Resource Library

This webpage hosts a series of four fact sheets on best practices in school discipline, developed by a collaborative of technical assistance centers serving the U.S. Department of Education, Office of Elementary and Secondary Education, Office of Safe and Supportive Schools. The fact sheets offer best practices to help state and local education agencies support and respond to students’ social, emotional, behavioral, and academic needs and reduce the use of exclusionary discipline. Tags: Providing Supports to Students, Young Children, and Families ; PreK-12 Schools

Resource Type: Best Practices, Technical Assistance Center Resources
Organization: Center to Improve Social and Emotional Learning and School Safety; Center on Positive Behavioral Interventions and Supports; National Center on Safe and Supportive Learning Environments; Readiness and Emergency Management for Schools Technical Assistance Center; Student Engagement and Attendance Technical Assistance Center; Title IV, Part A Technical Assistance Center; Best Practices Clearinghouse

Watch this video to learn about the U.S. Department of Education's Best Practices Clearinghouse, where education stakeholders can access a wealth of resources and training opportunities to navigate a successful recovery from 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 ; Early Childhood Programs; PreK-12 Schools; Colleges and Universities

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

This website provides information and tools for exploring the overlaps between multiple forms of violence and outlines efforts for collaborative prevention. The website includes an introduction to the links between multiple forms of violence, as well as opportunities for identifying shared risk and protective factors across multiple forms of violence and learning how others are using a shared risk and protective factor approach to prevent violence. Tags: Safe and Healthy Environments; Providing Supports to Students, Young Children, and Families ; Free to Learn ; PreK-12 Schools

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

This website shares evidence-based approaches to violence prevention and describes how to effectively select, deliver, adapt, and evaluate violence prevention approaches to meet the unique needs of different communities. Tags: Safe and Healthy Environments; Providing Supports to Students, Young Children, and Families ; Free to Learn ; PreK-12 Schools

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

Dating Matters® is a CDC-developed teen dating violence prevention model that uses evidence-based approaches to teach 11- to 14-year-olds healthy relationship skills before they start dating. This website includes everything needed to implement the model, including trainings, guidance, program materials, and other resources. Tags: Safe and Healthy Environments; Providing Supports to Students, Young Children, and Families ; Free to Learn ; PreK-12 Schools

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

This online tool is designed to assess an organization’s capacity to implement violence prevention programs, including those aimed at preventing sexual violence, intimate partner violence, youth violence, teen dating violence, or child abuse and neglect. Tags: Safe and Healthy Environments; Providing Supports to Students, Young Children, and Families ; Free to Learn ; PreK-12 Schools

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

This webpage defines social norms, describes the social norms approach to public health and violence prevention, and shares steps for creating and implementing a social norms campaign to prevent violence. Tags: Safe and Healthy Environments; Providing Supports to Students, Young Children, and Families ; Free to Learn ; PreK-12 Schools

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

This Web page provides an interactive guide and database, allowing violence-prevention stakeholders to explore indicators to assist with evaluation and progress monitoring of violence-prevention efforts. The website shares information on what indicators are, why they’re important, and how to select specific indicators, as well as shares a database of indicators for users to explore and identify those that best fit their program’s needs and goals. Tags: Safe and Healthy Environments; Providing Supports to Students, Young Children, and Families ; Free to Learn ; PreK-12 Schools

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

This website is designed to help stakeholders who have a role in planning, implementing, and evaluating violence prevention efforts with selecting and implementing the strategies presented in the CDC’s technical packages to prevent or reduce violence. Tags: Safe and Healthy Environments; Providing Supports to Students, Young Children, and Families ; Free to Learn ; PreK-12 Schools

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

This webinar features a discussion on problems that Black LGBTQ students experience being marked as Black in a white supremacist society and being marked as queer in a hetero-cisnormative society. Presenters reflect upon the impacts of societal oppression on Black LGBTQ youth and offer recommendations for disrupting homophobia and transphobia in school communities. Tags: Safe and Healthy Environments; Providing Supports to Students, Young Children, and Families ; Free to Learn; Racial/ethnic subgroups; LGBTQIA students ; PreK-12 Schools

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

This report shares a comprehensive overview of current knowledge on the health, well-being, and needs of LGBTQI+ youth. Section two of this resource describes the influences of school experiences and environments on the health and well-being of LGBTQI+ youth and shares school-based practices and programs that create safe and supportive environments. Tags: Safe and Healthy Environments; Providing Supports to Students, Young Children, and Families ; Free to Learn; LGBTQIA students ; PreK-12 Schools

Resource Type: Best Practices; Technical Assistance Resources
Organization: U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration

This guide contains tools, videos, readings, and action plans designed to support individuals in leading professional learning sessions centered on defining, identifying, and interrupting microaggressions. Tags: Safe and Healthy Environments; Providing Supports to Students, Young Children, and Families ; Free to Learn ; PreK-12 Schools

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

This resource explores the different ways that educators can navigate teaching in States where policies restrict discussion of non-heteronormative family structures. The resource presents a scenario; shares potential responses; and provides insight on how each response may impact students, curriculum, and overall classroom inclusivity. Tags: Safe and Healthy Environments; Providing Supports to Students, Young Children, and Families ; Free to Learn; LGBTQIA students ; PreK-12 Schools

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

This resource details a cyberbullying scenario at the intersection of religion and offers educators three potential responses to the incident. The resource outlines the intents and impacts of each potential response and provides supplemental resources on equitable approaches to cyberbullying prevention and intervention. Tags: Safe and Healthy Environments; Providing Supports to Students, Young Children, and Families ; Free to Learn ; PreK-12 Schools

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

This resource shares information on cyberbullying in schools, including definitions, laws, and examples of court cases related to cyberbullying. This resource is designed to provide background information to complement the partner resource “Cyberbullying in Schools: An Educator’s Equitable Choice.” Tags: Safe and Healthy Environments; Providing Supports to Students, Young Children, and Families ; Free to Learn ; PreK-12 Schools

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

This podcast episode focuses on the importance of incorporating anti-racist practices in schools. The episode shares how these practices can foster safe and inclusive learning environments for students, particularly those with diverse racial and ethnic backgrounds, including Black/African American and Asian American students. Tags: Safe and Healthy Environments; Providing Supports to Students, Young Children, and Families ; Free to Learn; Racial/ethnic subgroups ; PreK-12 Schools

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

This webinar outlines the Oceti Sakowin Essential Understandings (OSEU) and explores how educators can integrate the OSEU into classroom learning experiences to honor student voices, experiences, and identities by centering Indigenous culture. Tags: Safe and Healthy Environments; Providing Supports to Students, Young Children, and Families ; Free to Learn; Racial/ethnic subgroups ; PreK-12 Schools

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

This webinar, featuring Community Unit School District 308 in Oswego, Illinois, shares how this school district leveraged their partnership with the Midwest and Plains Equity Assistance Center to more authentically center marginalized students' inputs and perspectives. Presenters highlight strategies, tools, and resources that support centering student voice in leading for equity. Tags: Safe and Healthy Environments; Providing Supports to Students, Young Children, and Families ; Free to Learn ; PreK-12 Schools

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

This resource details a scenario exploring the different ways educators may respond to sensitive conversations in the classroom, and the reactions and impacts different responses may elicit. Multiple resources are embedded to assist in navigating these types of conversations and to assist cultivation of critical consciousness within a caring classroom community. Tags: Safe and Healthy Environments; Providing Supports to Students, Young Children, and Families ; Free to Learn; Racial/ethnic subgroups ; PreK-12 Schools

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

This webinar explores the connections between the Woope Sakowin (Seven Laws) of the Lakota people and Universal Design for Learning (UDL) principles for honoring and engaging students and designing safe, asset-based learning environments. Presenters offer insight into how educators can integrate the Seven Laws and UDL into their teaching practices. Tags: Safe and Healthy Environments; Providing Supports to Students, Young Children, and Families ; Free to Learn; Racial/ethnic subgroups ; PreK-12 Schools

