Resource Library

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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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 toolkit for school, college, and education preparation program administrators provides recommendations for addressing educator shortages. The toolkit encourages collaboration with local partner districts to allocate Federal resources toward strengthening the educator workforce through residency models, grow-your-own programs, and other innovative approaches to develop pathways into teaching. Tags: Providing Supports to Students, Young Children, and Families; Early Childhood Programs; PreK-12 Schools; Colleges and Universities

Resource Type: Best Practices
Organization: American Association of Colleges for Teacher Education (AACTE)

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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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 website from the Virginia Department of Education provides answers to frequently asked questions by districts and schools about State guidelines for returning to in-person instruction. The regularly updated Web page was created in response to additional questions that arose as the COVID-19 pandemic progressed and were not addressed in initial guidance. Tags: Safe and Healthy Environments; PreK-12 Schools

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

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

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 Child and Adult Care Food 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

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

This toolkit supports Virginia district and school leaders and school nutrition directors and staff in developing plans and strategies for continued meal service to children throughout the COVID-19 pandemic. The toolkit includes sample menus, checklists, and guidance for different meal service models. 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

These student needs and rights are unique and should not be conflated with the needs of economically disadvantaged, special education and ESL students. Given a likely dramatic increase in the number of students meeting the definition of homeless since the COVID-19 pandemic, districts and schools must make affirmative and aggressive efforts to identify newly homeless children. Once identified, districts and schools must ensure equitable access to education for students experiencing homelessness as they prepare for the new school year. Tags: Providing Supports to Students, Young Children, and Families; PreK-12 Schools; Students experiencing homelessness

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

This program profile highlights how Northland Pioneer College redesigned lab science classes to replicate key components of the in-person lab experience and maintain student engagement in active learning during the remote instruction period. The program included the provision of lab material kits for students at home and the use of technology to connect students online. Tags: Safe and Healthy Environments; Colleges and Universities; Students from low-income backgrounds; Racial/ethnic subgroups

Resource Type: Lessons Learned; Innovative Spotlight
Organization: Northland Pioneer College

This program profiles provides lessons learned through collaborations between school and community leaders, as well as scientists and physicians, to make informed decisions about returning to in-person learning. The profile outlines how decisions may be informed through evidence in the medical literature, a core set of principles for mitigating COVID-19 transmission, a national program for equitable access to information, and symptom-tracking tools. Tags: Safe and Healthy Environments; PreK-12 Schools

Resource Type: Best Practices
Organization: ABC Science Collaborative

This program profile shares planning and implementation procedures for safe operation of an in-person summer learning camp that was held in the San Francisco Bay Area of California during the COVID-19 pandemic. It offers guidance, strategies, and lessons learned for providing in-person summer learning experiences for students while maintaining compliance with Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and local county health guidelines. Tags: Safe and Healthy Environments; PreK-12 Schools

Resource Type: Lessons Learned
Organization: DesignX

This program profile describes the College of Central Florida's COVID-19 pandemic response 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: Best Practices
Organization: College of Central Florida

This program profile shares a detailed plan of action for phased school reopening. The plan offers guidance for students, teachers, faculty, and staff during each phase of reopening and is customizable based on COVID-19 caseload and local community needs. Tags: Safe and Healthy Environments; Colleges and Universities

Resource Type: Best Practices; State or Local Resources
Organization: Turtle Mountain Community College

This reopening plan utilizes local, state, and federal public health guidance to provide a detailed outline for safely reopening schools. It shares best practices for encouraging student retention and success; supporting students by strengthening organizational capacity; and increasing the health, safety and well-being of students, faculty, staff and the community. Tags: Safe and Healthy Environments; Colleges and Universities

Resource Type: Best Practices; State or Local Resources
Organization: Hocking College

This program profile describes a partnership between Victor Valley College and San Bernardino County, California, that involved working to increase organizational capacity and to support whole community health through the creation and operation of a no-cost COVID-19 testing site. Tags: Safe and Healthy Environments; Colleges and Universities

Resource Type: Best Practices
Organization: Victor Valley College

This program profile highlights the creation of telehealth services at Heidelberg University in response to student needs related to the COVID-19 pandemic. It provides information on materials utilized to develop and offer telehealth services and can serve as a model for increasing mental health services capacity. Tags: Providing Supports to Students, Young Children, and Families; Colleges and Universities

Resource Type: Lessons Learned; State or Local Resources
Organization: Heidelberg University

This Web page hosts a collection of tools and resources for students, faculty, and staff that share guidance and best practices for safe campus operation during and after the COVID-19 pandemic. Featuring Utica College's COVID-19 surveillance testing protocol and reopening guides, this Web page also holds archives of the college's historical COVID-19 response plans and communications. Tags: Safe and Healthy Environments; Colleges and Universities

Resource Type: Best Practices; Innovative Spotlight
Organization: Utica College

This Website and playbook serve as a comprehensive guide and resource hub for Northeast Iowa Community College’s COVID-19 response. The Website and playbook detail the procedures and protocols implemented to ensure safe and healthy environments and to communicate updates on public health data and developments in campus operations and services. Tags: Safe and Healthy Environments; Colleges and Universities

Resource Type: Best Practices
Organization: Northeast Iowa Community College

This program profile provides a selection of Neumann University’s best practices to maintain safe and healthy environments and support students, faculty, and staff during remote learning and limited in-person instruction throughout the COVID-19 pandemic. It includes details on practices such as investing in a robust technological infrastructure before the onset of COVID-19, allowing for student and faculty choice in classroom instruction methods and limiting in-person class sizes. Tags: Safe and Healthy Environments; Colleges and Universities

Resource Type: Best Practices
Organization: Neumann University

This innovative spotlight shares a data-driven approach for ensuring accessible and transparent management of personal protective equipment (PPE). The university utilizes materials management software and data dashboards to track the receipt, distribution, usage, and current inventory of PPE and ensures the university maintains supply and anticipates future needs. Tags: Safe and Healthy Environments; Colleges and Universities

Resource Type: Lessons Learned; Innovative Spotlight
Organization: Western Carolina University

This program profile provides an innovative model for use of personal protective equipment (PPE) and the management of COVID-19 related materials on college and university campuses. The program utilizes existing software, namely TMA warehouse inventory management software and Tableau data dashboards, to enable all inventory management stakeholders to have reliable, transparent access to actionable PPE inventory data. Tags: Safe and Healthy Environments; Colleges and Universities; English learners

Resource Type: Lessons Learned; Innovative Spotlight
Organization: Western Carolina University

This fact sheet provides a bulleted list of Jarvis Christian College’s procedures, protocols, and services to maintain safe and healthy environments and support students, faculty, and staff during the return to in-person campus activities. Tags: Safe and Healthy Environments; Colleges and Universities

Resource Type: Best Practices
Organization: Jarvis Christian College

This program profile highlights the innovative COVID-19 pandemic response management model employed at Defiance College. The college’s Incident Command model sets in place collaborative decision-making and accountability structures to craft an appropriate and consistent administrative response to the COVID-19 pandemic. Tags: Safe and Healthy Environments; Colleges and Universities

Resource Type: Lessons Learned; Innovative Spotlight; State or Local Resources
Organization: Defiance College

This infographic guide includes key facts, essential questions, and links to curated resources that promote the social-emotional well-being of teachers and school staff. Tags: Teacher, Early Childhood Provider, Faculty, and Staff Well-being, Professional Development, and Supports; PreK-12 Schools

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

This infographic guide includes key facts, essential questions, and links to curated resources that promote the social-emotional well-being of parents and caregivers.  Tags: Providing Supports to Students, Young Children, and Families; PreK-12 Schools

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

This infographic guide includes key facts, essential questions, and links to curated resources that promote the social-emotional well-being of early learners. Tags: Providing Supports to Students, Young Children, and Families; Early Childhood Programs

