Promoting Socially Just Evidence-Based Practice
This brief describes common misconceptions regarding research-based practices as well as resources and suggestions for approaching socially just evidenced-based practices that center community, family, and student voice.
Tags:
Safe and Healthy Environments; Providing Supports to Students, Young Children, and Families
; Racial/ethnic subgroups
; PreK-12 Schools
Language: English
Resource Type: Best Practices; Technical Assistance Center Resources
Organization: Midwest and Plains Equity Assistance Center
Estimated Engagement Time: 33 minutes
Facilitating Socially Just Evidence-Based Practice
This tool supports education practitioners in understanding and implementing socially just evidence-based practices.
Tags:
Safe and Healthy Environments; Providing Supports to Students, Young Children, and Families
; Racial/ethnic subgroups
; PreK-12 Schools
Language: English
Resource Type: Best Practices; Technical Assistance Center Resources
Organization: Midwest and Plains Equity Assistance Center
Estimated Engagement Time: 18 minutes
How Laws Protect Safe and Inclusive School Environments
This tool offers information and resources on how laws protect the safety and security of learning environments for students, specifically for those who may be marginalized because of their race, national origin, sex, religion, or sexual orientation.
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
Language: English
Resource Type: Technical Assistance Center Resources
Organization: Midwest and Plains Equity Assistance Center
Estimated Engagement Time: 13 minutes
How to Talk With Youth About Human Trafficking and Exploitation Webinar
This webinar highlights resources and best practices to help educators equip students with protective measures and effectively support survivors of human trafficking.
Tags:
Safe and Healthy Environments; Providing Supports to Students, Young Children, and Families
; PreK-12 Schools
Language: English
Resource Type: Best Practices; Technical Assistance Center Resources
Organization: National Center on Safe Supportive Learning Environments
Estimated Engagement Time: 1 hour and 31 minutes
Tip Sheet: How to Talk With Youth About Human Trafficking and Exploitation
This resource offers strategies that educators can use to engage in age- and developmentally appropriate conversations with youth about human trafficking and exploitation.
Tags:
Safe and Healthy Environments; Providing Supports to Students, Young Children, and Families
; PreK-12 Schools
Language: English
Resource Type: Best Practices; Technical Assistance Center Resources
Organization: National Center on Safe Supportive Learning Environments
Estimated Engagement Time: 9 minutes
Start a Conversation: 10 Questions Teens Ask About Drugs and Health
This webpage provides answers to common questions about drugs and health that can support conversations with young people about the risks of substance use.
Tags:
Safe and Healthy Environments; Providing Supports to Students, Young Children, and Families
; PreK-12 Schools
Language: English; Español
Resource Type: Best Practices; Federal Resources
Organization: U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, National Institutes of Health, National Institute on Drug Abuse
Estimated Engagement Time: 12 minutes
Red Ribbon Week
This webpage provides educators, families, and communities with resources for participating in Red Ribbon Week, an awareness campaign that encourages young people to commit to a healthy, drug-free life.
Tags:
Safe and Healthy Environments; Providing Supports to Students, Young Children, and Families
; PreK-12 Schools; Colleges and Universities
Language: English
Resource Type: Best Practices; Federal Resources
Organization: U.S. Department of Justice, U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration
Estimated Engagement Time: Dependent on user
Growing Up Drug Free: A Parent's Guide to Substance Use Prevention
This resource provides parents and families with information to help raise children who understand the risks of substance use. Topics include an overview of substance use among children, common substances, risk factors, age-appropriate conversation strategies, and recommendations for steps to take if a child is showing signs of substance use.
Tags:
Safe and Healthy Environments; Providing Supports to Students, Young Children, and Families
; PreK-12 Schools
Language: English
Resource Type: Best Practices; Federal Resources
Organization: U.S. Department of Justice, U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration
Estimated Engagement Time: 1 hour and 35 minutes
Suicide Prevention Resource Center
This website offers resources related to suicide prevention, including training opportunities and an online library with best practices and recommendations for supporting mental health and preventing suicide.
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; Early Childhood Programs; Colleges and Universities
Language: English
Resource Type: Federal Resources
Organization: U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration; University of Oklahoma Health Sciences Center
Estimated Engagement Time: Dependent on user
2024 National Strategy for Suicide Prevention Federal Action Plan
This guidance document offers school administrators, community partners, and mental health professionals collaborative, priority actions to protect against youth suicide. The actions align with the goals presented in the 2024 National Strategy for Suicide Prevention.
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; Early Childhood Programs; Colleges and Universities
Language: English
Resource Type: Federal Resources
Organization: U.S. Department of Health and Human Services
Estimated Engagement Time: 57 minutes
2024 National Strategy for Suicide Prevention
This resource outlines the need for awareness, cross-sector support, and targeted strategies to prevent suicide and mental health concerns. Leaders and staff across all instructional levels can use the actionable recommendations in this resource to support staff and student mental health and prevent suicide.
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; Early Childhood Programs; Colleges and Universities
Language: English
Resource Type: Best Practices; Federal Resources
Organization: U.S. Department of Health and Human Services
Estimated Engagement Time: 4 hours and 35 minutes
988 Suicide and Crisis Lifeline
This 24/7 lifeline offers free, nonjudgmental counseling and support for individuals experiencing mental health crises. Individuals can use this lifeline to receive support for a variety of mental health challenges.
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; Early Childhood Programs; Colleges and Universities
Language: English; Español
Resource Type: Federal Resources
Organization: U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration; Vibrant Emotional Health
Estimated Engagement Time: Dependent on user
Lights On Afterschool: Health and Well-Being
This webpage highlights resources that afterschool, before-school, and summer learning programs can use to promote students’ physical and mental health and raise community awareness about the importance of sustaining programs where students are connected, supported, and taught healthy habits for life.
Tags:
Safe and Healthy Environments; Providing Supports to Students, Young Children, and Families
; PreK-12 Schools
Language: English
Resource Type: Best Practices
Organization: Afterschool Alliance
Estimated Engagement Time: 3 minutes
SchoolSafety.gov Back-to-School Campaign
This toolkit highlights resources to help K-12 schools create and sustain safe and supportive learning environments for students and educators. Resources include a list of key school safety actions, a communications toolkit, infographics, and ready-to-use social media posts and graphics.
Tags:
Safe and Healthy Environments; Providing Supports to Students, Young Children, and Families
; PreK-12 Schools
Language: English
Resource Type: Best Practices; Federal Resources
Organization: Federal School Safety Clearinghouse
Estimated Engagement Time: Dependent on user
Summary of Listening Sessions With Trans, Nonbinary, and Affirming Students and Educators in Honor of Transgender Day of Visibility (TDOV) 2024
In March 2024, the U.S. Department of Education hosted listening sessions with trans, nonbinary, and affirming students and educators in honor of Transgender Day of Visibility 2024. These listening sessions culminated in this resource, which shares resources aligned with Federal guidelines and feedback gathered from participants on how schools and school districts can ensure that LGBTQI+ students and educators feel safe, valued, and included at school.
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
; Free to Learn ; LGBTQIA students
; PreK-12 Schools
Language: English
Resource Type: Best Practices; Federal Resources; Lessons Learned
Organization: U.S. Department of Education
Estimated Engagement Time: 10 minutes
Beyond the Books Podcast and Videos
This webpage features a podcast and videos sharing student experiences with school practices and supports that are intended to build safe and supportive learning environments. These resources offer insight and recommendations for how school communities can collaborate with students to improve school climate.
Tags:
Safe and Healthy Environments; Providing Supports to Students, Young Children, and Families
; PreK-12 Schools
Language: English
Resource Type: Implementation Stories; Lessons Learned; Technical Assistance Center Resources
Organization: National Center on Safe Supportive Learning Environments
Estimated Engagement Time: Dependent on user
Free to Learn Webpage
This webpage highlights resources aligned with the U.S. Department of Education’s Free to Learn initiative which aims to support K-12 schools and institutions of higher education in understanding, implementing, and sustaining evidence-based practices and policies that support school safety, mental health, and positive school climates, and violence prevention.
Tags:
Safe and Healthy Environments; Providing Supports to Students, Young Children, and Families
; Children and students with disabilities; Free to Learn; LGBTQIA students; Racial/ethnic subgroups
; PreK-12 Schools; Colleges and Universities
Language: English
Resource Type: Best Practices; Technical Assistance Center Resources
Organization: National Center on Safe Supportive Learning Environments
Estimated Engagement Time: Dependent on user
Free to Learn: Leading Inclusive Learning Environments in Higher Education
This guide provides leaders in higher education with resources for fostering safe and inclusive campus environments, including tools for crisis response and management, strategies for supporting individual and community resilience and recovery, and information on the civil rights obligations of institutions of higher education.
Tags:
Safe and Healthy Environments; Providing Supports to Students, Young Children, and Families
; Free to Learn
; Colleges and Universities
Language: English
Resource Type: Best Practices; Federal Resources
Organization: U.S. Department of Education
Estimated Engagement Time: 17 minutes
Outdoor Play and Safety for Children in Early Childhood Education
This webpage highlights the benefits of outdoor play for healthy child development and shares ways that families and early childhood providers can reduce children’s risk of illness or injury while playing outdoors.
Tags:
Safe and Healthy Environments; Providing Supports to Students, Young Children, and Families
; Early Childhood Programs
Language: English
Resource Type: Best Practices; Federal Resources
Organization: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
Estimated Engagement Time: 7 minutes
Youth Risk Behavior Survey Data Summary and Trends Report: 2013–2023
This report provides data on trends in the health behaviors, experiences, and well-being of high school students in the United States over a 10-year period. Focus areas include trends in sexual behavior, substance use, experiences of violence, mental health, and social media use.
Tags:
Safe and Healthy Environments; Providing Supports to Students, Young Children, and Families
; PreK-12 Schools
Language: English
Resource Type: Federal Resources
Organization: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
Estimated Engagement Time: 1 hour and 18 minutes
70 Years After Brown: Resources for Educators
This webpage offers instructional aids for teaching students about the background and impacts of Brown v. Board of Education alongside resources to support school leaders in addressing ongoing inequities.
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
; Racial/ethnic subgroups
; PreK-12 Schools
Language: English
Resource Type: Best Practices; Technical Assistance Center Resources
Organization: Equity Assistance Center-South
Estimated Engagement Time: Dependent on user
Trafficking and Exploitation Prevention Strategies for
Vulnerable Students
This resource outlines human trafficking prevention strategies that build protective factors for all students and highlights special considerations for supporting students who may be more vulnerable to exploitation, including students with disabilities, newcomers to the United States, and students experiencing homelessness.
Tags:
Safe and Healthy Environments; Providing Supports to Students, Young Children, and Families
; Children and students with disabilities; Students experiencing homelessness
; PreK-12 Schools
Language: English
Resource Type: Best Practices; Technical Assistance Center Resources
Organization: National Center on Safe Supportive Learning Environments
Estimated Engagement Time: 6 minutes
Preventing Spread of Infections in K-12 Schools
This webpage provides guidance for K-12 school leaders on preventing and mitigating the spread of infectious diseases at school.
Tags:
Safe and Healthy Environments
; PreK-12 Schools
Language: English
Resource Type: Best Practices; Federal Resources
Organization: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
Estimated Engagement Time: Dependent on user
Supporting Equal Opportunity in School Athletic Programs: A Resource for Students and Families
This fact sheet describes how Title IX of the Education Amendments of 1972 prohibits discrimination based on sex in education programs and activities, including athletic programs, that receive Federal funds. The resource provides examples of situations that could constitute Title IX concerns and actions to take if someone thinks that a school is failing to provide equal opportunity under Title IX in its athletic program.
Tags:
Safe and Healthy Environments; Providing Supports to Students, Young Children, and Families
; Free to Learn
; PreK-12 Schools
Language: English
Resource Type: Federal Resources
Organization: U.S. Department of Education, Office for Civil Rights
Estimated Engagement Time: 4 minutes
Discipline Equity for American Indian and Alaska Native Students: Recommendations for District Leaders
This report describes how exclusionary discipline practices negatively impact students, including American Indian and Alaska Native (AI/AN) students. The report shares how some states have worked to address disproportionate rates of exclusionary discipline and offers recommendations for school districts and policymakers on reducing exclusionary discipline rates among AI/AN students.
Tags:
Safe and Healthy Environments; Providing Supports to Students, Young Children, and Families
; Free to Learn; Racial/ethnic subgroups
; PreK-12 Schools
Language: English
Resource Type: Best Practices; Technical Assistance Center Resources
Organization: Western Educational Equity Assistance Center
Estimated Engagement Time: 16 minutes
Designing for Education With Artificial Intelligence: An Essential Guide for Developers
This resource, designed for education technology teams, provides guidance for establishing safety, security, and trust while creating artificial intelligence products and services for use in education.
Tags:
Safe and Healthy Environments; Providing Supports to Students, Young Children, and Families
; PreK-12 Schools; Colleges and Universities
Language: English
Resource Type: Best Practices; Federal Resources
Organization: U.S. Department of Education, Office of Educational Technology
Estimated Engagement Time: 1 hour and 6 minutes
Extreme Heat: Tips to Keep Kids Safe When Temperatures Soar
This article lists the signs of heat illness in children and provides tips from pediatricians on how to keep kids safe in extreme temperatures.
Tags:
Safe and Healthy Environments; Providing Supports to Students, Young Children, and Families
; PreK-12 Schools; Early Childhood Programs
Language: English; Español
Resource Type: Best Practices
Organization: American Academy of Pediatrics
Estimated Engagement Time: 5 minutes
Talking to Kids About Back-to-School Worries: Tips for a More Productive Conversation
This article highlights strategies that parents and caregivers can use for communicating with and supporting students concerned about returning to school after a break, absence, or school closure.
Tags:
Safe and Healthy Environments; Providing Supports to Students, Young Children, and Families
; PreK-12 Schools
Language: English; Español
Resource Type: Best Practices
Organization: Child Mind Institute
Estimated Engagement Time: 4 minutes
Prepare With Pedro
This webpage hosts a disaster preparedness program created by the American Red Cross for kindergarten and elementary school students including activity books, games, and storybooks.
Tags:
Safe and Healthy Environments; Providing Supports to Students, Young Children, and Families
; PreK-12 Schools
Language: English; Español; العربية; Français; Kreyòl; 日本語; 한국어; Русский; Tagalog; Tiếng Việt; 简体; 中文
Resource Type: Best Practices; Federal Resources
Organization: U.S. Department of Homeland Security, Federal Emergency Management Agency
Estimated Engagement Time: Dependent on user
Physical Safety Measures: Outdoor and Entrance Safety Procedures
This resource outlines procedures for securing entry points to school facilities and establishing protocols for authorized access to protect the school community from intruders in the context of school-based gun violence and other threats.
Tags:
Safe and Healthy Environments
; PreK-12 Schools
Language: English
Resource Type: Best Practice; Technical Assistance Center Resources
Organization: National Technical Assistance Center on Positive Behavioral Interventions and Supports
Estimated Engagement Time: 6 minutes
Physical Safety Measures: Communication Systems
This resource provides considerations for establishing accessible emergency communication systems that allow the school community to alert administrators and law enforcement to possible threats and that support effective and timely response during an emergency.
Tags:
Safe and Healthy Environments
; PreK-12 Schools
Language: English
Resource Type: Best Practice; Technical Assistance Center Resources
Organization: National Technical Assistance Center on Positive Behavioral Interventions and Supports
Estimated Engagement Time: 8 minutes
Physical Safety Measures: Classroom Safety Procedures
This resource outlines classroom safety procedures to consider including as part of broader physical safety measures designed to prevent, mitigate, and protect against school-based gun violence and other threats.
Tags:
Safe and Healthy Environments
; PreK-12 Schools
Language: English
Resource Type: Best Practice; Technical Assistance Center Resources
Organization: National Technical Assistance Center on Positive Behavioral Interventions and Supports
Estimated Engagement Time: 6 minutes
Implementing Physical Safety Measures Effectively at Schools
This resource highlights practical safety measures that can be implemented in schools and classrooms to prevent, mitigate, and protect against school-based gun violence and other threats.
Tags:
Safe and Healthy Environments
; PreK-12 Schools
Language: English
Resource Type: Best Practice; Lessons Learned; Technical Assistance Center Resources
Organization: National Technical Assistance Center on Positive Behavioral Interventions and Supports
Estimated Engagement Time: 8 minutes
How State Leaders Can Help Respond to Incidents of School-Based Gun Violence and Support Recovery in School Communities
This brief discusses considerations for organizing state-level supports for schools and school districts recovering from school-based gun-violence. Topics include coordinating response teams, defining response scope, managing personnel, planning and implementing an effective response, supporting communications, and conducting after-action reviews.
Tags:
Safe and Healthy Environments; Providing Supports to Students, Young Children, and Families
; PreK-12 Schools
Language: English
Resource Type: Best Practice; Technical Assistance Center Resources
Organization: National Technical Assistance Center on Positive Behavioral Interventions and Supports
Estimated Engagement Time: 12 minutes
Welcoming Schools: Bullying Resources
This webpage for schools provides tools, lesson plans, booklists, tipsheets, and additional resources to address bias-based bullying and create LGBTQ+ inclusive environments.
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
; Free to Learn; LGBTQIA students
; PreK-12 Schools
Language: English
Resource Type: Best Practices
Organization: Human Rights Campaign Foundation
Estimated Engagement Time: Dependent on user
LGBTQI+ Youth
This webpage for schools identifies practices for creating a safe environment for LGBTQI+ youth and how to file a complaint if a student believes they have faced discrimination at school based on sex, sexual orientation, or gender identity; because they do not conform to sex stereotypes; or for another reason.
Tags:
Safe and Healthy Environments; Providing Supports to Students, Young Children, and Families
; Free to Learn; LGBTQIA students
; PreK-12 Schools
Language: English
Resource Type: Best Practices; Federal Resources
Organization: U.S. Department of Health and Human Services
Estimated Engagement Time: 4 minutes
Confronting Anti-LGBTQI+ Harassment in Schools: A Resource for Students and Families
This fact sheet for schools provides examples of the kinds of incidents the Educational Opportunities Section of the Civil Rights Division at the U.S. Department of Justice and the Office of Civil Rights at the U.S. Department of Education can investigate as well as actions to take if a student has been treated unfairly because of sexual orientation or gender identity.
