Talent Management Alignment Workbook: An Introduction
This Web resource explores how state education leaders can assess the strength and alignment of their talent management policies and practices.
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Teacher, Early Childhood Provider, Faculty, and Staff Well-being, Professional Development, and Supports; PreK-12 Schools
Resource Type: Best Practices, Technical Assistance Center Resources
Organization: Region 14 Comprehensive Center
Learning From Young People About How Safe and Supportive Conditions at Home Can Inform School Climate
This report details a series of interviews with students reflecting on their experiences with remote and hybrid learning during the COVID-19 pandemic, highlighting lessons learned for improving instructional practices and school climate.
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Providing Supports to Students, Young Children, and Families; PreK-12 Schools
Resource Type: Lessons Learned, Technical Assistance Center Resources
Organization: Center to Improve Social and Emotional Learning and School Safety at WestEd
Adolescent Behaviors and Experiences Survey
This Web page summarizes findings from the CDC Adolescent Behaviors and Experiences Survey, a study on the impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic on high school students.
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Safe and Healthy Environments; Providing Supports to Students, Young Children, and Families; PreK-12 Schools
Resource Type: Federal Resources
Organization: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
Keeping the Promise: Education and Afghan Resettlement
This Website features a curated collection of Federal resources to support education providers serving Afghan students and families.
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Providing Supports to Students, Young Children, and Families; PreK-12 Schools; Colleges and Universities; Racial/ethnic subgroups
Resource Type: Federal Resources
Organization: U.S. Department of Education
Resources for Education Providers and Families
This Office of Elementary and Secondary Education Website hosts a collection of resources, Webinars, guidance documents, and tools, organized by topic and audience, to support the needs of school communities.
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Safe and Healthy Environments; Providing Supports to Students, Young Children, and Families; PreK-12 Schools
Resource Type: Federal Resources
Organization: U.S. Department of Education
Social Emotional and Behavioral Support
This Web page offers tools and resources for supporting the social, emotional, and behavioral well-being of the whole school community.
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Providing Supports to Students, Young Children, and Families; Teacher, Early Childhood Provider, Faculty, and Staff Well-being, Professional Development, and Supports; PreK-12 Schools
Resource Type: Federal Resources
Organization: U.S. Department of Education
COVID-19 Community Levels
This CDC Website provides data on new COVID-19 cases and hospitalizations across the country, helping school communities monitor and plan for prevention and mitigation strategies.
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Safe and Healthy Environments; Early Childhood Programs; PreK-12 Schools; Colleges and Universities
Resource Type: Federal Resources
Organization: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
Serving the Whole Person: An Alignment and Coherence Guide for State Education Agencies
This guide is designed to help state education agency leaders advance educational equity by strengthening the foundation of whole-child initiatives.
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Providing Supports to Students, Young Children, and Families; PreK-12 Schools
Resource Type: Best Practices, Technical Assistance Center Resources
Organization: Center to Improve Social and Emotional Learning and School Safety at WestEd
Resources Related to Teacher Shortages and Strengthening the Workforce
This blog post shares resources to support districts and schools in understanding the causes of teacher shortages and identifying strategies for strengthening the educator workforce and improving working conditions.
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Teacher, Early Childhood Provider, Faculty, and Staff Well-being, Professional Development, and Supports; PreK-12 Schools
Resource Type: Best Practices, Technical Assistance Center Resources
Organization: Region 9 Comprehensive Center
Instructional Practices That Integrate Equity-Centered Social, Emotional, and Academic Learning
This research brief explores the connections between social, emotional, and academic learning, and offers equity-centered strategies for creating affirming learning environments that promote social and emotional learning.
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Providing Supports to Students, Young Children, and Families; PreK-12 Schools
Resource Type: Best Practices, Technical Assistance Center Resources
Organization: Center to Improve Social and Emotional Learning and School Safety at WestEd
2019 National Assessment of Educational Progress High School Transcript Study
This Web page presents findings from a research study examining the courses taken, and credits and grades received by high school graduate students in public and private schools in 2019.
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Providing Supports to Students, Young Children, and Families; PreK-12 Schools
Resource Type: Lessons Learned
Organization: Institute of Education Sciences; National Center for Education Statistics
School-Based Health Services Resources
This curated resource list provides access to Federal resources on school-based physical, social, emotional, and behavioral health supports for children, youth, and young adults.
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Safe and Healthy Environments; Providing Supports to Students, Young Children, and Families; Teacher, Early Childhood Provider, Faculty, and Staff Well-being, Professional Development, and Supports; Early Childhood Programs; PreK-12 Schools; Colleges and Universities
Resource Type: Federal Resources
Organization: U.S. Department of Education; U.S. Department of Health and Human Services
#ARPStars Communications Toolkit
This toolkit is designed to help districts and schools communicate their progress in deploying American Rescue Plan funding to maintain safe learning environments and support students and staff.
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Safe and Healthy Environments; Providing Supports to Students, Young Children, and Families; Teacher, Early Childhood Provider, Faculty, and Staff Well-being, Professional Development, and Supports; PreK-12 Schools
Resource Type: Federal Resources
Organization: U.S. Department of Education
Planning Guide for Starting Dual Language Programs
This tool helps state and local education leaders plan, implement, and evaluate dual language programs.
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Providing Supports to Students, Young Children, and Families; PreK-12 Schools
Resource Type: Best Practices; Technical Assistance Center Resources
Organization: Midwest and Plains Equity Assistance Center
Foundations of Equity-Centered MTSS
This report offers considerations for implementing equity-centered, multi-tiered systems of support (MTSS).
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Providing Supports to Students, Young Children, and Families; PreK-12 Schools
Resource Type: Best Practices; Technical Assistance Center Resources
Organization: Midwest and Plains Equity Assistance Center
Equity Express: Radical Self and Community Care
This fact sheet defines the concepts of radical self-care and community care and provides information and resources for incorporating self and community care in equity-centered work, particularly within marginalized communities.
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Teacher, Early Childhood Provider, Faculty, and Staff Well-being, Professional Development, and Supports; PreK-12 Schools
Resource Type: Best Practices; Technical Assistance Center Resources
Organization: Midwest and Plains Equity Assistance Center
Four Instructional Practices for Bolstering English Learner Achievement in Grades K–12
This blog article provides evidence-based instructional practices and resources for supporting English learners’ academic achievement.
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Providing Supports to Students, Young Children, and Families; PreK-12 Schools; English learners
Resource Type: Best Practices; Technical Assistance Center Resources
Organization: Region 7 Comprehensive Center
Alaska's Reading Playbook
This guide for Alaska educators provides tools, examples, and strategies for reading instruction, with considerations for students who speak Alaska Native languages.
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Providing Supports to Students, Young Children, and Families; PreK-12 Schools
Resource Type: Best Practices; Technical Assistance Center Resources
Organization: Alaska Department of Education and Early Development; Region 16 Comprehensive Center
Providing Reading Interventions for Students in Grades 4–9
This practice guide by the What Works Clearinghouse offers evidence-based strategies and recommendations for delivering reading interventions for students in grades 4–9.
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Providing Supports to Students, Young Children, and Families; PreK-12 Schools
Resource Type: Best Practices
Organization: Institute of Education Sciences
Letter to Educators and Parents Regarding New CDC Recommendations and their Impact on Children with Disabilities
This letter from Secretary Dr. Cardona offers clarity on recent CDC updates and provides information and resources to support school communities as they work to ensure a safe, inclusive learning environment for students with disabilities.
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Safe and Healthy Environments; Providing Supports to Students, Young Children, and Families; PreK-12 Schools; Children and students with disabilities
Resource Type: Federal Resources
Organization: U.S. Department of Education
Out of School Time Providers Innovate to Support School-Aged Children During the COVID-19 Pandemic
This essay published by the CDC details how Out of School Time programs supported students during the 2020-2021 school year amid schools' transitions to remote learning, helping curb inequities exacerbated by the pandemic.
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Providing Supports to Students, Young Children, and Families; PreK-12 Schools
Resource Type: Best Practices; Lessons Learned
Organization: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
Clean Air in Buildings Challenge: Best Practices Guide
The guide from the Environmental Protection Agency provides best practices, recommendations, and resources for improving indoor air quality in buildings to reduce the risk of the airborne spread of viruses like COVID-19.
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Safe and Healthy Environments; Early Childhood Programs; PreK-12 Schools; Colleges and Universities
Resource Type: Best Practices; Federal Resources
Organization: U.S. Environmental Protection Agency
Strategic Staffing During the 2021-22 School Year and Beyond
This fact sheet provides recommendations to support education agencies with developing staffing, hiring, and retention plans for the 2021-2022 academic year and beyond.
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Teacher, Early Childhood Provider, Faculty, and Staff Well-being, Professional Development, and Supports; PreK-12 Schools
Resource Type: Best Practices
Organization: The New Teacher Project
Addressing Teacher Shortages with Differentiated Staffing Models
This article discusses the topic of teacher shortages amidst the COVID-19 pandemic and highlights research on shifts in school staffing models.
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Teacher, Early Childhood Provider, Faculty, and Staff Well-being, Professional Development, and Supports; PreK-12 Schools
Resource Type: Best Practices
Organization: American Institutes for Research
2022 School Pulse Panel
This Web page presents findings from the 2022 School Pulse Panel, a study on the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic from a national sample of elementary, middle, high, and combined-grade public schools.
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Safe and Healthy Environments; Providing Supports to Students, Young Children, and Families; Teacher, Early Childhood Provider, Faculty, and Staff Well-being, Professional Development, and Supports; PreK-12 Schools
Resource Type: Best Practices
Organization: Institute for Education Sciences, National Center for Education Statistics
Framing the Conversation: Equity Indicators in School Improvement
This Web page hosts a series of three videos from the National Comprehensive Center’s Community of Practice on Driving Towards Equity Through School Improvement.
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Providing Supports to Students, Young Children, and Families; PreK-12 Schools
Resource Type: Best Practices; Technical Assistance Center Resources
Organization: National Comprehensive Center
Parent and Family Digital Learning Guide
This guide, available in both English and Spanish languages, offers recommendations and resources for parents and families for monitoring and supporting their child(ren) with digital learning.
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Providing Supports to Students, Young Children, and Families; PreK-12 Schools
Resource Type: Best Practices; Federal Resources
Organization: U.S. Department of Education, Office of Educational Technology
School Leader Digital Learning Guide
This guide for school leaders shares digital learning principles and practices, and provides recommendations for planning, implementing, and maintaining learning programs that make use of technology and digital tools.
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Providing Supports to Students, Young Children, and Families; Teacher, Early Childhood Provider, Faculty, and Staff Well-being, Professional Development, and Supports; PreK-12 Schools
Resource Type: Best Practices; Federal Resources
Organization: U.S. Department of Education, Office of Educational Technology
Teacher Digital Learning Guide
This guide for educators provides resources and recommendations for using technology and digital tools to personalize and strengthen student learning.
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Providing Supports to Students, Young Children, and Families; Teacher, Early Childhood Provider, Faculty, and Staff Well-being, Professional Development, and Supports; PreK-12 Schools
Resource Type: Best Practices; Federal Resources
Organization: U.S. Department of Education, Office of Educational Technology
Technology Use With English Learners
This fact sheet for educators shares research, guiding principles, and targeted strategies for using educational technology and digital tools with English Learners.
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Providing Supports to Students, Young Children, and Families; PreK-12 Schools; English learners
Resource Type: Best Practices; Federal Resources
Organization: U.S. Department of Education, Office for English Language Acquisition
Disability Rights Web Page
This Web page offers information and resources on student disability rights during the COVID-19 pandemic.