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

This infographic guide includes key facts, essential questions, and links to curated resources that promote the social-emotional well-being of youth in marginalized groups.  Tags: Safe and Healthy Environments; PreK-12 Schools; Racial/ethnic subgroups

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

This Spanish-language infographic guide includes key facts, essential questions, and links to curated resources that promote the social-emotional well-being of parents and caregivers.  Tags: Providing Supports to Students, Young Children, and Families; PreK-12 Schools; English learners

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

This infographic guide includes key facts, essential questions, and links to curated resources that promote the social-emotional well-being of military-connected learners.  Tags: Safe and Healthy Environments; PreK-12 Schools; Student veterans; Military-connected students

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

This implementation story shares a comprehensive outline of Santa Fe College’s strategies and initiatives to assist students, faculty, staff, and community members by providing public health information and support services during both the remote instruction period and the return to in-person instruction. Tags: Safe and Healthy Environments; Colleges and Universities; Students from low-income backgrounds; First-generation college students

Resource Type: Best Practices; Lessons Learned
Organization: Santa Fe College

This document outlines procedures created by the Utah College of Dental Hygiene to respond to the COVID-19 pandemic. It details steps to support students, faculty and clinic patients in a variety of settings while maintaining compliance with the regulations set forth by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and the American Dental Association. Tags: Teacher, Early Childhood Provider, Faculty, and Staff Well-being, Professional Development, and Supports; Colleges and Universities

Resource Type: State or Local Resources; Lessons Learned
Organization: Utah College of Dental Hygiene

This plan provides comprehensive guidance on mitigating and managing public health risks related to COVID-19 while reopening schools and campuses. The plan addresses various facets of safe school operations and includes key questions, links to resources and recommendations for school leaders and administrators. Tags: Safe and Healthy Environments; PreK-12 Schools

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

This guide from the Nova Academy of Cosmetology shares procedures and protocols to maintain safe and healthy environments for students, staff and clients during the COVID-19 pandemic. The guide provides an example of best practices for cosmetology programs or other education programs that require client interactions. Tags: Safe and Healthy Environments; Colleges and Universities

Resource Type: Best Practices
Organization: Nova Academy of Cosmetology

This online planning app for school administrators provides decision-making support specific to a variety of aspects of COVID-19 and school safety. The app guides administrators through the decision-making process; helps administrators access targeted resources; and provides a personalized, downloadable report with a guidance plan and checklist. Tags: Safe and Healthy Environments; PreK-12 Schools

Resource Type: State or Local Resources
Organization: University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

This program profile outlines the best practices implemented at Tennessee State University to maintain a safe and healthy campus environment amidst the COVID-19 pandemic. It highlights protocols and procedures for residential buildings and campus life, courses and classrooms, research labs and employees. Tags: Safe and Healthy Environments; Colleges and Universities

Resource Type: Best Practices
Organization: Tennessee State University

This program profile highlights Rowan-Cabarrus Community College’s best practices for maintaining a safe and healthy campus environment and developing support networks for students. The college implemented a variety of strategies including a COVID-19 dashboard, a team of health screeners, an online student assistance form and a laptop loaner program. Tags: Safe and Healthy Environments; Colleges and Universities

Resource Type: Best Practices
Organization: Rowan-Cabarrus Community College

This program profile highlights Bay Path University’s nationally recognized best practices for delivering virtual student support programs and services. Bay Path University provides a virtual ecosystem called Social Online Universal Learning that uses data to innovate online learning and help ensure students gain the skills necessary for career success post-graduation. Tags: Teacher, Early Childhood Provider, Faculty, and Staff Well-being, Professional Development, and Supports; Colleges and Universities

Resource Type: Best Practices
Organization: Bay Path University

This program profile shares an education technology implementation success story from University of La Verne. The university supports student success by integrating LinkedIn Learning technology with general education and career center Web platforms. By combining these tools, University of La Verne leverages technology to enhance retention, student success and student career outcomes. Tags: Safe and Healthy Environments; Colleges and Universities; English learners, First-generation college students, Students from low-income backgrounds, Undocumented students

Resource Type: Best Practices; Innovative Spotlight
Organization: University of La Verne

This implementation profile describes the strategies and methods Iowa Lakes Community College utilizes to increase mental health service capacity on campus and support students' needs. By increasing access to services and reducing wait times and paperwork, Iowa Lakes Community College supports students' mental health and wellness so they can focus on achieving academic success. Tags: Safe and Healthy Environments; Providing Supports to Students, Young Children, and Families; Colleges and Universities

Resource Type: Best Practices
Organization: Iowa Lakes Community College

This Web page offers current information on the existence and incidence of COVID-19 variants and shares actionable guidance which individuals, schools, districts and communities can use to stay healthy and protected against different variants of COVID-19. Tags: Safe and Healthy Environments; PreK-12 Schools

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

This Web page provides guidance on maintaining physical distancing in schools during lunchtime. It also offers guidance and mitigation strategies to support education agencies with working to ensure lunchtime remains safe when inclement weather reduces access to outdoor space. Tags: Safe and Healthy Environments; PreK-12 Schools

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

This Web page shares current research and best practices on double-masking and offers insight on how double-masking combined with other COVID-19 mitigation strategies can help ensure safe and healthy school environments. Tags: Safe and Healthy Environments; PreK-12 Schools

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

This Web page shares COVID-19 safety and mitigation strategies specific to school bus transportation. Tags: Safe and Healthy Environments; PreK-12 Schools

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

This set of resources for schools, school groups and school wellness committees from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention provides evidence-based strategies for encouraging parent involvement in school health. The strategies are grounded in a framework for engaging parents that includes three aspects: connecting with parents, engaging parents in school health activities and sustaining parent engagement in school health. Tags: Providing Supports to Students, Young Children, and Families; PreK-12 Schools

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

This tool from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention provides administrators and educators with tips about how to use CDC recommendations around ventilation in school and child care program buildings. Tags: Safe and Healthy Environments; Early Childhood Programs; PreK-12 Schools

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

This online platform hosts an integrated set of tools for gathering, monitoring and analyzing the daily health information of students and adults at school. Tags: Safe and Healthy Environments; PreK-12 Schools

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

This brief from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention provides information on the transmission of COVID-19 in PreK-12 schools. The brief discusses the association between COVID-19 transmission in schools and community transmission and provides evidence on the effectiveness of transmission prevention strategies in schools. Tags: Safe and Healthy Environments; PreK-12 Schools

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

This resource from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention provides considerations and strategies for safe in-person operations of PreK-12 schools during the COVID-19 pandemic. The resource includes health equity considerations in addition to transmission prevention, phased prevention and testing strategies. Tags: Safe and Healthy Environments; PreK-12 Schools

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

This comprehensive handbook for school administrators and leaders provides detailed guidance on supporting students during the COVID-19 pandemic. The guide includes sections on health and safety, instructional best practices and safety considerations for building and district operations. 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: State or Local Resources
Organization: Kentucky Department of Education

This guide outlines universal expectations and best practices for reopening Kentucky K-12 schools amidst the COVID-19 pandemic. The guide includes detailed information about social distancing, mask requirements, screening and school health policies, sanitation efforts, and contact tracing. Tags: Safe and Healthy Environments; PreK-12 Schools

Resource Type: Best Practices; State or Local Resources
Organization: Kentucky Department of Education

This document details one public school district's mitigation approaches to ensure safe operation during the COVID-19 pandemic. Tags: Safe and Healthy Environments; PreK-12 Schools; Racial/ethnic subgroups

