Resource Library

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 resource outlines the five components of the CDC’s framework for campus sexual violence prevention — comprehensive prevention, infrastructure, audience, partnerships and sustainability, and evaluation. The integration of all five components offers an opportunity to implement prevention efforts that have a greater impact on the prevention and reduction of sexual violence on college and university campuses. Tags: Safe and Healthy Environments; Providing Supports to Students, Young Children, and Families ; Free to Learn ; Colleges and Universities

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

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 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 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 funding and resource guide is designed to help colleges and universities in rural areas find federally funded low-interest loans and grants to build or improve their facilities, infrastructure, equipment, and educational programs. The guide shares a brief overview of applicable community programs, as well as relevant application details and requirements. Tags: Safe and Healthy Environments; Providing Supports to Students, Young Children, and Families ; Colleges and Universities

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

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 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 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 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 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 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 toolkit for administrators and staff members at institutions of higher education provides information and resources for preventing the spread of monkeypox. Tags: Safe and Healthy Environments ; Colleges and Universities

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

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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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

This spreadsheet compiles Virginia local education agencies' Safe Return to In-Person Instruction and Continuity of Services plans as well as their American Rescue Plan Elementary and Secondary School Emergency Relief use of funds plans.
*The following document was generated by a third party outside of the Department of Education. As such, the Department is not responsible for its content, nor can it guarantee it is accessible in accordance with Section 508 of the Rehabilitation Act of 1973. If you need access to an accessible version, please reach out to the third-party vendor for assistance. 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: LEA Use of Funds Plans
Organization: Virginia Department of Education

This Texas Education Agency Website contains Texas local education agencies' Safe Return to In-Person Instruction and Continuity of Services plans as well as their American Rescue Plan Elementary and Secondary School Emergency Relief use of funds plans. 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: LEA Use of Funds Plans
Organization: Texas Education Agency

This Oregon Department of Education Website shares Oregon local education agencies' American Rescue Plan Elementary and Secondary School Emergency Relief use of funds plans as well as their Safe Return to In-Person Instruction and Continuity of Services plans. 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: LEA Use of Funds Plans
Organization: Oregon Department of Education

This North Dakota Department of Public Instruction Website shares North Dakota local education agencies' American Rescue Plan Elementary and Secondary School Emergency Relief use of funds plans. 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: LEA Use of Funds Plans
Organization: North Dakota Department of Public Instruction

This New Mexico Public Education Department Website contains New Mexico local education agencies' American Rescue Plan Elementary and Secondary School Emergency Relief use of funds plans. 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: LEA Use of Funds Plans
Organization: New Mexico Public Education Department

This spreadsheet lists New Jersey local education agencies' American Rescue Plan Elementary and Secondary School Emergency Relief use of funds plans.
*The following document was generated by a third party outside of the Department of Education. As such, the Department is not responsible for its content, nor can it guarantee it is accessible in accordance with Section 508 of the Rehabilitation Act of 1973. If you need access to an accessible version, please reach out to the third-party vendor for assistance. 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: LEA Use of Funds Plans
Organization: New Jersey Department of Education

This spreadsheet compiles Massachusetts local education agencies' American Rescue Plan Elementary and Secondary School Emergency Relief use of funds plans.
*The following document was generated by a third party outside of the Department of Education. As such, the Department is not responsible for its content, nor can it guarantee it is accessible in accordance with Section 508 of the Rehabilitation Act of 1973. If you need access to an accessible version, please reach out to the third-party vendor for assistance. 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: LEA Use of Funds Plans
Organization: Massachusetts Department of Elementary and Secondary Education

This spreadsheet contains Maryland local education agencies' American Rescue Plan Elementary and Secondary School Emergency Relief use of funds plans.
*The following document was generated by a third party outside of the Department of Education. As such, the Department is not responsible for its content, nor can it guarantee it is accessible in accordance with Section 508 of the Rehabilitation Act of 1973. If you need access to an accessible version, please reach out to the third-party vendor for assistance. 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: LEA Use of Funds Plans
Organization: Maryland State Department of Education

This Maine Department of Education Website contains Maine local education agencies' American Rescue Plan Elementary and Secondary School Emergency Relief use of funds plans. 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: LEA Use of Funds Plans
Organization: Maine Department of Education

This spreadsheet compiles Indiana local education agencies' Safe Return to In-Person Instruction and Continuity of Services plans as well as their American Rescue Plan Elementary and Secondary School Emergency Relief use of funds plans.
*The following document was generated by a third party outside of the Department of Education. As such, the Department is not responsible for its content, nor can it guarantee it is accessible in accordance with Section 508 of the Rehabilitation Act of 1973. If you need access to an accessible version, please reach out to the third-party vendor for assistance. 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: LEA Use of Funds Plans
Organization: Indiana Department of Education

This Alabama State Department of Education Website shares Alabama local education agencies' American Rescue Plan Elementary and Secondary School Emergency Relief use of funds plans. 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: LEA Use of Funds Plans
Organization: Alabama State Department of Education

This Wyoming Department of Education Website shares information regarding Wyoming’s awarded American Rescue Plan Elementary and Secondary School Emergency Relief funds, including local education agencies’ allocations. 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: LEA Use of Funds Plans
Organization: Wyoming Department of Education