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Providing Supports to Students, Young Children, and Families; PreK-12 Schools; Children and students with disabilities
Resource Type: Federal Resources
Organization: U.S. Department of Education
Letter from Secretary Cardona: CDC Guidelines
This letter from Education Secretary Dr. Cardona outlines new changes in masking guidelines for schools and early childhood facilities.
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Safe and Healthy Environments; PreK-12 Schools
Resource Type: Federal Resources
Organization: U.S. Department of Education
Critical Consciousness for Inquiry and Critique: The DAPP Tool
The DAPP (Difference & Dissonance, Assumptions, Power, and Patterns) Tool helps school stakeholders engage in intentional reflection, develop critical consciousness, and undertake more equitable actions.
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Teacher, Early Childhood Provider, Faculty, and Staff Well-being, Professional Development, and Supports; PreK-12 Schools
Resource Type: Best Practices; Technical Assistance Center Resources
Organization: Midwest and Plains Equity Assistance Center
Considering Native Students: A Learning and Programming Toolkit for SEAs, LEAs, and Tribes
This toolkit is designed to support state education agencies, local education agencies, and Tribal Education Departments in developing programming to advance educational outcomes for Native students.
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Providing Supports to Students, Young Children, and Families; PreK-12 Schools; Racial/ethnic subgroups
Resource Type: Best Practices; Technical Assistance Center Resources
Organization: National Comprehensive Center
State Approaches to Ensuring Quality in College in High School Programs
This policy snapshot summarizes various state approaches to regulation and quality assurance of college in high school programs.
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Providing Supports to Students, Young Children, and Families; PreK-12 Schools
Resource Type: Best Practices
Organization: College in High School Alliance
Building a Concurrent Enrollment Teacher Pipeline: Opportunities, Challenges, and Lessons
This report describes the challenges of recruiting teachers for college in high school programs and offers best practices for addressing these challenges.
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Teacher, Early Childhood Provider, Faculty, and Staff Well-being, Professional Development, and Supports; PreK-12 Schools
Resource Type: Best Practices
Organization: College in High School Alliance
What is Social-Emotional Learning?
This fact sheet describes what social emotional learning is, what it is not, and why social-emotional learning skills matter.
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Providing Supports to Students, Young Children, and Families; PreK-12 Schools
Resource Type: Best Practices
Organization: Committee for Children
Social-Emotional Learning, School Safety, and School Climate
This fact sheet shares research on how social emotional learning can help foster positive classroom and school climates and prevent school violence.
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Safe and Healthy Environments; Providing Supports to Students, Young Children, and Families; PreK-12 Schools
Resource Type: Best Practices
Organization: Committee for Children
Social-Emotional Learning and Youth Suicide Prevention
This fact sheet explains how social emotional learning skills can address and mitigate risk factors for youth suicide.
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Providing Supports to Students, Young Children, and Families; PreK-12 Schools
Resource Type: Best Practices
Organization: Committee for Children
Trauma-Informed Practices and Social-Emotional Learning
This fact sheet provides research and policy recommendations for connecting social emotional learning to trauma-informed practices to create a safe and supportive learning environment.
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Providing Supports to Students, Young Children, and Families; PreK-12 Schools
Resource Type: Best Practices
Organization: Committee for Children
Mental Health and Social-Emotional Learning Supports
This fact sheet compares the mental health supports needed by students before and during the COVID-19 pandemic, offering tiered strategies for addressing these needs in both in-person and remote learning environments.
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Providing Supports to Students, Young Children, and Families; PreK-12 Schools
Resource Type: Best Practices
Organization: Committee for Children
Social-Emotional Learning, Digital Citizenship, and Media Literacy
This fact sheet connects social emotional learning (SEL) to the development of digital citizenship and media literacy skills, sharing how SEL can provide a foundation for helping keep students safe online.
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Providing Supports to Students, Young Children, and Families; PreK-12 Schools
Resource Type: Best Practices
Organization: Committee for Children
Using Technology to Build Relationships and Support Young Children's Learning During the Pandemic
This resource describes how technology was used at the Lucy Brock Child Development Lab Program at Appalachian State University to support children and families during the COVID-19 pandemic.
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Providing Supports to Students, Young Children, and Families; Early Childhood Programs; PreK-12 Schools; Children and students with disabilities; English learners; Student parents; Racial/ethnic subgroups; Students from low-income backgrounds; Students in or formerly in foster care
Resource Type: Innovative Spotlight
Organization: Appalachian State University
Guidance for Supporting Migrant Children and Youth
This guidance document provides examples of challenges that migrant students and their families may experience in accessing academic and student support services during the COVID-19 pandemic and shares practices for supporting migrant families during this time.
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Providing Supports to Students, Young Children, and Families; Early Childhood Programs; PreK-12 Schools
Resource Type: State or Local Resources
Organization: New Mexico Public Education Department
Leveraging Reset Opportunities to Help Students and Staff Thrive
This series of fact sheets presents research-based practices for using extended school breaks and closures to examine and improve instructional practices to best support teachers, school staff, and students.
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Providing Supports to Students, Young Children, and Families; Teacher, Early Childhood Provider, Faculty, and Staff Well-being, Professional Development, and Supports; PreK-12 Schools
Resource Type: Best Practices; Technical Assistance Center Resources
Organization: National Center on Safe Supportive Learning Environments
Behavior Management
This Web page details behavior management strategies that teachers and school staff can use to promote positive classroom behavior and school connectedness.
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Providing Supports to Students, Young Children, and Families; PreK-12 Schools
Resource Type: Best Practices; Federal Resources
Organization: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
Stress and Short Tempers: Schools Struggle with Behavior as Students Return
Authored by the non-profit news organization, Chalkbeat, this article describes an increase in students' emotional and behavioral responses as they readjust to in-person learning during the COVID-19 pandemic and provides promising strategies for supporting students during this time.
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Providing Supports to Students, Young Children, and Families; PreK-12 Schools
Resource Type: Lessons Learned
Organization: Chalkbeat
COVID-19 Back-to-Classroom THINK Toolbox
This toolbox provides best practices and resources for acknowledging and addressing the emotional responses that whole school communities have experienced upon returning to in-person learning during the COVID-19 pandemic.
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Providing Supports to Students, Young Children, and Families; Teacher, Early Childhood Provider, Faculty, and Staff Well-being, Professional Development, and Supports; PreK-12 Schools
Resource Type: Best Practices
Organization: Washington State Department of Health
Using American Rescue Plan Funds and Other Federal Supports to Address Staff Shortages
This fact sheet offers evidence-based strategies for using American Rescue Plan funds to address staff shortages and shares examples of states that have successfully employed these strategies.
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Teacher, Early Childhood Provider, Faculty, and Staff Well-being, Professional Development, and Supports; PreK-12 Schools
Resource Type: Best Practices; Federal Resources
Organization: U.S. Department of Education
Using American Rescue Plan Funds and Other Federal Resources to Address Teacher Shortages
This fact sheet offers evidence-based strategies for using American Rescue Plan funds to address teacher shortages and shares examples of states that have successfully employed these strategies.
Tags:
Teacher, Early Childhood Provider, Faculty, and Staff Well-being, Professional Development, and Supports; PreK-12 Schools
Resource Type: Best Practices; Federal Resources
Organization: U.S. Department of Education
Managing Mental Wellness: Tools for Yourself, Your Students, and Your Classroom
This toolkit provides educators with strategies for managing their own wellbeing, as well as activities and tools to support students' social and emotional learning.
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Providing Supports to Students, Young Children, and Families; PreK-12 Schools
Resource Type: Best Practices; Technical Assistance Center Resources
Organization: Mid-Atlantic Equity Consortium
The American Rescue Plan Act Partnership, Assistance, Transformation, and Heightened Support Resource for States
This tool provides a template for state education agencies to share their progress and best practices deploying American Rescue Plan Elementary and Secondary School Emergency Relief funds.
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Safe and Healthy Environments; Providing Supports to Students, Young Children, and Families; Teacher, Early Childhood Provider, Faculty, and Staff Well-being, Professional Development, and Supports; PreK-12 Schools
Resource Type: Federal Resources
Organization: U.S. Department of Education
National Association for Music Education COVID-19 Resources
This Web page contains resources on safe music instruction throughout the COVID-19 pandemic.
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Providing Supports to Students, Young Children, and Families; PreK-12 Schools
Resource Type: Best Practices
Organization: National Association for Music Education
The Virgin Islands Department of
Education’s Guide to Safely
Reopen Schools
This Website for education stakeholders in the U.S. Virgin Islands shares resources related to education and the COVID-19 pandemic, including a guide for the 2021–2022 school year.
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Safe and Healthy Environments; Providing Supports to Students, Young Children, and Families; Teacher, Early Childhood Provider, Faculty, and Staff Well-being, Professional Development, and Support; PreK-12 Schools
Resource Type: State or Local Resources
Organization: The Virgin Islands Department of Education
COVID-19 Information
This Web page provides information related to education and the COVID-19 pandemic in Guam.
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Safe and Healthy Environments; Providing Supports to Students, Young Children, and Families; Teacher, Early Childhood Provider, Faculty, and Staff Well-being, Professional Development, and Support; PreK-12 Schools
Resource Type: State or Local Resources
Organization: Guam Department of Education
COVID-19 Pandemic Information
This Website offers information and guidance related to education and the COVID-19 pandemic in the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands, including videos and answers to frequently asked questions about COVID-19 for school staff and families.
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Safe and Healthy Environments; Providing Supports to Students, Young Children, and Families; Teacher, Early Childhood Provider, Faculty, and Staff Well-being, Professional Development, and Support; PreK-12 Schools
Resource Type: State or Local Resources
Organization: Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands Public School System
COVID-19 Resources
This Web page offers information, updates, and resources related to education and the COVID-19 pandemic in Wyoming.
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Safe and Healthy Environments; Providing Supports to Students, Young Children, and Families; Teacher, Early Childhood Provider, Faculty, and Staff Well-being, Professional Development, and Support; PreK-12 Schools
Resource Type: State or Local Resources
Organization: Wyoming Department of Education
COVID-19 Resource Center
This Website for school districts in Vermont shares information and resources related to continuity of learning, COVID-19 testing and recommendations, and Federal relief funding.
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Safe and Healthy Environments; Providing Supports to Students, Young Children, and Families; Teacher, Early Childhood Provider, Faculty, and Staff Well-being, Professional Development, and Support; PreK-12 Schools
Resource Type: State or Local Resources
Organization: State of Vermont Agency of Education
Resources Related to COVID-19
This Web page provides a curated list of resources and guidance documents related to education and the COVID-19 pandemic in Nevada.
Tags:
Safe and Healthy Environments; Providing Supports to Students, Young Children, and Families; Teacher, Early Childhood Provider, Faculty, and Staff Well-being, Professional Development, and Support; PreK-12 Schools
Resource Type: State or Local Resources
Organization: Nevada Department of Education
Launch Nebraska
This Web page shares Nebraska's Framework for School Renewal and Acceleration, which includes planned actions and considerations for the 2021-2022 school year.
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Safe and Healthy Environments; Providing Supports to Students, Young Children, and Families; Teacher, Early Childhood Provider, Faculty, and Staff Well-being, Professional Development, and Support; PreK-12 Schools
Resource Type: State or Local Resources
Organization: Nebraska Department of Education
Acceleration and Evidence-Based Instruction: Planning for Learning During the 21-22 School Year
This Website offers guidance and resources for Montana educators and administrators on learning acceleration, assessment, professional learning, and summer enrichment opportunities during and after the 2021–2022 school year.