Resource Type: Lessons Learned
Organization: Warner Public Schools

This Website provides a collection of resources and best practices for college and university students, professors, faculty and staff. It also provides specific guidance on applying contact tracing and other COVID-19 mitigation strategies in postsecondary settings. Tags: Safe and Healthy Environments; Providing Supports to Students, Young Children, and Families; Colleges and Universities

Resource Type: Best Practices
Organization: Bay State College

This resource hub for Marin County, California educational institutions provides English and Spanish-language guidelines and public health updates to facilitate the safe and healthy return to site-based classroom instruction. The resource hub offers a broadly applicable example of transparent communication with a variety of stakeholders. Tags: Safe and Healthy Environments; Providing Supports to Students, Young Children, and Families; PreK-12 Schools

Resource Type: Best Practices; State or Local Resource; Lessons Learned
Organization: Marin County Office of Education

This dashboard uses interactive maps to share current information on school opening status and COVID-19 spread. Originally created to provide visual information for the Marin County school district community, this Website provides a template other school districts can model when creating a geographic information systems dashboard. Tags: Safe and Healthy Environments; PreK-12 Schools

Resource Type: Innovative Spotlight
Organization: Marin County Office of Education

This Webinar covers topics of educator learning and professional development during COVID-19. Panelists discuss online professional learning opportunities and share strategies for improving teacher practice through coaching, self-reflection and knowledge application. Tags: Teacher, Early Childhood Provider, Faculty, and Staff Well-being, Professional Development, and Supports; PreK-12 Schools

Resource Type: Best Practices
Organization: RTI International

This program profile outlines a partnership between Northland Pioneer College and local law enforcement agencies to provide laptops, hotspots and Wi-Fi connections to isolated students across the college’s 21,000 square mile service area amid mandatory curfews and quarantines and the closure of tribal borders to visitors. The program profile provides an example of how to leverage a community partnership to keep rural students connected to their classes during remote instruction. 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; Racial/ethnic subgroups; Students from low-income backgrounds

Resource Type: Lessons Learned; Innovative Spotlight
Organization: Northland Pioneer College

This guide provides support and guidance on reopening and mitigating the spread of COVID-19 in colleges and universities. The comprehensive guide features sections on cleaning protocols, case tracking and reporting, air quality and safety, and student and faculty support services. Tags: Safe and Healthy Environments; Colleges and Universities

Resource Type: Best Practices; State or Local Resources
Organization: Northern Essex Community College

This video for students, staff and faculty outlines St. Petersburg College’s COVID-19 mitigation protocols and procedures established to facilitate a safe and healthy environment for in-person instruction and activities during the COVID-19 pandemic. The video provides an example of leveraging multimedia formats to communicate important safety protocols to school communities. Tags: Safe and Healthy Environments; Colleges and Universities

Resource Type: Best Practices; State or Local Resources
Organization: St. Petersburg College

This Web page provides resources that support students, teachers, faculty, staff and the greater community. It compiles local, state and federal public health resources; shares a detailed return to campus plan; and offers information on COVID-19 vaccination eligibility and accessibility. Tags: Safe and Healthy Environments; Colleges and Universities

Resource Type: Best Practices
Organization: Rowan-Cabarrus Community College

This Web page provides regular updates about the COVID-19 pandemic to faculty, staff, students, and families of Navajo Technical University. It also provides broadly applicable resources on health and wellness, safety protocols and reopening plans. Tags: Safe and Healthy Environments; Colleges and Universities; Students from low-income backgrounds; Racial/ethnic subgroups; Student veterans; Military-connected students; Students experiencing homelessness; First-generation college students

Resource Type: Best Practices
Organization: Navajo Technical University

This Web page for the Missouri Baptist University community outlines the university’s COVID-19 mitigation protocols and procedures established to facilitate a safe and healthy environment as the school reopened in Fall 2020. These protocols and procedures were implemented and communicated by the University’s COVID Action Team and enabled the university to navigate a successful reopening. Tags: Safe and Healthy Environments; Colleges and Universities

Resource Type: Best Practices; State or Local Resources
Organization: Missouri Baptist University

This guide provides support for public schools and communities in determining their plans and strategies for reopening after the COVID-19 pandemic. It includes clear, actionable steps that administrators and leaders can take before students and employees return to school buildings, as well as guidance on staying open throughout the 2020-2021 school year. Tags: Safe and Healthy Environments; PreK-12 Schools

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

This Web page is a resource hub for New Mexico educators and families that provides local data, guidance and tools to maintain safe and healthy environments and to support students and families as schools return to in-person instruction. It offers resources broadly applicable to the education field, including a COVID-19 response toolkit for public schools; reentry support documents; and guidance and resources for educators, school safety and student supports, families and the community. Tags: Safe and Healthy Environments; PreK-12 Schools

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

This blog series explores the reality of teacher burnout and trauma given the many stressors introduced by the COVID-19 pandemic. The series also discusses coaching as a strategy for increasing teacher resilience in the face of these challenges. 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: RTI International

This Webinar for educators provides insight into creating positive and effective learning environments in remote, hybrid and in-person educational settings. Panelists discuss strategies for cultivating meaningful teacher-student relationships, supporting families remotely and promoting high-quality learning experiences now and in the future. Tags: Teacher, Early Childhood Provider, Faculty, and Staff Well-being, Professional Development, and Supports; PreK-12 Schools

Resource Type: Best Practices
Organization: RTI International

This Website for educators provides a series of articles that share guidance, insight and strategies for supporting young children’s behavioral needs during and after traumatic experiences. 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
Organization: North Carolina Department of Public Instruction

This Web page shares strategies for reducing the risk of exposure and spread of COVID-19 in early child care and education settings. Tags: Safe and Healthy Environments; Early Childhood Programs

Resource Type: Best Practices; Federal Resources; State or Local Resources
Organization: North Carolina Department of Public Instruction

This Website for school and program administrators compiles best practices for reopening child care programs and PreK-12 schools. The site shares teacher and staff resources, provides detailed information on managing daily operations, and offers guidance specific to a wide variety of target audiences. Tags: Safe and Healthy Environments; Early Childhood Programs

Resource Type: Federal Resources; State or Local Resources
Organization: North Carolina Department of Public Instruction

This Website shares current public health guidance for early childhood providers. The guidance on this Website consolidates best practices for safely operating child care programs and provides specific information on topics including COVID-19 mitigation strategies, cohorting and staggering, and recognizing signs and symptoms of COVID-19. Tags: Safe and Healthy Environments; Early Childhood Programs

Resource Type: Federal Resources; State or Local Resources
Organization: North Carolina Department of Public Instruction

This Web page offers a step-by-step framework and implementation models for schools to plan mealtime procedures that are appropriate for their facilities and resources, ensure the safety of students and staff, and address the needs of remote students. It highlights examples of schools that have returned to in-person or hybrid instruction. Tags: Safe and Healthy Environments; PreK-12 Schools

Resource Type: Best Practices
Organization: The Learning Accelerator

This Web page shares key recommendations, considerations and strategies for building a mask-wearing culture in schools. Accompanying resources include a toolkit for educators on school mask culture, guides on mask protocols, examples from the field, and educational stories and a video for students. Tags: Safe and Healthy Environments; PreK-12 Schools

Resource Type: Best Practices
Organization: The Learning Accelerator

This Web page for educators provides guidelines on simultaneous in-person and remote instruction, focusing on four key areas: routines and space, culture and community, dynamic use of time and modalities, and opportunities for self-direction and personalization. Each key area is accompanied by practical strategies for addressing both challenges and opportunities that may arise with simultaneous learning. Tags: Providing Supports to Students, Young Children, and Families; PreK-12 Schools

Resource Type: Best Practices
Organization: The Learning Accelerator

This Web page shares up-to-date public health guidance and best practices for safely operating child care programs during the COVID-19 pandemic. It provides detailed information on mitigation strategies, cohorting and staggering, and recognizing the signs and symptoms of COVID-19 in young children. Tags: Safe and Healthy Environments; Early Childhood Programs