This Web page hosts Wyoming's approved state plan for the use of their awarded American Rescue Plan Elementary and Secondary School Emergency Relief funds. Tags: Safe and Healthy Environments ; Providing Supports to Students, Young Children, and Families ; Teacher, Early Childhood Provider, Faculty, and Staff Well-being, Professional Development, and Supports ; PreK-12 Schools

Resource Type: ESSER State Plans
Organization: Wyoming Department of Education

This Wisconsin Department of Public Instruction Website shares Wisconsin local education agencies' American Rescue Plan Elementary and Secondary School Emergency Relief use of funds plans. 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: LEA Use of Funds Plans
Organization: Wisconsin Department of Public Instruction

This Web page hosts Wisconsin's approved state plan for the use of their awarded American Rescue Plan Elementary and Secondary School Emergency Relief funds. Tags: Safe and Healthy Environments ; Providing Supports to Students, Young Children, and Families ; Teacher, Early Childhood Provider, Faculty, and Staff Well-being, Professional Development, and Supports ; PreK-12 Schools

Resource Type: ESSER State Plans
Organization: Wisconsin Department of Public Instruction

This West Virginia Department of Education Website shares West Virginia local education agencies' American Rescue Plan Elementary and Secondary School Emergency Relief use of funds plans. 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: LEA Use of Funds Plans
Organization: West Virginia Department of Education

This Web page hosts West Virginia's approved state plan for the use of their awarded American Rescue Plan Elementary and Secondary School Emergency Relief funds. Tags: Safe and Healthy Environments ; Providing Supports to Students, Young Children, and Families ; Teacher, Early Childhood Provider, Faculty, and Staff Well-being, Professional Development, and Supports ; PreK-12 Schools

Resource Type: ESSER State Plans
Organization: West Virginia Department of Education

This Web page hosts a dashboard, made available by the Washington Office of Superintendent of Public Instruction, displaying Washington local education agencies' American Rescue Plan Elementary and Secondary School Emergency Relief use of funds plans. 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: LEA Use of Funds Plans
Organization: Washington Office of Superintendent of Public Instruction

This Web page hosts Washington's approved state plan for the use of their awarded American Rescue Plan Elementary and Secondary School Emergency Relief funds. Tags: Safe and Healthy Environments ; Providing Supports to Students, Young Children, and Families ; Teacher, Early Childhood Provider, Faculty, and Staff Well-being, Professional Development, and Supports ; PreK-12 Schools

Resource Type: ESSER State Plans
Organization: Washington Office of Superintendent of Public Instruction

This Web page hosts Virginia's approved state plan for the use of their awarded American Rescue Plan Elementary and Secondary School Emergency Relief funds. Tags: Safe and Healthy Environments ; Providing Supports to Students, Young Children, and Families ; Teacher, Early Childhood Provider, Faculty, and Staff Well-being, Professional Development, and Supports ; PreK-12 Schools

Resource Type: ESSER State Plans
Organization: Virginia Department of Education

This Vermont Agency of Education Website shares Vermont local education agencies' American Rescue Plan Elementary and Secondary School Emergency Relief use of funds plans. 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: LEA Use of Funds Plans
Organization: Vermont Agency of Education

This Web page hosts Vermont's approved state plan for the use of their awarded American Rescue Plan Elementary and Secondary School Emergency Relief funds. Tags: Safe and Healthy Environments ; Providing Supports to Students, Young Children, and Families ; Teacher, Early Childhood Provider, Faculty, and Staff Well-being, Professional Development, and Supports ; PreK-12 Schools

Resource Type: ESSER State Plans
Organization: Vermont Agency of Education

This Utah State Board of Education Website contains Utah local education agencies' American Rescue Plan Elementary and Secondary School Emergency Relief use of funds plans. 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: LEA Use of Funds Plans
Organization: Utah State Board of Education

This Web page hosts Utah's approved state plan for the use of their awarded American Rescue Plan Elementary and Secondary School Emergency Relief funds. Tags: Safe and Healthy Environments ; Providing Supports to Students, Young Children, and Families ; Teacher, Early Childhood Provider, Faculty, and Staff Well-being, Professional Development, and Supports ; PreK-12 Schools

Resource Type: ESSER State Plans
Organization: Utah State Board of Education

This Web page hosts Texas' approved state plan for the use of their awarded American Rescue Plan Elementary and Secondary School Emergency Relief funds. Tags: Safe and Healthy Environments ; Providing Supports to Students, Young Children, and Families ; Teacher, Early Childhood Provider, Faculty, and Staff Well-being, Professional Development, and Supports ; PreK-12 Schools

Resource Type: ESSER State Plans
Organization: Texas Education Agency

This Tennessee Department of Education Website contains a dashboard displaying Tennessee local education agencies' American Rescue Plan Elementary and Secondary School Emergency Relief use of funds plans. 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: LEA Use of Funds Plans
Organization: Tennessee Department of Education

This Web page hosts Tennessee's approved state plan for the use of their awarded American Rescue Plan Elementary and Secondary School Emergency Relief funds. Tags: Safe and Healthy Environments ; Providing Supports to Students, Young Children, and Families ; Teacher, Early Childhood Provider, Faculty, and Staff Well-being, Professional Development, and Supports ; PreK-12 Schools

Resource Type: ESSER State Plans
Organization: Tennessee Department of Education

This South Dakota Department of Education Website shares South Dakota local education agencies' American Rescue Plan Elementary and Secondary School Emergency Relief use of funds plans. 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: LEA Use of Funds Plans
Organization: South Dakota Department of Education