Tags:
Safe and Healthy Environments; Providing Supports to Students, Young Children, and Families
; Free to Learn; LGBTQIA students
; PreK-12 Schools
Language: English
Resource Type: Best Practices; Federal Resources
Organization: U.S. Department of Justice, Civil Rights Division; U.S. Department of Education, Office for Civil Rights
Estimated Engagement Time: 5 minutes
FACT SHEET: U.S. Department of Education's 2024 Title IX Final Rule Overview
This fact sheet for schools provides an overview of the updated Title IX regulations, which strengthens vital protections for students and provides clear rules to help schools meet their Title IX obligation to eliminate sex discrimination in their education programs and activities.
Tags:
Safe and Healthy Environments; Providing Supports to Students, Young Children, and Families
; Free to Learn; LGBTQIA students
; PreK-12 Schools
Language: English
Resource Type: Best Practices; Federal Resources
Organization: U.S. Department of Education
Estimated Engagement Time: 8 minutes
Two-Spirit and Native LGBTQ+ Youth Resources
This webpage offers a compendium of resources to support Native LGBTQ+ and Two-Spirited Youth.
Tags:
Safe and Healthy Environments; Providing Supports to Students, Young Children, and Families
; Free to Learn; Racial/ethnic subgroups; LGBTQIA students
; PreK-12 Schools
Language: English
Resource Type: Best Practices; Technical Assistance Center Resources
Organization: Tribal Youth Resource Center
Estimated Engagement Time: 5 minutes
The Experiences of MENA LGBTQ Students in U.S. Secondary Schools
This report for secondary schools describes how Middle Eastern and North African (MENA) LGBTQ students experience school, including their feelings of safety, hearing biased remarks and experience with victimization based on personal characteristics, experiences with school discipline, and access to and benefit of school supports.
Tags:
Safe and Healthy Environments; Providing Supports to Students, Young Children, and Families
; Free to Learn; LGBTQIA students; Racial/ethnic subgroups
; PreK-12 Schools
Language: English
Resource Type: Best Practices
Organization: GLSEN
Estimated Engagement Time: 42 minutes
Erasure and Resilience: The Experiences of LGBTQ Students of Color
These reports for schools explore the experiences of Asian American and Pacific Islander, Black, Latinx, and Native and Indigenous LGBTQ youth.
Tags:
Safe and Healthy Environments; Providing Supports to Students, Young Children, and Families
; Free to Learn; LGBTQIA students; Racial/ethnic subgroups
; PreK-12 Schools
Language: English
Resource Type: Best Practices
Organization: GLSEN
Estimated Engagement Time: Dependent on user
Supporting LGBTQ+ Young People With Disabilities
This guide for schools provides information on how to best support LGBTQ+ young people with disabilities and better understand the issues that impact them.
Tags:
Safe and Healthy Environments; Providing Supports to Students, Young Children, and Families
; Children and students with disabilities; Free to Learn; LGBTQIA students
; PreK-12 Schools
Language: English
Resource Type: Best Practices
Organization: The Trevor Project
Estimated Engagement Time: 7 minutes
Advocating for LGBTQ Students With Disabilities
This guide for educators and parents provides an overview of LGBTQ students with disabilities, as well as actionable recommendations on how to best support them. It includes a blueprint for successfully developing an Individualized Education Program for special services or a 504 plan for academic accommodations for LGBTQ students with disabilities.
Tags:
Safe and Healthy Environments; Providing Supports to Students, Young Children, and Families
; Children and students with disabilities; Free to Learn; LGBTQIA students
; PreK-12 Schools
Language: English
Resource Type: Best Practices
Organization: Human Rights Campaign Foundation; National Center for Lesbian Rights; National Association of School Psychologists; National Education Association
Estimated Engagement Time: 15 minutes
You Are Welcome: Creating Safe & Supportive School Environments
This video showcases efforts in Akron Public Schools to cultivate safe and supportive school environments through methods including the Making Equitable Schools Audit — a tool designed to help schools leverage community-wide relationships and data to foster equitable and welcoming school environments.
Tags:
Safe and Healthy Environments; Providing Supports to Students, Young Children, and Families
; PreK-12 Schools
Language: English
Resource Type: Best Practices; Technical Assistance Center Resources
Organization: Regional Educational Laboratory Midwest
Estimated Engagement Time: 27 minutes
What We Wish Our Teachers Knew
This brochure, written by intersex youth, provides educators with information on the experiences of intersex students and how to best support them.
Tags:
Safe and Healthy Environments; Providing Supports to Students, Young Children, and Families
; Free to Learn; LGBTQIA students
; PreK-12 Schools
Language: English
Resource Type: Best Practices
Organization: InterACT Youth
Estimated Engagement Time: 4 minutes
Supporting Intersex Students
This fact sheet for students, families, and educators provides resources to support intersex students.
Tags:
Safe and Healthy Environments; Providing Supports to Students, Young Children, and Families
; Free to Learn; LGBTQIA students
; PreK-12 Schools
Language: English
Resource Type: Best Practices; Federal Resources
Organization: U.S. Department of Education, Office for Civil Rights
Estimated Engagement Time: 2 minutes
Schools in Transition: A Guide for Supporting Transgender Students in K-12 Schools
This guide for school administrations, teachers, and parents shares information about how to provide safe and supportive environments for all transgender students.
Tags:
Safe and Healthy Environments; Providing Supports to Students, Young Children, and Families
; Free to Learn; LGBTQIA students
; PreK-12 Schools
Language: English
Resource Type: Best Practices
Organization: National Center for Lesbian Rights
Estimated Engagement Time: 1 hour and 24 minutes
The RESPECT Workshop: Preventing Health Risks and Promoting Healthy Outcomes Among Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender and Questioning Students
This workshop for school staff offers a self-paced online professional development curriculum for addressing the needs of LGBTQ youth.
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
; Free to Learn; LGBTQIA students
; PreK-12 Schools
Language: English
Resource Type: Best Practices
Organization: American Psychological Association
Estimated Engagement Time: Dependent on user
Q&A for Helping Educators and School Providers to Provide Guidance and Support for Parents and Caregivers of LGBTQ Students
This guide for school staff offers background information to engage and provide support for parents and caregivers of LGBTQ students.
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
; Free to Learn; LGBTQIA students
; PreK-12 Schools
Language: English
Resource Type: Best Practices
Organization: Family Acceptance Project
Estimated Engagement Time: 19 minutes
Resources for Gender and LGBTQ+ Inclusive Schools
This webpage provides educators with the tools and training they need to embrace teachable moments, interrupt bias-based bullying, support transgender and non-binary students, and be prepared to answer important questions about LGBTQ+ and gender topics with students and families.
Tags:
Safe and Healthy Environments; Providing Supports to Students, Young Children, and Families
; Free to Learn; LGBTQIA students
; PreK-12 Schools
Language: English
Resource Type: Best Practices
Organization: Human Rights Campaign Foundation
Estimated Engagement Time: Dependent on user
LGBTQ-Visibility and Integration in Elementary Schools
This resource for elementary educators provides tools to support creating inclusive environments. The lessons focus on name-calling, bullying and bias, LGBT-inclusive family diversity, gender diversity, and gender roles.
Tags:
Safe and Healthy Environments; Providing Supports to Students, Young Children, and Families
; Free to Learn; LGBTQIA students
; PreK-12 Schools
Language: English
Resource Type: Best Practices
Organization: GLSEN
Estimated Engagement Time: 4 minutes
Developing LGBTQ-Inclusive Classroom Resources
This resource for educators provides best practices and practical strategies for creating learning environments that are safer and inclusive for LGBTQ students.
Tags:
Safe and Healthy Environments; Providing Supports to Students, Young Children, and Families
; Free to Learn; LGBTQIA students
; PreK-12 Schools
Language: English
Resource Type: Best Practices
Organization: GLSEN
Estimated Engagement Time: 12 minutes
Creating Safer Spaces in Schools for LGBTQ Young People
This infographic for schools shares practical tips and tools for creating inclusive and affirming spaces for LGBTQ+ young people.
Tags:
Safe and Healthy Environments; Providing Supports to Students, Young Children, and Families
; Free to Learn; LGBTQIA students
; PreK-12 Schools
Language: English
Resource Type: Best Practices
Organization: The Trevor Project
Estimated Engagement Time: 2 minutes
2024 U.S. National Survey on the Mental Health of LGBTQ+ Young People
This report for schools and school districts provides recent data on the experiences of young people ages 13 to 24 across the United States and provides data-driven ways to support LGBTQ+ young people.
Tags:
Safe and Healthy Environments; Providing Supports to Students, Young Children, and Families
; Free to Learn; LGBTQIA students
; PreK-12 Schools; Colleges and Universities
Language: English
Resource Type: Lessons Learned
Organization: The Trevor Project
Estimated Engagement Time: 15 minutes
Q&A Resource on Student-Led Groups to Support LGBTQI+ Students and Allies
This fact sheet for schools and school districts provides information about the rights students have to form and participate in Gender and Sexuality Alliances (GSAs) and other similar groups.
Tags:
Safe and Healthy Environments; Providing Supports to Students, Young Children, and Families
; Free to Learn; LGBTQIA students
; PreK-12 Schools
Language: English
Resource Type: Best Practices; Federal Resources
Organization: U.S. Department of Education
Estimated Engagement Time: 5 minutes
Departamento de Educación de los Estados Unidos: Apoyar a los jóvenes y familias LGBTQI+ en la escuela
This Spanish-language fact sheet for schools and school districts provides examples of policies and practices that can be developed to support LGBTQI+ students and families.
Tags:
Safe and Healthy Environments; Providing Supports to Students, Young Children, and Families
; Free to Learn; LGBTQIA students
; PreK-12 Schools
Language: Español
Resource Type: Best Practices; Federal Resources
Organization: U.S. Department of Education
Estimated Engagement Time: 9 minutes
U.S. Department of Education: Supporting LGBTQI+ Youth and Families in School
This fact sheet for schools and school districts provides examples of policies and practices that can be developed to support LGBTQI+ students and families.
Tags:
Safe and Healthy Environments; Providing Supports to Students, Young Children, and Families
; Free to Learn; LGBTQIA students
; PreK-12 Schools
Language: English
Resource Type: Best Practices; Federal Resources
Organization: U.S. Department of Education
Estimated Engagement Time: 8 minutes
The NASSP Principal Recovery Network Guide to Recovery
This resource provides principals with best practices for guiding schoolwide recovery efforts following a school shooting. The guide offers strategies for securing support, reopening school, addressing the needs of students and staff, holding commemorations, and listening to student voices.
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
Language: English
Resource Type: Best Practices; Lessons Learned
Organization: National Association of Secondary School Principals
Estimated Engagement Time: 23 minutes
Talking to Children About Violence: Tips for Families and Educators
This webpage equips caregivers and school personnel with age-appropriate strategies for helping students process acts of violence, build resilience, and recover a sense of safety following an incident. Translated versions of this resource are available in several different languages.
Tags:
Safe and Healthy Environments; Providing Supports to Students, Young Children, and Families
; PreK-12 Schools
Language: English; Español
Resource Type: Best Practices
Organization: National Association of School Psychologists
Estimated Engagement Time: 19 minutes
Crisis Recovery
This webpage highlights how school leaders can leverage multi-tiered systems of support to facilitate the transition back to school following a traumatic event or emergency.
Tags:
Safe and Healthy Environments; Providing Supports to Students, Young Children, and Families; Teacher, Early Childhood Provider, Faculty, and Staff Well-being, Professional Development, and Supports
; PreK-12 Schools
Language: English
Resource Type: Best Practices; Technical Assistance Center Resources
Organization: National Technical Assistance Center on Positive Behavioral Interventions and Supports
Estimated Engagement Time: Dependent on user
Returning to School After a Crisis: A Guide to Addressing Traumatic Events at School
This resource provides best practices and actionable steps that educators and school staff can use to help students cope and recover in the aftermath of a traumatic event impacting the school community.
Tags:
Safe and Healthy Environments; Providing Supports to Students, Young Children, and Families
; PreK-12 Schools
Language: English
Resource Type: Best Practices; Technical Assistance Center Resources
Organization: National Center for School Safety
Estimated Engagement Time: 15 minutes
Modelo de carta para almacenamiento seguro de armas de fuego
Para que los directores y administradores del distrito escolar personalicen y diseminar a las familias, tutores y cuidadores para compartir información esencial sobre el almacenamiento seguro de armas de fuego.
Tags:
Safe and Healthy Environments
; PreK-12 Schools
Language: Español
Resource Type: Best Practices; Technical Assistance Center Resources
Organization: Readiness and Emergency Management for Schools Technical Assistance Center
Estimated Engagement Time: 7 minutes
Safe Firearm Storage Sample Template Letter
This customizable letter provides school and school district administrators with a template for sharing information about safe firearm storage practices with families and caregivers. This resource is a downloadable Zip file.
Tags:
Safe and Healthy Environments
; PreK-12 Schools
Language: English
Resource Type: Best Practices; Technical Assistance Center Resources
Organization: Readiness and Emergency Management for Schools Technical Assistance Center
Estimated Engagement Time: 5 minutes
Families and Caregivers as Partners in School Emergency Management
This fact sheet provides school and school district leaders with strategies and guidance for partnering with families and caregivers to coordinate effectively during an emergency and build overall school emergency management capacity.
Tags:
Safe and Healthy Environments; Providing Supports to Students, Young Children, and Families
; PreK-12 Schools
Language: English
Resource Type: Best Practices; Technical Assistance Center Resources
Organization: Readiness and Emergency Management for Schools Technical Assistance Center
Estimated Engagement Time: 11 minutes
Empathic Instruction: A Powerful Tool for Addressing Inequitable Disciplinary Actions in Schools
This resource outlines data on and impacts of race-based discipline disparities in schools. The infographic describes an intervention — the Empathic Instruction intervention — that schools and school districts can implement to disrupt bias, instill a growth mindset among teachers that positively impacts students, and reduce discipline disparities.
Tags:
Safe and Healthy Environments; Providing Supports to Students, Young Children, and Families
; Free to Learn; Racial/ethnic subgroups
; PreK-12 Schools
Language: English
Resource Type: Best Practices; Technical Assistance Center Resources
Organization: Regional Educational Laboratory West
Estimated Engagement Time: 7 minutes
Safe Spaces: Foundations of Trauma-Informed Practice for Educational and Care Settings
This three-part series of free virtual training modules supports K-12 and early childhood education practitioners in recognizing the signs of trauma and stress in children and young adults and responding with appropriate care. Users must create a free account to access these trainings. Each module is available in both English and Spanish languages.
Tags:
Safe and Healthy Environments; Providing Supports to Students, Young Children, and Families
; PreK-12 Schools; Early Childhood Programs
Language: English; Español
Resource Type: Best Practices; State or Local Resources
Organization: Office of the California Surgeon General
Estimated Engagement Time: Dependent on user
Leveraging Federal Funds to Disrupt Disproportionate Discipline Practices
This brief shares historical context and current data on the issue of disproportionate discipline practices in K-12 schools. The brief offers detailed guidance for addressing this issue by using Federal funds to improve equity within school discipline practices.
Tags:
Safe and Healthy Environments; Providing Supports to Students, Young Children, and Families
; Free to Learn; Racial/ethnic subgroups
; PreK-12 Schools
Language: English
Resource Type: Best Practices; Technical Assistance Center Resources
Organization: Western Educational Equity Assistance Center
Estimated Engagement Time: 20 minutes
Integrating K-12 Students With Disabilities Into School Emergency Management Planning
This fact sheet provides school administrators and education practitioners with information and resources to integrate the needs of students with disabilities into their school emergency plans.
Tags:
Safe and Healthy Environments; Providing Supports to Students, Young Children, and Families
; Children and students with disabilities
; PreK-12 Schools
Language: English
Resource Type: Best Practices; Technical Assistance Center Resources
Organization: Readiness and Emergency Management for Schools Technical Assistance Center
Estimated Engagement Time: 10 minutes
Collaborating With Youth-Serving Organizations to Enhance School Emergency Operations Plans Fact Sheet
This fact sheet provides schools and school districts with strategies for building partnerships with youth-serving community-based organizations to strengthen emergency operations plans.
Tags:
Safe and Healthy Environments
; PreK-12 Schools
Language: English
Resource Type: Best Practices; Technical Assistance Center Resources
Organization: Readiness and Emergency Management for Schools Technical Assistance Center
Estimated Engagement Time: 10 minutes
Rural Schools: Emergency Management Planning for All Settings
This fact sheet supports rural school leaders and emergency planning teams in collaborating with community partners and the community at large to support safety, security, preparedness, and emergency response in rural school settings.
Tags:
Safe and Healthy Environments
; PreK-12 Schools
Language: English
Resource Type: Best Practices; Technical Assistance Center Resources
Organization: Readiness and Emergency Management for Schools Technical Assistance Center
Estimated Engagement Time: 14 minutes
After-Action Reviews and Reports for K-12 Schools and School Districts
This course trains school administrators, education practitioners, school district leaders, and community partners in developing after-action reviews and reports that enhance school emergency operations plans.
Tags:
Safe and Healthy Environments
; PreK-12 Schools
Language: English
Resource Type: Best Practices; Technical Assistance Center Resources
Organization: Readiness and Emergency Management for Schools Technical Assistance Center
Estimated Engagement Time: 60 minutes
Guide for Developing High-Quality School Emergency Operations Plans at a Glance: Active Shooter Situations
This webpage shares information and key considerations for education practitioners on improving preparedness for active shooter situations in schools. Users can navigate through several webpages in this series using the arrows at the bottom of each page.