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

This blog post introduces the New Mexico Social and Emotional Learning Framework, which offers a guiding set of six principles for schools to use in order to meet student, staff and community behavioral health needs. These principles include positive developmental relationships; intentional development of skills, mindsets and habits; rich instructional experiences; environments filled with safety and belonging; integrated systems and supports; and use of data to assess need and impact. Tags: Providing Supports to Students, Young Children, and Families; PreK-12 Schools

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

This video series outlines how education leaders in four states—Missouri, New Mexico, Pennsylvania, and Wyoming—responded to the COVID-19 pandemic by creating structures, guidance, and resources for their state education agency, local education agencies, and the general public. Tags: Providing Supports to Students, Young Children, and Families; PreK-12 Schools

Resource Type: Implementation Stories
Organization: National Comprehensive Center

This webinar provides an overview of chronic stress and the associated symptoms, causes and effects. Panelists spotlight one state’s approach to increasing caregiver well-being and share resources specific to early child care providers which support mindfulness and self-care. Tags: Teacher, Early Childhood Provider, Faculty, and Staff Well-being, Professional Development, and Supports; Early Childhood Programs

Resource Type: Federal Resources
Organization: Office of Child Care State Capacity Building Center Infant Toddler Specialist Network

This webinar on the impact of trauma on children, caregivers and families highlights the value of responsive practices to support resiliency and build protective factors. Panelists further outline the implementation of trauma responsive systems in early childhood and child care programs. Tags: Providing Supports to Students, Young Children, and Families; Early Childhood Programs; Students from low-income backgrounds

Resource Type: Federal Resources
Organization: Office of Child Care State Capacity Building Center Infant Toddler Specialist Network

This webinar for early childhood providers offers guidance on how to identify the impact of adverse childhood experiences on children, caregivers and families; recognize the value of culturally responsive approaches to support resiliency in children, families and Indigenous communities; and understand the elements of a trauma-responsive system of care. Tags: Safe and Healthy Environments; Early Childhood Programs; Racial/ethnic subgroups

Resource Type: Federal Resources
Organization: Office of Child Care National Center on Tribal Early Childhood Education

This report and resource compilation is designed for early care and education programs administered by Tribal Nations, Tribal consortia, and other entities who work with Tribal child care providers, Tribal Head Start or Early Head Start programs, and Tribal Home Visiting programs. These resources support program leaders in navigating the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on Tribal children, families, providers, staff and communities. Tags: Safe and Healthy Environments; Early Childhood Programs; Racial/ethnic subgroups

Resource Type: Federal Resources
Organization: Office of Child Care National Center on Tribal Early Childhood Education

This brief for Licensing and Child Care and Development Fund administrators provides an overview of national guidelines and state requirements on the prevention and control of infectious disease in child care settings. The brief supports administrators considering revisions to state standards for both licensed and license-exempt providers, and guides school and home care provider efforts to improve the health and safety of their learning environments. Tags: Safe and Healthy Environments; Early Childhood Programs

Resource Type: Federal Resources
Organization: Office of Child Care Early Childhood Quality Assurance Center (HHS TA Center)

This toolkit for out-of-school-time programs provides program leaders with multiple resources for supporting safe and healthy environments for school-age children. The toolkit also contains a section providing guidance related to the COVID-19 pandemic. Tags: Safe and Healthy Environments; Early Childhood Programs; Students from low-income backgrounds

Resource Type: Federal Resources
Organization: Office of Child Care National Center for Afterschool and Summer Enrichment (HHS TA Center)

This resource toolkit for district and school leaders focuses on supporting K-12 children’s social and emotional learning during out-of-school time. This collection includes webinars, guided reflections, best practices, real-world examples and action steps to support children and staff during COVID-19. Tags: Providing Supports to Students, Young Children, and Families; Early Childhood Programs; Students from low-income backgrounds

Resource Type: Federal Resources
Organization: Office of Child Care National Center for Afterschool and Summer Enrichment (HHS TA Center)

This resource toolkit includes webinars, a guide, and additional articles that highlight best practices on integrating social and emotional support strategies into early child care systems to support young children during and after the COVID-19 pandemic. The toolkit also provides examples of Child Care and Development Fund grantees that have leveraged partnerships and funding to support program implementation success. Tags: Teacher, Early Childhood Provider, Faculty, and Staff Well-being, Professional Development, and Supports; Early Childhood Programs; Students from low-income backgrounds

Resource Type: Federal Resources
Organization: Office of Child Care Early Childhood Quality Assurance Center (HHS TA Center)

This webinar shares perspectives from epidemiology, state human services and health departments, and child care providers about how Rhode Island was able to limit COVID-19 transmission in child care settings. Panelists also explore strategies for minimizing transmission moving forward based on CDC guidance, state requirements, and provider experiences offering care under new protocols to keep children, families and child care staff healthy and safe. Tags: Safe and Healthy Environments; Early Childhood Programs

Resource Type: Federal Resources
Organization: Office of Childcare State Capacity Building Center (HHS TA Center)

This discussion guide provides key questions for parents, students, and community members to ask during reopening discussions with district and local school leaders. Question topics include school operations, academic recovery, social-emotional and health supports, remote learning and family engagement. Tags: Safe and Healthy Environments; PreK-12 Schools

Resource Type: Best Practices
Organization: SPAN Parent Advocacy Network

This brief for educators, state and local leaders, and trainers and coaches presents an overview of how social and emotional learning relates to intensive intervention and offers sample strategies for skill building among students in need of intensive learning, social, emotional and behavioral supports. 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: National Center on Intensive Intervention (NCII)

This guide and accompanying video for leadership teams includes strategies and key practices for supporting students with the most intensive behavioral needs, their families, and educators in their transitions back to school during and following the COVID-19 pandemic. These resources prioritize health and safety, social and emotional needs, and behavioral and academic growth and provide recommendations for supporting students with intensive needs in a variety of learning formats. 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: National Center on Intensive Intervention (NCII)

This brief provides recommendations to district and school leadership teams on how the components of positive behavioral interventions and supports can be used to prioritize staff health and wellbeing. Tags: Providing Supports to Students, Young Children, and Families; PreK-12 Schools; Children and students with disabilities; English learners; Students from low-income backgrounds; first-generation college students; students experiencing homelessness; students in or formerly in foster care; LGBTQIA students; undocumented students; student veterans and military-connected students; student parents; international students

Resource Type: Best Practices
Organization: Center on Positive Behavioral Interventions and Supports (PBIS)

This brief outlines how the positive behavioral interventions and supports framework can serve as a road map for district and school communities to support students, educators, and families during and after the COVID-19 pandemic. The brief provides strategies to guide implementation efforts through phases of crisis recovery for districts and schools that are getting started or strengthening and maintaining current implementation. Tags: Providing Supports to Students, Young Children, and Families; PreK-12 Schools; Children and students with disabilities; English learners; Students from low-income backgrounds; first-generation college students; students experiencing homelessness; students in or formerly in foster care; LGBTQIA students; undocumented students; student veterans and military-connected students; student parents; international students

Resource Type: Best Practices
Organization: Center on Positive Behavioral Interventions and Supports (PBIS)

This guide describes the use of a multi-tiered system of support framework to support students, families, and educators during the transition back to school during and following the COVID-19 pandemic in a manner that prioritizes their health and safety, social and emotional needs, and behavioral and academic growth. Tags: Providing Supports to Students, Young Children, and Families; PreK-12 Schools; Children and students with disabilities; English learners; Students from low-income backgrounds; first-generation college students; students experiencing homelessness; students in or formerly in foster care; LGBTQIA students; undocumented students; student veterans and military-connected students; student parents; international students