This Web page hosts South Dakota's approved state plan for the use of their awarded American Rescue Plan Elementary and Secondary School Emergency Relief funds. Tags: Safe and Healthy Environments ; Providing Supports to Students, Young Children, and Families ; Teacher, Early Childhood Provider, Faculty, and Staff Well-being, Professional Development, and Supports ; PreK-12 Schools

Resource Type: ESSER State Plans
Organization: South Dakota Department of Education

This South Carolina Department of Education Website shares South Carolina local education agencies' American Rescue Plan Elementary and Secondary School Emergency Relief use of funds plans. 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: LEA Use of Funds Plans
Organization: South Carolina Department of Education

This Web page hosts South Carolina's approved state plan for the use of their awarded American Rescue Plan Elementary and Secondary School Emergency Relief funds. Tags: Safe and Healthy Environments ; Providing Supports to Students, Young Children, and Families ; Teacher, Early Childhood Provider, Faculty, and Staff Well-being, Professional Development, and Supports ; PreK-12 Schools

Resource Type: ESSER State Plans
Organization: South Carolina Department of Education

This Rhode Island Department of Education Website shares Rhode Island local education agencies' American Rescue Plan Elementary and Secondary School Emergency Relief use of funds plans. 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: LEA Use of Funds Plans
Organization: Rhode Island Department of Education

This Web page hosts Rhode Island's approved state plan for the use of their awarded American Rescue Plan Elementary and Secondary School Emergency Relief funds. Tags: Safe and Healthy Environments ; Providing Supports to Students, Young Children, and Families ; Teacher, Early Childhood Provider, Faculty, and Staff Well-being, Professional Development, and Supports ; PreK-12 Schools

Resource Type: ESSER State Plans
Organization: Rhode Island Department of Education

This Web page hosts Puerto Rico's approved state plan for the use of their awarded American Rescue Plan Elementary and Secondary School Emergency Relief funds. The Puerto Rico Department of Education serves as the state and local education agency for the island, making this state use of funds plan applicable to spending at the local level as well. 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: ESSER State Plans
Organization: Puerto Rico Department of Education

This Pennsylvania Department of Education Website shares Pennsylvania local education agencies' American Rescue Plan Elementary and Secondary School Emergency Relief use of funds plans. 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: LEA Use of Funds Plans
Organization: Pennsylvania Department of Education

This Web page hosts Pennsylvania's approved state plan for the use of their awarded American Rescue Plan Elementary and Secondary School Emergency Relief funds. Tags: Safe and Healthy Environments ; Providing Supports to Students, Young Children, and Families ; Teacher, Early Childhood Provider, Faculty, and Staff Well-being, Professional Development, and Supports ; PreK-12 Schools

Resource Type: ESSER State Plans
Organization: Pennsylvania Department of Education

This Web page hosts Oregon's approved state plan for the use of their awarded American Rescue Plan Elementary and Secondary School Emergency Relief funds. Tags: Safe and Healthy Environments ; Providing Supports to Students, Young Children, and Families ; Teacher, Early Childhood Provider, Faculty, and Staff Well-being, Professional Development, and Supports ; PreK-12 Schools

Resource Type: ESSER State Plans
Organization: Oregon Department of Education

This document, made available by the Oklahoma State Department of Education, contains Oklahoma local education agencies' American Rescue Plan Elementary and Secondary School Emergency Relief use of funds plans. 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: LEA Use of Funds Plans
Organization: Oklahoma State Department of Education

This Web page hosts Oklahoma's approved state plan for the use of their awarded American Rescue Plan Elementary and Secondary School Emergency Relief funds. Tags: Safe and Healthy Environments ; Providing Supports to Students, Young Children, and Families ; Teacher, Early Childhood Provider, Faculty, and Staff Well-being, Professional Development, and Supports ; PreK-12 Schools

Resource Type: ESSER State Plans
Organization: Oklahoma State Department of Education

This Ohio Department of Education Website shares Ohio local education agencies' American Rescue Plan Elementary and Secondary School Emergency Relief use of funds plans. 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: LEA Use of Funds Plans
Organization: Ohio Department of Education

This Web page hosts Ohio's approved state plan for the use of their awarded American Rescue Plan Elementary and Secondary School Emergency Relief funds. Tags: Safe and Healthy Environments ; Providing Supports to Students, Young Children, and Families ; Teacher, Early Childhood Provider, Faculty, and Staff Well-being, Professional Development, and Supports ; PreK-12 Schools

Resource Type: ESSER State Plans
Organization: Ohio Department of Education

This Web page hosts North Dakota's approved state plan for the use of their awarded American Rescue Plan Elementary and Secondary School Emergency Relief funds. Tags: Safe and Healthy Environments ; Providing Supports to Students, Young Children, and Families ; Teacher, Early Childhood Provider, Faculty, and Staff Well-being, Professional Development, and Supports ; PreK-12 Schools

Resource Type: ESSER State Plans
Organization: North Dakota Department of Public Instruction

This North Carolina Department of Public Instruction Website shares North Carolina local education agencies' American Rescue Plan Elementary and Secondary School Emergency Relief use of funds plans. 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: LEA Use of Funds Plans
Organization: North Carolina Department of Public Instruction