Tags:
Safe and Healthy Environments
; PreK-12 Schools; Colleges and Universities
Language: English
Resource Type: Best Practices; Technical Assistance Center Resources
Organization: Readiness and Emergency Management for Schools Technical Assistance Center
Estimated Engagement Time: Dependent on user
EOP Interactive Tools: Free Emergency Management Planning Tools for Education Agencies
This suite of interactive tools guides education practitioners in developing and revising emergency operations plans, examining buildings and grounds, and aligning emergency planning efforts with best practices.
Tags:
Safe and Healthy Environments
; PreK-12 Schools; Colleges and Universities
Language: English
Resource Type: Best Practices; Technical Assistance Center Resources
Organization: Readiness and Emergency Management for Schools Technical Assistance Center
Estimated Engagement Time: Dependent on user
School Connectedness
This webpage highlights the benefits of a sense of belonging for students’ physical and mental health and provides strategies that schools can use to foster school connectedness.
Tags:
Safe and Healthy Environments; Providing Supports to Students, Young Children, and Families
; PreK-12 Schools
Language: English
Resource Type: Best Practices; Federal Resources
Organization: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
Estimated Engagement Time: 3 minutes
What Can Schools Do?
This webpage highlights ways that schools can promote a sense of belonging among students, including evidence-based classroom management strategies, LGBTQ+ inclusive practices, and positive youth development programs.
Tags:
Safe and Healthy Environments; Providing Supports to Students, Young Children, and Families
; Free to Learn; LGBTQIA students
; PreK-12 Schools
Language: English
Resource Type: Best Practices; Federal Resources
Organization: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
Estimated Engagement Time: Dependent on user
Healthy and Supportive School Environments
This webpage provides information for schools and parents on strategies for fostering healthy learning environments that support students in their social and emotional development.
Tags:
Safe and Healthy Environments; Providing Supports to Students, Young Children, and Families
; PreK-12 Schools
Language: English
Resource Type: Best Practices; Federal Resources
Organization: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
Estimated Engagement Time: Dependent on user
Enhance Connectedness Among Students, Staff, and Families
This webpage provides school leaders with strategies, equity focus areas, and implementation tips to help build a sense of belonging among all members of the school community.
Tags:
Safe and Healthy Environments; Providing Supports to Students, Young Children, and Families
; PreK-12 Schools
Language: English
Resource Type: Best Practices; Federal Resources
Organization: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
Estimated Engagement Time: Dependent on user
Dear Colleague Letter: Protecting Students From Discrimination
This letter provides leaders in education with concrete examples of unlawful discrimination under Title VI of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, which prohibits discrimination based on shared ancestry or ethnic characteristics, including discrimination against students and school community members who are or are perceived to be Jewish, Israeli, Muslim, Arab, Sikh, South Asian, Hindu, or Palestinian.
Tags:
Safe and Healthy Environments; Providing Supports to Students, Young Children, and Families
; Free to Learn; Racial/ethnic subgroups
; PreK-12 Schools
Language: English
Resource Type: Best Practices; Federal Resources
Organization: U.S. Department of Education, Office for Civil Rights
Estimated Engagement Time: 40 minutes
Supporting Arab American Students in Classrooms
This article highlights the experiences of Arab American students and offers strategies and tools that educators can use to foster more inclusive school environments.
Tags:
Safe and Healthy Environments; Providing Supports to Students, Young Children, and Families
; Free to Learn; Racial/ethnic subgroups
; PreK-12 Schools
Language: English
Resource Type: Best Practices
Organization: Learning for Justice
Estimated Engagement Time: 6 minutes
ING Resources for K-12 Educators, Colleges, and Universities
This webpage for educators in K-12 schools and higher education hosts a collection of resources designed to foster a deeper, more nuanced understanding of Muslim and other faith-based, racial/ethnic, and cultural communities.
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
; Free to Learn; Racial/ethnic subgroups
; PreK-12 Schools; Colleges and Universities
Language: English
Resource Type: Best Practices
Organization: Islamic Network Group (ING)
Estimated Engagement Time: Dependent on user
Middle East and North Africa Student Experience Panel
This webinar features a panel discussion elevating the voices and experiences of Middle Eastern and North African students.
Tags:
Safe and Healthy Environments; Providing Supports to Students, Young Children, and Families
; Free to Learn; Racial/ethnic subgroups
; PreK-12 Schools
Language: English
Resource Type: Lessons Learned
Organization: San Diego County Office of Education
Estimated Engagement Time: 1 hour and 10 minutes
Identity Journeys: The South Asian American Student Experience
This webinar features a panel of South Asian high school students from across the country discussing their experiences with race, identity, and culture in schools today.
Tags:
Safe and Healthy Environments; Providing Supports to Students, Young Children, and Families
; Free to Learn; Racial/ethnic subgroups
; PreK-12 Schools
Language: English
Resource Type: Lessons Learned
Organization: Asia Society; Center for Global Education; The Culture Tree
Estimated Engagement Time: 57 minutes
Educator Brief: Understanding & Supporting MENA & Muslim Students
This resource provides an overview of Middle Eastern and North African (MENA) families and experiences along with recommendations on how to effectively support MENA and Muslim students in schools.
Tags:
Safe and Healthy Environments; Providing Supports to Students, Young Children, and Families
; Free to Learn; Racial/ethnic subgroups
; PreK-12 Schools
Language: English
Resource Type: Best Practices
Organization: Immigration Initiative at Harvard, Harvard Graduate School of Education
Estimated Engagement Time: 13 minutes
Educator Brief: Supporting Black Immigrant Students and Their Families
This resource offers information and strategies that educators can use to build understanding and implement effective supports for Black immigrant youth and families in their school communities.
Tags:
Safe and Healthy Environments; Providing Supports to Students, Young Children, and Families
; Free to Learn; Racial/ethnic subgroups
; PreK-12 Schools
Language: English
Resource Type: Best Practices
Organization: Immigration Initiative at Harvard, Harvard Graduate School of Education
Estimated Engagement Time: 6 minutes
Arab, Middle Eastern, and Muslim? What’s the Difference?!
This article differentiates among the terms Arab, Middle Eastern, and Muslim and includes a classroom exercise and supplemental materials that educators may integrate into Social Studies lessons.
Tags:
Safe and Healthy Environments; Providing Supports to Students, Young Children, and Families
; Free to Learn; Racial/ethnic subgroups
; PreK-12 Schools
Language: English
Resource Type: Best Practices
Organization: Teach Mideast
Estimated Engagement Time: 8 minutes
Responding to Bullying
This webpage outlines steps that adults can take to keep students safe by responding quickly and consistently to bullying behavior.
Tags:
Safe and Healthy Environments; Providing Supports to Students, Young Children, and Families
; Free to Learn
; PreK-12 Schools
Language: English
Resource Type: Best Practices; Federal Resources
Organization: U.S. Department of Health and Human Services
Estimated Engagement Time: 3 minutes
How to Prevent Bullying
This webpage provides guidance on the roles that parents, school staff, and other caring adults can play in preventing bullying in schools.
Tags:
Safe and Healthy Environments; Providing Supports to Students, Young Children, and Families
; Free to Learn
; PreK-12 Schools
Language: English
Resource Type: Best Practices; Federal Resources
Organization: U.S. Department of Health and Human Services
Estimated Engagement Time: 5 minutes
The Healing Classrooms Programme
This webpage highlights training opportunities and resources to support educators in developing inclusive and nurturing learning environments where refugee and asylum-seeking students can gain the necessary academic, social, and emotional skills to thrive.
Tags:
Safe and Healthy Environments; Providing Supports to Students, Young Children, and Families
; Free to Learn
; PreK-12 Schools
Language: English
Resource Type: Best Practices
Organization: International Rescue Committee
Estimated Engagement Time: Dependent on user
Serving up Tradition: A Guide for School Food in Culturally Diverse Communities
This resource provides school leaders with guidance for honoring cultural diversity in meal programs, including actionable steps and case studies.
Tags:
Safe and Healthy Environments; Providing Supports to Students, Young Children, and Families
; Free to Learn; Racial/ethnic subgroups
; PreK-12 Schools
Language: English
Resource Type: Best Practices
Organization: Massachusetts Farm to School; FoodCorps Massachusetts
Estimated Engagement Time: 28 minutes
Interconnected Systems Framework (ISF): Teaching and Learning Stories, A Demonstration Brief
This brief explores the results of integrating the Positive Behavioral Interventions and Supports and the Interconnected Systems Framework models across school systems and school districts. These models are associated with an increase in social, emotional, and behavioral support for students.
Tags:
Safe and Healthy Environments; Providing Supports to Students, Young Children, and Families
; PreK-12 Schools
Language: English
Resource Type: Implementation Stories; Technical Assistance Center Resources
Organization: Center on Positive Behavioral Interventions and Supports
Estimated Engagement Time: 26 minutes
IES Resources for Supporting Student Engagement
This webpage offers research-based tools for educators and policymakers for reducing student absenteeism. Key strategies involve communication, partnerships, positive school climate, data-based decisions, and early warning systems.
Tags:
Safe and Healthy Environments; Providing Supports to Students, Young Children, and Families
; PreK-12 Schools
Language: English
Resource Type: Best Practices
Organization: National Center for Education Evaluation and Regional Assistance
Estimated Engagement Time: Dependent on user
Stories From the Field: Central School District
This video follows one district's journey to positively improve the lives of school community members by implementing the Positive Behavioral Interventions and Supports and the Interconnected Systems Framework models.
Tags:
Safe and Healthy Environments; Providing Supports to Students, Young Children, and Families
; PreK-12 Schools
Language: English
Resource Type: Implementation Stories
Organization: School Mental Health Assessment, Research, and Training Center
Estimated Engagement Time: 18 minutes
Bully Prevention Manual (Elementary Level)
This handbook provides educators and administrators with guidance and a curriculum designed to decrease bullying behavior by reframing the definition of bullying, implementing positive behavior supports, and instructing students on what bullying is and how to address it.
Tags:
Safe and Healthy Environments; Providing Supports to Students, Young Children, and Families
; Free to Learn
; PreK-12 Schools
Language: English
Resource Type: Best Practices; Technical Assistance Center Resources
Organization: Center on Positive Behavioral Interventions and Supports
Estimated Engagement Time: 42 minutes
White House Toolkit for Sustainable and Healthy Schools
This toolkit highlights Federal opportunities and resources that can be used to improve the health, safety, and sustainability of K-12 facilities. This resource provides state and local education agencies with an overview of relevant Federal funding opportunities, programs, and resources available to build safe and healthy school environments.
Tags:
Safe and Healthy Environments
; PreK-12 Schools
Language: English
Resource Type: Best Practices; Federal Resources
Organization: The White House
Estimated Engagement Time: 23 minutes
Bien-Estar: Cuidando la Salud Emocional de la Comunidad Latina
Les invitamos a mirar este webinar y aprende acerca del bien-estar emocional y como cuidar su salud emocional.
This workshop, presented in Spanish with English captions available, discusses mental health access challenges and psychosocial stressors specific to the Latino community and offers strategies both to help prevent the onset and to mitigate the impacts of mental illness.
Tags:
Safe and Healthy Environments; Providing Supports to Students, Young Children, and Families
; Racial/ethnic subgroups
; PreK-12 Schools; Early Childhood Programs; Colleges and Universities
Language: Español
Resource Type: Best Practices; Technical Assistance Center Resources
Organization: Great Lakes Mental Health Technology Transfer Center
Estimated Engagement Time: 2 hours
LGBTQI+ Students Online: 10 Questions to Promote Digital Health, Safety, and Citizenship
This resource provides information and a series of guiding questions to help schools consider whether their policies and climate provide a safe and supportive learning environment that supports the digital health, safety, and citizenship of LGBTQI+ students.
Tags:
Safe and Healthy Environments; Providing Supports to Students, Young Children, and Families
; Free to Learn; LGBTQIA students
; PreK-12 Schools
Language: English
Resource Type: Best Practices; Federal Resources
Organization: U.S. Department of Education, Office of Educational Technology
Estimated Engagement Time: 7 minutes
Uplifting Black Muslim Youth Toolkit
This toolkit provides individuals, families, and organizations, including schools, with resources for supporting Black Muslim youth.
Tags:
Safe and Healthy Environments; Providing Supports to Students, Young Children, and Families
; Free to Learn; Racial/ethnic subgroups
; PreK-12 Schools
Language: English
Resource Type: Best Practices
Organization: The Family & Youth Institute
Estimated Engagement Time: Dependent on user
Talking to Children About Hate Crimes and Antisemitism
This fact sheet offers developmentally appropriate strategies for discussing incidents of hate crimes and antisemitism with children.
Tags:
Safe and Healthy Environments; Providing Supports to Students, Young Children, and Families
; Free to Learn; Racial/ethnic subgroups
; PreK-12 Schools
Language: English
Resource Type: Best Practices
Organization: National Child Traumatic Stress Network
Estimated Engagement Time: 9 minutes
Teaching Materials on Antisemitism and Racism
This website shares lesson plans and resources for teaching about antisemitism, the historical intersection of racism and antisemitism, and the Holocaust.
Tags:
Safe and Healthy Environments; Providing Supports to Students, Young Children, and Families
; Free to Learn; Racial/ethnic subgroups
; PreK-12 Schools
Language: English
Resource Type: Best Practices
Organization: United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
Estimated Engagement Time: Dependent on user
Teaching About Judaism
This lesson plan for grades 6-12 is designed to help teachers introduce students to Judaism and its basic tenets.
Tags:
Safe and Healthy Environments; Providing Supports to Students, Young Children, and Families
; Free to Learn; Racial/ethnic subgroups
; PreK-12 Schools
Language: English
Resource Type: Best Practices
Organization: Institute for Curriculum Services
Estimated Engagement Time: Dependent on user
Shared Ancestry or Ethnic Characteristics
This website explains how Title VI of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 (Title VI) affords protection to students from discrimination or harassment based on actual or perceived shared ancestry or ethnic characteristics. The webpage also provides links to U.S. Department of Education policy guidance and resources regarding these Title VI protections.
Tags:
Safe and Healthy Environments; Providing Supports to Students, Young Children, and Families
; Free to Learn; Racial/ethnic subgroups
; PreK-12 Schools
Language: English
Resource Type: Federal Resources
Organization: U.S. Department of Education, Office for Civil Rights
Estimated Engagement Time: Dependent on user
Race, Color, or National Origin Discrimination: Frequently Asked Questions
The webpage offers answers to frequently asked questions about Title VI of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, addressing Federal protections for students from discrimination and harassment based on race, color, or national origin.
Tags:
Safe and Healthy Environments; Providing Supports to Students, Young Children, and Families
; Free to Learn; Racial/ethnic subgroups; English learners
; PreK-12 Schools; Colleges and Universities
Language: English
Resource Type: Federal Resources
Organization: U.S. Department of Education, Office for Civil Rights
Estimated Engagement Time: Dependent on user
Protecting Student Mental Health in the Face of Antisemitism and Islamophobia
This article provides institutions of higher education with recommended actions for supporting student mental health amid threats to student safety based on nationality or religious affiliation. The article encourages clear communication; appropriate responses to student concerns; and the development of a positive, inclusive campus climate.
Tags:
Safe and Healthy Environments; Providing Supports to Students, Young Children, and Families
; Free to Learn; Racial/ethnic subgroups
; Colleges and Universities
Language: English
Resource Type: Best Practices
Organization: The Jed Foundation
Estimated Engagement Time: 6 minutes
Preventing and Responding to Bias and Hate Incidents in K-12 Educational Settings: A Toolkit for School and Community Leaders
This toolkit provides education practitioners with best practices for navigating difficult conversations, hosting solidarity events, and improving preparedness for incidents of unrest, bias, and hate crimes in school communities.
Tags:
Safe and Healthy Environments; Providing Supports to Students, Young Children, and Families
; Free to Learn
; PreK-12 Schools
Language: English
Resource Type: Federal Resources; Best Practices
Organization: U.S. Department of Justice
Estimated Engagement Time: Dependent on user
Leading Inclusive Learning Environments During the War in the Middle East: K-12 Schools
In this webinar, hosted by the U.S. Department of Education, presenters discuss laws, resources, and strategies to ensure that students of all backgrounds and ethnicities can learn in a safe, inclusive environment.
Tags:
Safe and Healthy Environments; Providing Supports to Students, Young Children, and Families
; Free to Learn; Racial/ethnic subgroups
; PreK-12 Schools
Language: English
Resource Type: Best Practices; Federal Resources
Organization: U.S. Department of Education
Estimated Engagement Time: 55 minutes
Leading Inclusive Learning Environments During the War in the Middle East: Colleges and Universities
This webinar, hosted by the U.S. Department of Education, provides institutions of higher education with laws, resources, and strategies to ensure that students of all backgrounds and ethnicities can learn in a safe, inclusive environment.
Tags:
Safe and Healthy Environments; Providing Supports to Students, Young Children, and Families
; Free to Learn; Racial/ethnic subgroups
; Colleges and Universities
Language: English
Resource Type: Best Practices; Federal Resources
Organization: U.S. Department of Education
Estimated Engagement Time: 56 minutes
Jewish Americans
This lesson plan for grades 6-12 is designed to teach students about the history and diversity of the Jewish American community.
Tags:
Safe and Healthy Environments; Providing Supports to Students, Young Children, and Families
; Free to Learn; Racial/ethnic subgroups
; PreK-12 Schools
Language: English
Resource Type: Best Practices
Organization: Institute for Curriculum Services
Estimated Engagement Time: Dependent on user
IDEALS: Bridging Religious Divides Through Higher Education
This study examines college students’ experiences with religious differences and shares how institutions of higher education can help bridge religious divides.
Tags:
Safe and Healthy Environments; Providing Supports to Students, Young Children, and Families
; Free to Learn
; Colleges and Universities
Language: English
Resource Type: Lessons Learned
Organization: Interfaith America
Estimated Engagement Time: 35 minutes
How to Respond to Discrimination and Bias
This blog article provides guidance for college students for proactively addressing both experienced and witnessed instances of discrimination and bias.