Resource Type: Best Practices
Organization: Center on Positive Behavioral Interventions and Supports (PBIS)

This brief introduces mindfulness as a strategy for facilitating social and emotional learning in schools, explaining the potential benefits of mindfulness for both students and educators. The brief provides examples of mindfulness strategies and lists additional learning resources. Tags: Teacher, Early Childhood Provider, Faculty, and Staff Well-being, Professional Development, and Supports; PreK-12 Schools

Resource Type: Best Practices
Organization: Center to Improve Social and Emotional Learning (SEL)

This brief offers research and practical guidance for school leaders, educators, and staff to ensure that the culture and climate of school communities remain collaborative, effective, healthy, and sustainable while coping with the stresses of social isolation, school closures, and changes to how services are provided. Tags: Teacher, Early Childhood Provider, Faculty, and Staff Well-being, Professional Development, and Supports; PreK-12 Schools

Resource Type: Best Practices
Organization: Center to Improve Social and Emotional Learning (SEL)

This video for education leaders outlines social and emotional learning, trauma-informed and restorative practices, highlighting how these practices fit together to create one aligned, coherent system for creating safe and supportive learning environments. Tags: Safe and Healthy Environments; PreK-12 Schools

Resource Type: Best Practices
Organization: Center to Improve Social and Emotional Learning (SEL)

This report provides an in-depth guide to 25 evidence-based programs aimed at elementary schools and out-of-school time providers, offering information about curricular content and programmatic features that practitioners can use to make informed choices about social and emotional learning programs. Tags: Providing Supports to Students, Young Children, and Families; PreK-12 Schools

Resource Type: Best Practices
Organization: Center to Improve Social and Emotional Learning (SEL)

This report for district and school leaders provides guidance on how to assess local needs relative to social and emotional learning and how to identify appropriate evidence-based interventions that address those needs. Tags: Providing Supports to Students, Young Children, and Families; PreK-12 Schools

Resource Type: Best Practices
Organization: Center to Improve Social and Emotional Learning (SEL)

This webinar for school and education leaders explores the practical realities and research foundations of how remote learning offers both opportunities and imperatives to re-establishing relationships during school closures. Tags: Teacher, Early Childhood Provider, Faculty, and Staff Well-being, Professional Development, and Supports; PreK-12 Schools

Resource Type: Best Practices
Organization: Center to Improve Social and Emotional Learning and School Safety (CISELSS)

This handbook for district and school leaders offers guidelines on alternative preparation programs for hiring and developing new teaching candidates from other fields, including applicants making a career change due to the COVID-19 pandemic. This resource supports leaders in selecting candidates who are more likely to be successful in the education field, and provides best practices on supporting new educators. Tags: Teacher, Early Childhood Provider, Faculty, and Staff Well-being, Professional Development, and Supports; Colleges and Universities

Resource Type: Best Practices
Organization: Collaboration for Effective Educator Development, Accountability, and Reform Center

This brief offers concrete ways teacher candidates can be leveraged to better support veteran teachers during the shift to remote learning, or as a component of new education models as schools return to in-person instruction. Tags: Teacher, Early Childhood Provider, Faculty, and Staff Well-being, Professional Development, and Supports; Colleges and Universities

Resource Type: Best Practices
Organization: Collaboration for Effective Educator Development, Accountability, and Reform Center

This handbook supports program administrators, directors and classroom practitioners design educational environments as they return to in-person operations. The handbook outlines practices and strategies that have proved effective across time and are supported by research on preschool inclusion. Tags: Providing Supports to Students, Young Children, and Families; Early Childhood Programs; Children and students with disabilities

Resource Type: Best Practices
Organization: Early Childhood Technical Assistance Center (ECTA)

This handbook outlines key considerations for State Part C programs as governors and state leaders begin to lift stay-at-home orders and programs move through various stages of returning to in-person operations. These considerations are expected to evolve over time to address the changing landscape and impact of COVID-19 on children and families, personnel and service delivery. Tags: Providing Supports to Students, Young Children, and Families; Early Childhood Programs; Children and students with disabilities

Resource Type: Best Practices
Organization: Early Childhood Technical Assistance Center (ECTA)

This video series shares the experiences of practitioners and families from across the country, illustrating success stories of supporting preschoolers and their families during the COVID-19 pandemic and return to in-person learning in the fields of early education and early childhood special education. Tags: Providing Supports to Students, Young Children, and Families; Early Childhood Programs; Children and students with disabilities

Resource Type: Best Practices
Organization: Early Childhood Technical Assistance Center (ECTA)

This infographic provides district leaders with guiding prompts to ensure educational equity is built into reopening plans so all students' academic, health, and safety needs are met, with an emphasis on supporting historically underserved students. Tags: Providing Supports to Students, Young Children, and Families; PreK-12 Schools; English learners; Racial/ethnic subgroups; Students from low-income backgrounds

Resource Type: Best Practices
Organization: Intercultural Development Research Association (IDRA) EAC South

This guide for education leaders and state officials provides specific recommendations for policy and best practices to ensure education equity during and after 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
Organization: Intercultural Development Research Association (IDRA) EAC South

This webinar series for district and school leaders explores what the future holds for reopenings, mental health and emotional well-being in the wake of the myriad of issues facing today’s students such as COVID-19, school safety, immigration, and the Black Lives Matter and #MeToo movements. Tags: Providing Supports to Students, Young Children, and Families; PreK-12 Schools

Resource Type: Best Practices
Organization: Intercultural Development Research Association (IDRA) EAC South

This webinar includes student panelists who outline the needs of their peers in relation to issues such as COVID-19, school safety, immigration, and the Black Lives Matter and #MeToo movements. Tags: Providing Supports to Students, Young Children, and Families; PreK-12 Schools; Racial/ethnic subgroups

Resource Type: Best Practices
Organization: Intercultural Development Research Association (IDRA) EAC South

This webinar includes panelists who discuss the historical and current context of anti-Asian American and Pacific Islander racism and xenophobia, distinguish between hate incidents and hate crimes, and identify actions the general public can take to address bigotry and discrimination. 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; Colleges and Universities; Racial/ethnic subgroups

Resource Type: Lessons Learned
Organization: Mid-Atlantic Equity Center (MAEC)

This guide for classroom coaches provides a reflection tool to identify equity concerns related to the implementation of social-emotional promotion, prevention and intervention practices. The guide assists in examining practice implementations through the lens of culturally responsive practices and identification of implicit bias. Tags: Providing Supports to Students, Young Children, and Families; Early Childhood Programs; Racial/ethnic subgroups; LGBTQIA students

Resource Type: Best Practices
Organization: National Center For Pyramid Model Innovations

This brief presents five formative assessment strategies teachers can use to engage students with disabilities in remote learning environments. The strategies can also be used in in-person and hybrid learning settings. Tags: Providing Supports to Students, Young Children, and Families; PreK-12 Schools; Children and students with disabilities

Resource Type: Best Practices
Organization: National Center on Educational Outcomes

This brief for educators presents 10 pre-assessment tools that help guide the instructional planning process for students with disabilities in remote learning environments. The tools can also be used in in-person and hybrid learning settings. Tags: Providing Supports to Students, Young Children, and Families; PreK-12 Schools; Children and students with disabilities

Resource Type: Best Practices
Organization: National Center on Educational Outcomes

This toolkit assists schools and families in collaborating to support children’s literacy growth in remote or hybrid learning environments. It explains the features of remote literacy learning, roles that schools and families play, tips for planning and implementing remote literacy learning, and coaching steps to support literacy learning at home. Tags: Providing Supports to Students, Young Children, and Families; PreK-12 Schools; Children and students with disabilities

Resource Type: Best Practices
Organization: National Center on Improving Literacy