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Safe and Healthy Environments; Providing Supports to Students, Young Children, and Families; Teacher, Early Childhood Provider, Faculty, and Staff Well-being, Professional Development, and Support; PreK-12 Schools
Resource Type: State or Local Resources
Organization: Montana Office of Public Instruction
Healthy Schools
This Web page shares information supporting health and wellness at Mississippi schools both during and after the COVID-19 pandemic.
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Safe and Healthy Environments; Providing Supports to Students, Young Children, and Families; Teacher, Early Childhood Provider, Faculty, and Staff Well-being, Professional Development, and Support; PreK-12 Schools
Resource Type: State or Local Resources
Organization: Mississippi Department of Education
Education K-12
This Website provides information and resources related to health and safety at Kansas schools during the COVID-19 pandemic.
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Safe and Healthy Environments; Providing Supports to Students, Young Children, and Families; Teacher, Early Childhood Provider, Faculty, and Staff Well-being, Professional Development, and Support; PreK-12 Schools
Resource Type: State or Local Resources
Organization: Kansas Department of Health and Environment
2021–2022 School Operating Guidance
This Web page provides education stakeholders with resources and guidance on education and the COVID-19 pandemic in Idaho for the 2021–2022 school year.
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Safe and Healthy Environments; Providing Supports to Students, Young Children, and Families; Teacher, Early Childhood Provider, Faculty, and Staff Well-being, Professional Development, and Support; PreK-12 Schools
Resource Type: State or Local Resources
Organization: Idaho State Department of Education
COVID-19 (Coronavirus) and Schools
This Web page provides guidance and resources for school districts, parents, and families on issues related to education and the COVID-19 pandemic in Georgia.
Tags:
Safe and Healthy Environments; Providing Supports to Students, Young Children, and Families; Teacher, Early Childhood Provider, Faculty, and Staff Well-being, Professional Development, and Support; PreK-12 Schools
Resource Type: State or Local Resources
Organization: Georgia Department of Education
Guidance, Resources in School Year 2021-22
This Web page hosts information and resources related to education and the COVID-19 pandemic in Delaware.
Tags:
Safe and Healthy Environments; Providing Supports to Students, Young Children, and Families; Teacher, Early Childhood Provider, Faculty, and Staff Well-being, Professional Development, and Support; PreK-12 Schools
Resource Type: State or Local Resources
Organization: Delaware Department of Education
COVID-19 Information
This Website provides information and resources related to education and the COVID-19 pandemic for education stakeholders in Arkansas.
Tags:
Safe and Healthy Environments; Providing Supports to Students, Young Children, and Families; Teacher, Early Childhood Provider, Faculty, and Staff Well-being, Professional Development, and Support; PreK-12 Schools
Resource Type: State or Local Resources
Organization: Arkansas Department of Education
COVID Relief Funding Resources
This Web page shares information and resources for Alaska school districts, families, and the public related to COVID relief funding and considerations for school closures.
Tags:
Safe and Healthy Environments; Providing Supports to Students, Young Children, and Families; Teacher, Early Childhood Provider, Faculty, and Staff Well-being, Professional Development, and Support; Early Childhood Programs, PreK-12 Schools
Resource Type: State or Local Resources
Organization: Alaska Department of Education and Early Development
Leveraging Flexible Teacher Certification Policies to Address the Bilingual Teacher Shortage
This brief shares strategies that state education agencies may use to provide flexibilities to teacher certification policies in order to address bilingual teacher shortages.
Tags:
Teacher, Early Childhood Provider, Faculty, and Staff Well-being, Professional Development, and Supports; Providing Supports to Students, Young Children, and Families; PreK-12 Schools; English learners
Resource Type: Best Practices; Technical Assistance Center Resources
Organization: Region 4 Comprehensive Center
Texas School Mental Health Practice Guide and Toolkit
This comprehensive toolkit offers best practices and tools for local education agencies to implement or strengthen school mental health systems.
Tags:
Providing Supports to Students, Young Children, and Families; PreK-12 Schools
Resource Type: Best Practices; State or Local Resources
Organization: Texas Education Agency
Dear Colleague Letter: Supporting Afghan Children and Families
This letter shares Federal guidance and resources for state and local education agencies welcoming Afghan children and families into their communities, highlighting the need for provision of high-quality, culturally responsive educational experiences for these students.
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Providing Supports to Students, Young Children, and Families; PreK-12 Schools; Racial/ethnic subgroups
Resource Type: Best Practices; Federal Resources
Organization: U.S. Department of Education
Examining the Implementation and Impact of Full-Day Kindergarten in Oregon
This research study analyzes the implementation and impact of full-day Kindergarten programs in Oregon.
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Providing Supports to Students, Young Children, and Families; PreK-12 Schools
Resource Type: Best Practices; Technical Assistance Center Resources
Organization: Regional Educational Laboratory Northwest
Branching Out: Using Decision Trees to Inform Education Decisions
This guide to Classification and Regression Tree (CART) analysis can help data analysts and research directors at state and local education agencies use CART analysis to inform education decisions.
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Providing Supports to Students, Young Children, and Families; PreK-12 Schools
Resource Type: Best Practices; Technical Assistance Center Resources
Organization: Regional Educational Laboratory Appalachia
California’s Special Education Local Plan Areas: Funding Patterns, Inclusion Rates, and Student Outcomes
This research report examines the funding patterns, student inclusion rates, and student academic outcomes associated with different types of Special Education Local Plan Areas in California.
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Providing Supports to Students, Young Children, and Families; PreK-12 Schools; Children and students with disabilities
Resource Type: Best Practices; Technical Assistance Center Resources
Organization: Regional Educational Laboratory West
Tribal Consultation Toolkit
This toolkit supports state and local education agencies’ engagement initiatives to incorporate feedback from Tribes in their decisions about use of Federal stimulus funds. The toolkit also offers resources for culturally responsive education for indigenous students and reinforces intentional and sustained collaboration between schools and tribal communities.
Tags:
Providing Supports to Students, Young Children, and Families; PreK-12 Schools; Racial/ethnic subgroups
Resource Type: Best Practices; Technical Assistance Center Resources
Organization: National Comprehensive Center
Introduction to Cost-Effectiveness Analysis Brief
This brief provides an overview of cost-effectiveness analysis, outlining how this analysis can inform school and district decisions about the use of American Rescue Plan funds.
Tags:
Providing Supports to Students, Young Children, and Families; PreK-12 Schools
Resource Type: Best Practices; Technical Assistance Center Resources
Organization: Region 5 Comprehensive Center
Communities of Practice for States
The National Comprehensive Center is convening three Communities of Practice (COPs), providing opportunities for state education agencies and their local partners to discuss issues facing their communities and build capacity to address these issues. These COPs will engage participants in topics related to the COVID-19 pandemic and strategic uses of stimulus funds.
Tags:
Providing Supports to Students, Young Children, and Families; PreK-12 Schools
Resource Type: Best Practices; Technical Assistance Center Resources
Organization: National Comprehensive Center
Dear Colleague Letter: Teacher and Staff Shortages and ARP ESSER Funding
In this letter, Education Secretary Dr. Cardona shares evidence-based practices for addressing teacher and staff shortages using Federal relief funds and highlights examples of how state education agencies and local school districts are implementing these practices.
Tags:
Teacher, Early Childhood Provider, Faculty, and Staff Well-being, Professional Development, and Supports; PreK-12 Schools
Resource Type: Best Practices; Federal Resources
Organization: U.S. Department of Education
2022: Staying In School In-Person
This Federal resource details four important strategies for keeping schools open for in-person learning in 2022 and protecting the health and safety of students and staff: vaccination, testing programs, collaboration with local health departments, and monitoring community transmission levels.
Tags:
Safe and Healthy Environments; PreK-12 Schools
Resource Type: Best Practices; Federal Resources
Organization: U.S. Department of Education
Reviewing Research Studies: Examples and Applications
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.
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Teacher, Early Childhood Provider, Faculty, and Staff Well-being, Professional Development, and Supports; PreK-12 Schools
Resource Type: Best Practices; Technical Assistance Center Resources
Organization: Regional Educational Laboratory West
The Basics of Reviewing a Research Study
This infographic helps state and local education agency staff understand the basic elements of high-quality research to identify evidence-based interventions.
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Teacher, Early Childhood Provider, Faculty, and Staff Well-being, Professional Development, and Supports; PreK-12 Schools
Resource Type: Best Practices; Technical Assistance Center Resources
Organization: Regional Educational Laboratory West
Effect Size Basics: Understanding the Strength of a Program's Impact
This infographic helps users understand and interpret effect sizes in the context of research on policies, curricula, interventions, and programs.
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Teacher, Early Childhood Provider, Faculty, and Staff Well-being, Professional Development, and Supports; PreK-12 Schools
Resource Type: Best Practices; Technical Assistance Center Resources
Organization: Regional Educational Laboratory West
Attendance Supports Reflection Tool for SEAs
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.
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Providing Supports to Students, Young Children, and Families; PreK-12 Schools
Resource Type: Best Practices; Technical Assistance Center Resources
Organization: Student Engagement and Attendance Center
Attendance Supports Reflection Tool for LEAs
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.
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Providing Supports to Students, Young Children, and Families; PreK-12 Schools
Resource Type: Best Practices; Technical Assistance Center Resources
Organization: Student Engagement and Attendance Center
How to Text Message Parents to Reduce Chronic Absence Using an Evidence-Based Approach
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.
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Providing Supports to Students, Young Children, and Families; PreK-12 Schools
Resource Type: Best Practices; Innovative Spotlight
Organization: Institute of Education Sciences
COVID-19 Vaccines for Children and Teens
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.
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Safe and Healthy Environments; PreK-12 Schools
Resource Type: Federal Resources
Organization: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
COVID-19 Data Dashboard
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.
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Safe and Healthy Environments; PreK-12 Schools
Resource Type: Federal Resources
Organization: U.S. Department of Education
Protecting Youth Mental Health: The U.S. Surgeon General’s Advisory
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.
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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
Family Frequently Asked Questions About Testing
This short fact sheet provides answers to common questions that families may have about school-based COVID-19 testing programs.
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Safe and Healthy Environments; PreK-12 Schools
Resource Type: Best Practices
Organization: The Rockefeller Foundation
Start-Up Guide for COVID-19 Testing in Schools
This one-page guide offers resources to help schools implement COVID-19 testing programs.
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Safe and Healthy Environments; PreK-12 Schools
Resource Type: Best Practices
Organization: The Rockefeller Foundation
Toolkit: Strategies to Build Relationships with Students
This toolkit for educators provides strategies for building positive, trusting relationships with students.
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Safe and Healthy Environments; Providing Supports to Students, Young Children, and Families; PreK-12 Schools
Resource Type: Best Practices
Organization: Turnaround for Children
Integrating Social and Emotional Learning throughout the School System: A Compendium of Resources for District Leaders
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.
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Providing Supports to Students, Young Children, and Families; PreK-12 Schools
Resource Type: Best Practices; Technical Assistance Center Resources
Organization: Center to Improve Social and Emotional Learning and School Safety at WestEd
Supporting Young English Learners at Home: Family and Caregiver Activities
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.
