Resource Library

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

Resource Type: Best Practices
Organization: U.S. Department of Education, National Center for Systemic Improvement

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

Resource Type: Best Practices
Organization: U.S. Department of Education, National Center for Homeless Education

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

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

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

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

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

Resource Type: Best Practices
Organization: U.S. Department of Education, U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development

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

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

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

Resource Type: Best Practices
Organization: U.S. Department of Education, Office of Special Education and Rehabilitative Services, Old Dominion University

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

Resource Type: Best Practices
Organization: U.S. Department of Education, Newark Community Street Team

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

Resource Type: Best Practices
Organization: U.S. Department of Education, National Center on Intensive Intervention

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

Resource Type: Best Practices
Organization: U.S. Department of Education, Institute of Education Sciences

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

This 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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Resource Type: Best Practices
Organization: Regional Educational Laboratory West

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Resource Type: Best Practices
Organization: Region 2 Comprehensive Center

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Resource Type: Best Practices
Organization: Afterschool Alliance

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

Resource Type: Best Practices
Organization: Afterschool Alliance

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Resource Type: Best Practices
Organization: National Charter School Resource Center

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

Resource Type: Best Practices
Organization: National Charter School Resource Center

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

Resource Type: Best Practices
Organization: National Charter School Resource Center

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

Resource Type: Best Practices
Organization: National Charter School Resource Center

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

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

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

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

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

Resource Type: Best Practices
Organization: Regional Educational Laboratory Midwest

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

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

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

Resource Type: Best Practices
Organization: Regional Educational Laboratory Mid-Atlantic

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

This website describes a 2020 statewide survey on the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic on the State's PreK program and the associated shift toward remote learning. The page provides details on the study’s findings and a link to the full research report. Tags: Providing Supports to Students, Young Children, and Families; Early Childhood Programs

Resource Type: Best Practices
Organization: North Carolina Department of Health and Human Services

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

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

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

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

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

Resource Type: Best Practices
Organization: Ohio State University

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

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

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

Resource Type: Best Practices
Organization: Center for Educational Improvement

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

Resource Type: Best Practices
Organization: Center for Educational Improvement

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

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

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

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

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

Resource Type: Best Practices
Organization: Chiefs for Change

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

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

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

Resource Type: Innovative Spotlight
Organization: Brooklyn Laboratory Charter School

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

Resource Type: Innovative Spotlight
Organization: Brooklyn Laboratory Charter School

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

Resource Type: Innovative Spotlight
Organization: Brooklyn Laboratory Charter School

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

Resource Type: Best Practices
Organization: Diverse Learners Cooperative

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

Resource Type: Best Practices
Organization: Diverse Learners Cooperative

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

Resource Type: Best Practices
Organization: Diverse Learners Cooperative

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

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

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

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

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

Resource Type: Best Practices
Organization: Diverse Learners Cooperative

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

Resource Type: Best Practices
Organization: Diverse Learners Cooperative

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

Resource Type: Best Practices
Organization: Diverse Learners Cooperative

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

Resource Type: Best Practices
Organization: Diverse Learners Cooperative

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

Resource Type: Best Practices
Organization: Varkey Foundation

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

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

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

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

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

Resource Type: Best Practices
Organization: American Occupational Therapy Association

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Resource Type: Best Practices
Organization: City Year, Inc

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

Resource Type: Best Practices
Organization: City Year, Inc

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Resource Type: Best Practices
Organization: Bay State College

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

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

This program profile outlines a partnership between Northland Pioneer College and local law enforcement agencies to provide laptops, hotspots and Wi-Fi connections to isolated students across the college’s 21,000 square mile service area amid mandatory curfews and quarantines and the closure of tribal borders to visitors. The program profile provides an example of how to leverage a community partnership to keep rural students connected to their classes during remote instruction. Tags: Providing Supports to Students, Young Children, and Families; Teacher, Early Childhood Provider, Faculty, and Staff Well-being, Professional Development, and Supports; Colleges and Universities; Racial/ethnic subgroups; Students from low-income backgrounds

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

This Website provides guidance and resources for reopening charter schools. It provides information specific to charter schools for supporting students with disabilities, shares legal guidance and answers frequently asked questions. Tags: Safe and Healthy Environments; Providing Supports to Students, Young Children, and Families; PreK-12 Schools; Children and students with disabilities

Resource Type: State or Local Resources
Organization: California Charter Schools Association