This collection of tool charts for schools assists educators and families in choosing academic and behavioral assessment tools and interventions that meet standards for technical rigor and address their specific needs. The collection includes academic and behavior screening tools, academic and behavior progress monitoring charts, and academic and behavior intervention charts. Tags: Teacher, Early Childhood Provider, Faculty, and Staff Well-being, Professional Development, and Supports; PreK-12 Schools; English learners; Racial/ethnic subgroups; Students from low-income backgrounds

Resource Type: Best Practices
Organization: National Center on Intensive Intervention

This guide supports students and their family members who are exiting from school services during a period of limited in-person access to education and community services. It provides an organizing structure for students to identify potential areas of need and for community service providers to support immediate transition decisions. Tags: Providing Supports to Students, Young Children, and Families; PreK-12 Schools; Children and students with disabilities

Resource Type: Best Practices
Organization: National Technical Assistance Center on Transition

This presentation for educators provides an overview of strategies to create supportive and positive classrooms using positive behavioral interventions and supports. Tags: Safe and Healthy Environments; Teacher, Early Childhood Provider, Faculty, and Staff Well-being, Professional Development, and Supports; PreK-12 Schools

Resource Type: Best Practices
Organization: Positive Behavioral Interventions and Supports (PBIS)

This presentation offers strategies for schools to establish and maintain systems to keep education safe, predictable and positive upon return to in-person instruction following school closures, remote learning, and possible trauma related to the COVID-19 pandemic. Tags: Safe and Healthy Environments; Teacher, Early Childhood Provider, Faculty, and Staff Well-being, Professional Development, and Supports; PreK-12 Schools

Resource Type: Best Practices
Organization: Positive Behavioral Interventions and Supports (PBIS)

This guide highlights five key practices for teachers and families to support all students, including students with disabilities, at school and home. For each practice, the guide provides tips for teachers to support students with disabilities during instruction; tips for families that educators can share to enhance learning at home, especially during periods of remote instruction; and free-access resources that include evidence-based strategies (e.g., informational guides, downloadable materials, research-based programs). Tags: Providing Supports to Students, Young Children, and Families; PreK-12 Schools; Children and students with disabilities

Resource Type: Best Practices
Organization: Positive Behavioral Interventions and Supports (PBIS)

This guide for students, families and educators describes the use of a multi-tiered systems of support framework that prioritizes their health and safety, social and emotional needs, and behavioral and academic growth upon return to in-person instruction 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 Supports; PreK-12 Schools

Resource Type: Best Practices
Organization: Positive Behavioral Interventions and Supports (PBIS)

This brief for school personnel provides guidance on teaching social-emotional competencies within a positive behavioral interventions and supports framework to support systematic, school-wide implementation. 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: Positive Behavioral Interventions and Supports (PBIS)

This website provides simple recommendations educators can embed across a continuum of supports as they continue to address the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic in schools. Tags: Providing Supports to Students, Young Children, and Families; PreK-12 Schools

Resource Type: Best Practices
Organization: Positive Behavioral Interventions and Supports (PBIS)

This practice guide presents six strategies school teams can use to ensure a safe, predictable and positive school year. These strategies are applicable for all students experiencing school closure, as well as for individual students returning from extended time away from school. Tags: Safe and Healthy Environments; PreK-12 Schools

Resource Type: Best Practices
Organization: Positive Behavioral Interventions and Supports (PBIS)

This practice brief shares tips for maintaining continuity of learning by defining classroom expectations for remote learning environments. Using a Positive Behavior Interventions and Supports framework, teachers can make remote learning safe, predictable and positive. Tags: Providing Supports to Students, Young Children, and Families; PreK-12 Schools

Resource Type: Best Practices
Organization: Positive Behavioral Interventions and Supports (PBIS)

This practice brief provides simple recommendations for building prosocial skills which educators can embed across a continuum of supports. The brief also provides strategies for building prosocial behavior families can encourage while students are at home. Tags: Providing Supports to Students, Young Children, and Families; PreK-12 Schools

Resource Type: Best Practices
Organization: Positive Behavioral Interventions and Supports (PBIS)

This guide provides information on holding and participating in virtual individualized education program meetings. The resource includes technology tips, tips for hosting virtual meetings and tips for participating in virtual individualized education program meetings. Tags: Safe and Healthy Environments; PreK-12 Schools

Resource Type: Best Practices
Organization: PROGRESS Center

This webinar shares resources and tips for implementing successful virtual individualized education program meetings before and after school reopening. Tags: Safe and Healthy Environments; PreK-12 Schools

Resource Type: Best Practices
Organization: PROGRESS Center

This blog series presents a concerns-based approach to supporting teacher well-being and provides frameworks school leaders can utilize to promote sustained well-being and learning. Tags: Teacher, Early Childhood Provider, Faculty, and Staff Well-being, Professional Development, and Supports; PreK-12 Schools

Resource Type: Best Practices
Organization: Region 12 Comprehensive Center

This webinar series shares best practices for educators in supporting multilingual and English learner students in a remote setting. Tags: Providing Supports to Students, Young Children, and Families; PreK-12 Schools; English learners

Resource Type: Best Practices
Organization: Region 15 Comprehensive Center

This brief provides support in developing online professional learning environments, exploring ways that virtual learning communities can engage educators and ensure continued access to professional learning opportunities and supports. Tags: Teacher, Early Childhood Provider, Faculty, and Staff Well-being, Professional Development, and Supports; PreK-12 Schools

Resource Type: Best Practices
Organization: Region 15 Comprehensive Center

This brief presents mental wellness strategies for student support service providers and shares tools and techniques for self-regulation, managing stress and building resilience. Tags: Teacher, Early Childhood Provider, Faculty, and Staff Well-being, Professional Development, and Supports; PreK-12 Schools

Resource Type: Best Practices
Organization: Region 2 Comprehensive Center

This brief, developed by subject matter experts, provides practical self-care strategies and resources for educators, school-based staff and student support specialists. Tags: Teacher, Early Childhood Provider, Faculty, and Staff Well-being, Professional Development, and Supports; PreK-12 Schools

Resource Type: Best Practices
Organization: Region 2 Comprehensive Center

This podcast addresses the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic on the digital divide and remote learning. Tags: Teacher, Early Childhood Provider, Faculty, and Staff Well-being, Professional Development, and Supports; PreK-12 Schools; Racial/ethnic subgroups; LGBTQIA students, undocumented students; Students from low-income backgrounds

Resource Type: Best Practices
Organization: Region 4 Equity Assistance Center (WEEAC)

This webinar provides strategies for educators in managing trauma related to the pandemic. Tags: Teacher, Early Childhood Provider, Faculty, and Staff Well-being, Professional Development, and Supports; PreK-12 Schools

Resource Type: Best Practices
Organization: Region 4 Equity Assistance Center (WEEAC)

This webinar addresses the stereotypes and discrimination faced by Asian American and Pacific Islander students during the pandemic. Featuring a panel of Asian American educators, this webinar shares strategies for how Asian American and Pacific Islander students can remain resilient above trauma. Tags: Providing Supports to Students, Young Children, and Families; PreK-12 Schools; Racial/ethnic subgroups

Resource Type: Best Practices
Organization: Region 4 Equity Assistance Center (WEEAC)

This video presents strategies teachers can use in remote, hybrid and in-person settings to support multilingual students in offsetting educational disparities. Tags: Providing Supports to Students, Young Children, and Families; PreK-12 Schools; English learners

Resource Type: Best Practices
Organization: Region 4 Equity Assistance Center (WEEAC)

This video provides guidance for secondary school administrators on school reopening. Tags: Safe and Healthy Environments; PreK-12 Schools

Resource Type: Best Practices
Organization: Region 4 Equity Assistance Center (WEEAC)

