy Environments; PreK-12 Schools

Resource Type: Innovative Spotlight
Organization: University of Memphis--University Schools

This infographic guide for families, teachers and school staff provides key facts, essential questions and links to curated resources that promote the social-emotional well-being of English learners. Tags: Providing Supports to Students, Young Children, and Families; PreK-12 Schools; English learners

Resource Type: State or Local Resources
Organization: Department of Special Education and Student Services, Virginia Department of Education

This infographic guide for families, teachers and school staff provides key facts, essential questions and links to curated resources that promote the social-emotional well-being of children and students with disabilities. Tags: Providing Supports to Students, Young Children, and Families; PreK-12 Schools; Children and students with disabilities

Resource Type: State or Local Resources
Organization: Department of Special Education and Student Services, Virginia Department of Education

This document includes an approach from one school district to safely reopen schools and to stay open. It provides links to a variety of resources from the district after convening faculty and staff on a weekly basis to review local, State and Federal guidance, research reports and stakeholder survey responses in order to make recommendations about safely returning all students and staff to schools. Tags: Safe and Healthy Environments; Providing Supports to Students, Young Children, and Families; Teacher, Early Childhood Provider, Faculty, and Staff Well-being, Professional Development, and Supports; PreK-12 Schools

Resource Type: Implementation Stories; Lessons Learned; State or Local Resources
Organization: Warren Township Schools

This brief on Trauma-Informed Care is one in a series of five that produced findings and considerations for schools as they reopen. A common theme was the need to address the trauma experienced by students as part of school closures, particularly students of color and those eligible for free and reduced-priced lunch. Considerations are provided for schools to respond to students, family and educator needs. Tags: Providing Supports to Students, Young Children, and Families; PreK-12 Schools; Racial/ethnic subgroups; Students from low-income backgrounds; Children and students with disabilities

Resource Type: Best Practices
Organization: University of Florida, Lastinger Center for Learning

This report highlighted key themes about the impact of COVID-19 on the delivery of educational services in Florida, along with considerations for policy and education decision-makers as they navigate reopening and operating schools within the pandemic context. Tags: Providing Supports to Young Children, Students, and Teacher, Early Childhood Provider, Faculty, and Staff Well-being, Professional Development, and Supports; PreK-12 Schools; Racial/ethnic subgroups; Students from low-income backgrounds; Children and students with disabilities

Resource Type: Best Practices
Organization: University of Florida, Lastinger Center for Learning

This website provides resources and information for educators in response to the COVID-19 pandemic. Information provided includes Action Communities and how they can help respond to shared issues of student belonging, resilience and engagement in response to the global pandemic. Tags: Providing Supports to Students, Young Children, and Families; PreK-12 Schools; Racial/ethnic subgroups; Students from low-income backgrounds

Resource Type: Best Practices
Organization: City Year, Inc

This tool suggests evidence-based and practical actions schools can take to promote middle school students’ sense of belonging, resilience and engaged learning. For the middle grades, students’ connection to school influences their attendance, behavior and course performance, which ultimately impacts graduation and postsecondary success. The COVID-19 pandemic and the ongoing need to combat systematic racism have added stress and challenges into the lives of middle grade students, further increasing the need for schools to provide a supportive and nurturing experience. Tags: Providing Supports to Students, Young Children, and Families; PreK-12 Schools; Racial/ethnic subgroups; Students from low-income backgrounds

Resource Type: Best Practices
Organization: City Year, Inc

This resource provides an example of COVID-19 safety protocols for high school performances, competitions, and musical productions. The resource includes guidelines on physical distancing, assigned spaces, mask usage, and other safety protocols specific to competitions and performances. Tags: Safe and Healthy Environments; PreK-12 Schools

Resource Type: State or Local Resources
Organization: The School District of Lee County

This resource provides an example of communication to district personnel regarding up-to-date information about community and district health, COVID-19 vaccinations and testing, community outreach, and employee assistance. Tags: Safe and Healthy Environments; PreK-12 Schools

Resource Type: Best Practices; State or Local Resources
Organization: The School District of Lee County

This guide outlines the Lee Home Connect plan, an instructional continuity model designed for families who elect to enroll their student in remote learning. The guide details best practices in virtual instruction models, including family engagement, accountability, equal access and supports for diverse learners, and a chart of digital teaching tools. Tags: Providing Supports to Students, Young Children, and Families; PreK-12 Schools

Resource Type: Best Practices; State or Local Resources
Organization: The School District of Lee County

This Web page for the community hosts information on a variety of topics related to COVID-19 and the district's pandemic response. Tags: Safe and Healthy Environments; PreK-12 Schools

Resource Type: Best Practices; State or Local Resources
Organization: The School District of Lee County

This online reporting form is used by the district to gather incident details from employees and students, or parents of students, who have been diagnosed with COVID-19 or who have been exposed to the virus. Tags: Safe and Healthy Environments; PreK-12 Schools

Resource Type: Best Practices; State or Local Resources
Organization: The School District of Lee County

This guide provides PreK program leaders and teachers with a policy road map to reopening. The guide provides information on health and safety requirements, implementation strategies for a variety of instructional models, and reporting and site monitoring requirements. Tags: Providing Supports to Students, Young Children, and Families; Early Childhood Programs

Resource Type: Best Practices
Organization: North Carolina Department of Public Instruction

This fact sheet provides administrators, teachers, and families with practical tools, resources, and practices to safely conduct outdoor learning and reduce the risk of COVID-19 transmission. Tags: Safe and Healthy Environments; PreK-12 Schools

Resource Type: Innovative Spotlight; State or Local Resources; Best Practices
Organization: New Mexico Public Education Department

This resource from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention describes an operational strategy for K-12 schools through phased prevention. Tags: Safe and Healthy Environments; PreK-12 Schools

Resource Type: Federal Resources
Organization: The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention

This tool chart supports school and community sponsors in electing meal program flexibilities for U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) meal programs. The tool chart provides information on existing waivers and easy access to elect meal flexibilities for USDA school and community nutrition programs. Tags: Providing Supports to Students, Young Children, and Families; PreK-12 Schools

Resource Type: State or Local Resources
Organization: Virginia Department of Education, Office of School Nutrition Programs

This resource supports school meal programs with utilizing foods available through the U.S. Department of Agriculture during the COVID-19 pandemic. Tags: Providing Supports to Students, Young Children, and Families; PreK-12 Schools

Resource Type: State or Local Resources
Organization: Virginia Department of Education, Office of School Nutrition Programs

This resource provides guidance to school and community sponsors on safety practices within U.S. Department of Agriculture meal programs during the COVID-19 pandemic. This resource addresses COVID-19 guidance for mask wearing, food safety, and social distancing. Tags: Safe and Healthy Environments; Providing Supports to Students, Young Children, and Families; PreK-12 Schools

Resource Type: State or Local Resources
Organization: Virginia Department of Education, Office of School Nutrition Programs

This resource assists Virginia school and community sponsors in completing required site monitoring of Summer Food Service Programs by desk review instead of in-person review. Desk reviews help ensure program integrity while allowing for flexibilities during the COVID-19 pandemic. Tags: Providing Supports to Students, Young Children, and Families; PreK-12 Schools; Students from low-income backgrounds