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

This resource presents a call to action for school community stakeholders to collaborate with educators to increase policies and practices that center the lived experiences of students who hold the intersectional identities of being both Black and a member of the LGBTQ community. The resource explains how anti-blackness and homophobia show up in schools and offers steps for creating supportive and affirming environments for students who identify as Black and queer. Tags: Safe and Healthy Environments; Providing Supports to Students, Young Children, and Families ; Free to Learn; Racial/ethnic subgroups; LGBTQIA students ; PreK-12 Schools

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

This resource describes issues that Black LGBTQ students experience being marked as Black and queer in a white supremacist and hetero-cisnormative society. The resource examines queerness and the effects of societal oppression on these youth and offers recommendations for school staff and stakeholders to disrupt homophobia and transphobia in schools. Tags: Safe and Healthy Environments; Providing Supports to Students, Young Children, and Families ; Free to Learn; Racial/ethnic subgroups; LGBTQIA students ; PreK-12 Schools

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

This resource explores the different ways in which athletic coaches may respond to negative pushback about transgender students' participation in school sports, and the intents and impacts different responses may elicit. Multiple resources are embedded to assist in navigating these types of conversations and toward cultivating critical consciousness and inclusivity in school sports. Tags: Safe and Healthy Environments; Providing Supports to Students, Young Children, and Families ; Free to Learn; LGBTQIA students ; PreK-12 Schools

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

This webinar describes the rise in antisemitic incidents at public-school meetings and offers strategies for recognizing antisemitism, connecting these incidents with broader socio-historical contexts, and addressing them when they occur. Tags: Safe and Healthy Environments; Providing Supports to Students, Young Children, and Families ; Free to Learn; Racial/ethnic subgroups ; PreK-12 Schools

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

This resource introduces the Center on Positive Behavioral Interventions and Supports' 5-Point Equity Approach and shares positive impacts of applying this approach, including its success in improving equity in school discipline. Tags: Safe and Healthy Environments; Providing Supports to Students, Young Children, and Families ; Free to Learn ; PreK-12 Schools

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

This resource explains the impact of creating a positive classroom environment that reflects the values of teachers, students, and families. This guide offers instructions for developing a teaching matrix to teach predictable routines; positive expectations; and critical social, emotional, and behavioral skills. Tags: Safe and Healthy Environments; Providing Supports to Students, Young Children, and Families ; Free to Learn ; PreK-12 Schools

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

This webinar presents five keys to inclusive education that benefit all students. Private school educators share insight and resources that can support educators in promoting student success through friendship, community, and positive school climate. Tags: Safe and Healthy Environments; Providing Supports to Students, Young Children, and Families ; Free to Learn; Children and students with disabilities ; PreK-12 Schools

Resource Type: Best Practices; Technical Assistance Resources
Organization: PROGRESS Center

This Web page shares event recordings and supplemental resources from the PROGRESS Center event, "Prepping for PROGRESS! Adding New Tools to Your Backpack (Toolbox) for the Start of School." All materials from this multi-day event focus on sharing information, resources, and lessons learned to support the development and implementation of high-quality educational programming for students with disabilities. Tags: Safe and Healthy Environments; Providing Supports to Students, Young Children, and Families ; Free to Learn; Children and students with disabilities ; PreK-12 Schools

Resource Type: Best Practices; Technical Assistance Resources
Organization: PROGRESS Center

This Web page offers resources that support awareness of the role that school districts play in creating a welcoming environment for all students. The "Stories From the Classroom" video shares an administrator’s perspective and strategies for creating an equitable and inclusive environment for all students; the supplemental quick guide can be used to facilitate discussion in conjunction with the video. Tags: Safe and Healthy Environments; Providing Supports to Students, Young Children, and Families ; Free to Learn ; PreK-12 Schools

Resource Type: Best Practices; Technical Assistance Resources
Organization: PROGRESS Center

This website features several resources that support the understanding of disability rights as an equity issue. The "Stories From the Classroom" video shares an educator’s perspective on the value of being an advocate, innovator, and collaborator on behalf of students with disabilities; the supplemental quick guide can be used to facilitate discussion in conjunction with the video. Tags: Safe and Healthy Environments; Providing Supports to Students, Young Children, and Families ; Free to Learn; Children and students with disabilities ; PreK-12 Schools

Resource Type: Best Practices; Technical Assistance Resources
Organization: PROGRESS Center

This webinar offers a framework for reflecting upon and fostering welcoming environments and a sense of belonging for all students. Webinar presenter Dr. Erik Carter, Cornelius Vanderbilt Professor of Special Education at Vanderbilt University, describes challenges that many educators face when meaningfully including students with disabilities in the school community and shares 10 ways that schools can foster belonging among students with and without disabilities. Tags: Safe and Healthy Environments; Providing Supports to Students, Young Children, and Families ; Free to Learn; Children and students with disabilities ; PreK-12 Schools

Resource Type: Best Practices; Technical Assistance Resources
Organization: PROGRESS Center

This webpage contains resources that support inclusion and equity for students with disabilities. The "Stories From the Classroom" video shares one student’s lived experience finding belonging in the classroom, and the supplemental discussion guide and quick guide can be used in conjunction with the video to facilitate in-depth discussion. Tags: Safe and Healthy Environments; Providing Supports to Students, Young Children, and Families ; Free to Learn; Children and students with disabilities ; PreK-12 Schools

Resource Type: Best Practices; Technical Assistance Resources
Organization: PROGRESS Center

This article describes how schools can prevent bullying, including by helping students develop social and emotional skills, setting clear behavioral expectations, and providing supports to students with behavioral needs. Tags: Safe and Healthy Environments; Providing Supports to Students, Young Children, and Families ; Free to Learn ; PreK-12 Schools

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

This online toolkit helps educators and school leaders prevent bullying and harassment by creating a positive school climate. Tags: Safe and Healthy Environments; Providing Supports to Students, Young Children, and Families ; Free to Learn ; PreK-12 Schools

Resource Type: Best Practices; Technical Assistance Resources
Organization: Equity Assistance Center-South

This resource provides educators with tools to teach students to identify and effectively respond to bullying. Tags: Safe and Healthy Environments; Providing Supports to Students, Young Children, and Families ; Free to Learn ; PreK-12 Schools

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

This resource explains microaggressions and their components as well as their impacts on marginalized groups. The resource then offers strategies for disrupting microaggressions and provides supplemental resources. Tags: Safe and Healthy Environments; Providing Supports to Students, Young Children, and Families ; Free to Learn ; PreK-12 Schools

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

This resource defines race-based hate speech and microaggressions, and encourages teachers to foster a safe and supportive learning environment by addressing race-based hate speech, jokes, and subtle prejudice-oriented references intended to insult and harm students. Tags: Safe and Healthy Environments; Providing Supports to Students, Young Children, and Families ; Free to Learn ; PreK-12 Schools

Resource Type: Best Practices
Organization: American Psychological Association

This brief outlines the importance and key elements of positive student-teacher relationships and offers strategies to help educators strengthen their relational skills with students. Tags: Safe and Healthy Environments; Providing Supports to Students, Young Children, and Families ; Free to Learn ; PreK-12 Schools

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

This online resource toolkit for educators offers best practices for authentically engaging with families and community members. Tags: Safe and Healthy Environments; Providing Supports to Students, Young Children, and Families ; Free to Learn ; PreK-12 Schools

Resource Type: Best Practices; Technical Assistance Resources
Organization: Equity Assistance Center-South

This blog post offers five perspective-taking strategies for educators who are working toward improving relationships with students with diverse cultural backgrounds. Tags: Safe and Healthy Environments; Providing Supports to Students, Young Children, and Families ; Free to Learn ; PreK-12 Schools

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

This infographic provides examples and benefits of culturally responsive practices and shares strategies for planning for continuous improvement and measuring implementation of culturally responsive practice. Tags: Safe and Healthy Environments; Providing Supports to Students, Young Children, and Families ; Free to Learn ; PreK-12 Schools

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

This Web page provides strategies and resources on using school behavior support systems as tools for dismantling systemic racism and promoting equity. Tags: Safe and Healthy Environments; Providing Supports to Students, Young Children, and Families ; Free to Learn ; PreK-12 Schools

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

This Web page offers resources, tools, guidance, and current research on how to teach school-aged children about identity and bias. Tags: Safe and Healthy Environments; Providing Supports to Students, Young Children, and Families ; Free to Learn ; PreK-12 Schools