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Providing Supports to Students, Young Children, and Families; PreK-12 Schools; English learners
Resource Type: Best Practices; Technical Assistance Center Resources
Organization: Regional Educational Laboratory West
Increasing Diversity in Teacher Education Programs
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.
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Teacher, Early Childhood Provider, Faculty, and Staff Well-being, Professional Development, and Supports; PreK-12 Schools; Racial/ethnic subgroups
Resource Type: Best Practices; Technical Assistance Center Resources
Organization: Regional Educational Laboratory West
Supporting Academic Performance of Native American Students
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?"
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Providing Supports to Students, Young Children, and Families; PreK-12 Schools; Racial/ethnic subgroups
Resource Type: Best Practices; Technical Assistance Center Resources
Organization: Regional Educational Laboratory West
Using Data to Promote Equity in School Discipline
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.
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Providing Supports to Students, Young Children, and Families; PreK-12 Schools; Children and students with disabilities; Racial/ethnic subgroups
Resource Type: Best Practices; Technical Assistance Center Resources
Organization: Regional Educational Laboratory Northwest
Supporting Black Students’ Excellence
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.
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Providing Supports to Students, Young Children, and Families; PreK-12 Schools; Racial/ethnic subgroups
Resource Type: Best Practices; Implementation Stories; Technical Assistance Center Resources
Organization: Regional Educational Laboratory Midwest
Advancing Equity: Five Districts Focus on Improving Outcomes of Black and Latinx Students
This blog post shares examples of schools and districts creating safe and strengths-based environments to facilitate equitable learning for Black and Latinx students.
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Providing Supports to Students, Young Children, and Families; PreK-12 Schools; Racial/ethnic subgroups
Resource Type: Best Practices; Technical Assistance Center Resources
Organization: Regional Educational Laboratory West
Campus Safety Presentation
This presentation reflects one local education agency's initiatives to share their reopening plan and mitigation strategies with their school community.
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Safe and Healthy Environments; PreK-12 Schools
Resource Type: Best Practices; State or Local Resources
Organization: Iberville STEM Academy
School Reopening Planning Workbook: A Tool for School Districts
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.
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Safe and Healthy Environments; Providing Supports to Students, Young Children, and Families; PreK-12 Schools
Resource Type: Best Practices
Organization: Chiefs for Change
Marin County Schools 30 Point Plan
This plan outlines one county's operational approach to reopening schools and maintaining in-person instruction in the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic.
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Safe and Healthy Environments; PreK-12 Schools
Resource Type: State or Local Resources
Organization: Marin County Office of Education
10 Tips for Teaching the Psychological First Aid Model for K-12 Education Agencies
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.
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Providing Supports to Students, Young Children, and Families; PreK-12 Schools
Resource Type: Best Practices; Technical Assistance Center Resources
Organization: Readiness and Emergency Management for Schools TA Center
Dear School Safety Partner: Cybersecurity and Cyber Safety
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.
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Safe and Healthy Environments; PreK-12 Schools
Resource Type: Best Practices; Technical Assistance Center Resources
Organization: Readiness and Emergency Management for Schools TA Center
SITE ASSESS Application
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.
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Safe and Healthy Environments; PreK-12 Schools; Colleges and Universities
Resource Type: Best Practices; Technical Assistance Center Resources
Organization: Readiness and Emergency Management for Schools TA Center
Using Assessments to Identify and Address COVID-19 Learning Gaps Flyer
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.
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Teacher, Early Childhood Provider, Faculty, and Staff Well-being, Professional Development, and Supports; PreK-12 Schools
Resource Type: Best Practices; Technical Assistance Center Resources
Organization: Regional Educational Laboratory Central
Using Assessments to Identify and Address COVID-19 Learning Gaps Webinar
This webinar presents considerations and strategies for conducting assessments as students return to school during and following the COVID-19 pandemic.
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Teacher, Early Childhood Provider, Faculty, and Staff Well-being, Professional Development, and Supports; PreK-12 Schools
Resource Type: Best Practices; Technical Assistance Center Resources
Organization: Regional Educational Laboratory Central
Five Guiding Principles to Improving School Facilities
This resource includes information to help PreK-12 school districts use Federal COVID-19 relief funding for school building improvements.
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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
School Reentry Considerations for K-12 Physical Education, Health Education, and Physical Activity
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.
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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
Strong Schools NC Vaccine Operational Guidance for Schools
This operational guidance includes strategies and recommendations to help school leaders support their eligible students and employees in getting vaccinated against COVID-19.
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Safe and Healthy Environments; PreK-12 Schools
Resource Type: State or Local Resources
Organization: North Carolina Department of Health and Human Services
Strong Schools NC Public Health Toolkit (K-12)
This toolkit shares public health guidance for COVID-19 prevention in school settings, including detailed information on mitigation measures and considerations for health equity.
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Safe and Healthy Environments; PreK-12 Schools
Resource Type: State or Local Resources
Organization: North Carolina Department of Health and Human Services
New Mexico Public Education Department's Social Emotional Learning Framework
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.
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Providing Supports to Students, Young Children, and Families; PreK-12 Schools
Resource Type: Best Practices
Organization: New Mexico Public Education Department
New Mexico Public Education Department Reentry Guidance
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.
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Safe and Healthy Environments; PreK-12 Schools
Resource Type: Best Practices; State or Local Resources
Organization: New Mexico Public Education Department
COVID-19 Testing in K-12 Settings: '"Day in the Life Of" Case Studies
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.
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Safe and Healthy Environments; PreK-12 Schools
Resource Type: Best Practices
Organization: Chiefs for Change
COVID-19 Testing and Vaccination Programs Frequently Asked Questions
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.
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Safe and Healthy Environments; PreK-12 Schools
Resource Type: Best Practices
Organization: Chiefs for Change
Consolidated Tabletop Resources for Implementation of COVID-19 Testing in K-12 Settings
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.
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Safe and Healthy Environments; PreK-12 Schools
Resource Type: Best Practices
Organization: Chiefs for Change
"Day in the Life Of" Simulations
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.
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Safe and Healthy Environments; PreK-12 Schools
Resource Type: Best Practices
Organization: Chiefs for Change
Behavioral Telehealth Implementation Guide
This guide shares considerations for implementing and scaling behavioral telehealth supports for students.
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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
Leaning into Personalization to Support Students and Adults During COVID-19
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.
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Providing Supports to Students, Young Children, and Families; PreK-12 Schools
Resource Type: Best Practices
Organization: City Year, Inc.
P-20 Council Learning Renewal Resource Guide
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.
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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
Out-of-School Time Programs: Paving the Way for Children to Find Passion, Purpose & Voice - Parent, Teacher & OST Provider
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.
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Providing Supports to Students, Young Children, and Families; PreK-12 Schools
Resource Type: Best Practices
Organization: Edge Research, Learning Heroes
How Learning Happens: Lessons Learned from Five Communities
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.
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Providing Supports to Students, Young Children, and Families; PreK-12 Schools
Resource Type: Best Practices
Organization: America's Promise Alliance
Culturally Responsive-Sustaining Education Comprehensive District Self-Assessment
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.
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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
Conversations with Kids: Walking the Road to Reinvention
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.
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Providing Supports to Students, Young Children, and Families; PreK-12 Schools
Resource Type: Best Practices
Organization: Transcend
Selected COVID -19 Resources – SEL Center at WestEd
This list of external, individual resources offers support to States, districts, and schools as they serve students throughout the COVID-19 pandemic.
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Providing Supports to Students, Young Children, and Families; PreK-12 Schools
Resource Type: Best Practices; Technical Assistance Center Resources
Organization: Center to Improve Social and Emotional
Learning and School Safety at WestEd
Selected Race & Equity Resources – SEL Center at WestEd
This suite of resources is intended to support schools, districts, and States in advancing racial justice and creating more equitable systems.
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Providing Supports to Students, Young Children, and Families; PreK-12 Schools
Resource Type: Best Practices; Technical Assistance Center Resources
Organization: Center to Improve Social and Emotional
Learning and School Safety at WestEd
The Move Towards a More Comprehensive Approach to School Safety in Ohio
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.
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Providing Supports to Students, Young Children, and Families; PreK-12 Schools
Resource Type: Best Practices; Technical Assistance Center Resources
Organization: Center to Improve Social and Emotional
Learning and School Safety at WestEd
Leading Voices: Creating Safe and Supportive Learning Environments – Dr. Christina Pate in Conversation with State and District Leaders
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.
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Providing Supports to Students, Young Children, and Families; PreK-12 Schools
Resource Type: Best Practices
Organization: WestEd
The Toolkit Before the Toolkit: Centering Adaptive and Relational Elements of Restorative Practices for Implementation Success
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.
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Providing Supports to Students, Young Children, and Families; PreK-12 Schools
Resource Type: Best Practices; Technical Assistance Center Resources
Organization: Center to Improve Social and Emotional
Learning and School Safety at WestEd
Beyond SEL: Stories of Well-Being, Connection, and Equity in Schools
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.
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Providing Supports to Students, Young Children, and Families; PreK-12 Schools
Resource Type: Best Practices
Organization: WestEd
Regional Educational Laboratory West: Academic Mindsets and Behaviors, Prior Achievement, and the Transition to Middle School
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.
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Providing Supports to Students, Young Children, and Families; PreK-12 Schools
Resource Type: Best Practices; Technical Assistance Center Resources
Organization: Regional Education Laboratory West
Looking Back to Face What is Ahead: District Strategies to Engage with English Learner Students, Students with Disabilities, and their Families
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.
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Providing Supports to Students, Young Children, and Families; PreK-12 Schools; English Learners; Children and students with disabilities
Resource Type: Best Practices; Technical Assistance Center Resources
Organization: Regional Education Laboratory Midwest
Supporting Children’s Early Reading Instruction at Home
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.
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Providing Supports to Students, Young Children, and Families; PreK-12 Schools
Resource Type: Best Practices; Technical Assistance Center Resources
Organization: Regional Education Laboratory Midwest
Supporting Children’s Early Math Instruction at Home
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.
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Providing Supports to Students, Young Children, and Families; PreK-12 Schools
Resource Type: Best Practices; Technical Assistance Center Resources
Organization: Regional Education Laboratory Midwest
Family Engagement for Literacy
This resource supports educators in building family partnerships to enhance students’ literacy development at school and at home.
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Providing Supports to Students, Young Children, and Families; PreK-12 Schools; Students from low-income backgrounds
Resource Type: Best Practices; Technical Assistance Center Resources
Organization: Region 8 Comprehensive Center
Tools and Guidance for Evaluating Bias in Instructional Materials
This report summarizes identified resources and tools that can be used by instructional teams to evaluate and assess bias in curricular materials.
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Providing Supports to Students, Young Children, and Families; PreK-12 Schools
Resource Type: Best Practices; Technical Assistance Center Resources
Organization: Region 8 Comprehensive Center
Community Math Nights - Fall 2019
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.
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Providing Supports to Students, Young Children, and Families; PreK-12 Schools
Resource Type: Best Practices; Technical Assistance Center Resources
Organization: Regional Education Laboratory Appalachia
Community Math Nights - Spring 2019
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.
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Providing Supports to Students, Young Children, and Families; PreK-12 Schools
Resource Type: Best Practices; Technical Assistance Center Resources
Organization: Regional Education Laboratory Appalachia
Count Us In: Advancing Equity in Rural Schools and Communities
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?
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Providing Supports to Students, Young Children, and Families; PreK-12 Schools; Racial/ethnic subgroups; Students from low-income backgrounds; LGBTQIA students, Undocumented students
Resource Type: Best Practices; Technical Assistance Center Resources
Organization: Region 1 Equity Assistance Center (Center for Education Equity)
Time to Act: How School Superintendents Keep Equity at the Center of Their Leadership
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.