Tags:
Safe and Healthy Environments; Providing Supports to Students, Young Children, and Families
; Free to Learn
; Colleges and Universities
Language: English
Resource Type: Best Practices
Organization: The Jed Foundation
Estimated Engagement Time: 6 minutes
Guía de principios para la creación de entornos escolares seguros,
inclusivos, justos, y de apoyo
This Spanish-language guide shares five guiding principles that support an inclusive and positive learning environment and offers potential actions that schools and school districts can take to foster these environments. The guide also lists Federal resources that support schools and districts in ensuring a positive school climate.
Tags:
Safe and Healthy Environments; Providing Supports to Students, Young Children, and Families
; Free to Learn
; PreK-12 Schools
Language: Español
Resource Type: Best Practices; Federal Resources
Organization: U.S. Department of Education
Estimated Engagement Time: 57 minutes
Fact Sheet: Protecting Students From Discrimination Based on Shared Ancestry or Ethnic Characteristics
This fact sheet outlines the protections afforded by Title VI of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 for students who are or are perceived to be Jewish, Christian, Muslim, Sikh, Hindu, Buddhist, or of another religious group.
Tags:
Safe and Healthy Environments; Providing Supports to Students, Young Children, and Families
; Free to Learn; Racial/ethnic subgroups
; PreK-12 Schools; Colleges and Universities
Language: English
Resource Type: Federal Resources
Organization: U.S. Department of Education, Office for Civil Rights
Estimated Engagement Time: 3 minutes
Fact Sheet: Biden-Harris Administration Takes Landmark Step to Counter Antisemitism
This webpage clarifies that Title VI of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 prohibits antisemitic, Islamophobic, and other related forms of discrimination in Federally funded activities. The webpage also shares the coordinated actions taken by the Biden-Harris administration to address a rise of antisemitism in the United States, including efforts by the U.S. Department of Education.
Tags:
Safe and Healthy Environments; Providing Supports to Students, Young Children, and Families
; Free to Learn; Racial/ethnic subgroups
; PreK-12 Schools; Colleges and Universities
Language: English
Resource Type: Federal Resources
Organization: The White House
Estimated Engagement Time: 7 minutes
Facilitating Political Discussions
This workshop guide provides college and university leaders with resources and activities for training educators and administrators on how to facilitate politically charged conversations in a way that promotes both free expression and inclusion.
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
; Free to Learn
; Colleges and Universities
Language: English
Resource Type: Best Practices
Organization: Institute for Democracy & Higher Education
Estimated Engagement Time: Dependent on user
Educators Toolkit
This website offers resources, reports, and videos to help education practitioners create inclusive, enriching learning environments for all students, especially those who are Muslim.
Tags:
Safe and Healthy Environments; Providing Supports to Students, Young Children, and Families
; Free to Learn
; PreK-12 Schools
Language: English
Resource Type: Best Practices
Organization: Institute for Social Policy and Understanding
Estimated Engagement Time: Dependent on user
Educator Resources to Address Antisemitism in Public Schools
This website provides educators with resources and tools for teaching about antisemitism.
Tags:
Safe and Healthy Environments; Providing Supports to Students, Young Children, and Families
; Free to Learn; Racial/ethnic subgroups
; PreK-12 Schools
Language: English
Resource Type: State or Local Resources
Organization: San Diego County Office of Education
Estimated Engagement Time: Dependent on user
Dismantling Islamophobia
This article shares six strategies for preventing anti-Muslim bullying and harassment in schools.
Tags:
Safe and Healthy Environments; Providing Supports to Students, Young Children, and Families
; Free to Learn
; PreK-12 Schools
Language: English
Resource Type: Best Practices
Organization: Harvard Graduate School of Education
Estimated Engagement Time: 4 minutes
Dear Colleague Letter on Shared Ancestry
This letter reminds schools and institutions of higher education of their legal responsibility to provide all students with learning environments that are free from discrimination based on race, color, or national origin under Title VI of the Civil Rights Act of 1964.
Tags:
Safe and Healthy Environments
; Free to Learn; Racial/ethnic subgroups
; PreK-12 Schools; Colleges and Universities
Language: English
Resource Type: Federal Resources
Organization: U.S. Department of Education, Office for Civil Rights
Estimated Engagement Time: 7 minutes
Cultural Proficiency, Diversity and Equity at North Penn School District
This webpage provides information on cultural proficiency and shares an example of one school district’s approach to valuing diversity and committing to equity.
Tags:
Safe and Healthy Environments; Providing Supports to Students, Young Children, and Families
; Free to Learn
; PreK-12 Schools
Language: English
Resource Type: State or Local Resources
Organization: North Penn School District
Estimated Engagement Time: Dependent on user
Countering Islamophobia - Learning for Justice
This webpage shares a lesson plan for grades 9-12 on the impacts of Islamophobia and deconstructing stereotypes and misconceptions about Muslims.
Tags:
Safe and Healthy Environments; Providing Supports to Students, Young Children, and Families
; Free to Learn
; PreK-12 Schools
Language: English
Resource Type: Best Practices
Organization: Learning for Justice
Estimated Engagement Time: Dependent on user
Confronting Islamophobia: Facing History and Ourselves
This webpage provides educators with a lesson plan on the history of Islamophobia, modern manifestations and impacts, and the importance of standing up against prejudice.
Tags:
Safe and Healthy Environments; Providing Supports to Students, Young Children, and Families
; Free to Learn
; PreK-12 Schools
Language: English
Resource Type: Best Practices
Organization: Facing History & Ourselves
Estimated Engagement Time: Dependent on user
Combatting Antisemitism Through Education
This resource for Washington educators and school leaders shares an overview of historical and contemporary antisemitism, Title VI protections for Jewish students and families, and educational materials for teaching about antisemitism.
Tags:
Safe and Healthy Environments; Providing Supports to Students, Young Children, and Families
; Free to Learn; Racial/ethnic subgroups
; PreK-12 Schools
Language: English
Resource Type: State or Local Resources
Organization: Washington Office of Superintendent of Public Instruction
Estimated Engagement Time: 7 minutes
Combating Discrimination Against Jewish Students
This fact sheet offers educators and leaders at state and local education agencies examples of action or inaction by school officials in addressing instances of discrimination against Jewish students that could violate Title VI of the Civil Rights Act of 1964.
Tags:
Safe and Healthy Environments; Providing Supports to Students, Young Children, and Families
; Free to Learn; Racial/ethnic subgroups
; PreK-12 Schools
Language: English
Resource Type: Federal Resources
Organization: U.S. Department of Education, Office for Civil Rights
Estimated Engagement Time: 3 minutes
Bridging Differences Playbook
This guide provides education practitioners with research-based skills and resources to foster constructive dialogue that promotes understanding across groups.
Tags:
Safe and Healthy Environments; Providing Supports to Students, Young Children, and Families
; Free to Learn
; Colleges and Universities
Language: English
Resource Type: Best Practices
Organization: University of California, Berkeley-Greater Good Science Center
Estimated Engagement Time: 1 hour and 1 minute
2022-2023 Guidelines for Respecting Religious Diversity in Montgomery County Schools
This resource outlines the policies of the Montgomery County Public Schools district for valuing and respecting religious diversity and ensuring that students are free to express their beliefs and religious practices without fear of discrimination, harassment, or bullying. The document outlines policies related to absences for religious holidays, prayer at school, religion in instructional programs, extracurricular student religious activities, and religion-related dietary restrictions.
Tags:
Safe and Healthy Environments; Providing Supports to Students, Young Children, and Families
; Free to Learn
; PreK-12 Schools
Language: English
Resource Type: State or Local Resources
Organization: Montgomery County Public Schools
Estimated Engagement Time: 29 minutes
School Spending & Outcomes Snapshot: Supporting Conversations on Equity and School Improvement
This online data visualization tool allows users to explore state and local education agency spending and outcome data to better understand and improve equity within education 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
Language: English
Resource Type: Technical Assistance Center Resources
Organization: National Comprehensive Center
Estimated Engagement Time: Dependent on user
6 Key Factors to Assess Every District’s Risk of an Upcoming ESSER Fiscal Cliff
This webpage shares an analysis of historical data and trends in Elementary and Secondary School Emergency Relief (ESSER) funds spending in school districts across the country. Based on this analysis, the webpage offers six key indicators that can help states understand which school districts may be at risk of an upcoming fiscal cliff with the end of ESSER funding.
Tags:
Safe and Healthy Environments; Providing Supports to Students, Young Children, and Families; Teacher, Early Childhood Provider, Faculty, and Staff Well-being, Professional Development, and Supports
; PreK-12 Schools
Language: English
Resource Type: Best Practices
Organization: Education Resource Strategies
Estimated Engagement Time: 11 minutes
Return on Investment in Education: A “System-Strategy” Approach to K-12 ROI
This webpage offers information, videos, and a five-step process called the System Strategy Return on Investment (ROI), which helps school district leaders assess ROI and make improvements by leveraging high-impact strategies related to education investments.
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
Language: English
Resource Type: Best Practices
Organization: Education Resource Strategies
Estimated Engagement Time: Dependent on user
How Traditional U.S. Department of Education Grants Can Help Sustain ESSER Activities
This webpage shares a video, resource, and presentation that highlights how state and local education agency leaders can sustain initiatives funded by Elementary and Secondary School Emergency Relief funds for the long-term by leveraging alternative Federal funding streams.
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
Language: English
Resource Type: Best Practices
Organization: Council of Chief State School Officers
Estimated Engagement Time: Dependent on user
Flexing the Flexibility of ARP-HCY Funding Series: Making the Most of Federal Relief Dollars to Help Students Experiencing Homelessness
This webpage highlights available uses of American Rescue Plan – Homeless Children and Youth (ARP-HCY) funds to support students experiencing homelessness and shares examples of how school districts across the country are strategically spending ARP-HCY funding for this purpose.
Tags:
Safe and Healthy Environments; Providing Supports to Students, Young Children, and Families
; Students experiencing homelessness
; PreK-12 Schools
Language: English
Resource Type: Best Practices
Organization: Schoolhouse Connection
Estimated Engagement Time: 29 minutes
Oregon District ESSER Outreach: Tools and Templates to Support Local Communication About ESSER Spending
This toolkit supports school districts in communicating about their use of Elementary and Secondary School Emergency Relief funds to support students, teachers, and school communities in recovering from the impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic. The toolkit offers tips, templates, sample social media posts, and supplemental resources.
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
Language: English
Resource Type: State or Local Resources
Organization: Oregon Department of Education
Estimated Engagement Time: Dependent on user
How to Spend ESSER Funds Strategically for K-12 Transformation
This online toolkit provides resources, tools, and implementation examples to help school districts embed Elementary and Secondary School Emergency Relief Fund (ESSER) spending decisions into comprehensive, long-term plans for school improvement.
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
Language: English
Resource Type: Best Practices
Organization: Education Resource Strategies
Estimated Engagement Time: Dependent on user
Vaccines for Children Program (VFC) Information for Parents
This resource offers parents, guardians, and caregivers with information on the Vaccines for Children (VFC) program, including eligibility criteria, a list of covered vaccines, and VFC provider locations. This resource is available in both English and Spanish.
Tags:
Safe and Healthy Environments; Providing Supports to Students, Young Children, and Families
; PreK-12 Schools; Early Childhood Programs
Language: English
Resource Type: Federal Resources
Organization: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
Estimated Engagement Time: Dependent on user
School Pulse Panel: Responses to the Pandemic and Efforts Toward Recovery
This interactive webpage shares monthly data reflecting aspects of the U.S. education system. The data provided span topics such as college and career readiness, learning recovery, school safety, social and emotional well-being, staff shortages, and more.
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
Language: English
Resource Type: Federal Resources
Organization: U.S. Department of Education, National Center for Education Statistics
Estimated Engagement Time: Dependent on user
Profile of Students With Disabilities in U.S. Public Schools During the 2020-21 School Year
This fact sheet provides information and statistics from the 2020-21 school year regarding student enrollment, course-taking, school climate, bullying, and disciplinary actions involving students with disabilities.
Tags:
Safe and Healthy Environments; Providing Supports to Students, Young Children, and Families
; Children and students with disabilities
; PreK-12 Schools
Language: English
Resource Type: Innovative Spotlight; Federal Resources
Organization: U.S. Department of Education, Office for Civil Rights
Estimated Engagement Time: 7 minutes
IRIS Center Modules
This library of professional development learning modules provides educators with self-paced trainings on a wide range of topics including classroom and behavior management, family engagement, progress monitoring, accommodation and individualized education program development, and effective instructional practices for supporting English learners.
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
; Children and students with disabilities
; PreK-12 Schools
Language: English
Resource Type: Best Practices; Technical Assistance Center Resources
Organization: IRIS Center
Estimated Engagement Time: Dependent on user
K-12 School Security Guide Product Suite
This suite of products provides K-12 schools and school districts with tools and strategies to improve physical security. The suite includes a guide with best practices, an assessment tool, and an accompanying virtual training series.
Tags:
Safe and Healthy Environments
; PreK-12 Schools
Language: English
Resource Type: Best Practices; Federal Resources
Organization: U.S. Department of Homeland Security, Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency
Estimated Engagement Time: Dependent on user
Improving School Safety Through Bystander Reporting: A Toolkit for Strengthening K-12 Reporting Programs
This toolkit offers five strategies to help schools and school districts strengthen their reporting systems to improve school safety—encourage bystander reporting, make reporting safe and accessible, follow up on reports, make reporting a part of school life, and create a positive school climate. The toolkit also provides checklists and self-assessments to help schools implement the strategies contained within the toolkit.
Tags:
Safe and Healthy Environments
; PreK-12 Schools
Language: English
Resource Type: Best Practices; Federal Resources
Organization: U.S. Department of Homeland Security, Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency
Estimated Engagement Time: Dependent on user
Partnering to Safeguard K-12 Organizations From Cybersecurity Threats
This report synthesizes research on the current landscape of cyber threats facing K-12 schools and provides recommendations and strategies to help school leaders improve their cybersecurity posture and reinforce a culture of cybersecurity in their schools.
Tags:
Safe and Healthy Environments
; PreK-12 Schools
Language: English
Resource Type: Best Practices; Federal Resources
Organization: U.S. Department of Homeland Security, Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency
Estimated Engagement Time: Dependent on user
ESSER Funding Cliff Toolkit: Data-Driven Financial Decision Making for Post-ESSER Spending
This toolkit is designed to help school districts make decisions about which programs funded by Elementary and Secondary School Emergency Relief (ESSER) funds should continue to be sustained after the sunsetting of ESSER funds in September of 2024. The toolkit guides users through determining return on investment on ESSER-funded programs and making strategic decisions regarding 2024-25 budget planning.
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
Language: English
Resource Type: Best Practices; State or Local Resources
Organization: North Carolina Department of Public Instruction
Estimated Engagement Time: Dependent on user
Raise the Bar: Boldly Improve Learning Conditions: Mental Health and Wellbeing
This webpage provides an overview of the U.S. Department of Education’s second goal within the Raise the Bar initiative’s focus on boldly improving learning conditions: to invest in every student's mental health and well-being by increasing school-based health services for students and building schools that support students' overall well-being.
Tags:
Safe and Healthy Environments; Providing Supports to Students, Young Children, and Families
; PreK-12 Schools
Language: English
Resource Type: Federal Resources
Organization: U.S. Department of Education
Estimated Engagement Time: 7 minutes
Recess Lab: Transform Your Recess
This webpage shares best practices for schools to improve the quality of recess for students, including resources on positive climates, conflict resolution, ideas for games, and sample recess guidelines.
Tags:
Safe and Healthy Environments; Providing Supports to Students, Young Children, and Families
; PreK-12 Schools
Language: English
Resource Type: Best Practices
Organization: Playworks
Estimated Engagement Time: Dependent on user
Promoting Safe and Inclusive Environments for Students of All Religious, Secular, and Spiritual Identities: K-12
This webpage offers resources for K-12 schools and school districts on promoting religious inclusion in schools.
Tags:
Safe and Healthy Environments; Providing Supports to Students, Young Children, and Families
; Free to Learn
; PreK-12 Schools
Language: English
Resource Type: Best Practices; Technical Assistance Center Resources
Organization: National Center on Safe Supportive Learning Environments
Estimated Engagement Time: Dependent on user
2023 SchoolSafety.gov Resource Package
This series of fact sheets for schools and school districts provides information, recommendations, and resources on a range of topics related to school safety, including bullying, cybersecurity, child exploitation, mental health, targeted violence and threat assessment, and emergency planning.
Tags:
Safe and Healthy Environments; Providing Supports to Students, Young Children, and Families
; PreK-12 Schools
Language: English
Resource Type: Best Practices; Federal Resources
Organization: Schoolsafety.gov
Estimated Engagement Time: 36 minutes
Mensajes: vacunación de otoño e invierno de 2023
This Spanish-language website offers information and resources for raising awareness about respiratory illnesses and vaccines, including tips on communicating about respiratory viruses.
Tags:
Safe and Healthy Environments
; PreK-12 Schools; Early Childhood Programs; Colleges and Universities
Language: Español
Resource Type: Best Practices
Organization: Public Health Communications Collaborative
Estimated Engagement Time: Dependent on user
Respiratory Virus Prevention Communications Toolkit
This website outlines strategies for preventing and protecting against respiratory viruses. It also provides links to communications resources to raise awareness about respiratory virus precautions, including videos, fact sheets, and social media resources in English and Spanish languages.
Tags:
Safe and Healthy Environments
; PreK-12 Schools; Early Childhood Programs; Colleges and Universities
Language: English; Español
Resource Type: State or Local Resources
Organization: California Department of Public Health
Estimated Engagement Time: Dependent on user
COVID-19
This website provides comprehensive, up-to-date information on COVID-19 and COVID-19-related topics. It includes current data, risk factors, prevention and protection strategies, treatment, vaccines, and information on Long COVID.
Tags:
Safe and Healthy Environments
; PreK-12 Schools; Early Childhood Programs; Colleges and Universities
Language: English; Español
Resource Type: Federal Resources
Organization: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
Estimated Engagement Time: Dependent on user
Respiratory Syncytial Virus Infection (RSV)
This website provides comprehensive information on RSV transmission, prevention, symptoms, and care. It includes links to fact sheets, healthcare resources, and information for at-risk groups.