Resource Type: Best Practices; Technical Assistance Resources
Organization: Center for Education Equity

This Web page for educators and families provides resources for teaching children about race, racism, and social justice. Resources include best practices, Federal guidance, children’s books, and current research. Tags: Safe and Healthy Environments; Providing Supports to Students, Young Children, and Families ; Free to Learn ; PreK-12 Schools

Resource Type: Best Practices; Technical Assistance Resources
Organization: Center for Education Equity

This webinar shares guidance for parents on how to discuss race, racism, and current events involving race with children. Tags: Safe and Healthy Environments; Providing Supports to Students, Young Children, and Families ; Free to Learn ; PreK-12 Schools

Resource Type: Best Practices; Technical Assistance Resources
Organization: Center for Education Equity

This guide for PreK-12 educators aids facilitation of frequent, high-quality conversations with students about race, racism, and important currents events to support self-reflection and constructive classroom discussions. Tags: Safe and Healthy Environments; Providing Supports to Students, Young Children, and Families ; Free to Learn ; PreK-12 Schools

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

This resource hub offers lesson plans, teaching tools, and State-level policy news to support educators, advocates, and school communities in promoting culturally sustaining schools and fighting harmful censorship policies. Tags: Safe and Healthy Environments; Providing Supports to Students, Young Children, and Families ; Free to Learn ; PreK-12 Schools

Resource Type: Best Practices; Technical Assistance Resources
Organization: Equity Assistance Center-South

This field guide shares an integrated framework for embedding equity efforts into a schoolwide model of Positive Behavioral Interventions and Supports through alignment with culturally responsive practices. Tags: Safe and Healthy Environments; Providing Supports to Students, Young Children, and Families ; Free to Learn ; PreK-12 Schools

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

This resource describes the importance of four key learning conditions — safety, support, social and emotional learning, and engagement and challenge — for students in public school systems and secure-care educational settings, such as residential treatment schools and juvenile detention and corrections facilities. Tags: Safe and Healthy Environments; Providing Supports to Students, Young Children, and Families ; Free to Learn ; PreK-12 Schools

Resource Type: Best Practices; Technical Assistance Resources
Organization: National Technical Assistance Center for the Education of Neglected or Delinquent Children and Youth

This checklist outlines the process for systematically tracking the implementation of key strategies for creating positive learning environments. Tags: Safe and Healthy Environments; Providing Supports to Students, Young Children, and Families ; Free to Learn ; PreK-12 Schools

Resource Type: Best Practices; Technical Assistance Resources
Organization: You for Youth

This resource for educators and school staff shares seven strategies, each accompanied by detailed actionable steps, for creating positive learning environments. Tags: Safe and Healthy Environments; Providing Supports to Students, Young Children, and Families ; Free to Learn ; PreK-12 Schools

Resource Type: Best Practices; Technical Assistance Resources
Organization: You for Youth

This webinar for educators and school staff details best practices for creating equitable classroom environments. Tags: Safe and Healthy Environments; Providing Supports to Students, Young Children, and Families ; Free to Learn ; PreK-12 Schools

Resource Type: Best Practices; Technical Assistance Resources
Organization: Western Educational Equity Assistance Center

This brief describes the benefits of classroom discussions on race (race talk), shares students’ experiences of these discussions, and provides educators with strategies for facilitating effective race talk that results in meaningful learning opportunities. Tags: Safe and Healthy Environments; Providing Supports to Students, Young Children, and Families ; Free to Learn ; PreK-12 Schools

Resource Type: Best Practices; Technical Assistance Resources
Organization: Center for Education Equity

This report presents findings from a study on the effects of facilitated student focus groups (student listening circles) on students’ perceptions of school climate as well as their perceptions of their own ability to succeed academically and influence changes at their school. Tags: Safe and Healthy Environments; Providing Supports to Students, Young Children, and Families ; Free to Learn ; PreK-12 Schools

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

This online toolkit contains three tools to help administrators and educators listen to and learn from students about their school experiences and utilize students’ perspectives to inform school improvement efforts. Tags: Safe and Healthy Environments; Providing Supports to Students, Young Children, and Families ; Free to Learn ; PreK-12 Schools

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

This blog post describes how school staff can support students’ social and emotional learning by creating a positive school climate. Tags: Safe and Healthy Environments; Providing Supports to Students, Young Children, and Families ; Free to Learn ; PreK-12 Schools

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

This guide defines and describes evidence-based teaching strategies that support children and disabilities in engaging with, maintaining interest in, and learning the foundational concepts and skills that comprise science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) learning. The guide is intended to supplement the STEM Innovation for Inclusion in Early Education Center "Guide to Adaptations" in cases where young learners require more support. Tags: Providing Supports to Students, Young Children, and Families ; Children and students with disabilities ; Early Childhood Programs; PreK-12 Schools

Resource Type: Best Practices; Technical Assistance Center Resources
Organization: STEM Innovation for Inclusion in Early Education Center

This guide describes how adaptations to learning environments and materials can facilitate science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) learning for children with disabilities. The guide provides practical techniques and hands-on recommendations for adapting specific classroom spaces and objects to support STEM learning. Tags: Providing Supports to Students, Young Children, and Families ; Children and students with disabilities ; Early Childhood Programs; PreK-12 Schools

Resource Type: Best Practices; Technical Assistance Center Resources
Organization: STEM Innovation for Inclusion in Early Education Center

This Web page offers a variety of resources, trainings, and tools that are tailored to support multilingualism and student success. The Web page provides resources for all multilingual learners as well as resources that are targeted toward multilingualism and assessment, English learners with disabilities, and Indigenous multilingual students. Tags: Providing Supports to Students, Young Children, and Families; Teacher, Early Childhood Provider, Faculty, and Staff Well-being, Professional Development, and Supports ; English learners ; PreK-12 Schools

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

This guide provides a background, overview, and comprehensive step-by-step guidance on braiding and blending Federal education funding. The information and guidance presented can support education administrators in states and territories across the country. 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: National Comprehensive Center

This blog describes how a collaboration between the Mississippi Department of Education and the Region 7 Comprehensive Center worked to understand and increase community members’ involvement in Community Engagement Councils. The blog shares project goals, findings, and priorities for future collaboration. Tags: Providing Supports to Students, Young Children, and Families ; PreK-12 Schools

Resource Type: Implementation Stories; Technical Assistance Center Resources
Organization: National Comprehensive Center

This website offers guidance and resources to help schools and school districts support students in foster care. Tags: Providing Supports to Students, Young Children, and Families ; Students in or formerly in foster care ; PreK-12 Schools

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

This website hosts an online survey tool and a library of resources aimed at helping educators, schools, and school districts center equity in their continuous improvement efforts. 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

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

This brief explores the benefits of Youth Participatory Action Research (YPAR) and explains how educators can implement YPAR in the classroom to teach academic concepts while simultaneously providing opportunities for student voice and engagement. Tags: Providing Supports to Students, Young Children, and Families; Teacher, Early Childhood Provider, Faculty, Staff Well-being, Professional Development, and Supports ; PreK-12 Schools

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

This brief describes barriers that African American girls face accessing science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) programs. The resource shares lessons learned from the F.a.M.I.L.Y Project, a year-long project that provided inclusive and culturally relevant STEM learning experiences to African American girls and their caregivers. Tags: Providing Supports to Students, Young Children, and Families ; Racial/ethnic subgroups ; PreK-12 Schools

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

This research report highlights how public school districts have improved building ventilation to prevent the spread of respiratory infections and keep schools safely open for in-person learning. Tags: Safe and Healthy Environments ; PreK-12 Schools

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

This Web page contains fact sheets that summarize data collected from states about infants, children, and youth with disabilities who receive early intervention or special education services under the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act. Tags: Providing Supports to Students, Young Children, and Families ; Children and students with disabilities ; Early Childhood Programs; PreK-12 Schools; Colleges and Universities

Resource Type: Federal Resources
Organization: U.S. Department of Education, Office of Special Education Programs

Authored by Valerie Williams, the Director of the U.S. Department of Education’s Office of Special Education Programs, this blog presents data on the disproportionate impacts of disciplinary practices, such as exclusionary discipline, on students of color and students with disabilities. The post provides resources for state and local education agency leaders and educators to reduce discipline disparities and better respond to student needs. Tags: Providing Supports to Students, Young Children, and Families ; Children and students with disabilities; Racial/ethnic subgroups ; PreK-12 Schools

