Safer Schools and Campuses Best Practices Clearinghouse Home Page

Equity Focus

High-quality education helps ensure that all children in the nation reach their full potential and succeed.

The Clearinghouse provides resources that help schools, early childhood programs, and institutions of higher education advance educational equity and provide ongoing supports to those most impacted by the pandemic.The T4PA Center provides resources that help showdase program successes and build plans for course sustainablility.

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Regional Educational Laboratory (REL) Program

The Clearinghouse Resource Library features resources from the 10 Regional Educational Laboratories, which help education communities at the state, regional, and local levels generate and apply evidence to improve learner outcomes.

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REL Spotlight - Northeast and Islands Region

The Clearinghouse Resource Library features resources from the Regional Educational Laboratory (REL) Northeast & Islands, which helps education communities in Connecticut, Maine, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, New York, Puerto Rico, Rhode Island, Vermont, and the Virgin Islands generate and apply evidence to improve learner outcomes.

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REL Spotlight - Mid-Atlantic Region

The Clearinghouse Resource Library features resources from the Regional Educational Laboratory (REL) Mid-Atlantic, which helps education communities in Delaware, District of Columbia, Maryland, New Jersey, and Pennsylvania generate and apply evidence to improve learner outcomes.

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REL Spotlight - Appalachia Region

The Clearinghouse Resource Library features resources from the Regional Educational Laboratory (REL) Appalachia, which helps education communities in Kentucky, Tennessee, Virginia, and West Virginia generate and apply evidence to improve student outcomes.

The Best Practices Clearinghouse (Clearinghouse) serves as a portal for sharing resources, information, and best practices to keep students and staff in safe, healthy learning environments. The U.S. Department of Education (Department) originally established the Clearinghouse through President Biden’s Executive Order 14000 requiring the Department to develop, maintain, and continually enhance a clearinghouse to support students, children, families, and staff in recovering from the COVID-19 pandemic.

The Clearinghouse continues to focus on student, staff, and family safety and well-being. As the educational community from pre-kindergarten through postsecondary education works together to help ensure and sustain student success in school and beyond, the Clearinghouse will highlight best practices, lessons learned, and evidence-based resources from the field and the Department’s technical assistance network.

EVENTS CALENDAR

 
UPCOMING EVENTS
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Full list of events
MonOct 219:00 A.M.- 3:45 P.M. MT2024 National Assembly for Family Engagement in Education, Day 1 READ MORE
TueOct 229:00 A.M.- 3:00 P.M. MT2024 National Assembly for Family Engagement in Education, Day 2 READ MORE
WedOct 231:30 P.M.- 11:00 P.M. MT2024 National Assembly for Family Engagement in Education, Day 3 READ MORE
WedOct 233:15 P.M.- 4:15 P.M. ETVirtual Coffeehouse: Preparing Preservice Teachers to Be Equity-Focused Educators READ MORE
WedOct 236:30 P.M.- 8:00 P.M. ETCulturally Sustaining Pedagogy: Bridging Theory and Practice READ MORE
WedOct 238:00 A.M.- 9:00 A.M. ET Reminder: Attendance Champions Challenge Open Until 11/29/24 READ MORE
ThuOct 248:00 A.M.- 11:00 P.M. MT2024 National Assembly for Family Engagement in Education, Day 4 READ MORE
FriOct 258:00 A.M.- 2:30 P.M. MT2024 National Assembly for Family Engagement in Education, Day 5 READ MORE
WedOct 308:00 A.M.- 9:00 A.M. ETReminder: Attendance Champions Challenge Open Until 11/29/24 READ MORE
WedNov 68:00 A.M.- 9:00 A.M. ET Reminder: Attendance Champions Challenge Open Until 11/29/24 READ MORE
WedNov 62:00 P.M. - 4:00 P.M. ETNational Student Privacy & Data Security Fall Webinar Series, Day 1 READ MORE
WedNov 610:00 A.M. - 4:30 P.M. ETCentering Equity in Curriculum and Instruction Planning READ MORE
ThuNov 73:00 P.M. - 4:00 P.M. Native Early Childhood Development Webinar Series, Session 4 READ MORE
WedNov 132:00 P.M. - 4:00 P.M. ETNational Student Privacy & Data Security Fall Webinar Series, Day 2 READ MORE
WedNov 138:00 A.M.- 9:00 A.M. ET Reminder: Attendance Champions Challenge Open Until 11/29/24 READ MORE
WedNov 208:00 A.M.- 9:00 A.M. ET Reminder: Attendance Champions Challenge Open Until 11/29/24 READ MORE
WedNov 202:00 P.M. - 4:00 P.M. ETNational Student Privacy & Data Security Fall Webinar Series, Day 3 READ MORE

At the Department, we believe that a high-quality public education lifts up communities, unites people around student success, strengthens our democracy, grows our economy, and empowers people everywhere to realize their dreams. This belief reflects our commitment to ensuring that all students receive an education that enables them to thrive in school and beyond.

The Department launched a call to action entitled Raise the Bar: Lead the World to transform education and unite around what works to support a high-quality education for all students from pre-kindergarten through postsecondary education. Raise the Bar anchors around what we have learned through decades of experience and research to advance educational equity and excellence and includes three focus areas:

  • Achieve Academic Excellence: Assist states and districts in achieving academic recovery and excellence by supporting the conditions to accelerate learning and offer a comprehensive and rigorous education for every student.
  • Boldly Improve Learning Conditions: Boldly support improved learning conditions by working to eliminate the teacher shortage and investing in every student's mental health and well-being.
  • Create Pathways for Global Engagement: Create pathways for global competitiveness and engagement by reimagining college and career pathways and providing better opportunities for our students to become multilingual.

VIDEO SPOTLIGHTS

TOPIC AREAS

Safe and Open Schools

African American professor teaching her students while wearing protective face mask due to coronavirus pandemic.

Learn about school, early childhood program, and campus approaches to implementing guidance from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) as well as other strategies for sustaining safe in-person operations with ARP funds. The recovery resources include all grades and ages. Teachers, early childhood providers, faculty, staff, schools, districts, early childhood programs, institutions of higher education, other educational institutions, and States can use these lessons learned, best practices, and Federal and State guidelines to plan and implement health and safety strategies with their local and State governments and community partners.

Student Supports

Elementary age boys and girls sitting at child-size desks learning arithmetic from encouraging instructor standing at a chalkboard.

Learn how communities and schools use ARP funds to support the social, emotional, mental health, academic, developmental, and basic needs of all learners. This includes providing access to food and other basic needs, with a specific focus on the most vulnerable learners and ensuring that resources provided by schools and campuses will be able to connect with and meet the needs of those disconnected from learning and those whose communities have been disproportionately impacted by the pandemic.

Educator Supports

African-American male teacher leading discussion group of adults and teens

Learn how to better address the well-being and professional needs of teachers, early childhood providers, faculty, and staff, including strategies to address their social, emotional, health, and other needs, with ARP funds. Teachers, early childhood education providers, faculty, staff, schools, districts, institutions of higher education, other places of educational instruction, and States may use these lessons learned, best practices, and Federal resources to create plans of action.