This brief provides guidance for administrators on supporting the social-emotional well-being of teachers and staff upon return to in-person instruction after 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
Organization: Region 6 Comprehensive Center

This annotated bibliography presents research on initiatives that have demonstrated success in offsetting lost instructional time. Tags: Providing Supports to Students, Young Children, and Families; PreK-12 Schools; Students from low-income backgrounds

Resource Type: Best Practices
Organization: Region 7 Comprehensive Center

This annotated bibliography identifies guides and tools that may be useful for state and local administrators when planning for learning acceleration and offsetting lost instructional time. Tags: Providing Supports to Students, Young Children, and Families; PreK-12 Schools; Students from low-income backgrounds

Resource Type: Best Practices
Organization: Region 7 Comprehensive Center

This paper provides a multidisciplinary perspective to providing all PreK-12 students with appropriate, standards-aligned, and evidence-based literacy instruction in blended/hybrid learning environments and addressing challenges presented by COVID-19. Tags: Providing Supports to Students, Young Children, and Families; PreK-12 Schools

Resource Type: Best Practices
Organization: Region 8 Comprehensive Center

This report shares an overview of focus groups made up of one state's superintendents to discuss current challenges, share successes, examine strategies to deal with the reopening of schools and beyond, and identify and apply evidence-based resources. Tags: Teacher, Early Childhood Provider, Faculty, and Staff Well-being, Professional Development, and Supports; PreK-12 Schools

Resource Type: Best Practices
Organization: Region 9 Comprehensive Center

This blog for school leaders and teachers provides strategies to prevent cyberbullying in schools, and can also be applied to online learning environments. Tags: Teacher, Early Childhood Provider, Faculty, and Staff Well-being, Professional Development, and Supports; PreK-12 Schools

Resource Type: Best Practices
Organization: Regional Educational Laboratory (REL) Northwest

This workshop series includes strategies for supporting student engagement in a virtual environment, monitoring academic progress and providing feedback to students, and designing instruction for a hybrid model that combines a mix of in-person and virtual learning. Tags: Providing Supports to Students, Young Children, and Families; PreK-12 Schools

Resource Type: Best Practices
Organization: Regional Educational Laboratory Appalachia

This handout lists common trauma symptoms that students may exhibit and presents "preventative," "in the moment," and "after the moment" strategies for working with students who may exhibit emotional or behavioral symptoms of trauma. Tags: Providing Supports to Students, Young Children, and Families; PreK-12 Schools

Resource Type: Best Practices
Organization: Regional Educational Laboratory Appalachia

This list of resources supports school, district, and youth organization staff in connecting with American Indian and Alaskan Native families and supporting student's social and emotional needs during school closures. Tags: Providing Supports to Students, Young Children, and Families; PreK-12 Schools; Racial/ethnic subgroups

Resource Type: Best Practices
Organization: Regional Educational Laboratory Central

This webinar presents systemic supports that school leaders can implement to facilitate personalization, as well as specific actions for classroom teachers to take, to meet the needs of students whose learning has been disrupted. A flyer also provides personalization options and supports. Tags: Teacher, Early Childhood Provider, Faculty, and Staff Well-being, Professional Development, and Supports; PreK-12 Schools

Resource Type: Best Practices
Organization: Regional Educational Laboratory Central

This documentary shares information and evidence from one state's efforts to improve the health and academic outcomes of public school students through expanding access to health care. Tags: Safe and Healthy Environments; PreK-12 Schools

Resource Type: Best Practices
Organization: Regional Educational Laboratory Midwest

This documentary focuses on strategies for promoting a positive school climate, trust between students and staff, and the implementation of Social and Emotional Learning (SEL) practices. The documentary also provides an overview of fundamental SEL concepts. Tags: Safe and Healthy Environments; PreK-12 Schools

Resource Type: Lessons Learned; Implementation Stories
Organization: Regional Educational Laboratory Midwest

This website is a collaboration of the 10 Regional Educational Laboratories to provide evidence-based resources and guidance about teaching and learning in a remote environment. Tags: Safe and Healthy Environments; Early Childhood Programs; PreK-12 Schools; College and Universities

Resource Type: Best Practices
Organization: Regional Educational Laboratory Midwest

These two webinars provide education and guidance for districts and schools in implementing Social and Emotional Learning practices. Tags: Safe and Healthy Environments; PreK-12 Schools

Resource Type: Best Practices
Organization: Regional Educational Laboratory Midwest

This toolkit for district-level researchers provides resources for data collection and analysis, helping school districts understand how students are faring after school closures and disruptions to learning caused by the COVID-19 pandemic. Tags: Providing Supports to Students, Young Children, and Families; PreK-12 Schools

Resource Type: Best Practices
Organization: Regional Educational Laboratory Midwest

This resource toolkit supports educators and education stakeholders in identifying research-based practices, policies, and procedures for welcoming, registering, and supporting newcomer immigrant and refugee students in grades 6–12. Tags: Providing Supports to Students, Young Children, and Families; PreK-12 Schools

Resource Type: Best Practices
Organization: Regional Educational Laboratory Northwest

This infographic describes school- and classroom-level strategies to foster a positive school climate. Tags: Providing Supports to Students, Young Children, and Families; PreK-12 Schools

Resource Type: Best Practices
Organization: Regional Educational Laboratory Northwest

This blog discusses the importance of acknowledging, respecting, and integrating student voice and family voice in building and sustaining collaborative relationships between educators and families. Tags: Providing Supports to Students, Young Children, and Families; PreK-12 Schools; Colleges and Universities

Resource Type: Best Practices
Organization: Regional Educational Laboratory Pacific

This blog focuses on fostering teacher well-being during the COVID-19 pandemic, highlighting three ways to address the challenges that teachers face when adapting to change. Tags: Teacher, Early Childhood Provider, Faculty, and Staff Well-being, Professional Development, and Supports; Early Childhood Programs; PreK-12 Schools; College and Universities

Resource Type: Best Practices
Organization: Regional Educational Laboratory Pacific

This infographic provides an overview of the Compacts of Free Association (CFA), including the historical and current social and political contexts necessary to understand the experiences of some Pacific Island students in U.S. schools. Tags: Providing Supports to Students, Young Children, and Families; Early Childhood Programs; PreK-12 Schools; College and Universities

Resource Type: Best Practices
Organization: Regional Educational Laboratory Pacific

This infographic illustrates best practices for culturally sustaining teaching of multilingual students and provides examples of how to implement these practices in the classroom. Tags: Providing Supports to Students, Young Children, and Families; Early Childhood Programs; PreK-12 Schools; College and Universities

Resource Type: Best Practices
Organization: Regional Educational Laboratory Pacific

This video provides an overview of research on teacher well-being and examines how supporting teacher well-being can create a positive and productive learning environment for students. Tags: Teacher, Early Childhood Provider, Faculty, and Staff Well-being, Professional Development, and Supports; Early Childhood Programs; PreK-12 Schools; College and Universities

Resource Type: Best Practices
Organization: Regional Educational Laboratory Pacific

This infographic describes the importance of teacher well-being and provides Social Emotional Learning activities to foster positive and supportive relationships with colleagues and students. Tags: Teacher, Early Childhood Provider, Faculty, and Staff Well-being, Professional Development, and Supports; Early Childhood Programs; PreK-12 Schools; College and Universities

Resource Type: Best Practices
Organization: Regional Educational Laboratory Pacific

This infographic highlights strategies and resources that educators and administrators can use to support students experiencing COVID-19, racial, and/or other types of trauma, as well as a four-phase approach to guide self-reflection and discussion with colleagues around equity. Tags: Teacher, Early Childhood Provider, Faculty, and Staff Well-being, Professional Development, and Supports; PreK-12 Schools