Resource Type: Best Practices; Federal Resources
Organization: U.S. Department of Education, Office of Special Education and Rehabilitative Services

This Web page shares a training series as well as presentation materials, resources, and research findings from a two-phase collaboration between the New Mexico Public Education Department and Regional Educational Laboratory Southwest. All materials support the provision of high-quality English language instruction for Native American English learners. Tags: Providing Supports to Students, Young Children, and Families; Teacher, Early Childhood Provider, Faculty, and Staff Well-being, Professional Development, and Supports ; English learners; Racial/ethnic subgroups ; PreK-12 Schools

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

This two-part mini-documentary highlights research-based strategies that administrators, educators, and community and tribal leaders can implement to support Native American students in acquiring English language skills while simultaneously acquiring, developing, and preserving their native languages. Tags: Providing Supports to Students, Young Children, and Families ; English learners; Racial/ethnic subgroups ; PreK-12 Schools

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

This fact sheet shares research on the impacts of culturally responsive curricula on American Indian students’ academic outcomes and offers examples of promising culturally responsive instructional strategies that may be associated with higher academic achievement among American Indian English learners. Tags: Providing Supports to Students, Young Children, and Families ; English learners; Racial/ethnic subgroups ; PreK-12 Schools

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

This guide offers a framework to support teachers and English language development specialists in providing high-quality instruction to English learners. The guide shares research, templates, and best practices for designing and implementing collaborative instructional strategies that integrate language and content across subjects. Tags: Providing Supports to Students, Young Children, and Families; Teacher, Early Childhood Provider, Faculty, and Staff Well-being, Professional Development, and Supports ; English learners ; PreK-12 Schools

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

This Dear Colleague Letter outlines the U.S. Department of Education’s position on corporal punishment in schools and urges state and local education leaders to replace corporal punishment with evidence-based practices that create safe and healthy learning environments. Tags: Safe and Healthy Environments ; PreK-12 Schools

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

This Web page outlines the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's Let’s RISE initiative, which offers strategies and resources for community leaders and health care professionals to support routine immunizations among children, teens, and adults. Tags: Safe and Healthy Environments ; Early Childhood Programs; PreK-12 Schools; Colleges and Universities

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

This Web page includes findings from a 2022 study funded by the U.S. Department of Education on the ways in which state education agencies (SEAs) and state child welfare agencies exchange data about students in foster care. The website includes profiles of eight different SEAs' data-sharing practices. Tags: Providing Supports to Students, Young Children, and Families ; Students in or formerly in foster care ; PreK-12 Schools

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

This infographic outlines the benefits and components of bilingualism and multilingualism, introduces the concept of translanguaging, and offers examples and recommendations to help educators leverage translanguaging in their teaching. Tags: Providing Supports to Students, Young Children, and Families ; English learners ; PreK-12 Schools

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

This resource provides an overview of the U.S. Department of Education's (ED) Raise the Bar: Lead the World initiative and its role in advancing educational equity and excellence. The website shares ED's plans for supporting states, districts, and schools in achieving academic excellence, improving learning conditions, and creating pathways for global engagement. Tags: Providing Supports to Students, Young Children, and Families; Teacher, Early Childhood Provider, Faculty, and Staff Well-being, Professional Development, and Supports ; PreK-12 Schools

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

This infographic illustrates the importance of educator diversity by sharing research on the benefits of Black students having Black teachers. The resource also shares data on students' access to teachers of color and shares examples of two states' approaches to improving educator diversity. Tags: Providing Supports to Students, Young Children, and Families ; Racial/ethnic subgroups ; PreK-12 Schools

Resource Type: Best Practices; Technical Assistance Center Resources
Organization: Regional Educational Laboratory Northeast & Islands

This resource for district leaders offers guidance for developing partnerships to increase the number of tutors, mentors, coaches, student support coordinators, and postsecondary transition coaches in schools supporting students. The toolkit also shares information on how districts can leverage the National Partnership for Student Success to assist in these efforts. Tags: Providing Supports to Students, Young Children, and Families ; PreK-12 Schools

Resource Type: Best Practices
Organization: National Partnership for Student Success

This observation guide assists teachers and administrators in identifying, reflecting upon, and implementing developmentally appropriate practices in kindergarten classrooms that foster responsive developmental relationships, family engagement, motor development, literacy and language development, and supportive environments. Tags: Providing Supports to Students, Young Children, and Families ; PreK-12 Schools

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

This report shares insights from grantees from the U.S. Department of Education’s Education Innovation and Research (EIR) program that have designed, implemented, and evaluated innovative social and emotional learning (SEL) programs. The report offers five recommendations based on EIR grantees’ experiences that can help other school and district leaders create, implement, and evaluate their own SEL programs. Tags: Providing Supports to Students, Young Children, and Families ; PreK-12 Schools

Resource Type: Best Practices ; Lessons Learned
Organization: U.S. Department of Education

This online resource shares videos from a virtual workshop on the impacts of the 2021 American Rescue Plan (ARP) Act. The workshop shares considerations related to the ARP Act, aspects of State Education Agencies’ (SEAs') strategic planning efforts, examples of different SEA approaches, and supplemental resources to help SEAs make the most of their ARP funds. Tags: Safe and Healthy Environments ; Teacher, Early Childhood Provider, Faculty, and Staff Well-being, Professional Development, and Supports ; Providing Supports to Students, Young Children, and Families ; PreK-12 Schools

Resource Type: Best Practices ; Technical Assistance Resources
Organization: Region 2 Comprehensive Center; Region 13 Comprehensive Center; Region 15 Comprehensive Center; National Comprehensive Center

This article details how relational trauma impacts students in foster care and shares five recommendations for educators to create safe and supportive learning environments for students in foster care. Tags: Providing Supports to Students, Young Children, and Families ; Students in or formerly in foster care ; PreK-12 Schools

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

This fact sheet shares information and data on racial disparities and inequities in early childhood intervention and special education and offers questions for state and local leaders to ask as they examine equity in their early childhood intervention and special education systems. Tags: Providing Supports to Students, Young Children, and Families ; Children and students with disabilities ; Early Childhood Programs ; PreK-12 Schools

Resource Type: Best Practices ; Technical Assistance Center Resources
Organization: Early Childhood Technical Assistance Center

This infographic highlights the foundational skills that contribute to students’ reading comprehension. Tags: Providing Supports to Students, Young Children, and Families ; PreK-12 Schools

Resource Type: Best Practices ; Technical Assistance Center Resources
Organization: National Center on Improving Literacy

This article shares information on what educators should understand about supporting students in foster care. Tags: Providing Supports to Students, Young Children, and Families ; Students in or formerly in foster care ; PreK-12 Schools

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

This letter from the U.S. Secretary of Education outlines the U.S. Department of Education’s three key goals for advancing PreK-12 education: achieving academic excellence for all children, boldly improving learning conditions, and creating pathways for global engagement. Tags: Providing Supports to Students, Young Children, and Families ; PreK-12 Schools

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

This resource shares five detailed steps for creating a statewide partnership to help students recover from the impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic. Tags: Providing Supports to Students, Young Children, and Families ; PreK-12 Schools

Resource Type: Best Practices ; Innovative Spotlight
Organization: National Partnership for Student Success

This fact sheet outlines how the National Partnership for Student Success is strengthening educator pipelines and shares examples of how other organizations across the U.S. are developing partnerships to strengthen and diversify the educator workforce. Tags: Teacher, Early Childhood Provider, Faculty, and Staff Well-being, Professional Development, and Supports ; PreK-12 Schools

Resource Type: Best Practices ; Innovative Spotlight
Organization: National Partnership for Student Success

This series contains five infographics that aim to help educators and school staff grow their awareness, understanding, and appreciation for the diversity of Pacific Island students' cultures, languages, and experiences and that offer strategies for creating authentic relationships with Pacific Island students. Tags: Providing Supports to Students, Young Children, and Families ; Racial/ethnic subgroups ; PreK-12 Schools