Tags:
Safe and Healthy Environments
; PreK-12 Schools; Early Childhood Programs; Colleges and Universities
Language: English; Español
Resource Type: Federal Resources
Organization: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
Estimated Engagement Time: Dependent on user
Influenza (Flu)
This website shares comprehensive, up-to-date information on influenza (flu). It provides current and past flu season statistics, reports on flu vaccination coverage, information on groups who are at higher risk of flu, and links to additional health resources.
Tags:
Safe and Healthy Environments
; PreK-12 Schools; Early Childhood Programs; Colleges and Universities
Language: English; Español
Resource Type: Federal Resources
Organization: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
Estimated Engagement Time: Dependent on user
Protect Yourself From COVID-19, Flu, and RSV
This website provides weekly updates, statistics, resources, and tips for preventing and protecting against COVID-19, influenza, and respiratory syncytial virus (RSV).
Tags:
Safe and Healthy Environments
; PreK-12 Schools; Early Childhood Programs; Colleges and Universities
Language: English; Español
Resource Type: Best Practices; Federal Resources
Organization: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
Estimated Engagement Time: Dependent on user
Race and School Programming
This Dear Colleague Letter clarifies guidance and offers examples to support schools and school districts in understanding and complying with legal obligations of Title VI of the Civil Rights Act of 1964.
Tags:
Safe and Healthy Environments; Providing Supports to Students, Young Children, and Families
; Racial/ethnic subgroups; Free to Learn
; PreK-12 Schools
Language: English
Resource Type: Best Practices; Federal Resources
Organization: U.S. Department of Education, Office for Civil Rights
Estimated Engagement Time: 37 minutes
Stay Up to Date With COVID-19 Vaccines
This webpage provides guidance on staying up to date with COVID-19 vaccines for children, teens, and adults.
Tags:
Safe and Healthy Environments
; PreK-12 Schools; Early Childhood Programs; Colleges and Universities
Language: English
Resource Type: Best Practices; Federal Resources
Organization: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
Estimated Engagement Time: Dependent on user
Education Progress and Investment Charts
This Web page from the Louisiana Department of Education (LDOE) features two dashboards that visualize LDOE’s goals, objectives, and key success indicators, as well as a dashboard that shares an in-depth view of Louisiana’s Elementary and Secondary School Emergency Relief funding allocations, investments, and related student outcomes.
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
Language: English
Resource Type: Best Practices; State or Local Resources
Organization: Louisiana Department of Education
Estimated Engagement Time: Dependent on user
FACT SHEET: Biden-Harris Administration Announces New Actions to Protect LGBTQI+ Communities
This fact sheet shares recent Federal agency actions that support and protect LGBTQIA+ communities, including LGBTQIA+ students and youth.
Tags:
Safe and Healthy Environments; Providing Supports to Students, Young Children, and Families
; LGBTQIA students; Free to Learn
; PreK-12 Schools; Colleges and Universities
Language: English
Resource Type: Federal Resources
Organization: The White House
Estimated Engagement Time: 8 minutes
Fact Sheet: Biden-Harris Administration Announces Actions to Protect Youth Mental Health, Safety & Privacy Online
This fact sheet shares information on trends in youth mental health in the United States and describes the recent actions taken by the Biden-Harris Administration to support youth mental health. These actions include large-scale efforts undertaken by the U.S. Departments of Education, Commerce, Homeland Security, and Health and Human Services.
Tags:
Safe and Healthy Environments; Providing Supports to Students, Young Children, and Families
; PreK-12 Schools
Language: English
Resource Type: Federal Resources
Organization: The White House
Estimated Engagement Time: 7 minutes
Dear Colleague Letter: Antisemitism
This Dear Colleague letter shares information on Title VI of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 (Title VI) and describes its mandate to provide all students, including Jewish students, a learning environment free from discrimination. The letter provides guidance for schools on responding to harassment and a hostile environment, offers relevant resources, and shares actions that the U.S. Department of Education’s Office for Civil Rights may pursue when evaluating if a school has met its obligations under Title VI.
Tags:
Safe and Healthy Environments; Providing Supports to Students, Young Children, and Families
; Racial/ethnic subgroup; Free to Learn
; Early Childhood Programs; PreK-12 Schools; Colleges and Universities
Language: English
Resource Type: Best Practices; Federal Resources
Organization: U.S. Department of Education, Office for Civil Rights
Estimated Engagement Time: 6 minutes
The U.S. National Strategy to Counter Antisemitism
This report details the Federal government’s comprehensive national strategy to counter antisemitism in the United States. The report describes the current landscape and recent rise of antisemitism and shares the Federal government’s four pillar approach to countering antisemitism and keeping Jewish communities safe.
Tags:
Safe and Healthy Environments; Providing Supports to Students, Young Children, and Families
; Racial/ethnic subgroups; Free to Learn
; Early Childhood Programs; PreK-12 Schools; Colleges and Universities
Language: English
Resource Type: Federal Resources
Organization: The White House
Estimated Engagement Time: 1 hour and 34 minutes
U.S. Department of Education Toolkit: Creating Inclusive and Nondiscriminatory School Environments for LGBTQI+ Students
This toolkit offers policies and strategies that schools and school districts can implement to create supportive, nondiscriminatory environments for LGBTQI+ students and families; examples of Federal resources that can be leveraged to implement the strategies listed; and supplemental resources to help readers access additional research and best practices.
Tags:
Safe and Healthy Environments; Providing Supports to Students, Young Children, and Families
; Free to Learn; LGBTQIA students
; PreK-12 Schools
Language: English
Resource Type: Best Practices; Federal Resources
Organization: U.S. Department of Education
Estimated Engagement Time: 22 minutes
Youth Risk Behavior Surveillance System
This Web page shares information about the Youth Risk Behavior Surveillance System (YRBSS) — a set of annual surveys administered by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention on high school students’ health-related behaviors. Visitors can access YRBSS reports and explore YRBSS data at national, state, and local levels.
Tags:
Safe and Healthy Environments
; PreK-12 Schools
Language: English; Español
Resource Type: Best Practices; Federal Resources
Organization: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
Estimated Engagement Time: Dependent on user
At-Home Over-the-Counter COVID-19 Diagnostic Tests
This webpage offers information about at-home, over-the-counter COVID-19 diagnostic tests and provides a comprehensive list of tests that have been authorized by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration, with details about each type of test to help individuals decide which one to use when needed.
Tags:
Safe and Healthy Environments
; Early Childhood Programs; PreK-12 Schools; Colleges and Universities
Language: English; Español
Resource Type: Federal Resources
Organization: U.S. Food and Drug Administration
Estimated Engagement Time: 17 minutes
COVID-19: Testing for COVID-19
This website provides a comprehensive overview of COVID-19 testing, including information about the different types of tests, how to know which test to use, how to get a test, and how to interpret test results.
Tags:
Safe and Healthy Environments
; Early Childhood Programs; PreK-12 Schools; Colleges and Universities
Language: English; Español
Resource Type: Best Practices, Federal Resources
Organization: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
Estimated Engagement Time: 8 minutes
COVID-19: How to Protect Yourself and Others
This webpage offers a wealth of information to help individuals protect themselves, their families, and their communities against COVID-19. The page provides strategies for preventing COVID-19 and outlines situations in which these strategies may be especially helpful.
Tags:
Safe and Healthy Environments
; Early Childhood Programs; PreK-12 Schools; Colleges and Universities
Language: English; Español
Resource Type: Best Practices, Federal Resources
Organization: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
Estimated Engagement Time: 8 minutes
CDC Healthy Schools
This webpage shares facts about school-aged children’s health and outlines the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s approach to partnering with schools to promote students’ physical and mental health and well-being.
Tags:
Safe and Healthy Environments; Providing Supports to Students, Young Children, and Families
; Early Childhood Programs; PreK-12 Schools
Language: English; Español
Resource Type: Best Practices, Federal Resources
Organization: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
Estimated Engagement Time: 5 minutes
Whole School, Whole Community, Whole Child
This website describes the purpose and components of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s Whole School, Whole Community, Whole Child (WSCC) model, and shares information on how schools and families can use the WSCC model to support and improve short- and long-term student health.
Tags:
Safe and Healthy Environments; Providing Supports to Students, Young Children, and Families
; Early Childhood Programs; PreK-12 Schools; Colleges and Universities
Language: English; Español
Resource Type: Best Practices, Federal Resources
Organization: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
Estimated Engagement Time: 4 minutes
Green Strides School Sustainability Resource Hub
This website features free tools, trainings, and guidance for making schools and school districts healthy, safe, and environmentally sustainable. All resources are aligned with the pillars of the U.S. Department of Education’s Green Ribbon Schools recognition award.
Tags:
Safe and Healthy Environments; Providing Supports to Students, Young Children, and Families
; PreK-12 Schools
Language: English
Resource Type: Best Practices, Federal Resources
Organization: U.S. Department of Education
Estimated Engagement Time: Dependent on user
What is the Best Practices Clearinghouse?
Watch this video to learn about the U.S. Department of Education's Best Practices Clearinghouse, where education stakeholders can access a wealth of resources and training opportunities to navigate a successful recovery from the COVID-19 pandemic.
Tags:
Safe and Healthy Environments; Providing Supports to Students, Young Children, and Families; Teacher, Early Childhood Provider, Faculty, and Staff Well-being, Professional Development, and Supports
; Early Childhood Programs; PreK-12 Schools; Colleges and Universities
Language: English
Resource Type: Federal Resources
Organization: U.S. Department of Education, Best Practices Clearinghouse
Estimated Engagement Time: 4 minutes
Sexual Violence on Campus: Strategies for Prevention
This resource outlines the five components of the CDC’s framework for campus sexual violence prevention — comprehensive prevention, infrastructure, audience, partnerships and sustainability, and evaluation. The integration of all five components offers an opportunity to implement prevention efforts that have a greater impact on the prevention and reduction of sexual violence on college and university campuses.
Tags:
Safe and Healthy Environments; Providing Supports to Students, Young Children, and Families
; Free to Learn
; Colleges and Universities
Language: English
Resource Type: Best Practices; Federal Resources
Organization: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
Estimated Engagement Time: 31 minutes
CDC’s Connecting the Dots: Understanding the Overlap Between Multiple Forms of Violence
This website provides information and tools for exploring the overlaps between multiple forms of violence and outlines efforts for collaborative prevention. The website includes an introduction to the links between multiple forms of violence, as well as opportunities for identifying shared risk and protective factors across multiple forms of violence and learning how others are using a shared risk and protective factor approach to prevent violence.
Tags:
Safe and Healthy Environments; Providing Supports to Students, Young Children, and Families
; Free to Learn
; PreK-12 Schools
Language: English
Resource Type: Federal Resources
Organization: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
Estimated Engagement Time: Dependent on user
CDC’s Select, Adapt, Evaluate: How to Use Essential Elements to Inform Violence Prevention Approaches
This website shares evidence-based approaches to violence prevention and describes how to effectively select, deliver, adapt, and evaluate violence prevention approaches to meet the unique needs of different communities.
Tags:
Safe and Healthy Environments; Providing Supports to Students, Young Children, and Families
; Free to Learn
; PreK-12 Schools
Language: English
Resource Type: Best Practices; Federal Resources
Organization: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
Estimated Engagement Time: Dependent on user
CDC’s Dating Matters Comprehensive Teen Dating Violence Prevention Model Implementation Toolkit
Dating Matters® is a CDC-developed teen dating violence prevention model that uses evidence-based approaches to teach 11- to 14-year-olds healthy relationship skills before they start dating. This website includes everything needed to implement the model, including trainings, guidance, program materials, and other resources.
Tags:
Safe and Healthy Environments; Providing Supports to Students, Young Children, and Families
; Free to Learn
; PreK-12 Schools
Language: English
Resource Type: Best Practices; Federal Resources
Organization: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
Estimated Engagement Time: Dependent on user
Violence Prevention Capacity Assessment Tool
This online tool is designed to assess an organization’s capacity to implement violence prevention programs, including those aimed at preventing sexual violence, intimate partner violence, youth violence, teen dating violence, or child abuse and neglect.
Tags:
Safe and Healthy Environments; Providing Supports to Students, Young Children, and Families
; Free to Learn
; PreK-12 Schools
Language: English
Resource Type: Federal Resources
Organization: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
Estimated Engagement Time: 20 minutes
VetoViolence Resources for Violence Prevention: Social Norms
This webpage defines social norms, describes the social norms approach to public health and violence prevention, and shares steps for creating and implementing a social norms campaign to prevent violence.
Tags:
Safe and Healthy Environments; Providing Supports to Students, Young Children, and Families
; Free to Learn
; PreK-12 Schools
Language: English
Resource Type: Best Practices; Federal Resources
Organization: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
Estimated Engagement Time: 6 minutes
CDC Violence Indicators Guide and Database: Measuring Your Work to Help Prevent Violence
This Web page provides an interactive guide and database, allowing violence-prevention stakeholders to explore indicators to assist with evaluation and progress monitoring of violence-prevention efforts. The website shares information on what indicators are, why they’re important, and how to select specific indicators, as well as shares a database of indicators for users to explore and identify those that best fit their program’s needs and goals.
Tags:
Safe and Healthy Environments; Providing Supports to Students, Young Children, and Families
; Free to Learn
; PreK-12 Schools
Language: English
Resource Type: Best Practices; Federal Resources
Organization: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
Estimated Engagement Time: Dependent on user
Violence Prevention in Practice: Implementation Guidance for CDC's Technical Packages
This website is designed to help stakeholders who have a role in planning, implementing, and evaluating violence prevention efforts with selecting and implementing the strategies presented in the CDC’s technical packages to prevent or reduce violence.
Tags:
Safe and Healthy Environments; Providing Supports to Students, Young Children, and Families
; Free to Learn
; PreK-12 Schools
Language: English
Resource Type: Best Practices; Federal Resources
Organization: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
Estimated Engagement Time: Dependent on user
LGBTQ+ Black Youth in Schools and Communities
This webinar features a discussion on problems that Black LGBTQ students experience being marked as Black in a white supremacist society and being marked as queer in a hetero-cisnormative society. Presenters reflect upon the impacts of societal oppression on Black LGBTQ youth and offer recommendations for disrupting homophobia and transphobia in school communities.
Tags:
Safe and Healthy Environments; Providing Supports to Students, Young Children, and Families
; Free to Learn; Racial/ethnic subgroups; LGBTQIA students
; PreK-12 Schools
Language: English
Resource Type: Best Practices; Technical Assistance Resources
Organization: Midwest and Plains Equity Assistance Center
Estimated Engagement Time: 1 hour and 1 minute
Moving Beyond Change Efforts: Evidence and Action to Support and Affirm LGBTQI+ Youth
This report shares a comprehensive overview of current knowledge on the health, well-being, and needs of LGBTQI+ youth. Section two of this resource describes the influences of school experiences and environments on the health and well-being of LGBTQI+ youth and shares school-based practices and programs that create safe and supportive environments.
Tags:
Safe and Healthy Environments; Providing Supports to Students, Young Children, and Families
; Free to Learn; LGBTQIA students
; PreK-12 Schools
Language: English
Resource Type: Best Practices; Technical Assistance Resources
Organization: U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration
Estimated Engagement Time: 2 hours and 41 minutes
Interrupting Microaggressions: A Professional Learning Study Lab
This guide contains tools, videos, readings, and action plans designed to support individuals in leading professional learning sessions centered on defining, identifying, and interrupting microaggressions.
Tags:
Safe and Healthy Environments; Providing Supports to Students, Young Children, and Families
; Free to Learn
; PreK-12 Schools
Language: English
Resource Type: Best Practices; Technical Assistance Resources
Organization: Midwest and Plains Equity Assistance Center
Estimated Engagement Time: 1 minute
"Don’t Say Gay" Policies in Schools: A Choose Your Own Equitable Adventure
This resource explores the different ways that educators can navigate teaching in States where policies restrict discussion of non-heteronormative family structures. The resource presents a scenario; shares potential responses; and provides insight on how each response may impact students, curriculum, and overall classroom inclusivity.
Tags:
Safe and Healthy Environments; Providing Supports to Students, Young Children, and Families
; Free to Learn; LGBTQIA students
; PreK-12 Schools
Language: English
Resource Type: Best Practices; Technical Assistance Resources
Organization: Midwest and Plains Equity Assistance Center
Estimated Engagement Time: 5 minutes
Cyberbullying in Schools: An Educator’s Equitable Choice
This resource details a cyberbullying scenario at the intersection of religion and offers educators three potential responses to the incident. The resource outlines the intents and impacts of each potential response and provides supplemental resources on equitable approaches to cyberbullying prevention and intervention.
Tags:
Safe and Healthy Environments; Providing Supports to Students, Young Children, and Families
; Free to Learn
; PreK-12 Schools
Language: English
Resource Type: Best Practices; Technical Assistance Resources
Organization: Midwest and Plains Equity Assistance Center
Estimated Engagement Time: 5 minutes
Cyberbullying in Schools: An Educator’s Equitable Choice — Terms and Guidance
This resource shares information on cyberbullying in schools, including definitions, laws, and examples of court cases related to cyberbullying. This resource is designed to provide background information to complement the partner resource “Cyberbullying in Schools: An Educator’s Equitable Choice.”
Tags:
Safe and Healthy Environments; Providing Supports to Students, Young Children, and Families
; Free to Learn
; PreK-12 Schools
Language: English
Resource Type: Best Practices; Technical Assistance Resources
Organization: Midwest and Plains Equity Assistance Center
Estimated Engagement Time: 7 minutes
The 20-Minute Talk: Episode 2 — Antiracism in the Age of COVID-19
This podcast episode focuses on the importance of incorporating anti-racist practices in schools. The episode shares how these practices can foster safe and inclusive learning environments for students, particularly those with diverse racial and ethnic backgrounds, including Black/African American and Asian American students.