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Safe and Healthy Environments; PreK-12 Schools
Resource Type: Best Practices; Technical Assistance Center Resources
Organization: Region 1 Equity Assistance Center (Center for Education Equity)
Reopening Instructional Programs for Our Most Vulnerable Students: A Reopening Guidebook for the 2020-2021 School Year
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.
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Teacher, Early Childhood Provider, Faculty, and Staff Well-being, Professional Development, and Supports; PreK-12 Schools; English Learners; Children and students with disabilities
Resource Type: Best Practices; Technical Assistance Center Resources
Organization: Region 3 Comprehensive Center
Western Oregon University COVID-19 Project Outreach and Engagement
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.
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Providing Supports to Students, Young Children, and Families; Early Childhood Programs; PreK-12 Schools
Resource Type: Best Practices; Implementation Stories
Organization: Western Oregon University
Back-to-School Week: Safer Schools and Campuses Best Practices Clearinghouse
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.
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Safe and Healthy Environments; Providing Supports to Students, Young Children, and Families; Teacher, Early Childhood Provider, Faculty, and Staff Well-being, Professional Development, and Supports; Early Childhood Programs; PreK-12 Schools; Colleges and Universities
Resource Type: Best Practices; Federal Resources; Technical Assistance Center Resources
Organization: U.S. Department of Education
U.S. Department of Education: Supporting Child and Student Social, Emotional, Behavioral, and Mental Health Needs
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.
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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
President Biden Announces Update on Operational Planning for COVID-19 Vaccinations for Kids Ages 5-11
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.
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Safe and Healthy Environments; Early Childhood Programs; PreK-12 Schools
Resource Type: Best Practices; Federal Resources
Organization: The White House
Healthy Davis Together
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.
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Safe and Healthy Environments; PreK-12 Schools
Resource Type: Best Practices; State or Local Resources
Organization: Healthy Davis Together
Pandemic Best Practices from Upward Bound Program at University of Puerto Rico - Rio Piedras
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.
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Providing Supports to Students, Young Children, and Families; PreK-12 Schools
Resource Type: Implementation Stories; Lessons Learned
Organization: University of Puerto Rico- Rio Piedras
NAfME and NFHS Return to Music Guidance Phase III August 2021
This Web page provides safe, research-based strategies and ideas for teaching music education during the 2021-22 school year.
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Safe and Healthy Environments; PreK-12 Schools
Resource Type: Best Practices
Organization: National Association for Music Education
The Center for Mental Health in Schools & Student/Learning Supports: New Directions for School Counselors, Psychologists, & Social Workers
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.
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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
The U.S. Department of Agriculture Resources to Support Healthy Students
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.
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Providing Supports to Students, Young Children, and Families; PreK-12 Schools
Resource Type: Best Practices; Federal Resources
Organization: U.S. Department of Agriculture
U.S. Department of Education: Supporting and Protecting the Rights of Students at Risk of Self-Harm in the Era of COVID-19
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.
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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
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention: Frequently Asked Questions about COVID-19 for School Administrators
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.
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Safe and Healthy Environments; PreK-12 Schools
Resource Type: Best Practices; Federal Resources
Organization: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
Back-to-School Week, Day 5: Equity Can’t Wait: Cultivating and Sustaining Equitable Planning and Implementation for the New School Year
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.
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Providing Supports to Students, Young Children, and Families; PreK-12 Schools; Racial/ethnic subgroups; Children and students with disabilities
Resource Type: Best Practices; Federal Resources; Technical Assistance Center Resources
Organization: U.S. Department of Education, National Center for Systemic Improvement
Back-to-School Week, Day 5: Supporting Students Experiencing Homelessness
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.
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Providing Supports to Students, Young Children, and Families; PreK-12 Schools; Students experiencing homelessness
Resource Type: Best Practices; Federal Resources; Technical Assistance Center Resources
Organization: U.S. Department of Education, National Center for Homeless Education
Back-to-School Week, Day 5: Reimagining School + Community Partnerships
This presentation outlines key strategies to building more effective school-community partnerships to promote college access for historically underserved students.
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Providing Supports to Students, Young Children, and Families; PreK-12 Schools; Colleges and Universities
Resource Type: Best Practices; Federal Resources; Technical Assistance Center Resources
Organization: U.S. Department of Education, The Double Discovery Center at Columbia University
Back-to-School Week, Day 4: Reenergizing Systems to Support Educators
This presentation provides resources for reenergizing educators and reengaging school communities, underscoring the importance of stakeholder engagement and shared decision-making.
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Teacher, Early Childhood Provider, Faculty, and Staff Well-being, Professional Development, and Supports; PreK-12 Schools
Resource Type: Best Practices; Federal Resources; Technical Assistance Center Resources
Organization: U.S. Department of Education, State Implementation and Scaling-up of Evidence-based Practices, National Implementation Research Network, U.S. Office of Special Education Programs
Back-to-School Week, Day 3: Supporting Our Kids’ Education: Tools to Strengthen Resident Families and Students During COVID-19 and Beyond
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.
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Providing Supports to Students, Young Children, and Families; PreK-12 Schools
Resource Type: Best Practices; Federal Resources; Technical Assistance Center Resources
Organization: U.S. Department of Education, U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development
Back-to-School Week, Day 3: Engaging Multilingual Learners and Their Families
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.
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Providing Supports to Students, Young Children, and Families; PreK-12 Schools; English learners
Resource Type: Best Practices; Federal Resources; Technical Assistance Center Resources
Organization: U.S. Department of Education, Office of English Language Acquisition
Back-to-School Week, Day 3: Addressing Student Social, Emotional, and Behavioral Needs
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.
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Providing Supports to Students, Young Children, and Families; PreK-12 Schools
Resource Type: Best Practices; Federal Resources; Technical Assistance Center Resources
Organization: U.S. Department of Education, Office of Special Education and Rehabilitative Services, Old Dominion University
Back-to-School Week, Day 2: Connections Between Healthy Schools and a Healthy Climate
These presentation materials highlight the Green Ribbon Schools award and the U.S. Department of Education's role in sustainable schools, climate, and infrastructure.
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Safe and Healthy Environments; PreK-12 Schools
Resource Type: Best Practices; Federal Resources; Technical Assistance Center Resources
Organization: U.S. Department of Education
Back-to-School Week, Day 2: Safety, Privacy and Security in Technology: Fixing All Your Problems in 20 Minutes
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.
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Safe and Healthy Environments; PreK-12 Schools
Resource Type: Best Practices; Federal Resources; Technical Assistance Center Resources
Organization: U.S. Department of Education, Student Privacy Policy Office
Back-to-School Week, Day 2: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Discuss Guidance and Resources
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.
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Safe and Healthy Environments; PreK-12 Schools
Resource Type: Best Practices; Federal Resources; Technical Assistance Center Resources
Organization: U.S. Department of Education, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
Back-to-School Week, Day 1: Using Data-based Individualization to Plan for and Optimize Student Learning for Back to School
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.
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Providing Supports to Students, Young Children, and Families; PreK-12 Schools
Resource Type: Best Practices; Federal Resources; Technical Assistance Center Resources
Organization: U.S. Department of Education, National Center on Intensive Intervention
Back-to-School Week, Day 1: Promising Practices for Learning Acceleration
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.
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Providing Supports to Students, Young Children, and Families; PreK-12 Schools
Resource Type: Best Practices; Federal Resources; Technical Assistance Center Resources
Organization: U.S. Department of Education, Institute of Education Sciences
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention: Overview of COVID-19 Quarantine for K12 Schools
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.
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Safe and Healthy Environments; PreK-12 Schools
Resource Type: Best Practices; Federal Resources
Organization: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention: Responding to COVID-19 Cases in K12 Schools—Resources for School Administrators
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
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Safe and Healthy Environments; PreK-12 Schools
Resource Type: Best Practices; Federal Resources
Organization: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
The National Academic Press: Tools for Supporting the Emotional Well-Being in Children and Youth
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.
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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
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention: A Toolkit for Responding to COVID-19 Cases in K-12 School Settings
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.
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Safe and Healthy Environments; PreK-12 Schools
Resource Type: Best Practices; Federal Resources
Organization: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention: LGBTQ Inclusivity in Schools—A Self-Assessment Tool
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.
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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
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention: Classroom Management Approaches to Support School Connectedness
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.
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Providing Supports to Students, Young Children, and Families; PreK-12 Schools
Resource Type: Best Practices; Federal Resources
Organization: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention: Health Education Curriculum Analysis Tool
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.
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Providing Supports to Students, Young Children, and Families; PreK-12 Schools
Resource Type: Best Practices; Federal Resources
Organization: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
U.S. Department of Education: Strategies for Using American Rescue Plan Funding to Address the Impact of Lost Instructional Time
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.
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Providing Supports to Students, Young Children, and Families; PreK-12 Schools
Resource Type: Best Practices; Federal Resources
Organization: U.S. Department of Education
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention: School Testing for COVID-19
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.
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Safe and Healthy Environments; PreK-12 Schools
Resource Type: Best Practices; Federal Resources
Organization: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
PBS Learn Anytime, Anywhere
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.
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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
Resources from School District of New Richmond, Wisconsin
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.
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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
HHS: Guide to On-Site Vaccination Clinics for School
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.
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Safe and Healthy Environments; PreK-12 Schools
Resource Type: Best Practices
Organization: U.S. Department of Health and Human Services
HHS: Back to School Toolkit
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.
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Safe and Healthy Environments; PreK-12 Schools
Resource Type: Best Practices
Organization: U.S. Department of Health and Human Services
Boston Public Schools' Collective Bargaining Agreement on Use of Masks with Clear Panels
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.
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Safe and Healthy Environments; PreK-12 Schools
Resource Type: Innovative Spotlight; State or Local Resources
Organization: Boston Public Schools
ED COVID-19 Handbook, Volume 1: Strategies for Safely Reopening Elementary and Secondary 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.
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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
Understanding the Federal Retail Pharmacy Program for COVID-19 Vaccination
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.
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Safe and Healthy Environments; PreK-12 Schools; Colleges and Universities
Resource Type: Best Practices
Organization: The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
ED COVID-19 Handbook, Volume 2: Roadmap to Reopening Safely and Meeting All Students’ Needs
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.
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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
Ready. Set. Summer!
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.
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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
Responding to Death in the COVID-19 Context: Guidelines for Administrators and Crisis Teams
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.
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Providing Supports to Students, Young Children, and Families; PreK-12 Schools
Resource Type: Best Practices
Organization: National Association of School Psychologists
Preparing for Infectious Disease Epidemics: Brief Tips for School Mental Health Professionals
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.
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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
Coping With the COVID-19 Crisis: The Importance of Care for Caregivers – Tips for Parents and Teachers
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.
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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
Coping With the COVID-19 Crisis: Distance Caregiver Training
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.
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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
Responding to COVID-19: Brief Action Steps for School Crisis Response Teams
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.
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Safe and Healthy Environments; PreK-12 Schools
Resource Type: Best Practices
Organization: National Association of School Psychologists
Applicability of Evidence-Based Interventions
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.
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Providing Supports to Students, Young Children, and Families; PreK-12 Schools
Resource Type: Best Practices; Technical Assistance Center Resources
Organization: Regional Educational Laboratory West
Addressing Food Insecurity through a Health Equity Lens: A Case Study of Large Urban School Districts during the COVID-19 Pandemic
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.