This Web page hosts North Carolina's approved state plan for the use of their awarded American Rescue Plan Elementary and Secondary School Emergency Relief funds. Tags: Safe and Healthy Environments ; Providing Supports to Students, Young Children, and Families ; Teacher, Early Childhood Provider, Faculty, and Staff Well-being, Professional Development, and Supports ; PreK-12 Schools

Resource Type: ESSER State Plans
Organization: North Carolina Department of Public Instruction

This New York State Education Department Website shares New York local education agencies' American Rescue Plan Elementary and Secondary School Emergency Relief use of funds plans. 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: LEA Use of Funds Plans
Organization: New York State Education Department

This Web page hosts New York's approved state plan for the use of their awarded American Rescue Plan Elementary and Secondary School Emergency Relief funds. Tags: Safe and Healthy Environments ; Providing Supports to Students, Young Children, and Families ; Teacher, Early Childhood Provider, Faculty, and Staff Well-being, Professional Development, and Supports ; PreK-12 Schools

Resource Type: ESSER State Plans
Organization: New York State Education Department

This Web page hosts New Mexico's approved state plan for the use of their awarded American Rescue Plan Elementary and Secondary School Emergency Relief funds. Tags: Safe and Healthy Environments ; Providing Supports to Students, Young Children, and Families ; Teacher, Early Childhood Provider, Faculty, and Staff Well-being, Professional Development, and Supports ; PreK-12 Schools

Resource Type: ESSER State Plans
Organization: New Mexico Public Education Department

This Web page hosts New Jersey's approved state plan for the use of their awarded American Rescue Plan Elementary and Secondary School Emergency Relief funds. Tags: Safe and Healthy Environments ; Providing Supports to Students, Young Children, and Families ; Teacher, Early Childhood Provider, Faculty, and Staff Well-being, Professional Development, and Supports ; PreK-12 Schools

Resource Type: ESSER State Plans
Organization: New Jersey Department of Education

This New Hampshire Department of Education Website shares New Hampshire local education agencies' American Rescue Plan Elementary and Secondary School Emergency Relief use of funds plans. 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: LEA Use of Funds Plans
Organization: New Hampshire Department of Education

This Web page hosts New Hampshire's approved state plan for the use of their awarded American Rescue Plan Elementary and Secondary School Emergency Relief funds. Tags: Safe and Healthy Environments ; Providing Supports to Students, Young Children, and Families ; Teacher, Early Childhood Provider, Faculty, and Staff Well-being, Professional Development, and Supports ; PreK-12 Schools

Resource Type: ESSER State Plans
Organization: New Hampshire Department of Education

This Nevada Department of Education Website shares Nevada local education agencies' American Rescue Plan Elementary and Secondary School Emergency Relief use of funds plans. 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: LEA Use of Funds Plans
Organization: Nevada Department of Education

This Web page hosts Nevada's approved state plan for the use of their awarded American Rescue Plan Elementary and Secondary School Emergency Relief funds. Tags: Safe and Healthy Environments ; Providing Supports to Students, Young Children, and Families ; Teacher, Early Childhood Provider, Faculty, and Staff Well-being, Professional Development, and Supports ; PreK-12 Schools

Resource Type: ESSER State Plans
Organization: Nevada Department of Education

This Nebraska Department of Education Website shares Nebraska local education agencies' Safe Return to In-Person Instruction and Continuity of Services plans as well as their American Rescue Plan Elementary and Secondary School Emergency Relief use of funds plans. 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: LEA Use of Funds Plans
Organization: Nebraska Department of Education

This Web page hosts Nebraska's approved state plan for the use of their awarded American Rescue Plan Elementary and Secondary School Emergency Relief funds. Tags: Safe and Healthy Environments ; Providing Supports to Students, Young Children, and Families ; Teacher, Early Childhood Provider, Faculty, and Staff Well-being, Professional Development, and Supports ; PreK-12 Schools

Resource Type: ESSER State Plans
Organization: Nebraska Department of Education

This spreadsheet, made available by the Montana Office of Public Instruction, contains Montana local education agencies' American Rescue Plan Elementary and Secondary School Emergency Relief use of funds plans. 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: LEA Use of Funds Plans
Organization: Montana Office of Public Instruction

This Web page hosts Montana's approved state plan for the use of their awarded American Rescue Plan Elementary and Secondary School Emergency Relief funds. Tags: Safe and Healthy Environments ; Providing Supports to Students, Young Children, and Families ; Teacher, Early Childhood Provider, Faculty, and Staff Well-being, Professional Development, and Supports ; PreK-12 Schools

Resource Type: ESSER State Plans
Organization: Montana Office of Public Instruction

This Missouri Department of Elementary and Secondary Education Website contains a dashboard displaying Missouri local education agencies' American Rescue Plan Elementary and Secondary School Emergency Relief use of funds plans. 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: LEA Use of Funds Plans
Organization: Missouri Department of Elementary and Secondary Education

This Web page hosts Missouri's approved state plan for the use of their awarded American Rescue Plan Elementary and Secondary School Emergency Relief funds. Tags: Safe and Healthy Environments ; Providing Supports to Students, Young Children, and Families ; Teacher, Early Childhood Provider, Faculty, and Staff Well-being, Professional Development, and Supports ; PreK-12 Schools

Resource Type: ESSER State Plans
Organization: Missouri Department of Elementary and Secondary Education