Tags:
Safe and Healthy Environments; Providing Supports to Students, Young Children, and Families
; Free to Learn; Racial/ethnic subgroups
; PreK-12 Schools
Language: English
Resource Type: Best Practices; Technical Assistance Resources
Organization: Midwest and Plains Equity Assistance Center
Estimated Engagement Time: 20 minutes
Oceti Sakowin Essential Understandings: Lakota Language & Culture in an Elementary Classroom
This webinar outlines the Oceti Sakowin Essential Understandings (OSEU) and explores how educators can integrate the OSEU into classroom learning experiences to honor student voices, experiences, and identities by centering Indigenous culture.
Tags:
Safe and Healthy Environments; Providing Supports to Students, Young Children, and Families
; Free to Learn; Racial/ethnic subgroups
; PreK-12 Schools
Language: English
Resource Type: Best Practices; Technical Assistance Resources
Organization: Midwest and Plains Equity Assistance Center
Estimated Engagement Time: 1 hour and 4 minutes
Equity Connect! Centering Student Voice in Leading for Equity
This webinar, featuring Community Unit School District 308 in Oswego, Illinois, shares how this school district leveraged their partnership with the Midwest and Plains Equity Assistance Center to more authentically center marginalized students' inputs and perspectives. Presenters highlight strategies, tools, and resources that support centering student voice in leading for equity.
Tags:
Safe and Healthy Environments; Providing Supports to Students, Young Children, and Families
; Free to Learn
; PreK-12 Schools
Language: English
Resource Type: Best Practices; Technical Assistance Resources
Organization: Midwest and Plains Equity Assistance Center
Estimated Engagement Time: 1 hour and 6 minutes
How to Respond to Sensitive Issues in the Classroom: A Choose Your Own Equitable Adventure
This resource details a scenario exploring the different ways educators may respond to sensitive conversations in the classroom, and the reactions and impacts different responses may elicit. Multiple resources are embedded to assist in navigating these types of conversations and to assist cultivation of critical consciousness within a caring classroom community.
Tags:
Safe and Healthy Environments; Providing Supports to Students, Young Children, and Families
; Free to Learn; Racial/ethnic subgroups
; PreK-12 Schools
Language: English
Resource Type: Best Practices; Technical Assistance Resources
Organization: Midwest and Plains Equity Assistance Center
Estimated Engagement Time: 4 minutes
Universal Design for Learning, and the Woope Sakowin (Seven Laws): Integrating Lakota Values Into the Classroom
This webinar explores the connections between the Woope Sakowin (Seven Laws) of the Lakota people and Universal Design for Learning (UDL) principles for honoring and engaging students and designing safe, asset-based learning environments. Presenters offer insight into how educators can integrate the Seven Laws and UDL into their teaching practices.
Tags:
Safe and Healthy Environments; Providing Supports to Students, Young Children, and Families
; Free to Learn; Racial/ethnic subgroups
; PreK-12 Schools
Language: English
Resource Type: Best Practices; Technical Assistance Resources
Organization: Midwest and Plains Equity Assistance Center
Estimated Engagement Time: 1 hour and 1 minute
Community Stakeholder Support: Disrupting Anti-Blackness and Homophobia in Schools
This resource presents a call to action for school community stakeholders to collaborate with educators to increase policies and practices that center the lived experiences of students who hold the intersectional identities of being both Black and a member of the LGBTQ community. The resource explains how anti-blackness and homophobia show up in schools and offers steps for creating supportive and affirming environments for students who identify as Black and queer.
Tags:
Safe and Healthy Environments; Providing Supports to Students, Young Children, and Families
; Free to Learn; Racial/ethnic subgroups; LGBTQIA students
; PreK-12 Schools
Language: English
Resource Type: Best Practices; Technical Assistance Resources
Organization: Midwest and Plains Equity Assistance Center
Estimated Engagement Time: 10 minutes
Recognizing Black LGBTQ Students in Schools
This resource describes issues that Black LGBTQ students experience being marked as Black and queer in a white supremacist and hetero-cisnormative society. The resource examines queerness and the effects of societal oppression on these youth and offers recommendations for school staff and stakeholders to disrupt homophobia and transphobia in schools.
Tags:
Safe and Healthy Environments; Providing Supports to Students, Young Children, and Families
; Free to Learn; Racial/ethnic subgroups; LGBTQIA students
; PreK-12 Schools
Language: English
Resource Type: Best Practices; Technical Assistance Resources
Organization: Midwest and Plains Equity Assistance Center
Estimated Engagement Time: 13 minutes
Transgender Awareness in Sports: A Choose Your Own Equitable Adventure
This resource explores the different ways in which athletic coaches may respond to negative pushback about transgender students' participation in school sports, and the intents and impacts different responses may elicit. Multiple resources are embedded to assist in navigating these types of conversations and toward cultivating critical consciousness and inclusivity in school sports.
Tags:
Safe and Healthy Environments; Providing Supports to Students, Young Children, and Families
; Free to Learn; LGBTQIA students
; PreK-12 Schools
Language: English
Resource Type: Best Practices; Technical Assistance Resources
Organization: Midwest and Plains Equity Assistance Center
Estimated Engagement Time: 4 minutes
EquiLearn Virtual Roundtable: Understanding and Resisting Antisemitism in School Board Meetings
This webinar describes the rise in antisemitic incidents at public-school meetings and offers strategies for recognizing antisemitism, connecting these incidents with broader socio-historical contexts, and addressing them when they occur.
Tags:
Safe and Healthy Environments; Providing Supports to Students, Young Children, and Families
; Free to Learn; Racial/ethnic subgroups
; PreK-12 Schools
Language: English
Resource Type: Best Practices; Technical Assistance Resources
Organization: Midwest and Plains Equity Assistance Center
Estimated Engagement Time: 1 hour and 2 minutes
Centering Equity Within the PBIS Framework: Overview and Evidence of Effectiveness
This resource introduces the Center on Positive Behavioral Interventions and Supports' 5-Point Equity Approach and shares positive impacts of applying this approach, including its success in improving equity in school discipline.
Tags:
Safe and Healthy Environments; Providing Supports to Students, Young Children, and Families
; Free to Learn
; PreK-12 Schools
Language: English
Resource Type: Best Practices; Technical Assistance Resources
Organization: National Technical Assistance Center on Positive Behavioral Interventions and Supports
Estimated Engagement Time: 17 minutes
Creating a Classroom Teaching Matrix
This resource explains the impact of creating a positive classroom environment that reflects the values of teachers, students, and families. This guide offers instructions for developing a teaching matrix to teach predictable routines; positive expectations; and critical social, emotional, and behavioral skills.
Tags:
Safe and Healthy Environments; Providing Supports to Students, Young Children, and Families
; Free to Learn
; PreK-12 Schools
Language: English
Resource Type: Best Practices; Technical Assistance Resources
Organization: National Technical Assistance Center on Positive Behavioral Interventions and Supports
Estimated Engagement Time: 10 minutes
Inclusive Education in Private Schools: 5 Keys to Success
This webinar presents five keys to inclusive education that benefit all students. Private school educators share insight and resources that can support educators in promoting student success through friendship, community, and positive school climate.
Tags:
Safe and Healthy Environments; Providing Supports to Students, Young Children, and Families
; Free to Learn; Children and students with disabilities
; PreK-12 Schools
Language: English
Resource Type: Best Practices; Technical Assistance Resources
Organization: PROGRESS Center
Estimated Engagement Time: Dependent on user
Prepping for PROGRESS 2022 Event Archive and Materials
This Web page shares event recordings and supplemental resources from the PROGRESS Center event, "Prepping for PROGRESS! Adding New Tools to Your Backpack (Toolbox) for the Start of School." All materials from this multi-day event focus on sharing information, resources, and lessons learned to support the development and implementation of high-quality educational programming for students with disabilities.
Tags:
Safe and Healthy Environments; Providing Supports to Students, Young Children, and Families
; Free to Learn; Children and students with disabilities
; PreK-12 Schools
Language: English
Resource Type: Best Practices; Technical Assistance Resources
Organization: PROGRESS Center
Estimated Engagement Time: Dependent on user
Stories From the Classroom: Developing an Environment Where All Students Belong
This Web page offers resources that support awareness of the role that school districts play in creating a welcoming environment for all students. The "Stories From the Classroom" video shares an administrator’s perspective and strategies for creating an equitable and inclusive environment for all students; the supplemental quick guide can be used to facilitate discussion in conjunction with the video.
Tags:
Safe and Healthy Environments; Providing Supports to Students, Young Children, and Families
; Free to Learn
; PreK-12 Schools
Language: English
Resource Type: Best Practices; Technical Assistance Resources
Organization: PROGRESS Center
Estimated Engagement Time: Dependent on user
Stories From the Classroom: Viewing Disability Rights as an Equity Issue
This website features several resources that support the understanding of disability rights as an equity issue. The "Stories From the Classroom" video shares an educator’s perspective on the value of being an advocate, innovator, and collaborator on behalf of students with disabilities; the supplemental quick guide can be used to facilitate discussion in conjunction with the video.
Tags:
Safe and Healthy Environments; Providing Supports to Students, Young Children, and Families
; Free to Learn; Children and students with disabilities
; PreK-12 Schools
Language: English
Resource Type: Best Practices; Technical Assistance Resources
Organization: PROGRESS Center
Estimated Engagement Time: Dependent on user
Ten Ways Schools Can Foster Belonging Among Students With and Without Disabilities
This webinar offers a framework for reflecting upon and fostering welcoming environments and a sense of belonging for all students. Webinar presenter Dr. Erik Carter, Cornelius Vanderbilt Professor of Special Education at Vanderbilt University, describes challenges that many educators face when meaningfully including students with disabilities in the school community and shares 10 ways that schools can foster belonging among students with and without disabilities.
Tags:
Safe and Healthy Environments; Providing Supports to Students, Young Children, and Families
; Free to Learn; Children and students with disabilities
; PreK-12 Schools
Language: English
Resource Type: Best Practices; Technical Assistance Resources
Organization: PROGRESS Center
Estimated Engagement Time: Dependent on user
Stories From the Classroom: Finding Belonging
This webpage contains resources that support inclusion and equity for students with disabilities. The "Stories From the Classroom" video shares one student’s lived experience finding belonging in the classroom, and the supplemental discussion guide and quick guide can be used in conjunction with the video to facilitate in-depth discussion.
Tags:
Safe and Healthy Environments; Providing Supports to Students, Young Children, and Families
; Free to Learn; Children and students with disabilities
; PreK-12 Schools
Language: English
Resource Type: Best Practices; Technical Assistance Resources
Organization: PROGRESS Center
Estimated Engagement Time: Dependent on user
PBIS in the News: How to Stop Bullying in Schools
This article describes how schools can prevent bullying, including by helping students develop social and emotional skills, setting clear behavioral expectations, and providing supports to students with behavioral needs.
Tags:
Safe and Healthy Environments; Providing Supports to Students, Young Children, and Families
; Free to Learn
; PreK-12 Schools
Language: English
Resource Type: Best Practices; Technical Assistance Resources
Organization: National Technical Assistance Center on Positive Behavioral Interventions and Supports
Estimated Engagement Time: 4 minutes
Interrupting Bullying & Harassment in Schools
This online toolkit helps educators and school leaders prevent bullying and harassment by creating a positive school climate.
Tags:
Safe and Healthy Environments; Providing Supports to Students, Young Children, and Families
; Free to Learn
; PreK-12 Schools
Language: English; Español
Resource Type: Best Practices; Technical Assistance Resources
Organization: Equity Assistance Center-South
Estimated Engagement Time: Dependent on user
Bullying Prevention
This resource provides educators with tools to teach students to identify and effectively respond to bullying.
Tags:
Safe and Healthy Environments; Providing Supports to Students, Young Children, and Families
; Free to Learn
; PreK-12 Schools
Language: English
Resource Type: Best Practices; Technical Assistance Resources
Organization: National Technical Assistance Center on Positive Behavioral Interventions and Supports
Estimated Engagement Time: 6 minutes
Interrupting Microaggressions
This resource explains microaggressions and their components as well as their impacts on marginalized groups. The resource then offers strategies for disrupting microaggressions and provides supplemental resources.
Tags:
Safe and Healthy Environments; Providing Supports to Students, Young Children, and Families
; Free to Learn
; PreK-12 Schools
Language: English
Resource Type: Best Practices; Technical Assistance Resources
Organization: Midwest and Plains Equity Assistance Center
Estimated Engagement Time: 9 minutes
Addressing Race-Based Hate Speech and Microaggressive Behavior in Schools
This resource defines race-based hate speech and microaggressions, and encourages teachers to foster a safe and supportive learning environment by addressing race-based hate speech, jokes, and subtle prejudice-oriented references intended to insult and harm students.
Tags:
Safe and Healthy Environments; Providing Supports to Students, Young Children, and Families
; Free to Learn
; PreK-12 Schools
Language: English
Resource Type: Best Practices
Organization: American Psychological Association
Estimated Engagement Time: 6 minutes
Cultivating Positive Student-Teacher Relationships
This brief outlines the importance and key elements of positive student-teacher relationships and offers strategies to help educators strengthen their relational skills with students.
Tags:
Safe and Healthy Environments; Providing Supports to Students, Young Children, and Families
; Free to Learn
; PreK-12 Schools
Language: English
Resource Type: Best Practices; Technical Assistance Resources
Organization: National Technical Assistance Center on Positive Behavioral Interventions and Supports
Estimated Engagement Time: 20 minutes
Family Engagement
This online resource toolkit for educators offers best practices for authentically engaging with families and community members.
Tags:
Safe and Healthy Environments; Providing Supports to Students, Young Children, and Families
; Free to Learn
; PreK-12 Schools
Language: English
Resource Type: Best Practices; Technical Assistance Resources
Organization: Equity Assistance Center-South
Estimated Engagement Time: Dependent on user
Building Connections With Students From Diverse Cultural Backgrounds Through Perspective-Taking
This blog post offers five perspective-taking strategies for educators who are working toward improving relationships with students with diverse cultural backgrounds.
Tags:
Safe and Healthy Environments; Providing Supports to Students, Young Children, and Families
; Free to Learn
; PreK-12 Schools
Language: English
Resource Type: Best Practices; Technical Assistance Resources
Organization: Regional Educational Laboratory Northwest
Estimated Engagement Time: 4 minutes
Measuring the Use of Culturally Responsive Practices
This infographic provides examples and benefits of culturally responsive practices and shares strategies for planning for continuous improvement and measuring implementation of culturally responsive practice.
Tags:
Safe and Healthy Environments; Providing Supports to Students, Young Children, and Families
; Free to Learn
; PreK-12 Schools
Language: English
Resource Type: Best Practices; Technical Assistance Resources
Organization: Regional Educational Laboratory Midwest
Estimated Engagement Time: 3 minutes
A Commitment to Racial Equity From the Center on PBIS
This Web page provides strategies and resources on using school behavior support systems as tools for dismantling systemic racism and promoting equity.
Tags:
Safe and Healthy Environments; Providing Supports to Students, Young Children, and Families
; Free to Learn
; PreK-12 Schools
Language: English
Resource Type: Best Practices; Technical Assistance Resources
Organization: National Technical Assistance Center on Positive Behavioral Interventions and Supports
Estimated Engagement Time: Dependent on user
Teaching Kids About Identity and Bias
This Web page offers resources, tools, guidance, and current research on how to teach school-aged children about identity and bias.
Tags:
Safe and Healthy Environments; Providing Supports to Students, Young Children, and Families
; Free to Learn
; PreK-12 Schools
Language: English
Resource Type: Best Practices; Technical Assistance Resources
Organization: Center for Education Equity
Estimated Engagement Time: 7 minutes
Talking With Children About Race Resource List
This Web page for educators and families provides resources for teaching children about race, racism, and social justice. Resources include best practices, Federal guidance, children’s books, and current research.
Tags:
Safe and Healthy Environments; Providing Supports to Students, Young Children, and Families
; Free to Learn
; PreK-12 Schools
Language: English
Resource Type: Best Practices; Technical Assistance Resources
Organization: Center for Education Equity
Estimated Engagement Time: Dependent on user
How Do We Talk to Kids About Race and Racism?
This webinar shares guidance for parents on how to discuss race, racism, and current events involving race with children.
Tags:
Safe and Healthy Environments; Providing Supports to Students, Young Children, and Families
; Free to Learn
; PreK-12 Schools
Language: English
Resource Type: Best Practices; Technical Assistance Resources
Organization: Center for Education Equity
Estimated Engagement Time: 1 hour and 2 minutes
Discussing Race, Racism, and Important Current Events With Students: A Guide With Lesson Plans and Resources
This guide for PreK-12 educators aids facilitation of frequent, high-quality conversations with students about race, racism, and important currents events to support self-reflection and constructive classroom discussions.
Tags:
Safe and Healthy Environments; Providing Supports to Students, Young Children, and Families
; Free to Learn
; PreK-12 Schools
Language: English
Resource Type: Best Practices; Technical Assistance Resources
Organization: National Technical Assistance Center on Positive Behavioral Interventions and Supports
Estimated Engagement Time: 1 hour and 29 minutes
We All Belong — School Resource Hub
This resource hub offers lesson plans, teaching tools, and State-level policy news to support educators, advocates, and school communities in promoting culturally sustaining schools and fighting harmful censorship policies.
Tags:
Safe and Healthy Environments; Providing Supports to Students, Young Children, and Families
; Free to Learn
; PreK-12 Schools
Language: English
Resource Type: Best Practices; Technical Assistance Resources
Organization: Equity Assistance Center-South
Estimated Engagement Time: Dependent on user
PBIS Cultural Responsiveness Field Guide: Resources for Trainers and Coaches
This field guide shares an integrated framework for embedding equity efforts into a schoolwide model of Positive Behavioral Interventions and Supports through alignment with culturally responsive practices.