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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
North Carolina Department of Health and Human Services COVID Resources for Child Care and K-12
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.
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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
COVID Data Tracker Weekly Review
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.
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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
Guidance for Operating Youth and Summer Camps During COVID-19
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.
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Safe and Healthy Environments; PreK-12 Schools
Resource Type: Best Practices
Organization: The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
FutureEd COVID-19 Best Practices Recommendations
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.
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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
Trauma Informed Planning Strategies to Help Students Transition Back to School in the Era of COVID-19
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.
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Teacher, Early Childhood Provider, Faculty, and Staff Well-being, Professional Development, and Supports; PreK-12 Schools; Students from low-income backgrounds; Students experiencing homelessness; Students in or formerly in foster care
Resource Type: Best Practices; Technical Assistance Center Resources
Organization: Regional Educational Laboratory Mid-Atlantic
Learning Goes On – A COVID-19 Resource for Education
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.
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Providing Supports to Students, Young Children, and Families; PreK-12 Schools; Racial/ethnic subgroups
Resource Type: Best Practices; Technical Assistance Center Resources
Organization: Region II Equity Assistance Center (IDRA EAC-South)
Learning, Equity & Accelerated Pathways Task Force Report
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.
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Providing Supports to Students, Young Children, and Families; PreK-12 Schools
Resource Type: Best Practices; Technical Assistance Center Resources
Organization: Region 2 Comprehensive Center
When to Test Website: A Resource to Inform COVID Testing Plans in Schools
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.
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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
Cooperative Learning for English Learners in a Physically Distanced Environment
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.
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Providing Supports to Students, Young Children, and Families; PreK-12 Schools; English Learners
Resource Type: Implementation Stories; Lessons Learned
Organization: Surry County Schools
Washington State GEAR UP COVID 19 Resource Page
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.
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Providing Supports to Students, Young Children, and Families; PreK-12 Schools
Resource Type: State or Local Resources
Organization: Washington Student Achievement Council
Recovering, Rebuilding, and Renewing: The Spirit of New York's Schools Reopening Guidance
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.
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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
Navigating Next
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.
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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
A Summer for Learning and Recovery
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.
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Providing Supports to Students, Young Children, and Families; PreK-12 Schools
Resource Type: Best Practices
Organization: Afterschool Alliance
Key Principles for Expanding Learning to Support Student Re-Engagement
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.
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Providing Supports to Students, Young Children, and Families; PreK-12 Schools
Resource Type: Best Practices
Organization: Afterschool Alliance
Support for Students in Teacher Preparation Programs During Recovery from the Pandemic
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.
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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)
Supporting Virtual Teaching
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.
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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
Just in Time Mathematics Quick Checks
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.
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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
Evaluating a Child with COVID-19 Symptoms or Exposure
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.
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Safe and Healthy Environments; Early Childhood Programs, PreK-12 Schools
Resource Type: State or Local Resources
Organization: Virginia Department of Education
Davis Joint Unified School District Reopening Resources
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.
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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
Coalition to Support Grieving Students Resource for US DOE Clearinghouse
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.
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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
Brookings School District in South Dakota Reopening Resources
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.
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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
International Society for Technology in Education
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.
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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)
COVID Relief for K-12: Use of Funds Advisory Memo
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.
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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
The Science is Clear: Layered Infection Prevention and Control Measures Allow Return to Safe In-Person Learning
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.
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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
Roadmap to Healthy Schools: Building Organizational Capacity for Infection Prevention and Control
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.
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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
Leading in the Unknown: A Self-Guided Learning Experience Focused on Leadership
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.
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Providing Supports to Students, Young Children, and Families; PreK-12 Schools; Racial/ethnic subgroups
Resource Type: Best Practices; Technical Assistance Center Resources
Organization: National Charter School Resource Center
English Learners in Charter Schools: A Learning Experience Focused on English Learner Instruction
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.
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Providing Supports to Students, Young Children, and Families; PreK-12 Schools; English learners
Resource Type: Best Practices; Technical Assistance Center Resources
Organization: National Charter School Resource Center
Planning for Family Engagement in the Charter School Life Cycle: A Toolkit for School Leaders
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.
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Providing Supports to Students, Young Children, and Families; PreK-12 Schools
Resource Type: Best Practices; Technical Assistance Center Resources
Organization: National Charter School Resource Center
School Quality Assessment: Where Are You on the Pathway to Success?
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.
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Providing Supports to Students, Young Children, and Families; PreK-12 Schools
Resource Type: Best Practices; Technical Assistance Center Resources
Organization: National Charter School Resource Center
The Family Table Series on School Reopening
This webinar series on school reopening highlights best practices and effective strategies for creating and strengthening partnerships between educational institutions and families.
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Providing Supports to Students, Young Children, and Families; PreK-12 Schools
Resource Type: Best Practices; Technical Assistance Center Resources
Organization: Collaborative Action for Family Engagement Center – Maryland and Pennsylvania Statewide Family Engagement Center
Trauma-Informed Family and Community Engagement Webinar Series, Part 3
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.
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Providing Supports to Students, Young Children, and Families; Teacher, Early Childhood Provider, Faculty, and Staff Well-being, Professional Development, and Supports; Early Childhood Programs; PreK-12 Schools
Resource Type: Best Practices; Technical Assistance Center Resources
Organization: Collaborative Action for Family Engagement Center – Maryland and Pennsylvania Statewide Family Engagement Center
Reopening Schools Safely: New Evidence on Mitigating COVID-19 Spread Webinar
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.
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Safe and Healthy Environments; PreK-12 Schools
Resource Type: Best Practices; Technical Assistance Center Resources
Organization: Regional Educational Laboratory Mid-Atlantic
Reopening Schools Safely: New Evidence on Mitigating COVID-19 Spread
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.
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Safe and Healthy Environments; PreK-12 Schools
Resource Type: Best Practices; Technical Assistance Center Resources
Organization: Regional Educational Laboratory Mid-Atlantic
Considerations for Reopening Pennsylvania Schools
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.
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Safe and Healthy Environments; PreK-12 Schools
Resource Type: Best Practices; Technical Assistance Center Resources
Organization: Regional Educational Laboratory Mid-Atlantic
Evidence-Based Literacy Interventions to Support Young Learners During and After the COVID-19 Pandemic
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.
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Providing Supports to Students, Young Children, and Families; Early Childhood Programs; PreK-12 Schools; English learners; Children and students with disabilities
Resource Type: Best Practices; Technical Assistance Center Resources
Organization: Regional Educational Laboratory Midwest
Reimagining Excellence: A Blueprint for Integrating Social and Emotional Well-being and Academic Excellence in Schools
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.
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Providing Supports to Students, Young Children, and Families; PreK-12 Schools
Resource Type: Best Practices; Technical Assistance Center Resources
Organization: Center to Improve Social and Emotional Learning and School Safety
Strategies for Ensuring Equitable Continuity of Learning
This fact sheet highlights evidence-based practices that schools and local education agencies can consider when developing or updating their continuity of learning plans.
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Providing Supports to Students, Young Children, and Families; Teacher, Early Childhood Provider, Faculty, and Staff Well-being, Professional Development, and Supports; PreK-12 Schools; Students from low-income backgrounds
Resource Type: Best Practices; Technical Assistance Center Resources
Organization: Regional Educational Laboratory Mid-Atlantic
COVID-19 School Communications Tool Kit
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.
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Providing Supports to Students, Young Children, and Families; PreK-12 Schools
Resource Type: Innovative Spotlight; Best Practices
Organization: Brooklyn Laboratory Charter School
High-Quality Career and Technical Education During COVID-19: Challenges and Innovations
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.
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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
One Educator's Perspective on Safe and Healthy Environments for PreK-5 Students and Teachers
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.
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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
University of Memphis Campus School Reopening Guide
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.
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Safe and Healthy Environments; PreK-12 Schools
Resource Type: State or Local Resources
Organization: University of Memphis
Safer Music Education
This program profile outlines the COVID-19 mitigation strategies and lessons learned at a music education program.
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Safe and Healthy Environments; PreK-12 Schools
Resource Type: Implementation Stories; Lessons Learned
Organization: Mona Shores Public Schools Music Department
Staying Calm and Well in the Midst of the COVID-19 Storm for Early Adolescents
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.
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Providing Supports to Students, Young Children, and Families; PreK-12 Schools
Resource Type: Best Practices
Organization: Ohio State University
Recommendations for Policy Development: Youth Leadership
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.
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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
Recommendations for Policy Development: Visioning
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.
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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
University of Cincinnati Clermont College TRIO Talent Search Program
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.
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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
West Virginia Tech TRIO Upward Bound Best Practices
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.
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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
The Return: How Should Education Leaders Prepare for Reentry and Beyond?
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.
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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
New Hampshire Department of Education Office of Social and Emotional Wellness Portal
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.
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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
COVID-19 Open Iconography Library
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.
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Safe and Healthy Environments; Providing Supports to Students, Young Children, and Families; PreK-12 Schools
Resource Type: Innovative Spotlight
Organization: Brooklyn Laboratory Charter School
Back to School Learner Identity and Agency Guidebook
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.
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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
Engage Equitably: Communication Resources for Schools at a Time of COVID-19 & Beyond
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.
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Safe and Healthy Environments; PreK-12 Schools
Resource Type: Best Practices; Innovative Spotlight
Organization: Brooklyn Laboratory Charter School
Instructional Program Scheduling Map
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.
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Safe and Healthy Environments; PreK-12 Schools
Resource Type: Best Practices; Innovative Spotlight
Organization: Brooklyn Laboratory Charter School
Success Coaching Playbook
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.
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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
Public School Facilities Planning in the Era of COVID-19 Guide
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.
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Safe and Healthy Environments; PreK-12 Schools
Resource Type: Best Practices; Innovative Spotlight
Organization: Brooklyn Laboratory Charter School
Planning for Learners Across Reopening Scenarios: Learner With Autism in General Education Settings
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.
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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
Planning for Learners Across Reopening Scenarios: Learner With Autism in Self-Contained Settings
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.
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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
Planning for Learners Across Reopening Scenarios: Learner with a Reading Disability
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.
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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
New Mexico's Roadmap to Accelerated Learning and Renewal
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.
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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
The Whole Child: Building Systems of Integrated Student Support During and After COVID-19
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.
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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
Integrated Student Supports State Policy Toolkit
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.
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Safe and Healthy Environments; PreK-12 Schools
Resource Type: Best Practices
Organization: Boston College Center for Optimized Student Support
Building Systems of Integrated Student Support: A Policy Brief for Federal Leaders
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.
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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
Coffee Chats
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.
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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
Paraprofessional Communication Tool
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.
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Providing Supports to Students, Young Children, and Families; PreK-12 Schools; Children and students with disabilities
Resource Type: Best Practices
Organization: Diverse Learners Cooperative
Spotlight: Planning for Diverse Learners
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.
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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
Planning for Learners Across Reopening Scenarios: English Learner: Newcomer
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.
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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
Reach Out, Rebound, Reorientate: Strategies to Protect Mental Health in the School Ecosystem During COVID-19
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.
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Providing Supports to Students, Young Children, and Families; PreK-12 Schools
Resource Type: Best Practices
Organization: Varkey Foundation
Enhancing Relationships and Morale: A Back-to-School Toolkit for Administrators
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.