Resource Type: Best Practices
Organization: Regional Educational Laboratory Southwest

This Microsoft Excel document includes two searchable spreadsheets of resources that educators and caregivers can use to support young children's learning and development at home during the COVID-19 pandemic. Tags: Teacher, Early Childhood Provider, Faculty, and Staff Well-being, Professional Development, and Supports; Early Childhood Programs; PreK-12 Schools

Resource Type: Best Practices
Organization: Regional Educational Laboratory Southwest

This evidence review is part of a project supporting schools during the COVID-19 pandemic. The project is focused on evidence-based instructional practices in blended learning in primary and secondary schools. This systematic evidence review was used with follow-up training sessions for staff. Tags: Teacher, Early Childhood Provider, Faculty, and Staff Well-being, Professional Development, and Supports; PreK-12 Schools

Resource Type: Best Practices
Organization: Regional Educational Laboratory Southwest

These nine activity sheets, in both English and Spanish, provide fun activities that families and caregivers can use with children to strengthen language development. An educator's guide provides tips on making the most out of the activities. Tags: Providing Supports to Students, Young Children, and Families; Early Childhood Programs; PreK-12 Schools; English learners

Resource Type: Best Practices
Organization: Regional Educational Laboratory West

This webinar presents district and school-based strategies to support student and family engagement, particularly among underserved populations, in the context of distance learning during the COVID-19 pandemic. Presenters use research and lessons learned to discuss strategies in three areas: cultivating a partnership orientation, practicing cultural responsiveness, and establishing two-way communication. Tags: Providing Supports to Students, Young Children, and Families; PreK-12 Schools; Racial/ethnic subgroups; Students from low-income backgrounds

Resource Type: State or Local Resources
Organization: Regional Educational Laboratory West

In this webinar, panelists share research on race equity mindsets, social and emotional well-being, and outcomes for Black, Latinx, and other students of color, providing evidence for equity focused program models in schools as a driver for improving student outcomes. Panelists provide practical strategies for school leaders to: advance equitable learning environments for Black, Latinx, and other students of color, promote positive relationships among educators, students, and families, and foster agency and belonging. Tags: Safe and Healthy Environments; PreK-12 Schools; Racial/ethnic subgroups

Resource Type: Lessons Learned; Best Practices
Organization: Regional Educational Laboratory West

In this webinar, panelists share evidence and information about social and emotional competencies that educators can use to restore and rebuild conditions of success for students upon reopening. Using a trauma-informed lens, panelists provide strategies for: creating safe and supportive school environments, promoting family and community communication and collaboration, and fostering collective care. Tags: Safe and Healthy Environments; PreK-12 Schools

Resource Type: Best Practices
Organization: Regional Educational Laboratory West

In this webinar, presenters discuss self-care for educators, underscoring the importance of self-care as a pathway for supporting students and the school community. Panelists provide strategies aligning with three themes: healthy mindsets, connectedness and belonging, and healthy, realistic boundaries and interactions. Tags: Teacher, Early Childhood Provider, Faculty, and Staff Well-being, Professional Development, and Supports; PreK-12 Schools

Resource Type: Best Practices
Organization: Regional Educational Laboratory West

This toolkit provides an overview of Continuous Improvement processes in education, with a focus on the use of Plan-Do-Study-Act (PDSA) cycles. The toolkit leads educational practitioners through a series of PDSA cycles, using case examples to illustrate Continuous Improvement processes in an educational context. Tags: Providing Supports to Students, Young Children, and Families; PreK-12 Schools

Resource Type: Best Practices
Organization: Regional Educational Laboratory Northeast & Islands

This document guides practitioners through a five-session coaching series on using Social Emotional Learning (SEL) research to identify evidence-based SEL interventions to implement in their districts. The slideshow presentation, exercises, and worksheets have been adapted to meet the needs of self-guided learners. Tags: Providing Supports to Students, Young Children, and Families; PreK-12 Schools

Resource Type: Best Practices
Organization: Regional Educational Laboratory Northeast & Islands

This brief describes the K-12 Student Reengagement Learning Collaborative, convened by the SEAC for state education agencies to focus on strategies for reengaging students and families during the 2021-22 school year. This Collaborative will establish a collective understanding of emerging promising practices for reengaging students and create a framework to support the implementation of reengagement strategies. Tags: Providing Supports to Students, Young Children, and Families; PreK-12 Schools

Resource Type: Best Practices
Organization: Student Engagement and Attendance Center

This brief outlines research on monitoring and promoting attendance and engagement in online learning environments. The brief also summarizes findings from conversations with school districts about their transition to remote learning as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic. Tags: Providing Supports to Students, Young Children, and Families; PreK-12 Schools

Resource Type: Best Practices
Organization: Student Engagement and Attendance Center

This program profile spotlights the work of the Nebraska Department of Education and eight of the SEA’s smaller school districts. In 2019, the eight districts united their Title IV-A funds to create a consortium, leveraging these resources to deliver mental health services across the region. Tags: Providing Supports to Students, Young Children, and Families; PreK-12 Schools

Resource Type: Best Practices
Organization: T4PA Center

This program profile details the Title IV, Part A (Title IV-A) Student Support and Academic Enrichment program. The profile includes information about the Title IV-A priority content areas (well-rounded education, safe and healthy students, and the effective use of technology), and general information about allowable uses of funds. Tags: Providing Supports to Students, Young Children, and Families; PreK-12 Schools

Resource Type: Best Practices
Organization: T4PA Center

This training package offers school and district administrators and staff a framework and roadmap for adopting a trauma-sensitive approach either school- or districtwide. The training package includes a variety of resources for educating school staff about trauma-sensitive practices and for providing school leaders with a step-by-step process for implementing a universal, trauma-informed framework. Tags: Teacher, Early Childhood Provider, Faculty, and Staff Well-being, Professional Development, and Supports; PreK-12 Schools

Resource Type: Implementation Tool; Best Practices
Organization: The National Center on Safe and Supportive Learning Environments (NCSSLE)

This webpage includes a collection of resources to support schools in communicating key information on building a safe, supportive, virtual learning environment. The site includes the category, “Planning for an Appropriate Return to School”, that provides district- and school leaders with several resources to support reopening. Tags: Teacher, Early Childhood Provider, Faculty, and Staff Well-being, Professional Development, and Supports; PreK-12 Schools

Resource Type: Best Practices
Organization: The National Center on Safe and Supportive Learning Environments (NCSSLE)

This online resource collection includes links to mental health resources to support the emotional and psychological wellbeing of students and families. Tags: Providing Supports to Students, Young Children, and Families; PreK-12 Schools

Resource Type: Best Practices
Organization: The National Center on Safe and Supportive Learning Environments (NCSSLE)

The School-Climate Survey Compendium is a collection of valid and reliable surveys, assessments, and scales of school climate that can assist educators in their efforts to identify and assess conditions for learning. Tags: Safe and Healthy Environments; PreK-12 Schools

Resource Type: Best Practices
Organization: The National Center on Safe and Supportive Learning Environments (NCSSLE)

The ED School Climate Surveys (EDSCLS) allow States, local districts, and schools to collect and act on reliable, nationally validated school climate data in real-time. Tags: Safe and Healthy Environments; PreK-12 Schools

Resource Type: Best Practices
Organization: The National Center on Safe and Supportive Learning Environments (NCSSLE)

This package includes a variety of resources to meet a range of needs among stakeholders interested in improving school climate. These resources include: Quick Guide on Making School Climate Improvements; School Climate Improvement Reference Manual; School Climate Improvement Action Guides; School Climate Data Interpretation Resources; and Online Modules. Tags: Safe and Healthy Environments; PreK-12 Schools

Resource Type: Best Practices
Organization: The National Center on Safe and Supportive Learning Environments (NCSSLE)