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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.
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:
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.
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.
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.
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