Tags:
Safe and Healthy Environments; Providing Supports to Students, Young Children, and Families
; Free to Learn
; PreK-12 Schools
Language: English
Resource Type: Best Practices; Technical Assistance Resources
Organization: National Technical Assistance Center on Positive Behavioral Interventions and Supports
Estimated Engagement Time: 1 hour and 11 minutes
Improving Conditions for Learning for Youth Who Are Neglected or Delinquent
This resource describes the importance of four key learning conditions — safety, support, social and emotional learning, and engagement and challenge — for students in public school systems and secure-care educational settings, such as residential treatment schools and juvenile detention and corrections facilities.
Tags:
Safe and Healthy Environments; Providing Supports to Students, Young Children, and Families
; Free to Learn
; PreK-12 Schools
Language: English
Resource Type: Best Practices; Technical Assistance Resources
Organization: National Technical Assistance Center for the Education of Neglected or Delinquent Children and Youth
Estimated Engagement Time: 59 minutes
Positive Learning Environment Implementation Checklist
This checklist outlines the process for systematically tracking the implementation of key strategies for creating positive learning environments.
Tags:
Safe and Healthy Environments; Providing Supports to Students, Young Children, and Families
; Free to Learn
; PreK-12 Schools
Language: English
Resource Type: Best Practices; Technical Assistance Resources
Organization: You for Youth
Estimated Engagement Time: 7 minutes
Strategies for Creating a Positive Learning Environment
This resource for educators and school staff shares seven strategies, each accompanied by detailed actionable steps, for creating positive learning environments.
Tags:
Safe and Healthy Environments; Providing Supports to Students, Young Children, and Families
; Free to Learn
; PreK-12 Schools
Language: English
Resource Type: Best Practices; Technical Assistance Resources
Organization: You for Youth
Estimated Engagement Time: 3 minutes
Equitable Classroom Practices
This webinar for educators and school staff details best practices for creating equitable classroom environments.
Tags:
Safe and Healthy Environments; Providing Supports to Students, Young Children, and Families
; Free to Learn
; PreK-12 Schools
Language: English
Resource Type: Best Practices; Technical Assistance Resources
Organization: Western Educational Equity Assistance Center
Estimated Engagement Time: 44 minutes
Exploring Equity Issues: Facilitating Race Talk in the Classroom: Lessons From Student Experiences
This brief describes the benefits of classroom discussions on race (race talk), shares students’ experiences of these discussions, and provides educators with strategies for facilitating effective race talk that results in meaningful learning opportunities.
Tags:
Safe and Healthy Environments; Providing Supports to Students, Young Children, and Families
; Free to Learn
; PreK-12 Schools
Language: English
Resource Type: Best Practices; Technical Assistance Resources
Organization: Center for Education Equity
Estimated Engagement Time: 8 minutes
Short-Term Impacts of Student Listening Circles on Student Perceptions of School Climate and of Their Own Competencies
This report presents findings from a study on the effects of facilitated student focus groups (student listening circles) on students’ perceptions of school climate as well as their perceptions of their own ability to succeed academically and influence changes at their school.
Tags:
Safe and Healthy Environments; Providing Supports to Students, Young Children, and Families
; Free to Learn
; PreK-12 Schools
Language: English
Resource Type: Best Practices; Technical Assistance Resources
Organization: Regional Educational Laboratory West
Estimated Engagement Time: 1 hour and 20 minutes
Speak Out, Listen Up! Tools for Using Student Perspectives and Local Data for School Improvement
This online toolkit contains three tools to help administrators and educators listen to and learn from students about their school experiences and utilize students’ perspectives to inform school improvement efforts.
Tags:
Safe and Healthy Environments; Providing Supports to Students, Young Children, and Families
; Free to Learn
; PreK-12 Schools
Language: English
Resource Type: Best Practices; Technical Assistance Resources
Organization: Regional Educational Laboratory West
Estimated Engagement Time: 1 hour and 5 minutes
Braiding and Blending Federal Funds: A Step-by-Step Guide for Illinois Schools
This guide provides a background, overview, and comprehensive step-by-step guidance on braiding and blending Federal education funding. The information and guidance presented can support education administrators in states and territories across the country.
Tags:
Safe and Healthy Environments; Providing Supports to Students, Young Children, and Families; Teacher, Early Childhood Provider, Faculty, and Staff Well-being, Professional Development, and Supports
; PreK-12 Schools
Language: English
Resource Type: Best Practices; Technical Assistance Center Resources
Organization: National Comprehensive Center
Estimated Engagement Time: 41 minutes
Ventilation Improvements Among K-12 Public School Districts
This research report highlights how public school districts have improved building ventilation to prevent the spread of respiratory infections and keep schools safely open for in-person learning.
Tags:
Safe and Healthy Environments
; PreK-12 Schools
Language: English
Resource Type: Best Practices; Federal Resources
Organization: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
Estimated Engagement Time: 19 minutes
USDA Rural Development Institutions of Higher Education Funding and Resource Guide
This funding and resource guide is designed to help colleges and universities in rural areas find federally funded low-interest loans and grants to build or improve their facilities, infrastructure, equipment, and educational programs. The guide shares a brief overview of applicable community programs, as well as relevant application details and requirements.
Tags:
Safe and Healthy Environments; Providing Supports to Students, Young Children, and Families
; Colleges and Universities
Language: English
Resource Type: Federal Resources
Organization: U.S. Department of Agriculture
Estimated Engagement Time: 14 minutes
Dear Colleague Letter Calling for End to Corporal Punishment in Schools and Guiding Principles on School Discipline
This Dear Colleague Letter outlines the U.S. Department of Education’s position on corporal punishment in schools and urges state and local education leaders to replace corporal punishment with evidence-based practices that create safe and healthy learning environments.
Tags:
Safe and Healthy Environments
; PreK-12 Schools
Language: English
Resource Type: Best Practices; Federal Resources
Organization: U.S. Department of Education
Estimated Engagement Time: 4 minutes
Routine Immunizations on Schedule for Everyone (RISE)
This Web page outlines the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's Let’s RISE initiative, which offers strategies and resources for community leaders and health care professionals to support routine immunizations among children, teens, and adults.
Tags:
Safe and Healthy Environments
; Early Childhood Programs; PreK-12 Schools; Colleges and Universities
Language: English; Español
Resource Type: Best Practices; Federal Resources
Organization: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
Estimated Engagement Time: 5 minutes
COVID-19 Recovery and the Strategic Use of Funds from the American Rescue Plan Act of 2021
This online resource shares videos from a virtual workshop on the impacts of the 2021 American Rescue Plan (ARP) Act. The workshop shares considerations related to the ARP Act, aspects of State Education Agencies’ (SEAs') strategic planning efforts, examples of different SEA approaches, and supplemental resources to help SEAs make the most of their ARP funds.
Tags:
Safe and Healthy Environments ; Teacher, Early Childhood Provider, Faculty, and Staff Well-being, Professional Development, and Supports ; Providing Supports to Students, Young Children, and Families
; PreK-12 Schools
Language: English
Resource Type: Best Practices ; Technical Assistance Resources
Organization: Region 2 Comprehensive Center; Region 13 Comprehensive Center; Region 15 Comprehensive Center; National Comprehensive Center
Estimated Engagement Time: Dependent on user
Child Exploitation Resources for the K–12 Community
This infographic outlines the issue of child exploitation, describes basic steps that schools can take to identify and support students facing exploitation, and offers supplemental programs and resources.
Tags:
Safe and Healthy Environments; Providing Supports to Students, Young Children, and Families
; PreK-12 Schools
Language: English
Resource Type: Best Practices ; Federal Resources
Organization: Federal School Safety Clearinghouse
Estimated Engagement Time: 4 minutes
Fact Sheet: Biden Administration Announces COVID-19 Winter Preparedness Plan
This fact sheet shares the Biden administration's progress on making COVID-19 vaccinations, testing, and treatments widely available and accessible.
Tags:
Safe and Healthy Environments
; Early Childhood Programs; PreK-12 Schools; Colleges and Universities
Language: English
Resource Type: Federal Resources
Organization: The White House
Estimated Engagement Time: 11 minutes
Frequently Asked Questions: Elementary and Secondary School Emergency Relief Programs and Governor’s Emergency Education Relief Programs
This FAQ sheet shares guidance on how the Elementary and Secondary School Emergency Relief (ESSER) Fund, including the American Rescue Plan ESSER Program and the Governor’s Emergency Education Relief Fund, may be used to support school communities in response to the impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic.
Tags:
Safe and Healthy Environments ; Providing Supports to Students, Young Children, and Families ; Teacher, Early Childhood Provider, Faculty, and Staff Well-being, Professional Development, and Supports
; PreK-12 Schools
Language: English
Resource Type: Federal Resources
Organization: U.S. Department of Education
Estimated Engagement Time: 3 hours and 12 minutes
Managing Immediate, Short-Term, and Long-Term Recovery From an Emergency Incident
This Website contains a repository of resources to support state, regional, and local education agencies with recovery efforts in the aftermath of an emergency.
Tags:
Safe and Healthy Environments ; Providing Supports to Students, Young Children, and Families ; Teacher, Early Childhood Provider, Faculty, and Staff Well-being, Professional Development, and Supports
; PreK-12 Schools
Language: English
Resource Type: Best Practices ; Technical Assistance Center Resources
Organization: Readiness and Emergency Management for Schools Technical Assistance Center
Estimated Engagement Time: Dependent on user
Reimagining School Safety: A Guide for Schools and Communities
This guide is intended to support educators and education leaders in reimagining school safety by reframing the concept, shifting from a view of school safety as the absence of negative elements, to one defined by the existence of positive elements.
Tags:
Safe and Healthy Environments
; PreK-12 Schools
Language: English
Resource Type: Best Practices ; Technical Assistance Center Resources
Organization: Center to Improve Social and Emotional Learning and School Safety at WestEd
Estimated Engagement Time: 54 minutes
Reviews of Individual Studies
This virtual library contains research studies that have been reviewed by the What Works Clearinghouse and categorized into tiered levels of evidence aligned to the Every Student Succeeds Act.
Tags:
Safe and Healthy Environments ; Providing Supports to Students, Young Children, and Families ; Teacher, Early Childhood Provider, Faculty, and Staff Well-being, Professional Development, and Supports
; Early Childhood Programs; PreK-12 Schools; Colleges and Universities
Language: English
Resource Type: Best Practices
Organization: Institute of Education Sciences, What Works Clearinghouse
Estimated Engagement Time: 7 minutes
Report on Indicators of School Crime and Safety: 2023
This annual report shares data and historical trends on crime and safety at PreK-12 schools and postsecondary institutions nationwide.
Tags:
Safe and Healthy Environments
; PreK-12 Schools; Colleges and Universities
Language: English
Resource Type: Federal Resources
Organization: U.S. Department of Education, National Center for Education Statistics; U.S. Department of Justice, Bureau of Justice Statistics
Estimated Engagement Time: 1 hour and 1 minute
Dear Colleague Letter: COVID-19 Vaccine Now Available for Children Six Months to Five Years Old
This letter shares how COVID-19 vaccines for children six months to five years old can contribute to a layered prevention strategy for maintaining safe in-person operation of schools and early childhood programs during the pandemic and includes recommendations for providers to promote vaccination among this age group.
Tags:
Safe and Healthy Environments
; Early Childhood Programs; PreK-12 Schools
Language: English
Resource Type: Best Practices ; Federal Resources
Organization: U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, U.S. Department of Education
Estimated Engagement Time: 5 minutes
Virginia Local Education Agencies' Use of Funds Plans*
This spreadsheet compiles Virginia local education agencies' Safe Return to In-Person Instruction and Continuity of Services plans as well as their American Rescue Plan Elementary and Secondary School Emergency Relief use of funds plans.
*The following document was generated by a third party outside of the Department of Education. As such, the Department is not responsible for its content, nor can it guarantee it is accessible in accordance with Section 508 of the Rehabilitation Act of 1973. If you need access to an accessible version, please reach out to the third-party vendor for assistance.
Tags:
Safe and Healthy Environments ; Providing Supports to Students, Young Children, and Families ; Teacher, Early Childhood Provider, Faculty, and Staff Well-being, Professional Development, and Supports
; PreK-12 Schools
Language: English
Resource Type: LEA Use of Funds Plans
Organization: Virginia Department of Education
Estimated Engagement Time: Dependent on user
Texas Local Education Agencies' Use of Funds Plans
This Texas Education Agency Website contains Texas local education agencies' Safe Return to In-Person Instruction and Continuity of Services plans as well as their American Rescue Plan Elementary and Secondary School Emergency Relief use of funds plans.
Tags:
Safe and Healthy Environments ; Providing Supports to Students, Young Children, and Families ; Teacher, Early Childhood Provider, Faculty, and Staff Well-being, Professional Development, and Supports
; PreK-12 Schools
Language: English
Resource Type: LEA Use of Funds Plans
Organization: Texas Education Agency
Estimated Engagement Time: Dependent on user
Oregon Local Education Agencies' Use of Funds Plans
This Oregon Department of Education Website shares Oregon local education agencies' American Rescue Plan Elementary and Secondary School Emergency Relief use of funds plans as well as their Safe Return to In-Person Instruction and Continuity of Services plans.
Tags:
Safe and Healthy Environments ; Providing Supports to Students, Young Children, and Families ; Teacher, Early Childhood Provider, Faculty, and Staff Well-being, Professional Development, and Supports
; PreK-12 Schools
Language: English
Resource Type: LEA Use of Funds Plans
Organization: Oregon Department of Education
Estimated Engagement Time: Dependent on user
North Dakota Local Education Agencies' Use of Funds Plans
This North Dakota Department of Public Instruction Website shares North Dakota local education agencies' American Rescue Plan Elementary and Secondary School Emergency Relief use of funds plans.
Tags:
Safe and Healthy Environments ; Providing Supports to Students, Young Children, and Families ; Teacher, Early Childhood Provider, Faculty, and Staff Well-being, Professional Development, and Supports
; PreK-12 Schools
Language: English
Resource Type: LEA Use of Funds Plans
Organization: North Dakota Department of Public Instruction
Estimated Engagement Time: Dependent on user
New Mexico Local Education Agencies' Use of Funds Plans
This New Mexico Public Education Department Website contains New Mexico local education agencies' American Rescue Plan Elementary and Secondary School Emergency Relief use of funds plans.
Tags:
Safe and Healthy Environments ; Providing Supports to Students, Young Children, and Families ; Teacher, Early Childhood Provider, Faculty, and Staff Well-being, Professional Development, and Supports
; PreK-12 Schools
Language: English
Resource Type: LEA Use of Funds Plans
Organization: New Mexico Public Education Department
Estimated Engagement Time: Dependent on user
New Jersey Local Education Agencies' Use of Funds Plans*
This spreadsheet lists New Jersey local education agencies' American Rescue Plan Elementary and Secondary School Emergency Relief use of funds plans.
*The following document was generated by a third party outside of the Department of Education. As such, the Department is not responsible for its content, nor can it guarantee it is accessible in accordance with Section 508 of the Rehabilitation Act of 1973. If you need access to an accessible version, please reach out to the third-party vendor for assistance.
Tags:
Safe and Healthy Environments ; Providing Supports to Students, Young Children, and Families ; Teacher, Early Childhood Provider, Faculty, and Staff Well-being, Professional Development, and Supports
; PreK-12 Schools
Language: English
Resource Type: LEA Use of Funds Plans
Organization: New Jersey Department of Education
Estimated Engagement Time: Dependent on user
Massachusetts Local Education Agencies' Use of Funds Plans*
This spreadsheet compiles Massachusetts local education agencies' American Rescue Plan Elementary and Secondary School Emergency Relief use of funds plans.
*The following document was generated by a third party outside of the Department of Education. As such, the Department is not responsible for its content, nor can it guarantee it is accessible in accordance with Section 508 of the Rehabilitation Act of 1973. If you need access to an accessible version, please reach out to the third-party vendor for assistance.
Tags:
Safe and Healthy Environments ; Providing Supports to Students, Young Children, and Families ; Teacher, Early Childhood Provider, Faculty, and Staff Well-being, Professional Development, and Supports
; PreK-12 Schools
Language: English
Resource Type: LEA Use of Funds Plans
Organization: Massachusetts Department of Elementary and Secondary Education
Estimated Engagement Time: Dependent on user
Maryland Local Education Agencies' Use of Funds Plans*
This spreadsheet contains Maryland local education agencies' American Rescue Plan Elementary and Secondary School Emergency Relief use of funds plans.
*The following document was generated by a third party outside of the Department of Education. As such, the Department is not responsible for its content, nor can it guarantee it is accessible in accordance with Section 508 of the Rehabilitation Act of 1973. If you need access to an accessible version, please reach out to the third-party vendor for assistance.
Tags:
Safe and Healthy Environments ; Providing Supports to Students, Young Children, and Families ; Teacher, Early Childhood Provider, Faculty, and Staff Well-being, Professional Development, and Supports
; PreK-12 Schools
Language: English
Resource Type: LEA Use of Funds Plans
Organization: Maryland State Department of Education
Estimated Engagement Time: Dependent on user
Maine Local Education Agencies' Use of Funds Plans
This Maine Department of Education Website contains Maine local education agencies' American Rescue Plan Elementary and Secondary School Emergency Relief use of funds plans.
Tags:
Safe and Healthy Environments ; Providing Supports to Students, Young Children, and Families ; Teacher, Early Childhood Provider, Faculty, and Staff Well-being, Professional Development, and Supports
; PreK-12 Schools
Language: English
Resource Type: LEA Use of Funds Plans
Organization: Maine Department of Education
Estimated Engagement Time: Dependent on user
Indiana Local Education Agencies' Use of Funds Plans*
This spreadsheet compiles Indiana local education agencies' Safe Return to In-Person Instruction and Continuity of Services plans as well as their American Rescue Plan Elementary and Secondary School Emergency Relief use of funds plans.
*The following document was generated by a third party outside of the Department of Education. As such, the Department is not responsible for its content, nor can it guarantee it is accessible in accordance with Section 508 of the Rehabilitation Act of 1973. If you need access to an accessible version, please reach out to the third-party vendor for assistance.