This Mississippi Department of Education Website contains a dashboard displaying Mississippi local education agencies' American Rescue Plan Elementary and Secondary School Emergency Relief use of funds plans. 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: LEA Use of Funds Plans
Organization: Mississippi Department of Education

This Web page hosts Mississippi's approved state plan for the use of their awarded American Rescue Plan Elementary and Secondary School Emergency Relief funds. Tags: Safe and Healthy Environments ; Providing Supports to Students, Young Children, and Families ; Teacher, Early Childhood Provider, Faculty, and Staff Well-being, Professional Development, and Supports ; PreK-12 Schools

Resource Type: ESSER State Plans
Organization: Mississippi Department of Education

This Minnesota Department of Education Website shares Minnesota local education agencies' American Rescue Plan Elementary and Secondary School Emergency Relief use of funds plans. 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: LEA Use of Funds Plans
Organization: Minnesota Department of Education

This Web page hosts Minnesota's approved state plan for the use of their awarded American Rescue Plan Elementary and Secondary School Emergency Relief funds. Tags: Safe and Healthy Environments ; Providing Supports to Students, Young Children, and Families ; Teacher, Early Childhood Provider, Faculty, and Staff Well-being, Professional Development, and Supports ; PreK-12 Schools

Resource Type: ESSER State Plans
Organization: Minnesota Department of Education

This document, made available by the Michigan Department of Education, contains Michigan local education agencies' American Rescue Plan Elementary and Secondary School Emergency Relief use of funds plans. 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: LEA Use of Funds Plans
Organization: Michigan Department of Education

This Web page hosts Michigan's approved state plan for the use of their awarded American Rescue Plan Elementary and Secondary School Emergency Relief funds. Tags: Safe and Healthy Environments ; Providing Supports to Students, Young Children, and Families ; Teacher, Early Childhood Provider, Faculty, and Staff Well-being, Professional Development, and Supports ; PreK-12 Schools

Resource Type: ESSER State Plans
Organization: Michigan Department of Education

This Web page hosts Massachusetts' approved state plan for the use of their awarded American Rescue Plan Elementary and Secondary School Emergency Relief funds. Tags: Safe and Healthy Environments ; Providing Supports to Students, Young Children, and Families ; Teacher, Early Childhood Provider, Faculty, and Staff Well-being, Professional Development, and Supports ; PreK-12 Schools

Resource Type: ESSER State Plans
Organization: Massachusetts Department of Elementary and Secondary Education

This Web page hosts Maryland's approved state plan for the use of their awarded American Rescue Plan Elementary and Secondary School Emergency Relief funds. Tags: Safe and Healthy Environments ; Providing Supports to Students, Young Children, and Families ; Teacher, Early Childhood Provider, Faculty, and Staff Well-being, Professional Development, and Supports ; PreK-12 Schools

Resource Type: ESSER State Plans
Organization: Maryland State Department of Education

This Web page hosts Maine's approved state plan for the use of their awarded American Rescue Plan Elementary and Secondary School Emergency Relief funds. Tags: Safe and Healthy Environments ; Providing Supports to Students, Young Children, and Families ; Teacher, Early Childhood Provider, Faculty, and Staff Well-being, Professional Development, and Supports ; PreK-12 Schools

Resource Type: ESSER State Plans
Organization: Maine Department of Education

This document, made available by the Louisiana Department of Education, contains Louisiana local education agencies' American Rescue Plan Elementary and Secondary School Emergency Relief use of funds plans. 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: LEA Use of Funds Plans
Organization: Louisiana Department of Education

This Web page hosts Louisiana's approved state plan for the use of their awarded American Rescue Plan Elementary and Secondary School Emergency Relief funds. Tags: Safe and Healthy Environments ; Providing Supports to Students, Young Children, and Families ; Teacher, Early Childhood Provider, Faculty, and Staff Well-being, Professional Development, and Supports ; PreK-12 Schools

Resource Type: ESSER State Plans
Organization: Louisiana Department of Education

This Kentucky Department of Education Website shares Kentucky local education agencies' American Rescue Plan Elementary and Secondary School Emergency Relief use of funds plans. 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: LEA Use of Funds Plans
Organization: Kentucky Department of Education

This Web page hosts Kentucky's approved state plan for the use of their awarded American Rescue Plan Elementary and Secondary School Emergency Relief funds. Tags: Safe and Healthy Environments ; Providing Supports to Students, Young Children, and Families ; Teacher, Early Childhood Provider, Faculty, and Staff Well-being, Professional Development, and Supports ; PreK-12 Schools

Resource Type: ESSER State Plans
Organization: Kentucky Department of Education

This Kansas State Department of Education Website shares Kansas local education agencies' American Rescue Plan Elementary and Secondary School Emergency Relief use of funds plans. 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: LEA Use of Funds Plans
Organization: Kansas State Department of Education

This Web page hosts Kansas' approved state plan for the use of their awarded American Rescue Plan Elementary and Secondary School Emergency Relief funds. Tags: Safe and Healthy Environments ; Providing Supports to Students, Young Children, and Families ; Teacher, Early Childhood Provider, Faculty, and Staff Well-being, Professional Development, and Supports ; PreK-12 Schools

Resource Type: ESSER State Plans
Organization: Kansas State Department of Education