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

This infographic highlights the underrepresentation of English learners in talented and gifted (TAG) programs and shares strategies for increasing the number of English learners in TAG programs. Tags: Providing Supports to Students, Young Children, and Families ; English learners ; PreK-12 Schools

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

This fact sheet spotlights evidence-based instructional practices for supporting elementary English learners in developing English language skills and strengthening their knowledge of academic content, and offers additional strategies for assessment and intervention. Tags: Providing Supports to Students, Young Children, and Families ; English learners ; PreK-12 Schools

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

This infographic highlights questions schools and school districts should ask before referring an English learner for special education evaluation, lists factors that lead to the misidentification of special education needs for English learners, and offers evidence-based practices for ensuring appropriate identification and service provision for English learners with disabilities. Tags: Providing Supports to Students, Young Children, and Families ; Children and students with disabilities ; English learners ; PreK-12 Schools

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

This infographic provides three evidence-based recommendations that can help teachers and instructional staff identify English learners who have disabilities: forming diverse collaborative teams, using multiple assessment measures, and being culturally and linguistically responsive. Tags: Providing Supports to Students, Young Children, and Families ; Children and students with disabilities ; English learners ; PreK-12 Schools

Resource Type: Best Practices ; Technical Assistance Center Resources
Organization: Regional Educational Laboratory Northeast & Islands

The What Works Clearinghouse practice guides are designed for education leaders, teachers, and instructional staff and offer evidence-based recommendations for supporting students and addressing common challenges in early childhood programs, schools, and postsecondary institutions. Tags: Providing Supports to Students, Young Children, and Families ; Early Childhood Programs ; PreK-12 Schools ; Colleges and Universities

Resource Type: Best Practices
Organization: Institute of Education Sciences, What Works Clearinghouse

This toolkit contains materials for schools and school districts to facilitate a workshop on developing a culture of data use. Tags: Teacher, Early Childhood Provider, Faculty, and Staff Well-being, Professional Development, and Supports ; PreK-12 Schools

Resource Type: Best Practices ; Technical Assistance Center Resources
Organization: Regional Educational Laboratory Northeast & Islands

This resource describes a data-based technique for identifying patterns of teacher shortages and predicting future teacher shortages to inform appropriate response plans. Tags: Teacher, Early Childhood Provider, Faculty, and Staff Well-being, Professional Development, and Supports ; PreK-12 Schools

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

This toolkit helps educators create and improve classroom-based practical measurement instruments to be used in networked improvement communities. Tags: Teacher, Early Childhood Provider, Faculty, and Staff Well-being, Professional Development, and Supports ; PreK-12 Schools

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

This Website provides tools to support data teams with the data-based individualization process. The tools can also be adapted to facilitate data meetings in a multi-tiered systems of support framework or to support individualized education program teams. 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: National Center on Intensive Intervention

This series of online courses supports professional development providers with teaching pre-service and in-service educators about implementation of explicit instruction as well as intensive intervention in reading and mathematics. 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: National Center on Intensive Intervention

This interactive guide helps literacy leadership teams in grades 4–8 respond to lost learning time caused by the COVID-19 pandemic by sharing resources on accelerated literacy development, including tips on literacy instruction in remote and hybrid learning environments, family supports, and community engagement. 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: National Comprehensive Center

This interactive guide helps literacy leadership teams in grades 1–3 respond to lost learning time caused by the COVID-19 pandemic by sharing resources on accelerated literacy development, including tips on literacy instruction in remote and hybrid learning environments, family supports, and community engagement. 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: National Comprehensive Center

This article explores how school-based youth mentorship can build students’ resilience, support positive relationships, meet students’ needs, and advance education equity. Tags: Providing Supports to Students, Young Children, and Families ; PreK-12 Schools

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

This infographic outlines the issue of child exploitation, describes basic steps that schools can take to identify and support students facing exploitation, and offers supplemental programs and resources. Tags: Safe and Healthy Environments; Providing Supports to Students, Young Children, and Families ; PreK-12 Schools

Resource Type: Best Practices ; Federal Resources
Organization: Federal School Safety Clearinghouse

This letter addresses the use of Federal funds for implementing and encouraging digital learning strategies and the use of educational technology to advance student achievement. Tags: Providing Supports to Students, Young Children, and Families ; PreK-12 Schools

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

This fact sheet describes deaf-blindness, provides information on causes and prevalence, and shares strategies on how to support the learning and communication of children who are deaf-blind. Tags: Providing Supports to Students, Young Children, and Families ; Children and students with disabilities ; Early Childhood Programs; PreK-12 Schools

Resource Type: Technical Assistance Resources
Organization: National Center on Deaf-Blindness

This video describes the purpose and features of effective universal literacy screening. Tags: Providing Supports to Students, Young Children, and Families ; PreK-12 Schools

Resource Type: Best Practices ; Technical Assistance Center Resources
Organization: Lead for Literacy Center

This fact sheet shares the Biden administration's progress on making COVID-19 vaccinations, testing, and treatments widely available and accessible. Tags: Safe and Healthy Environments ; Early Childhood Programs; PreK-12 Schools; Colleges and Universities

Resource Type: Federal Resources
Organization: The White House

This resource for charter school leaders describes the impact of representation on student success and highlights strategies to recruit, hire, and sustain teachers of color. Tags: Teacher, Early Childhood Provider, Faculty, and Staff Well-being, Professional Development, and Supports ; Racial/ethnic subgroups ; PreK-12 Schools

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

This infographic highlights the cognitive, educational, sociocultural, and economic benefits of being multilingual. Tags: Providing Supports to Students, Young Children, and Families ; Early Childhood Programs; PreK-12 Schools; Colleges and Universities

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

This tip sheet provides educational administrators with information to assist them in determining how to spend Education for Homeless Children and Youth (EHCY) and American Rescue Plan-Homeless Children and Youth (ARP-HCY) subgrant funds. Tags: Providing Supports to Students, Young Children, and Families ; Students experiencing homelessness ; PreK-12 Schools

Resource Type: Technical Assistance Resources
Organization: National Center for Homeless Education

This fact sheet shares best practices on how to engage the whole school community in support of math learning and offers strategies for building community partnerships. Tags: Providing Supports to Students, Young Children, and Families ; PreK-12 Schools

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

This Dear Colleague Letter for State and school district leaders shares how Federal education funding may be used to enhance science, technology, engineering, and math teaching and learning. Tags: Providing Supports to Students, Young Children, and Families ; PreK-12 Schools

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

This Web page describes the WeTeach_CS program, which educates and empowers K-12 and postsecondary educators, administrators, and professional development providers to realize the vision of computer science for all by broadening participation and sharing computing expertise to guide strategic improvement in computing education at the State and national level. Tags: Teacher, Early Childhood Provider, Faculty, and Staff Well Being,Professional Development, and Supports ; PreK-12 Schools

Resource Type: Innovative Spotlight
Organization: The University of Texas at Austin, Texas Advanced Computing Center

This literature review identifies evidence-based practices and interventions for supporting students’ positive math attitudes and beliefs. The review covers four math attitudes—growth mindset, sense of belonging, math anxiety, and self-efficacy—and provides educators with research and supporting practices for promoting these positive perspectives among students. Tags: Providing Supports to Students, Young Children, and Families ; PreK-12 Schools

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

This FAQ sheet shares guidance on how the Elementary and Secondary School Emergency Relief (ESSER) Fund, including the American Rescue Plan ESSER Program and the Governor’s Emergency Education Relief Fund, may be used to support school communities in response to the impacts of 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: Federal Resources
Organization: U.S. Department of Education

This fact sheet describes the importance of students feeling accepted, supported, and included within their school community and offers strategies for educators to improve students’ sense of belonging. Tags: Providing Supports to Students, Young Children, and Families ; PreK-12 Schools

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

This toolkit offers a variety of customizable resources to help schools partner with caregivers and families to increase school connectedness among students. Tags: Providing Supports to Students, Young Children, and Families ; PreK-12 Schools

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

This Web page offers information and recommendations to help school administrators learn about seasonal influenza and prevent its spread among students and staff. Tags: Safe and Healthy Environments ; PreK-12 Schools

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

This multimedia resource explores the design, implementation, and evaluation of Grow Your Own programs for expanding and diversifying the educator workforce. 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: National Comprehensive Center