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Teacher, Early Childhood Provider, Faculty, and Staff Well-being, Professional Development, and Supports; PreK-12 Schools
Resource Type: Best Practices
Organization: BARR Center
Teacher Back-to-School Toolkit
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.
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Teacher, Early Childhood Provider, Faculty, and Staff Well-being, Professional Development, and Supports; PreK-12 Schools
Resource Type: Best Practices
Organization: BARR Center
Interim Guidance: Operational Strategy and Phased Prevention for Virginia PreK-12 Schools
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.
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Safe and Healthy Environments; PreK-12 Schools
Resource Type: State or Local Resources
Organization: Virginia Department of Education
Restart and Recovery: The Role of a School Leader Website
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.
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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)
Restart and Recovery: The Role of the School Leader, Brief 3: Leveraging Principals in Ensuring Academic Success
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.
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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)
Restart and Recovery: The Role of the School Leader, Brief 2: Wellbeing and Connection
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.
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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)
Restart and Recovery: The Role of the School Leader, Brief 1: Systems Conditions
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.
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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)
Wayne-Westland Community Schools: Return to Learn Web Page
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.
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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
Back to School Guide in the Era of COVID-19
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.
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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
University of Memphis Reopening Pledge
This resource is a reopening pledge, designed to ensure the safety of the faculty, staff, students and families of the university.
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Safe and Healthy Environments; PreK-12 Schools
Resource Type: Innovative Spotlight
Organization: University of Memphis--University Schools
Social Emotional Wellness: Considerations for English Learners
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.
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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
Social Emotional Wellness: Considerations for Students with Disabilities
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.
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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
Warren Township Schools: Lessons Learned and Best Practices for Operating Safely During the COVID-19 Pandemic
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.
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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
COVID-19 Virtual Listening Tour Brief: Trauma-Informed Care: A Critical Component in Successfully Resuming School
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.
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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
COVID-19 Virtual Listening Tour Report
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.
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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
City Year Action Community
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.
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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
City Year: Using Action Communities to Address Student Belonging, Resilience, and Engagement
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.
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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
Performance Guidelines
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.
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Safe and Healthy Environments; PreK-12 Schools
Resource Type: State or Local Resources
Organization: The School District of Lee County
COVID-19 Situational Update
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.
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Safe and Healthy Environments; PreK-12 Schools
Resource Type: Best Practices; State or Local Resources
Organization: The School District of Lee County
Lee Home Connect Instructional Continuity Plan
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.
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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
COVID-19: School Protocols, Reporting and Information
This Web page for the community hosts information on a variety of topics related to COVID-19 and the district's pandemic response.
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Safe and Healthy Environments; PreK-12 Schools
Resource Type: Best Practices; State or Local Resources
Organization: The School District of Lee County
COVID-19 Incident Notification Online Form
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.
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Safe and Healthy Environments; PreK-12 Schools
Resource Type: Best Practices; State or Local Resources
Organization: The School District of Lee County
New Mexico Outdoor Learning Guidance for 2020-2021 School Reentry
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
Operational Strategy for K-12 Schools through Phased Prevention
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
Operating Safely During COVID-19: Waiver Election Chart
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
Operating Safely During COVID-19: School Nutrition Staff Safety, Food Safety, and COVID-19
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
Operating Safely During COVID-19: Summer Food Service Program Desk Review Monitoring Form and Example
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
Operating Safely During COVID-19: Child and Adult Care Food Program Desk Review Monitoring Form and Example
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
Operating Safely During COVID-19: Back to School Toolkit
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
New Mexico Public Education Department Guidance for Students Experiencing Homelessness: Legal Obligations and Best Practices for School Reentry
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.
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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
Lessons from the ABC Science Collaborative
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
COVID-19 Best Practices for Summer Camps
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
Social Emotional Wellness: Considerations for Teachers and School Staff
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
Social Emotional Wellness: Considerations for Parents and Caregivers
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
Social Emotional Wellness: Considerations for Youth in Marginalized Groups
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
Considerations for Parents and Caregivers in Spanish
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
Social Emotional Wellness: Considerations for Military-Connected Learners
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
Recovering from the Pandemic
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
Shield K-12 Playbook
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
Update on Transmission of SARS CoV2 Variants
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
Update on School Lunch
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
Update on Masking
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
Update on Bus Safety
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
Parents for Healthy Schools
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.
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Providing Supports to Students, Young Children, and Families; PreK-12 Schools
Resource Type: Federal Resources
Organization: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)
Ventilation in Schools and Childcare Programs
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.
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Safe and Healthy Environments; Early Childhood Programs; PreK-12 Schools
Resource Type: Federal Resources
Organization: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)
ABC Pandemic Management Platform
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
Science Brief: Transmission of SARS-CoV-2 in K-12 schools
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)
Guidance for School Nutrition Professionals and Volunteers
This Website shares information and guidance on workplace health and safety strategies for school nutrition professionals.
Tags:
Safe and Healthy Environments; PreK-12 Schools
Resource Type: Federal Resources
Organization: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)
Operating Schools during COVID-19: CDC's Considerations
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)
Kentucky Department of Education COVID-19 Guidance 2.0
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
The Guidance and Safety Expectations and Best Practices for Kentucky Schools
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
Warner Public Schools’ COVID-19 Plan
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
Rethinking Schools: A Public Health Guided Return to Site-Based Classroom Instruction in the Age of COVID-19
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
Marin County Schools Dashboard
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
What About Us? Teacher Learning During COVID-19
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
Shining our Lights Back to School 2020-2021: North Carolina’s Guidebook for Reopening Public Schools
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
Ring the Bell: Return to In-Person Learning Guidance
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
Blog Series on Teacher Burnout and Trauma
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.
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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
Creating a Healthy Remote Learning Culture
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
Safe Mealtime Procedures in Schools
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.
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Safe and Healthy Environments; PreK-12 Schools
Resource Type: Best Practices
Organization: The Learning Accelerator
Mask and PPE Culture Topic Page
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
Simultaneous Learning Strategies from the Field
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
The State’s First Social Emotional Framework New Mexico's Public Education Department is prioritizing SEL in response to COVID-19
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
Education Stories from the Field
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; Technical Assistance Center Resources
Organization: National Comprehensive Center
COVID-19: Key Questions to Ask Before School Reopens
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
Social Emotional Learning and Intensive Intervention
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; Technical Assistance Center Resources
Organization: National Center on Intensive Intervention (NCII)
Returning to School: Considerations for Students with the Most Intensive Behavioral Needs. A Guide to Supporting Students With Disabilities, Their Families, and Educators During the 2020–21 School Year
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; Technical Assistance Center Resources
Organization: National Center on Intensive Intervention (NCII)
Building a Culture of Staff Wellness Through Multi-Tiered System of Supports
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; Technical Assistance Center Resources
Organization: Center on Positive Behavioral Interventions and Supports (PBIS)
Supporting Positive Behavioral Interventions and Supports Implementation Through Phases of Crisis Recovery
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; Technical Assistance Center Resources
Organization: Center on Positive Behavioral Interventions and Supports (PBIS)
Returning to School During and After Crisis: A Guide to Supporting States, Districts, Schools, Educators, and Students through a Multi-Tiered Systems of Support Framework
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; Technical Assistance Center Resources
Organization: Center on Positive Behavioral Interventions and Supports (PBIS)
Mindfulness in Education: An Approach to Cultivating Self-Awareness That Can Bolster Kids’ Learning
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; Technical Assistance Center Resources
Organization: Center to Improve Social and Emotional Learning (SEL)
Community-Care Strategies for Schools During the Coronavirus Crisis: Practical Tips for School Staff and Administrators
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; Technical Assistance Center Resources
Organization: Center to Improve Social and Emotional Learning (SEL)
Navigating Social and Emotional Learning from the Inside Out
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.
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Providing Supports to Students, Young Children, and Families; PreK-12 Schools
Resource Type: Best Practices; Technical Assistance Center Resources
Organization: Center to Improve Social and Emotional Learning (SEL)
Investing in Evidence-Based Social and Emotional Learning
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; Technical Assistance Center Resources
Organization: Center to Improve Social and Emotional Learning (SEL)
How Schools Ensure Social Connections During Physical Isolation
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; Technical Assistance Center Resources
Organization: Center to Improve Social and Emotional Learning and School Safety (CISELSS)
Does Your School Reopening Plan Ensure Educational Equity?
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.
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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; Technical Assistance Center Resources
Organization: Intercultural Development Research Association (IDRA) EAC South
Guide to Ensuring Education Equity During and After COVID-19
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; Technical Assistance Center Resources
Organization: Intercultural Development Research Association (IDRA) EAC South
School Reopening Webinar Series
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; Technical Assistance Center Resources
Organization: Intercultural Development Research Association (IDRA) EAC South
Student Perspectives on a Changing School Climate
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.
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Providing Supports to Students, Young Children, and Families; PreK-12 Schools; Racial/ethnic subgroups
Resource Type: Best Practices; Technical Assistance Center Resources
Organization: Intercultural Development Research Association (IDRA) EAC South
COVID-19, Racism and Xenophobia: A Discussion on How and Why the Pandemic is Affecting Asian Americans
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.
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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; Technical Assistance Center Resources
Organization: Mid-Atlantic Equity Center (MAEC)
Five Formative Assessment Strategies to Improve Distance Learning Outcomes for Students with Disabilities
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.
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Providing Supports to Students, Young Children, and Families; PreK-12 Schools; Children and students with disabilities
Resource Type: Best Practices; Technical Assistance Center Resources
Organization: National Center on Educational Outcomes
Pre-assessment to Plan Instruction for Students with Disabilities During Distance Learning
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.
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Providing Supports to Students, Young Children, and Families; PreK-12 Schools; Children and students with disabilities
Resource Type: Best Practices; Technical Assistance Center Resources
Organization: National Center on Educational Outcomes
Remote Literacy Learning Implementation Toolkit
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.
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Providing Supports to Students, Young Children, and Families; PreK-12 Schools; Children and students with disabilities
Resource Type: Best Practices; Technical Assistance Center Resources
Organization: National Center on Improving Literacy
Academic and Behavior Intervention, Screening, and Progress Monitoring Tools Charts
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.
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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; Technical Assistance Center Resources
Organization: National Center on Intensive Intervention
Secondary Transition Considerations and Guiding Questions for Youth Exiting from High School
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.
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Providing Supports to Students, Young Children, and Families; PreK-12 Schools; Children and students with disabilities
Resource Type: Best Practices; Technical Assistance Center Resources
Organization: National Technical Assistance Center on Transition
Effective Classroom Instructional & Behavior Management Strategies
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; Technical Assistance Center Resources
Organization: Positive Behavioral Interventions and Supports (PBIS)
Positive Behavioral Interventions and Supports and Continuity of Learning: Getting Systems Back Up and Running
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; Technical Assistance Center Resources
Organization: Positive Behavioral Interventions and Supports (PBIS)
Supporting Students with Disabilities at School and Home: A Guide for Teachers to Support Families and Students
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; Technical Assistance Center Resources
Organization: Positive Behavioral Interventions and Supports (PBIS)
Returning to School During and After Crisis: A Guide to Supporting States, Districts, Schools, Educators, and Students through a Multi-Tiered Systems of Support Framework during the 2020-2021 School Year
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; Technical Assistance Center Resources
Organization: Positive Behavioral Interventions and Supports (PBIS)
Teaching Social-Emotional Competencies within a Positive Behavioral Interventions and Supports Framework
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.