This Iowa Department of Education Website hosts a dashboard displaying Iowa local education agencies' American Rescue Plan Elementary and Secondary School Emergency Relief use of funds plans. 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: LEA Use of Funds Plans
Organization: Iowa Department of Education

This Web page hosts Iowa's approved state plan for the use of their awarded American Rescue Plan Elementary and Secondary School Emergency Relief funds. Tags: Safe and Healthy Environments ; Providing Supports to Students, Young Children, and Families ; Teacher, Early Childhood Provider, Faculty, and Staff Well-being, Professional Development, and Supports ; PreK-12 Schools

Resource Type: ESSER State Plans
Organization: Iowa Department of Education

This Web page hosts Indiana's approved state plan for the use of their awarded American Rescue Plan Elementary and Secondary School Emergency Relief funds. Tags: Safe and Healthy Environments ; Providing Supports to Students, Young Children, and Families ; Teacher, Early Childhood Provider, Faculty, and Staff Well-being, Professional Development, and Supports ; PreK-12 Schools

Resource Type: ESSER State Plans
Organization: Indiana Department of Education

This Illinois State Board of Education Website shares Illinois local education agencies' American Rescue Plan Elementary and Secondary School Emergency Relief use of funds plans. 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: LEA Use of Funds Plans
Organization: Illinois State Board of Education

This Web page hosts Illinois' approved state plan for the use of their awarded American Rescue Plan Elementary and Secondary School Emergency Relief funds. Tags: Safe and Healthy Environments ; Providing Supports to Students, Young Children, and Families ; Teacher, Early Childhood Provider, Faculty, and Staff Well-being, Professional Development, and Supports ; PreK-12 Schools

Resource Type: ESSER State Plans
Organization: Illinois State Board of Education

This Idaho State Department of Education Website shares Idaho local education agencies' American Rescue Plan Elementary and Secondary School Emergency Relief use of funds plans. 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: LEA Use of Funds Plans
Organization: Idaho State Department of Education

This Web page hosts Idaho's approved state plan for the use of their awarded American Rescue Plan Elementary and Secondary School Emergency Relief funds. Tags: Safe and Healthy Environments ; Providing Supports to Students, Young Children, and Families ; Teacher, Early Childhood Provider, Faculty, and Staff Well-being, Professional Development, and Supports ; PreK-12 Schools

Resource Type: ESSER State Plans
Organization: Idaho State Department of Education

This Web page hosts Hawaii’s approved state plan for the use of their awarded American Rescue Plan (ARP) Elementary and Secondary School Emergency Relief (ESSER) funds, as well as additional ARP ESSER plans and reports. The Hawaii State Department of Education serves as the state and local education agency for the island, making these state use of funds plans applicable to spending at the local level as well. 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: ESSER State Plans
Organization: Hawaii State Department of Education

This Georgia Department of Education Website hosts Georgia local education agencies' American Rescue Plan Elementary and Secondary School Emergency Relief use of funds plans. 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: LEA Use of Funds Plans
Organization: Georgia Department of Education

This Web page hosts Georgia's approved state plan for the use of their awarded American Rescue Plan Elementary and Secondary School Emergency Relief funds. Tags: Safe and Healthy Environments ; Providing Supports to Students, Young Children, and Families ; Teacher, Early Childhood Provider, Faculty, and Staff Well-being, Professional Development, and Supports ; PreK-12 Schools

Resource Type: ESSER State Plans
Organization: Georgia Department of Education

This Florida Department of Education Website shares Florida local education agencies' American Rescue Plan Elementary and Secondary School Emergency Relief use of funds plans. 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: LEA Use of Funds Plans
Organization: Florida Department of Education

This Web page hosts Florida's approved state plan for the use of their awarded American Rescue Plan Elementary and Secondary School Emergency Relief funds. Tags: Safe and Healthy Environments ; Providing Supports to Students, Young Children, and Families ; Teacher, Early Childhood Provider, Faculty, and Staff Well-being, Professional Development, and Supports ; PreK-12 Schools

Resource Type: ESSER State Plans
Organization: Florida Department of Education

This Office of the State Superintendent of Education Website shares District of Columbia local education agencies' Continuous Education and Health and Safety plans for the 2021-2022 school year. Tags: Safe and Healthy Environments ; Providing Supports to Students, Young Children, and Families ; Teacher, Early Childhood Provider, Faculty, and Staff Well-being, Professional Development, and Supports ; PreK-12 Schools

Resource Type: LEA Use of Funds Plans
Organization: Office of the State Superintendent of Education

This Web page hosts the District of Columbia's approved state plan for the use of their awarded American Rescue Plan Elementary and Secondary School Emergency Relief funds. Tags: Safe and Healthy Environments ; Providing Supports to Students, Young Children, and Families ; Teacher, Early Childhood Provider, Faculty, and Staff Well-being, Professional Development, and Supports ; PreK-12 Schools

Resource Type: ESSER State Plans
Organization: Office of the State Superintendent of Education

This Delaware Department of Education Website shares Delaware local education agencies' American Rescue Plan Elementary and Secondary School Emergency Relief use of funds plans. 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: LEA Use of Funds Plans
Organization: Delaware Department of Education

This Web page hosts Delaware's approved state plan for the use of their awarded American Rescue Plan Elementary and Secondary School Emergency Relief funds. Tags: Safe and Healthy Environments ; Providing Supports to Students, Young Children, and Families ; Teacher, Early Childhood Provider, Faculty, and Staff Well-being, Professional Development, and Supports ; PreK-12 Schools