This self-assessment supports school districts in evaluating the development and implementation of programs related to students’ well-being, academic, and life skill development. Tags: Providing Supports to Students, Young Children, and Families ; PreK-12 Schools

Resource Type: Technical Assistance Center Resources
Organization: Region 17 Comprehensive Center

This set of toolkits for families and schools provides strategies, videos, tips, and resources for teaching literacy in remote or hybrid learning environments. Tags: Providing Supports to Students, Young Children, and Families ; PreK-12 Schools

Resource Type: Best Practices ; Technical Assistance Center Resources
Organization: National Center on Improving Literacy

This online assessment guides caregivers and educators through a series of questions about children’s literacy skills and, upon completion, provides a tailored set of resources for filling in gaps in children's reading, writing, and language skills. Tags: Providing Supports to Students, Young Children, and Families ; PreK-12 Schools

Resource Type: Best Practices ; Technical Assistance Center Resources
Organization: National Center on Improving Literacy

This fact sheet defines culturally responsive pedagogy, offers examples of culturally responsive instructional practices, and shares considerations for educators, schools, districts, and States implementing culturally responsive pedagogy. Tags: Providing Supports to Students, Young Children, and Families ; PreK-12 Schools

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

This resource defines the concepts of cultural sensitivity, cultural relevance, cultural responsiveness, and cultural sustenance as they relate to pedagogy and assessments and provides recommendations for advancing equity within assessment systems. Tags: Providing Supports to Students, Young Children, and Families ; PreK-12 Schools

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

This resource shares findings of a study on Alaska’s English Learner (EL) policies and practices as they relate to Alaska Native students, and outlines implications of the study for other education agencies supporting Alaska Native EL students. Tags: Providing Supports to Students, Young Children, and Families ; English learners; Racial/ethnic subgroups ; PreK-12 Schools

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

This fact sheet describes the benefits of students developing strong mathematics habits of mind and positive attitudes about mathematics and provides strategies and supplemental resources that educators can use to help students develop mathematical mindsets. Tags: Providing Supports to Students, Young Children, and Families ; PreK-12 Schools

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

This blog article describes Indigenous principles of learning, offers examples of these principles in practice at schools across the Pacific region, and shares ideas to help educators serving students from Indigenous communities incorporate Indigenous principles of learning into their work. Tags: Providing Supports to Students, Young Children, and Families ; Racial/ethnic subgroups ; PreK-12 Schools

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

This letter describes how State and local education agencies can leverage American Rescue Plan and Coronavirus Response and Relief Supplemental Appropriations funds to build and strengthen systems of support for students transitioning from PreK-12 schools to careers and postsecondary education. Tags: Providing Supports to Students, Young Children, and Families ; PreK-12 Schools; Colleges and Universities

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

This report highlights examples of schools and school districts in Colorado that are successfully recruiting and retaining teachers despite their school or district having characteristics typically associated with higher turnover rates. The report also shares strategies for other education agencies looking to address teacher shortages. Tags: Teacher, Early Childhood Provider, Faculty, and Staff Well-being, Professional Development, and Supports ; PreK-12 Schools

Resource Type: Technical Assistance Center Resources
Organization: Region 12 Comprehensive Center

This infographic describes the importance of promoting the heritage languages of American Indian and Alaska Native (AI/AN) multilingual learners and offers strategies for supporting AI/AN students’ language education. Tags: Providing Supports to Students, Young Children, and Families ; English learners; Racial/ethnic subgroups ; PreK-12 Schools

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

This infographic presents research on English Learners’ access to and representation within science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) courses and offers strategies to help educators and school leaders design high-quality STEM instruction for English Learners. Tags: Providing Supports to Students, Young Children, and Families ; English learners ; PreK-12 Schools

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

This toolkit offers an online tutorial along with resources, research, and tools to support schools and families in working together to advance children’s literacy development. Tags: Providing Supports to Students, Young Children, and Families ; PreK-12 Schools

Resource Type: Best Practices ; Technical Assistance Center Resources
Organization: National Center on Improving Literacy

This Website shares guides, videos, and supplemental resources on topics related to learning acceleration, including strategies for incorporating student engagement, a focus on essential skills, assessment, targeted tutoring support, and a whole child perspective. Tags: Providing Supports to Students, Young Children, and Families ; PreK-12 Schools

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

This online toolkit provides information about monkeypox and resources to help administrators and staff at schools and early childhood programs prevent the spread of infectious diseases like monkeypox. Tags: Safe and Healthy Environments ; Early Childhood Programs, PreK-12 Schools

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

This tool helps State and local education agencies evaluate the costs and expected outcomes of different evidence-based interventions to inform the development of spending plans. Tags: Providing Supports to Students, Young Children, and Families ; PreK-12 Schools

Resource Type: Technical Assistance Center Resources
Organization: National Comprehensive Center; Edunomics Lab

This checklist supports State and local education agencies in monitoring the status and pace of their American Rescue Plan Elementary and Secondary School Emergency Relief Fund spending. Tags: Providing Supports to Students, Young Children, and Families ; PreK-12 Schools

Resource Type: Technical Assistance Center Resources
Organization: National Comprehensive Center; Edunomics Lab

This resource outlines the process for using logic models to evaluate the short-, mid-, and long-term impacts of programs funded through the American Rescue Plan Elementary and Secondary School Emergency Relief Fund and provides a template for education agencies to create their own logic models. Tags: Providing Supports to Students, Young Children, and Families ; PreK-12 Schools

Resource Type: Technical Assistance Center Resources
Organization: National Comprehensive Center

This brief explores innovative strategies for addressing current challenges with educator recruitment and retention. Tags: Teacher, Early Childhood Provider, Faculty, and Staff Well-being, Professional Development, and Supports ; PreK-12 Schools

Resource Type: Technical Assistance Center Resources
Organization: Region 9 Comprehensive Center

This fact sheet offers research and recommendations for supporting students transitioning from non-traditional schools to traditional schools and includes students' perspectives about their experiences. Tags: Providing Supports to Students, Young Children, and Families ; PreK-12 Schools

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

This Website shares research on the benefits of a diverse educator workforce and provides strategies for recruiting and retaining teachers of color. Tags: Teacher, Early Childhood Provider, Faculty, and Staff Well-being, Professional Development, and Supports ; PreK-12 Schools

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

This fact sheet outlines the concept of accelerated learning, offers considerations for implementing learning acceleration, and shares examples of how States are accelerating learning to support students’ academic recovery from the COVID-19 pandemic. Tags: Providing Supports to Students, Young Children, and Families ; PreK-12 Schools

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

This resource provides strategies for charter school leaders to create and refine systems that support the mental health and well-being of students and school communities. Tags: Providing Supports to Students, Young Children, and Families ; PreK-12 Schools

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

This brief shares key considerations for developing and implementing equity-focused social, emotional, and behavioral screening within a Multitiered Systems of Support framework. Tags: Providing Supports to Students, Young Children, and Families ; PreK-12 Schools

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

This resource describes how culture shapes teaching and learning and provides a tool and reflection questions for assessing school and classroom culture and for sustaining students’ cultures through classroom practices. Tags: Providing Supports to Students, Young Children, and Families ; PreK-12 Schools

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

This tool is designed to help educators and instructional leaders critically evaluate mathematics curricula to ensure equitable and responsive learning experiences for all students. Tags: Providing Supports to Students, Young Children, and Families ; PreK-12 Schools

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

This resource offers instructional tips, examples, and case studies to help educators implement the recommendations contained within the What Works Clearinghouse’s practice guide titled, “Teaching Academic Content and Literacy to English Learners in Elementary and Middle School”. Tags: Providing Supports to Students, Young Children, and Families ; English learners ; PreK-12 Schools

Resource Type: Best Practices
Organization: Institute of Education Sciences, What Works Clearinghouse

This resource provides a summary of the What Works Clearinghouse’s practice guide titled, “Teaching Academic Content and Literacy to English Learners in Elementary and Middle School”. The summary outlines the recommendations in the practice guide, describes their supporting evidence, and offers strategies for educators implementing the recommendations. Tags: Providing Supports to Students, Young Children, and Families ; English learners ; PreK-12 Schools