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Providing Supports to Students, Young Children, and Families; Teacher, Early Childhood Provider, Faculty, and Staff Well-being, Professional Development, and Supports; PreK-12 Schools
Resource Type: Best Practices; Technical Assistance Center Resources
Organization: Positive Behavioral Interventions and Supports (PBIS)
Creating a Positive Behavioral Interventions and Supports Behavior Teaching Matrix for Remote Instruction
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.
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Providing Supports to Students, Young Children, and Families; PreK-12 Schools
Resource Type: Best Practices; Technical Assistance Center Resources
Organization: Positive Behavioral Interventions and Supports (PBIS)
Responding to the Novel Coronavirus (COVID-19) Outbreak Through Positive Behavioral Interventions and Supports
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.
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Providing Supports to Students, Young Children, and Families; PreK-12 Schools
Resource Type: Best Practices; Technical Assistance Center Resources
Organization: Positive Behavioral Interventions and Supports (PBIS)
Virtual Individualized Education Program Meeting Tip Sheets
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.
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Safe and Healthy Environments; PreK-12 Schools
Resource Type: Best Practices; Technical Assistance Center Resources
Organization: PROGRESS Center
Blog Series: Supporting Well-Being and Learning Through a Concerns-Based Approach
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.
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Teacher, Early Childhood Provider, Faculty, and Staff Well-being, Professional Development, and Supports; PreK-12 Schools
Resource Type: Best Practices; Technical Assistance Center Resources
Organization: Region 12 Comprehensive Center
Supporting Multilingual and English Learner Students During Distance Learning
This webinar series shares best practices for educators in supporting multilingual and English learner students in a remote setting.
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Providing Supports to Students, Young Children, and Families; PreK-12 Schools; English learners
Resource Type: Best Practices; Technical Assistance Center Resources
Organization: Region 15 Comprehensive Center
Digital Professional Learning for K–12 Teachers: Literature Review and Analysis
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.
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Teacher, Early Childhood Provider, Faculty, and Staff Well-being, Professional Development, and Supports; PreK-12 Schools
Resource Type: Best Practices; Technical Assistance Center Resources
Organization: Region 15 Comprehensive Center
Care for the Caregivers: Wellness Strategies for Student Support Service Providers
This brief presents mental wellness strategies for student support service providers and shares tools and techniques for self-regulation, managing stress and building resilience.
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Teacher, Early Childhood Provider, Faculty, and Staff Well-being, Professional Development, and Supports; PreK-12 Schools
Resource Type: Best Practices; Technical Assistance Center Resources
Organization: Region 2 Comprehensive Center
Healthy Schools Start with Healthy Adults: Strategies to Support Educator Wellness
This brief, developed by subject matter experts, provides practical self-care strategies and resources for educators, school-based staff and student support specialists.
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Teacher, Early Childhood Provider, Faculty, and Staff Well-being, Professional Development, and Supports; PreK-12 Schools
Resource Type: Best Practices; Technical Assistance Center Resources
Organization: Region 2 Comprehensive Center
Digital Divide and COVID-19
This podcast addresses the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic on the digital divide and remote learning.
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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; Technical Assistance Center Resources
Organization: Region 4 Equity Assistance Center (WEEAC)
Resilient Above Trauma During COVID 19
This webinar provides strategies for educators in managing trauma related to the pandemic.
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Teacher, Early Childhood Provider, Faculty, and Staff Well-being, Professional Development, and Supports; PreK-12 Schools
Resource Type: Best Practices; Technical Assistance Center Resources
Organization: Region 4 Equity Assistance Center (WEEAC)
Supporting Asian American and Pacific Islander Students During COVID-19
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.
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Providing Supports to Students, Young Children, and Families; PreK-12 Schools; Racial/ethnic subgroups
Resource Type: Best Practices; Technical Assistance Center Resources
Organization: Region 4 Equity Assistance Center (WEEAC)
Pandemic Supports for English Language Learners
This video presents strategies teachers can use in remote, hybrid and in-person settings to support multilingual students in offsetting educational disparities.
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Providing Supports to Students, Young Children, and Families; PreK-12 Schools
Resource Type: Best Practices; Technical Assistance Center Resources
Organization: Region 4 Equity Assistance Center (WEEAC)
Better Together: A Coordinated Response for Principal and District Leaders
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.
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Teacher, Early Childhood Provider, Faculty, and Staff Well-being, Professional Development, and Supports; PreK-12 Schools
Resource Type: Best Practices; Technical Assistance Center Resources
Organization: Region 6 Comprehensive Center
Evidence-Based Literacy Instruction within Remote Learning Environments
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.
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Providing Supports to Students, Young Children, and Families; PreK-12 Schools
Resource Type: Best Practices; Technical Assistance Center Resources
Organization: Region 8 Comprehensive Center
Illinois Superintendent Peer-to-Peer Focus Groups Report
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.
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Teacher, Early Childhood Provider, Faculty, and Staff Well-being, Professional Development, and Supports; PreK-12 Schools
Resource Type: Best Practices; Technical Assistance Center Resources
Organization: Region 9 Comprehensive Center
Ways to Create Welcoming, Bully-Free Online Learning Environments
This blog for school leaders and teachers provides strategies to prevent cyberbullying in schools, and can also be applied to online learning environments.
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Teacher, Early Childhood Provider, Faculty, and Staff Well-being, Professional Development, and Supports; PreK-12 Schools
Resource Type: Best Practices; Technical Assistance Center Resources
Organization: Regional Educational Laboratory (REL) Northwest
Research-Based Strategies for Effective Remote Learning
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.
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Providing Supports to Students, Young Children, and Families; PreK-12 Schools
Resource Type: Best Practices; Technical Assistance Center Resources
Organization: Regional Educational Laboratory Appalachia
Common Trauma Symptoms in Students and Helpful Strategies for Educators
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.
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Providing Supports to Students, Young Children, and Families; PreK-12 Schools
Resource Type: Best Practices; Technical Assistance Center Resources
Organization: Regional Educational Laboratory Appalachia
Personalizing Instruction to Address COVID-19 Learning Gaps
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.
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Teacher, Early Childhood Provider, Faculty, and Staff Well-being, Professional Development, and Supports; PreK-12 Schools
Resource Type: Best Practices; Technical Assistance Center Resources
Organization: Regional Educational Laboratory Central
Healthy Students = Strong Learners
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.
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Safe and Healthy Environments; PreK-12 Schools
Resource Type: Best Practices; Technical Assistance Center Resources
Organization: Regional Educational Laboratory Midwest
Learning for a Lifetime
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.
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Safe and Healthy Environments; PreK-12 Schools
Resource Type: Lessons Learned; Implementation Stories; Technical Assistance Center Resources
Organization: Regional Educational Laboratory Midwest
COVID-19: Evidence-Based Resources
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.
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Safe and Healthy Environments; Early Childhood Programs; PreK-12 Schools; College and Universities
Resource Type: Best Practices; Technical Assistance Center Resources
Organization: Regional Educational Laboratory Midwest
Supporting Student’s Social and Emotional Learning
These two webinars provide education and guidance for districts and schools in implementing Social and Emotional Learning practices.
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Safe and Healthy Environments; PreK-12 Schools
Resource Type: Best Practices; Technical Assistance Center Resources
Organization: Regional Educational Laboratory Midwest
Toolkit for Assessing Learning Changes After Spring 2020 COVID-19 School Closures
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.
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Providing Supports to Students, Young Children, and Families; PreK-12 Schools
Resource Type: Best Practices; Technical Assistance Center Resources
Organization: Regional Educational Laboratory Midwest
Culturally Responsive Leading and Learning: Addressing Equity Through Student and Family Voice
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.
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Providing Supports to Students, Young Children, and Families; PreK-12 Schools; Colleges and Universities
Resource Type: Best Practices; Technical Assistance Center Resources
Organization: Regional Educational Laboratory Pacific
Reflecting on Teacher Wellbeing During the COVID-19 Pandemic
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.
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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; Technical Assistance Center Resources
Organization: Regional Educational Laboratory Pacific
What Are the Freely Associated States of the 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.
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Providing Supports to Students, Young Children, and Families; Early Childhood Programs; PreK-12 Schools; College and Universities
Resource Type: Best Practices; Technical Assistance Center Resources
Organization: Regional Educational Laboratory Pacific
Culturally Sustaining Teaching Practices for Multilingual Students
This infographic illustrates best practices for culturally sustaining teaching of multilingual students and provides examples of how to implement these practices in the classroom.
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Providing Supports to Students, Young Children, and Families; Early Childhood Programs; PreK-12 Schools; College and Universities
Resource Type: Best Practices; Technical Assistance Center Resources
Organization: Regional Educational Laboratory Pacific
Fostering Teacher Wellbeing to Support Student Learning
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.
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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; Technical Assistance Center Resources
Organization: Regional Educational Laboratory Pacific
How To Grow Teacher Wellbeing in Your Schools
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.
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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; Technical Assistance Center Resources
Organization: Regional Educational Laboratory Pacific
Supporting Student Mental Health and Responding to Trauma
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.
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Teacher, Early Childhood Provider, Faculty, and Staff Well-being, Professional Development, and Supports; PreK-12 Schools
Resource Type: Best Practices; Technical Assistance Center Resources
Organization: Regional Educational Laboratory Southwest
Supporting Young Children's Learning and Development at Home: Resources for Early Childhood Educators and Caregivers
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.
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Teacher, Early Childhood Provider, Faculty, and Staff Well-being, Professional Development, and Supports; Early Childhood Programs; PreK-12 Schools
Resource Type: Best Practices; Technical Assistance Center Resources
Organization: Regional Educational Laboratory Southwest
Evidence-Based Blended Learning Programs and Instructional Practices
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.
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Teacher, Early Childhood Provider, Faculty, and Staff Well-being, Professional Development, and Supports; PreK-12 Schools
Resource Type: Best Practices; Technical Assistance Center Resources
Organization: Regional Educational Laboratory Southwest
Supporting Young English Learners at Home: Family and Caregiver Activities
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.
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Providing Supports to Students, Young Children, and Families; Early Childhood Programs; PreK-12 Schools; English learners
Resource Type: Best Practices; Technical Assistance Center Resources
Organization: Regional Educational Laboratory West
Engaging Parents and Students from Diverse Populations in the Context of Distance Learning
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.
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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; Technical Assistance Center Resources
Organization: Regional Educational Laboratory West
Seizing the Moment: Race Equity Mindsets, Social and Emotional Well-Being, and Outcomes for Students
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.
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Safe and Healthy Environments; PreK-12 Schools; Racial/ethnic subgroups
Resource Type: Lessons Learned; Best Practices; Technical Assistance Center Resources
Organization: Regional Educational Laboratory West
Strategies for Districts to Support Self-Care for Educators During the COVID-19 Pandemic
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.
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Teacher, Early Childhood Provider, Faculty, and Staff Well-being, Professional Development, and Supports; PreK-12 Schools
Resource Type: Best Practices; Technical Assistance Center Resources
Organization: Regional Educational Laboratory West
Continuous Improvement in Education: A Toolkit for Schools and Districts
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.
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Providing Supports to Students, Young Children, and Families; PreK-12 Schools
Resource Type: Best Practices; Technical Assistance Center Resources
Organization: Regional Educational Laboratory Northeast & Islands
Social and Emotional Learning Coaching Series Guide
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.
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Providing Supports to Students, Young Children, and Families; PreK-12 Schools
Resource Type: Best Practices; Technical Assistance Center Resources
Organization: Regional Educational Laboratory Northeast & Islands
Student Reengagement Learning Collaborative
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.