Resource Type: ESSER State Plans
Organization: Delaware Department of Education

This Web page hosts the Connecticut State Department of Education grant management system, where the public may use the grants search function to access Connecticut local education agencies' American Rescue Plan Elementary and Secondary School Emergency Relief use of funds plans. 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: LEA Use of Funds Plans
Organization: Connecticut State Department of Education

This Web page hosts Connecticut's approved state plan for the use of their awarded American Rescue Plan Elementary and Secondary School Emergency Relief funds. Tags: Safe and Healthy Environments ; Providing Supports to Students, Young Children, and Families ; Teacher, Early Childhood Provider, Faculty, and Staff Well-being, Professional Development, and Supports ; PreK-12 Schools

Resource Type: ESSER State Plans
Organization: Connecticut State Department of Education

This Colorado Department of Education Website shares Colorado local education agencies' American Rescue Plan Elementary and Secondary School Emergency Relief use of funds plans. 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: LEA Use of Funds Plans
Organization: Colorado Department of Education

This Web page hosts Colorado's approved state plan for the use of their awarded American Rescue Plan Elementary and Secondary School Emergency Relief funds. Tags: Safe and Healthy Environments ; Providing Supports to Students, Young Children, and Families ; Teacher, Early Childhood Provider, Faculty, and Staff Well-being, Professional Development, and Supports ; PreK-12 Schools

Resource Type: ESSER State Plans
Organization: Colorado Department of Education

This spreadsheet, made available by the California Department of Education, contains California local education agencies' American Rescue Plan Elementary and Secondary School Emergency Relief use of funds plans. 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: LEA Use of Funds Plans
Organization: California Department of Education

This Web page hosts California's approved state plan for the use of their awarded American Rescue Plan Elementary and Secondary School Emergency Relief funds. Tags: Safe and Healthy Environments ; Providing Supports to Students, Young Children, and Families ; Teacher, Early Childhood Provider, Faculty, and Staff Well-being, Professional Development, and Supports ; PreK-12 Schools

Resource Type: ESSER State Plans
Organization: California Department of Education

This Arkansas Department of Education Website contains Arkansas local education agencies' American Rescue Plan Elementary and Secondary School Emergency Relief use of funds plans. 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: LEA Use of Funds Plans
Organization: Arkansas Department of Education

This Web page hosts Arkansas' approved state plan for the use of their awarded American Rescue Plan Elementary and Secondary School Emergency Relief funds. Tags: Safe and Healthy Environments ; Providing Supports to Students, Young Children, and Families ; Teacher, Early Childhood Provider, Faculty, and Staff Well-being, Professional Development, and Supports ; PreK-12 Schools

Resource Type: ESSER State Plans
Organization: Arkansas Department of Education

This Web page hosts the Arizona Department of Education grant management system, where the public may use the grants search function to access Arizona local education agencies' American Rescue Plan Elementary and Secondary School Emergency Relief use of funds plans. 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: LEA Use of Funds Plans
Organization: Arizona Department of Education

This Web page hosts Arizona’s approved state plan for the use of their awarded American Rescue Plan Elementary and Secondary School Emergency Relief funds. Tags: Safe and Healthy Environments ; Providing Supports to Students, Young Children, and Families ; Teacher, Early Childhood Provider, Faculty, and Staff Well-being, Professional Development, and Supports ; PreK-12 Schools

Resource Type: ESSER State Plans
Organization: Arizona Department of Education

This Web page hosts the Alaska Department of Education and Early Development grant management system, where the public may use the grants search function to access Alaska local education agencies' American Rescue Plan Elementary and Secondary School Emergency Relief use of funds plans. 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: LEA Use of Funds Plans
Organization: Alaska Department of Education and Early Development

This Web page hosts Alaska’s approved state plan for the use of their awarded American Rescue Plan Elementary and Secondary School Emergency Relief funds. Tags: Safe and Healthy Environments ; Providing Supports to Students, Young Children, and Families ; Teacher, Early Childhood Provider, Faculty, and Staff Well-being, Professional Development, and Supports ; PreK-12 Schools

Resource Type: ESSER State Plans
Organization: Alaska Department of Education and Early Development

This Web page hosts Alabama’s approved state plan for the use of their awarded American Rescue Plan Elementary and Secondary School Emergency Relief funds. Tags: Safe and Healthy Environments ; Providing Supports to Students, Young Children, and Families ; Teacher, Early Childhood Provider, Faculty, and Staff Well-being, Professional Development, and Supports ; PreK-12 Schools

Resource Type: ESSER State Plans
Organization: Alabama State Department of Education

This Web page contains resources from the U.S. Department of Education, the White House, and Federal agencies that provide guidance on supporting and protecting the rights of LGBTQI+ students. Tags: Safe and Healthy Environments; Providing Supports to Students, Young Children, and Families ; LGBTQIA students ; PreK-12 Schools; Colleges and Universities

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

This video highlights the value and impact of positive early social and emotional experiences on child development. Tags: Safe and Healthy Environments; Providing Supports to Students, Young Children, and Families ; Early Childhood Programs

Resource Type: Federal Resources
Organization: U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Administration for Children and Families