Resource Type: Best Practices
Organization: Institute of Education Sciences, What Works Clearinghouse

This guide provides key strategies that States, school districts, and schools should implement, using American Rescue Plan funds, to accelerate learning and support students’ social, emotional, and academic needs. Tags: Providing Supports to Students, Young Children, and Families ; PreK-12 Schools

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

This guide shares best practices for supporting students with disabilities in transitioning to postsecondary education or careers, and outlines requirements for transition services as set forth by the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act and the Rehabilitation Act. Tags: Providing Supports to Students, Young Children, and Families ; Children and students with disabilities ; PreK-12 Schools

Resource Type: Best Practices ; Federal Resources
Organization: U.S. Department of Education, Office of Special Education and Rehabilitative Services

This resource shares practice guides and supplemental learning materials from the What Works Clearinghouse that offer evidence-based instructional strategies for improving students’ literacy skills. Tags: Providing Supports to Students, Young Children, and Families ; PreK-12 Schools

Resource Type: Best Practices
Organization: Institute of Education Sciences, What Works Clearinghouse

This resource for educators offers information about the experiences of students affected by long COVID and provides suggestions for services and accommodations that school teams could consider for a student that qualifies for new or different special education services due to long COVID. Tags: Providing Supports to Students, Young Children, and Families ; Children and students with disabilities ; PreK-12 Schools

Resource Type: Best Practices ; State or Local Resources
Organization: Kennedy Krieger Institute; Maryland State Department of Education

This fact sheet provides information about long COVID as a disability and offers guidance on schools’ and postsecondary institutions’ responsibilities for the provision of services and reasonable accommodations for students for whom long COVID is a disability. Tags: Providing Supports to Students, Young Children, and Families ; Children and students with disabilities ; PreK-12 Schools; Colleges and Universities

Resource Type: Federal Resources
Organization: U.S. Department of Education, Office for Civil Rights, Office of Special Education and Rehabilitative Services

This brief provides information and strategies for education agencies on using American Rescue Plan Homeless Children and Youth funds to provide wraparound services to children and youth experiencing homelessness. Tags: Providing Supports to Students, Young Children, and Families ; Students experiencing homelessness ; PreK-12 Schools

Resource Type: Best Practices ; Technical Assistance Center Resources
Organization: National Center for Homeless Education

This brief presents findings from a study on American Indian English Learner students’ progress toward English language proficiency and describes how the study’s findings can inform education leaders’ efforts to support American Indian English Learner students. Tags: Providing Supports to Students, Young Children, and Families ; English learners; Racial/ethnic subgroups ; PreK-12 Schools

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

This fact sheet provides strategies and resources to help educators and school staff identify and support American Indian and Alaska Native migratory students. Tags: Providing Supports to Students, Young Children, and Families ; Racial/ethnic subgroups ; PreK-12 Schools

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

This resource outlines culturally relevant instructional practices that may support American Indian students’ engagement and high school completion. Tags: Providing Supports to Students, Young Children, and Families ; Racial/ethnic subgroups ; PreK-12 Schools

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

This guide shares research on the digital divide, outlining current barriers to digital equity and offering recommendations for overcoming these barriers and improving student, family, and community access to broadband and technology tools for learning. Tags: Providing Supports to Students, Young Children, and Families ; PreK-12 Schools; Colleges and Universities

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

This collection of seven briefs focuses on common issues related to recruiting and retaining teachers from underrepresented backgrounds or with certain certifications and provides resources for addressing these issues. Tags: Teacher, Early Childhood Provider, Faculty, and Staff Well-being, Professional Development, and Supports ; PreK-12 Schools

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

This Website contains a repository of resources to support state, regional, and local education agencies with recovery efforts in the aftermath of an emergency. 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: Readiness and Emergency Management for Schools Technical Assistance Center

This brief outlines the foundational elements of restorative practices and offers a reflective process for schools to use when facing complex dilemmas related to restorative practices. Tags: Providing Supports to Students, Young Children, and Families ; PreK-12 Schools

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

This guide is intended to support educators and education leaders in reimagining school safety by reframing the concept, shifting from a view of school safety as the absence of negative elements, to one defined by the existence of positive elements. Tags: Safe and Healthy Environments ; PreK-12 Schools

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

This brief focuses on the issue of students being bullied for wearing masks to protect against the virus that causes COVID-19. The brief provides an overview of the issue as well as strategies to help schools address and prevent anti-mask bullying. Tags: Providing Supports to Students, Young Children, and Families ; PreK-12 Schools

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

This guide provides strategies to help schools prevent and respond to human trafficking by partnering with people with lived experience of trafficking. Tags: Providing Supports to Students, Young Children, and Families ; PreK-12 Schools

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

This brief offers considerations for State and local education agencies looking to implement financial literacy education. Tags: Providing Supports to Students, Young Children, and Families ; PreK-12 Schools

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

This Web page shares highlights from a variety of data sources to provide a snapshot of the impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic on the U.S. education system. Tags: Providing Supports to Students, Young Children, and Families ; PreK-12 Schools; Colleges and Universities

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

This Website outlines the U.S. Department’s guide to success for the 2022-2023 school year, detailing the four main priorities that schools and institutions of higher education (IHEs) should work toward during the school year, and offering guidance and resources to help schools and IHEs meet these priorities. Tags: Safe and Healthy Environments ; Providing Supports to Students, Young Children, and Families ; Teacher, Early Childhood Provider, Faculty, and Staff Well-being, Professional Development, and Supports ; PreK-12 Schools; Colleges and Universities

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

This Web page hosts an interactive map highlighting schools and school districts throughout North Carolina that have implemented programs or practices that have proven successful for supporting students and educators. Tags: Providing Supports to Students, Young Children, and Families ; Teacher, Early Childhood Provider, Faculty, and Staff Well-being, Professional Development, and Supports ; PreK-12 Schools

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

This Website offers informational videos and supplemental resources to support State and local efforts to diversify the educator workforce through culturally responsive practice. 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: National Comprehensive Center

This guide provides a framework for collaboration between state education agencies, tribes, and local education agencies to advance the academic outcomes of Native students. Tags: Providing Supports to Students, Young Children, and Families ; Racial/ethnic subgroups ; PreK-12 Schools

Resource Type: Best Practices ; Technical Assistance Center Resources
Organization: National Comprehensive Center, Native Education Collaborative

This resource offers a guiding framework and tool for assessing school climate, safety, and inclusiveness. Tags: Providing Supports to Students, Young Children, and Families ; PreK-12 Schools

Resource Type: Technical Assistance Center Resources
Organization: Great Lakes Equity Center

This resource shares five key actions that school leaders and athletics program staff can take to create safe, supportive, and equitable environments for student athletes. Tags: Providing Supports to Students, Young Children, and Families ; PreK-12 Schools

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

This equity tool is designed to help educators critically reflect on their beliefs, language, and ideas regarding Latinx students with Learning Disabilities in order to support their students’ social and emotional well-being and sense of self. Tags: Providing Supports to Students, Young Children, and Families ; Children and students with disabilities ; PreK-12 Schools

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

This tool provides guidance to help education agencies select high-quality professional development opportunities related to educational equity. Tags: Teacher, Early Childhood Provider, Faculty, and Staff Well-being, Professional Development, and Supports ; PreK-12 Schools

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

This fact sheet details the three steps of an asset-based, culturally sensitive process for registering newcomer immigrant and refugee students in secondary schools. Tags: Providing Supports to Students, Young Children, and Families ; PreK-12 Schools

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

This Web page shares best practices for using American Rescue Plan (ARP) funds to support school communities as they continue to recover from the impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic. Parents and families can use this Website as a checklist to communicate with their local school or school district leaders about plans to use ARP funding on learning acceleration, COVID-19 prevention and mitigation measures, mental health supports, and family engagement. Tags: Providing Supports to Students, Young Children, and Families; Safe and Healthy Environments ; PreK-12 Schools

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

This Web page outlines guidance and available supports for PreK-12 schools to prevent the spread of COVID-19 and remain open for in-person learning throughout the 2022-2023 school year. Tags: Safe and Healthy Environments ; PreK-12 Schools