This blog series explores the reality of teacher burnout and trauma given the many stressors introduced by the COVID-19 pandemic. The series also discusses coaching as a strategy for increasing teacher resilience in the face of these challenges. Tags: Providing Supports to Students, Young Children, and Families; Teacher, Early Childhood Provider, Faculty, and Staff Well-being, Professional Development, and Supports; PreK-12 Schools

Resource Type: Best Practices
Organization: RTI International

This Website for educators provides a series of articles that share guidance, insight and strategies for supporting young children’s behavioral needs during and after traumatic experiences. Tags: Providing Supports to Students, Young Children, and Families; Teacher, Early Childhood Provider, Faculty, and Staff Well-being, Professional Development, and Supports; Early Childhood Programs

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

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

Resource Type: Best Practices
Organization: The Learning Accelerator

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

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

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

Resource Type: Implementation Stories
Organization: National Comprehensive Center

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

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

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

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

This brief for educators, state and local leaders, and trainers and coaches presents an overview of how social and emotional learning relates to intensive intervention and offers sample strategies for skill building among students in need of intensive learning, social, emotional and behavioral supports. Tags: Providing Supports to Students, Young Children, and Families; Teacher, Early Childhood Provider, Faculty, and Staff Well-being, Professional Development, and Supports; PreK-12 Schools; Children and students with disabilities

Resource Type: Best Practices
Organization: National Center on Intensive Intervention (NCII)

This guide and accompanying video for leadership teams includes strategies and key practices for supporting students with the most intensive behavioral needs, their families, and educators in their transitions back to school during and following the COVID-19 pandemic. These resources prioritize health and safety, social and emotional needs, and behavioral and academic growth and provide recommendations for supporting students with intensive needs in a variety of learning formats. Tags: Providing Supports to Students, Young Children, and Families; Teacher, Early Childhood Provider, Faculty, and Staff Well-being, Professional Development, and Supports; PreK-12 Schools; Children and students with disabilities

Resource Type: Best Practices
Organization: National Center on Intensive Intervention (NCII)

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

This webinar includes panelists who discuss the historical and current context of anti-Asian American and Pacific Islander racism and xenophobia, distinguish between hate incidents and hate crimes, and identify actions the general public can take to address bigotry and discrimination. Tags: Providing Supports to Students, Young Children, and Families; Teacher, Early Childhood Provider, Faculty, and Staff Well-being, Professional Development, and Supports; PreK-12 Schools; Colleges and Universities; Racial/ethnic subgroups

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

This brief for school personnel provides guidance on teaching social-emotional competencies within a positive behavioral interventions and supports framework to support systematic, school-wide implementation. Tags: Providing Supports to Students, Young Children, and Families; Teacher, Early Childhood Provider, Faculty, and Staff Well-being, Professional Development, and Supports; PreK-12 Schools

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Resource Type: Best Practices
Organization: Region 15 Comprehensive Center

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

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

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

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

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

Resource Type: Best Practices
Organization: Region 7 Comprehensive Center

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

Resource Type: Best Practices
Organization: Region 7 Comprehensive Center

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

Resource Type: Best Practices
Organization: Region 8 Comprehensive Center

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

Resource Type: Best Practices
Organization: Regional Educational Laboratory Appalachia

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

Resource Type: Best Practices
Organization: Regional Educational Laboratory Appalachia

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

Resource Type: Best Practices
Organization: Regional Educational Laboratory Central

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

Resource Type: Best Practices
Organization: Regional Educational Laboratory Midwest

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

Resource Type: Best Practices
Organization: Regional Educational Laboratory Northwest

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

Resource Type: Best Practices
Organization: Regional Educational Laboratory Northwest

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

Resource Type: Best Practices
Organization: Regional Educational Laboratory Pacific

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

Resource Type: Best Practices
Organization: Regional Educational Laboratory Pacific

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

Resource Type: Best Practices
Organization: Regional Educational Laboratory Pacific

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

Resource Type: Best Practices
Organization: Regional Educational Laboratory West

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Resource Type: Best Practices
Organization: T4PA Center

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

Resource Type: Best Practices
Organization: T4PA Center

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

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

This article describes steps that schools and educators can take to transition students back into buildings as smoothly as possible upon reopening. By building relationships, maintaining open and frequent communication, and focusing on available student data, schools can ensure that all students are fully supported during school transitions. Tags: Providing Supports to Students, Young Children, and Families; PreK-12 Schools; Children and students with disabilities

Resource Type: Best Practices
Organization: TIES Center