This Web page shares testimonials from school officials, parents, teachers, students, and school community members highlighting the hard work schools are doing and have done amid the COVID-19 pandemic to successfully reopen schools and keep students and staff safe and healthy. Tags: Safe and Healthy Environments; Providing Supports to Students, Young Children, and Families ; PreK-12 Schools

Resource Type: Best Practices ; Implementation Stories
Organization: U.S. Department of Education, Office of Elementary and Secondary Education

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Resource Type: Federal Resources
Organization: The White House

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

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

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

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

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

Resource Type: Best Practices
Organization: Committee for Children

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

Resource Type: Federal Resources
Organization: The White House

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

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

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

Resource Type: Best Practices
Organization: The Rockefeller Foundation

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

This Website provides details on Kansas’ response to the COVID-19 pandemic, including information and resources for K-12 schools. Tags: Safe and Healthy Environments; Providing Supports to Students, Young Children, and Families; Teacher, Early Childhood Provider, Faculty, and Staff Well-being, Professional Development, and Support ; PreK-12 Schools

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Resource Type: Best Practices
Organization: The Rockefeller Foundation

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

Resource Type: Best Practices
Organization: The Rockefeller Foundation

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

Resource Type: Best Practices
Organization: Turnaround for Children

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Resource Type: Best Practices
Organization: Chiefs for Change

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Resource Type: Innovative Spotlight
Organization: Center for Green Schools

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

Resource Type: Best Practices
Organization: Testing for America

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Resource Type: Best Practices
Organization: Chiefs for Change

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

Resource Type: Best Practices
Organization: Chiefs for Change

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

Resource Type: Best Practices
Organization: Chiefs for Change

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

Resource Type: Best Practices
Organization: Chiefs for Change

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Resource Type: Best Practices
Organization: American Psychological Association

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

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

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

Resource Type: Best Practices
Organization: Bipartisan Policy Center

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

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

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

Resource Type: Best Practices
Organization: NAMM Foundation

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Resource Type: Best Practices
Organization: Chiefs for Change

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

Resource Type: Innovative Spotlight
Organization: Brooklyn Laboratory Charter School

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Resource Type: Best Practices
Organization: American Occupational Therapy Association

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

This toolkit supports Virginia district and school leaders and school nutrition directors and staff in developing plans and strategies for continued meal service to children throughout the COVID-19 pandemic. The toolkit includes sample menus, checklists, and guidance for different meal service models. Tags: Safe and Healthy Environments; Providing Supports to Students, Young Children, and Families ; PreK-12 Schools

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

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

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

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

Resource Type: Best Practices
Organization: ABC Science Collaborative

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

Resource Type: Lessons Learned
Organization: DesignX

This program profile describes the College of Central Florida's COVID-19 pandemic response and lists strategies used by the institution to address challenges caused by COVID-19, such as adapting services and implementing mitigation measures. Tags: Safe and Healthy Environments ; Colleges and Universities

Resource Type: Best Practices
Organization: College of Central Florida

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

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

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

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

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

Resource Type: Best Practices
Organization: Victor Valley College

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

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

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

Resource Type: Best Practices
Organization: Northeast Iowa Community College

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

Resource Type: Best Practices
Organization: Neumann University

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

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

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

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

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

Resource Type: Best Practices
Organization: Jarvis Christian College

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Resource Type: Best Practices
Organization: Nova Academy of Cosmetology

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

Resource Type: Best Practices
Organization: Tennessee State University

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

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

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

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

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

Resource Type: Best Practices
Organization: Iowa Lakes Community College

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

This comprehensive handbook for school administrators and leaders provides detailed guidance on supporting students during the COVID-19 pandemic. The guide includes sections on health and safety, instructional best practices and safety considerations for building and district operations. Tags: Safe and Healthy Environments ; Providing Supports to Students, Young Children, and Families ; Teacher, Early Childhood Provider, Faculty, and Staff Well-being, Professional Development, and Supports ; PreK-12 Schools

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

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

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

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

Resource Type: Lessons Learned
Organization: Warner Public Schools

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Resource Type: Best Practices
Organization: Navajo Technical University

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Resource Type: Best Practices
Organization: The Learning Accelerator

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

Resource Type: Best Practices
Organization: The Learning Accelerator

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Resource Type: Best Practices
Organization: SPAN Parent Advocacy Network

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

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

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

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

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

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

This guide for students, families and educators describes the use of a multi-tiered systems of support framework that prioritizes their health and safety, social and emotional needs, and behavioral and academic growth upon return to in-person instruction after the COVID-19 pandemic. Tags: Safe and Healthy Environments ; Providing Supports to Students, Young Children, and Families ; Teacher, Early Childhood Provider, Faculty, and Staff Well-being, Professional Development, and Supports ; PreK-12 Schools

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Resource Type: Lessons Learned; Implementation Stories; Technical Assistance Center Resources
Organization: Regional Educational Laboratory Midwest

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

This tool provides support for educators to reduce instances of bullying behavior and build a supportive classroom climate in which bullying is less likely to occur. The content is available in Train the Trainer and Individual formats. Tags: Safe and Healthy Environments ; PreK-12 Schools

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

This framework and supporting tools help educators identify key areas to focus on to create a safe and supportive school climate. Resources include parent and educator guides and school climate surveys to support states, districts and schools in assessing and improving conditions for learning. Tags: Safe and Healthy Environments ; PreK-12 Schools

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