Resource Type: Federal Resources
Organization: The White House

This virtual library contains research studies that have been reviewed by the What Works Clearinghouse and categorized into tiered levels of evidence aligned to the Every Student Succeeds Act. Tags: Safe and Healthy Environments ; Providing Supports to Students, Young Children, and Families ; Teacher, Early Childhood Provider, Faculty, and Staff Well-being, Professional Development, and Supports ; Early Childhood Programs; PreK-12 Schools; Colleges and Universities

Resource Type: Best Practices
Organization: Institute of Education Sciences, What Works Clearinghouse

This toolkit complements the Connecticut State Department of Education’s resource titled, “Creating a District Plan to Increase the Racial, Ethnic and Linguistic Diversity of Your Education Workforce: A Guidebook for Hiring and Selection”. The toolkit offers additional implementation and progress monitoring guidance, an educator diversity action plan template, and a progress monitoring and self-evaluation tool. Tags: 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: Connecticut State Department of Education

This guide offers technical support for schools and school districts looking to develop action plans to increase the diversity of their education workforce. The guide offers an introduction on the importance of a diverse education workforce and features case studies, hiring strategies, self-assessment tools, and supplemental resources. Tags: 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: Connecticut State Department of Education

This online tool helps caregivers and families find free meals for their children when schools are closed, either during summer break or unexpected closures throughout the school year. Tags: Providing Supports to Students, Young Children, and Families ; PreK-12 Schools

Resource Type: Federal Resources
Organization: U.S. Department of Agriculture, Food and Nutrition Service

This CDC fact sheet provides answers to commonly asked questions about protecting children and youth from COVID-19 and shares information on effective prevention and mitigation measures, including COVID-19 vaccines. Tags: Safe and Healthy Environments ; Early Childhood Programs, PreK-12 Schools

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

This guide describes the value of apprenticeships for out-of-school time staff, programs, and field leaders. The guide identifies challenges to address, explores foundational elements of an apprenticeship program, and shares promising practices. Tags: Teacher, Early Childhood Provider, Faculty, and Staff Well-being, Professional Development, and Supports ; PreK-12 Schools

Resource Type: Best Practices ; Technical Assistance Center Resources
Organization: National Center on Afterschool and Summer Enrichment

This fact sheet provides practical recommendations for supporting students upon returning to the classroom after extended breaks, including strategies for providing emotional support and reorienting students to school schedules and classroom routines. Tags: Providing Supports to Students, Young Children, and Families ; PreK-12 Schools

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

This brief offers key questions and data that State and local education agencies, as well as Tribes, can use to reflect on their summer learning recovery and acceleration programs to ensure continuous improvement. Tags: Providing Supports to Students, Young Children, and Families ; PreK-12 Schools

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

This toolkit for principals and superintendents describes how school districts can partner with AmeriCorps service programs to advance student outcomes. Tags: Providing Supports to Students, Young Children, and Families ; PreK-12 Schools

Resource Type: Best Practices
Organization: AmeriCorps

This fact sheet shares nine key principles for expanding learning and supporting student and family re-engagement. Tags: Providing Supports to Students, Young Children, and Families ; PreK-12 Schools

Resource Type: Best Practices
Organization: Afterschool Alliance

This guide is designed for school district staff looking to implement, enhance, or scale high-quality tutoring programs in their districts. The guide provides information on conditions for success, resource allocation and budgeting, stakeholder engagement, partnerships, and continuous improvement. Tags: Providing Supports to Students, Young Children, and Families ; PreK-12 Schools

Resource Type: Best Practices
Organization: National Student Support Accelerator

This toolkit defines high-quality tutoring and provides design and implementation tools and guidance for schools looking to create new tutoring programs or improve existing programs. Tags: Providing Supports to Students, Young Children, and Families ; PreK-12 Schools

Resource Type: Best Practices
Organization: National Student Support Accelerator

This playbook provides tools, templates, and resources to support State and local education agencies in designing and launching Grow Your Own (GYO) Teacher Apprenticeship Programs, based on the successes of the Tennessee Department of Education’s GYO model. Tags: 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: Tennessee Department of Education

This interactive dashboard presents 2020 data on afterschool and summer programs nationwide, identifying trends in the benefits and challenges associated with enrollment in out-of-school time (OST) programs as well as parents’ perceptions of OST programs. Tags: Providing Supports to Students, Young Children, and Families ; PreK-12 Schools

Resource Type: Lessons Learned
Organization: Afterschool Alliance

This Web page hosts an online repository of research, resources, and tools that are grounded in evidence and that support states, districts, and schools in improving student outcomes. Tags: Providing Supports to Students, Young Children, and Families ; PreK-12 Schools

Resource Type: Best Practices
Organization: Institute of Education Sciences

This guide offers evidence-based practices and resources to help early childhood and PreK-12 programs meet requirements established by the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act and support the social, emotional, academic, and behavioral needs of children with disabilities. Tags: Providing Supports to Students, Young Children, and Families ; Children and students with disabilities ; Early Childhood Programs; PreK-12 Schools

Resource Type: Best Practices ; Federal Resources
Organization: U.S. Department of Education, Office of Special Education and Rehabilitative Services

This annual report shares data and historical trends on crime and safety at PreK-12 schools and postsecondary institutions nationwide. Tags: Safe and Healthy Environments ; PreK-12 Schools; Colleges and Universities

Resource Type: Federal Resources
Organization: U.S. Department of Education, National Center for Education Statistics; U.S. Department of Justice, Bureau of Justice Statistics

This guide defines the term "trauma-informed" and describes the foundational characteristics of trauma-informed schools. Tags: Providing Supports to Students, Young Children, and Families ; PreK-12 Schools

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

This guide for educators and administrators outlines the different types of traumas that students may experience, describes the effects of trauma on school-age children, and underscores the importance of trauma-informed practices in schools. Tags: Providing Supports to Students, Young Children, and Families ; PreK-12 Schools

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

This brief for school and district administrators provides an overview of Federal legislative protections for LGBTQIA+ students and offers resources and guidance for developing inclusive school policies that support LGBTQIA+ students. Tags: Providing Supports to Students, Young Children, and Families ; LGBTQIA students ; PreK-12 Schools

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

This document describes the differences between asset-based and deficit-based frameworks in professional development and offers examples of asset-based frameworks that value students’ racial, ethnic, cultural, and linguistic differences. Tags: Teacher, Early Childhood Provider, Faculty, and Staff Well-being, Professional Development, and Supports ; PreK-12 Schools

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

This toolkit describes how education agencies can complement American Rescue Plan Elementary and Secondary School Emergency Relief funding with State and Local Fiscal Recovery Funds to address students’ needs and support their recovery from the impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic. Tags: Providing Supports to Students, Young Children, and Families ; PreK-12 Schools

Resource Type: Federal Resources
Organization: The White House

This fact sheet outlines requirements and best practices for registering undocumented immigrant children in schools, including practices that protect their civil rights and welcome them as members of the school community. Tags: Providing Supports to Students, Young Children, and Families ; Undocumented students ; PreK-12 Schools

Resource Type: Best Practices ; Technical Assistance Center Resources
Organization: Intercultural Development Research Association

This brief details the different types of staff recruitment and retention data available in education agencies and offers guidance for using this data to answer questions and inform staffing decisions. Tags: Teacher, Early Childhood Provider, Faculty, and Staff Well-being, Professional Development, and Supports ; PreK-12 Schools

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

This brief summarizes social and emotional health needs among school communities in Kentucky, Tennessee, Virginia, and West Virginia as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic and shares state strategies for addressing these needs. Tags: Providing Supports to Students, Young Children, and Families ; PreK-12 Schools

Resource Type: Technical Assistance Center Resources
Organization: Region 5 Comprehensive Center

This toolkit provides evidence-based instructional strategies that have the potential to decrease the negative impacts of poverty on student achievement. Tags: Providing Supports to Students, Young Children, and Families ; Students from low-income backgrounds ; PreK-12 Schools

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

This letter shares how COVID-19 vaccines for children six months to five years old can contribute to a layered prevention strategy for maintaining safe in-person operation of schools and early childhood programs during the pandemic and includes recommendations for providers to promote vaccination among this age group. Tags: Safe and Healthy Environments ; Early Childhood Programs; PreK-12 Schools

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