Tags:
Safe and Healthy Environments ; Providing Supports to Students, Young Children, and Families ; Teacher, Early Childhood Provider, Faculty, and Staff Well-being, Professional Development, and Supports
; PreK-12 Schools
Language: English
Resource Type: LEA Use of Funds Plans
Organization: Indiana Department of Education
Estimated Engagement Time: Dependent on user
Alabama Local Education Agencies' Use of Funds Plans
This Alabama State Department of Education Website shares Alabama local education agencies' American Rescue Plan Elementary and Secondary School Emergency Relief use of funds plans.
Tags:
Safe and Healthy Environments ; Providing Supports to Students, Young Children, and Families ; Teacher, Early Childhood Provider, Faculty, and Staff Well-being, Professional Development, and Supports
; PreK-12 Schools
Language: English
Resource Type: LEA Use of Funds Plans
Organization: Alabama State Department of Education
Estimated Engagement Time: Dependent on user
COVID-19 Resources
This Wyoming Department of Education Website shares information regarding Wyoming’s awarded American Rescue Plan Elementary and Secondary School Emergency Relief funds, including local education agencies’ allocations.
Tags:
Safe and Healthy Environments ; Providing Supports to Students, Young Children, and Families ; Teacher, Early Childhood Provider, Faculty, and Staff Well-being, Professional Development, and Supports
; PreK-12 Schools
Language: English
Resource Type: LEA Use of Funds Plans
Organization: Wyoming Department of Education
Estimated Engagement Time: 10 minutes
Wyoming State Plan for the American Rescue Plan Elementary and Secondary School Emergency Relief Fund
This Web page hosts Wyoming's approved state plan for the use of their awarded American Rescue Plan Elementary and Secondary School Emergency Relief funds.
Tags:
Safe and Healthy Environments ; Providing Supports to Students, Young Children, and Families ; Teacher, Early Childhood Provider, Faculty, and Staff Well-being, Professional Development, and Supports
; PreK-12 Schools
Language: English
Resource Type: ESSER State Plans
Organization: Wyoming Department of Education
Estimated Engagement Time: 1 hour and 36 minutes
Wisconsin Local Education Agencies' Use of Funds Plans
This Wisconsin Department of Public Instruction Website shares Wisconsin local education agencies' American Rescue Plan Elementary and Secondary School Emergency Relief use of funds plans.
Tags:
Safe and Healthy Environments ; Providing Supports to Students, Young Children, and Families ; Teacher, Early Childhood Provider, Faculty, and Staff Well-being, Professional Development, and Supports
; PreK-12 Schools
Language: English
Resource Type: LEA Use of Funds Plans
Organization: Wisconsin Department of Public Instruction
Estimated Engagement Time: Dependent on user
Wisconsin State Plan for the American Rescue Plan Elementary and Secondary School Emergency Relief Fund
This Web page hosts Wisconsin's approved state plan for the use of their awarded American Rescue Plan Elementary and Secondary School Emergency Relief funds.
Tags:
Safe and Healthy Environments ; Providing Supports to Students, Young Children, and Families ; Teacher, Early Childhood Provider, Faculty, and Staff Well-being, Professional Development, and Supports
; PreK-12 Schools
Language: English
Resource Type: ESSER State Plans
Organization: Wisconsin Department of Public Instruction
Estimated Engagement Time: 2 hours and 4 minutes
West Virginia’s State Plan for the American Rescue Plan Elementary and Secondary School Emergency Relief Fund
This Web page hosts West Virginia's approved state plan for the use of their awarded American Rescue Plan Elementary and Secondary School Emergency Relief funds.
Tags:
Safe and Healthy Environments ; Providing Supports to Students, Young Children, and Families ; Teacher, Early Childhood Provider, Faculty, and Staff Well-being, Professional Development, and Supports
; PreK-12 Schools
Language: English
Resource Type: ESSER State Plans
Organization: West Virginia Department of Education
Estimated Engagement Time: 1 hour and 41 minutes
Washington Local Education Agencies' Use of Funds Plans
This Web page hosts a dashboard, made available by the Washington Office of Superintendent of Public Instruction, displaying Washington local education agencies' American Rescue Plan Elementary and Secondary School Emergency Relief use of funds plans.
Tags:
Safe and Healthy Environments ; Providing Supports to Students, Young Children, and Families ; Teacher, Early Childhood Provider, Faculty, and Staff Well-being, Professional Development, and Supports
; PreK-12 Schools
Language: English
Resource Type: LEA Use of Funds Plans
Organization: Washington Office of Superintendent of Public Instruction
Estimated Engagement Time: Dependent on user
Washington State Plan for the American Rescue Plan Elementary and Secondary School Emergency Relief Fund
This Web page hosts Washington's approved state plan for the use of their awarded American Rescue Plan Elementary and Secondary School Emergency Relief funds.
Tags:
Safe and Healthy Environments ; Providing Supports to Students, Young Children, and Families ; Teacher, Early Childhood Provider, Faculty, and Staff Well-being, Professional Development, and Supports
; PreK-12 Schools
Language: English
Resource Type: ESSER State Plans
Organization: Washington Office of Superintendent of Public Instruction
Estimated Engagement Time: 1 hour and 58 minutes
Virginia State Plan for the American Rescue Plan Elementary and Secondary School Emergency Relief Fund
This Web page hosts Virginia's approved state plan for the use of their awarded American Rescue Plan Elementary and Secondary School Emergency Relief funds.
Tags:
Safe and Healthy Environments ; Providing Supports to Students, Young Children, and Families ; Teacher, Early Childhood Provider, Faculty, and Staff Well-being, Professional Development, and Supports
; PreK-12 Schools
Language: English
Resource Type: ESSER State Plans
Organization: Virginia Department of Education
Estimated Engagement Time: 1 hour and 29 minutes
Vermont Local Education Agencies' Use of Funds Plans
This Vermont Agency of Education Website shares Vermont local education agencies' American Rescue Plan Elementary and Secondary School Emergency Relief use of funds plans.
Tags:
Safe and Healthy Environments ; Providing Supports to Students, Young Children, and Families ; Teacher, Early Childhood Provider, Faculty, and Staff Well-being, Professional Development, and Supports
; PreK-12 Schools
Language: English
Resource Type: LEA Use of Funds Plans
Organization: Vermont Agency of Education
Estimated Engagement Time: Dependent on user
Building for the Future: Vermont's Plan for Education Recovery and Beyond
This Web page hosts Vermont's approved state plan for the use of their awarded American Rescue Plan Elementary and Secondary School Emergency Relief funds.
Tags:
Safe and Healthy Environments ; Providing Supports to Students, Young Children, and Families ; Teacher, Early Childhood Provider, Faculty, and Staff Well-being, Professional Development, and Supports
; PreK-12 Schools
Language: English
Resource Type: ESSER State Plans
Organization: Vermont Agency of Education
Estimated Engagement Time: 1 hour and 27 minutes
Utah Local Education Agencies' Use of Funds Plans
This Utah State Board of Education Website contains Utah local education agencies' American Rescue Plan Elementary and Secondary School Emergency Relief use of funds plans.
Tags:
Safe and Healthy Environments ; Providing Supports to Students, Young Children, and Families ; Teacher, Early Childhood Provider, Faculty, and Staff Well-being, Professional Development, and Supports
; PreK-12 Schools
Language: English
Resource Type: LEA Use of Funds Plans
Organization: Utah State Board of Education
Estimated Engagement Time: Dependent on user
Utah State Plan for the American Rescue Plan Elementary and Secondary School Emergency Relief Fund
This Web page hosts Utah's approved state plan for the use of their awarded American Rescue Plan Elementary and Secondary School Emergency Relief funds.
Tags:
Safe and Healthy Environments ; Providing Supports to Students, Young Children, and Families ; Teacher, Early Childhood Provider, Faculty, and Staff Well-being, Professional Development, and Supports
; PreK-12 Schools
Language: English
Resource Type: ESSER State Plans
Organization: Utah State Board of Education
Estimated Engagement Time: 2 hours and 5 minutes
Texas State Plan for the American Rescue Plan Elementary and Secondary School Emergency Relief Fund
This Web page hosts Texas' approved state plan for the use of their awarded American Rescue Plan Elementary and Secondary School Emergency Relief funds.
Tags:
Safe and Healthy Environments ; Providing Supports to Students, Young Children, and Families ; Teacher, Early Childhood Provider, Faculty, and Staff Well-being, Professional Development, and Supports
; PreK-12 Schools
Language: English
Resource Type: ESSER State Plans
Organization: Texas Education Agency
Estimated Engagement Time: 1 hour and 20 minutes
Tennessee Local Education Agencies' Use of Funds Plans
This Tennessee Department of Education Website contains a dashboard displaying Tennessee local education agencies' American Rescue Plan Elementary and Secondary School Emergency Relief use of funds plans.
Tags:
Safe and Healthy Environments ; Providing Supports to Students, Young Children, and Families ; Teacher, Early Childhood Provider, Faculty, and Staff Well-being, Professional Development, and Supports
; PreK-12 Schools
Language: English
Resource Type: LEA Use of Funds Plans
Organization: Tennessee Department of Education
Estimated Engagement Time: Dependent on user
Tennessee State Plan for the American Rescue Plan Elementary and Secondary School Emergency Relief Fund
This Web page hosts Tennessee's approved state plan for the use of their awarded American Rescue Plan Elementary and Secondary School Emergency Relief funds.
Tags:
Safe and Healthy Environments ; Providing Supports to Students, Young Children, and Families ; Teacher, Early Childhood Provider, Faculty, and Staff Well-being, Professional Development, and Supports
; PreK-12 Schools
Language: English
Resource Type: ESSER State Plans
Organization: Tennessee Department of Education
Estimated Engagement Time: 1 hour and 25 minutes
South Dakota Local Education Agencies' Use of Funds Plans
This South Dakota Department of Education Website shares South Dakota local education agencies' American Rescue Plan Elementary and Secondary School Emergency Relief use of funds plans.
Tags:
Safe and Healthy Environments ; Providing Supports to Students, Young Children, and Families ; Teacher, Early Childhood Provider, Faculty, and Staff Well-being, Professional Development, and Supports
; PreK-12 Schools
Language: English
Resource Type: LEA Use of Funds Plans
Organization: South Dakota Department of Education
Estimated Engagement Time: Dependent on user
South Dakota State Plan for the American Rescue Plan Elementary and Secondary School Emergency Relief Fund
This Web page hosts South Dakota's approved state plan for the use of their awarded American Rescue Plan Elementary and Secondary School Emergency Relief funds.
Tags:
Safe and Healthy Environments ; Providing Supports to Students, Young Children, and Families ; Teacher, Early Childhood Provider, Faculty, and Staff Well-being, Professional Development, and Supports
; PreK-12 Schools
Language: English
Resource Type: ESSER State Plans
Organization: South Dakota Department of Education
Estimated Engagement Time: 1 hour and 23 minutes
South Carolina Local Education Agencies' Use of Funds Plans
This South Carolina Department of Education Website shares South Carolina local education agencies' American Rescue Plan Elementary and Secondary School Emergency Relief use of funds plans.
Tags:
Safe and Healthy Environments ; Providing Supports to Students, Young Children, and Families ; Teacher, Early Childhood Provider, Faculty, and Staff Well-being, Professional Development, and Supports
; PreK-12 Schools
Language: English
Resource Type: LEA Use of Funds Plans
Organization: South Carolina Department of Education
Estimated Engagement Time: Dependent on user
South Carolina State Plan for the American Rescue Plan Elementary and Secondary School Emergency Relief Fund
This Web page hosts South Carolina's approved state plan for the use of their awarded American Rescue Plan Elementary and Secondary School Emergency Relief funds.
Tags:
Safe and Healthy Environments ; Providing Supports to Students, Young Children, and Families ; Teacher, Early Childhood Provider, Faculty, and Staff Well-being, Professional Development, and Supports
; PreK-12 Schools
Language: English
Resource Type: ESSER State Plans
Organization: South Carolina Department of Education
Estimated Engagement Time: 1 hour and 53 minutes
Rhode Island State Plan for the American Rescue Plan Elementary and Secondary School Emergency Relief Fund
This Web page hosts Rhode Island's approved state plan for the use of their awarded American Rescue Plan Elementary and Secondary School Emergency Relief funds.
Tags:
Safe and Healthy Environments ; Providing Supports to Students, Young Children, and Families ; Teacher, Early Childhood Provider, Faculty, and Staff Well-being, Professional Development, and Supports
; PreK-12 Schools
Language: English
Resource Type: ESSER State Plans
Organization: Rhode Island Department of Education
Estimated Engagement Time: 1 hour and 21 minutes
Puerto Rico State Plan for the American Rescue Plan Elementary and Secondary School Emergency Relief Fund
This Web page hosts Puerto Rico's approved state plan for the use of their awarded American Rescue Plan Elementary and Secondary School Emergency Relief funds. The Puerto Rico Department of Education serves as the state and local education agency for the island, making this state use of funds plan applicable to spending at the local level as well.
Tags:
Safe and Healthy Environments ; Providing Supports to Students, Young Children, and Families ; Teacher, Early Childhood Provider, Faculty, and Staff Well-being, Professional Development, and Supports
; PreK-12 Schools
Language: English
Resource Type: ESSER State Plans
Organization: Puerto Rico Department of Education
Estimated Engagement Time: 3 hours and 2 minutes
Pennsylvania Local Education Agencies' Use of Funds Plans
This Pennsylvania Department of Education Website shares Pennsylvania local education agencies' American Rescue Plan Elementary and Secondary School Emergency Relief use of funds plans.
Tags:
Safe and Healthy Environments ; Providing Supports to Students, Young Children, and Families ; Teacher, Early Childhood Provider, Faculty, and Staff Well-being, Professional Development, and Supports
; PreK-12 Schools
Language: English
Resource Type: LEA Use of Funds Plans
Organization: Pennsylvania Department of Education
Estimated Engagement Time: Dependent on user
Pennsylvania American Rescue Plan Elementary and Secondary School Emergency Relief Fund State Plan
This Web page hosts Pennsylvania's approved state plan for the use of their awarded American Rescue Plan Elementary and Secondary School Emergency Relief funds.
Tags:
Safe and Healthy Environments ; Providing Supports to Students, Young Children, and Families ; Teacher, Early Childhood Provider, Faculty, and Staff Well-being, Professional Development, and Supports
; PreK-12 Schools
Language: English
Resource Type: ESSER State Plans
Organization: Pennsylvania Department of Education
Estimated Engagement Time: 2 hours and 3 minutes
Oregon State Plan for the American Rescue Plan Elementary and Secondary School Emergency Relief Fund
This Web page hosts Oregon's approved state plan for the use of their awarded American Rescue Plan Elementary and Secondary School Emergency Relief funds.
Tags:
Safe and Healthy Environments ; Providing Supports to Students, Young Children, and Families ; Teacher, Early Childhood Provider, Faculty, and Staff Well-being, Professional Development, and Supports
; PreK-12 Schools
Language: English
Resource Type: ESSER State Plans
Organization: Oregon Department of Education
Estimated Engagement Time: 3 hours and 10 minutes
Oklahoma Local Education Agencies' Use of Funds Plans
This document, made available by the Oklahoma State Department of Education, contains Oklahoma local education agencies' American Rescue Plan Elementary and Secondary School Emergency Relief use of funds plans.
Tags:
Safe and Healthy Environments ; Providing Supports to Students, Young Children, and Families ; Teacher, Early Childhood Provider, Faculty, and Staff Well-being, Professional Development, and Supports
; PreK-12 Schools
Language: English
Resource Type: LEA Use of Funds Plans
Organization: Oklahoma State Department of Education
Estimated Engagement Time: Dependent on user
Oklahoma State Plan for the American Rescue Plan Elementary and Secondary School Emergency Relief Fund
This Web page hosts Oklahoma's approved state plan for the use of their awarded American Rescue Plan Elementary and Secondary School Emergency Relief funds.
Tags:
Safe and Healthy Environments ; Providing Supports to Students, Young Children, and Families ; Teacher, Early Childhood Provider, Faculty, and Staff Well-being, Professional Development, and Supports
; PreK-12 Schools
Language: English
Resource Type: ESSER State Plans
Organization: Oklahoma State Department of Education
Estimated Engagement Time: 1 hour and 39 minutes
Ohio Local Education Agencies' Use of Funds Plans
This Ohio Department of Education Website shares Ohio local education agencies' American Rescue Plan Elementary and Secondary School Emergency Relief use of funds plans.
Tags:
Safe and Healthy Environments ; Providing Supports to Students, Young Children, and Families ; Teacher, Early Childhood Provider, Faculty, and Staff Well-being, Professional Development, and Supports
; PreK-12 Schools
Language: English
Resource Type: LEA Use of Funds Plans
Organization: Ohio Department of Education
Estimated Engagement Time: Dependent on user
Ohio State Plan for the American Rescue Plan Elementary and Secondary School Emergency Relief Fund
This Web page hosts Ohio's approved state plan for the use of their awarded American Rescue Plan Elementary and Secondary School Emergency Relief funds.
Tags:
Safe and Healthy Environments ; Providing Supports to Students, Young Children, and Families ; Teacher, Early Childhood Provider, Faculty, and Staff Well-being, Professional Development, and Supports
; PreK-12 Schools
Language: English
Resource Type: ESSER State Plans
Organization: Ohio Department of Education
Estimated Engagement Time: 2 hours and 31 minutes
North Dakota State Plan for the American Rescue Plan Elementary and Secondary School Emergency Relief Fund
This Web page hosts North Dakota's approved state plan for the use of their awarded American Rescue Plan Elementary and Secondary School Emergency Relief funds.
Tags:
Safe and Healthy Environments ; Providing Supports to Students, Young Children, and Families ; Teacher, Early Childhood Provider, Faculty, and Staff Well-being, Professional Development, and Supports
; PreK-12 Schools
Language: English
Resource Type: ESSER State Plans
Organization: North Dakota Department of Public Instruction
Estimated Engagement Time: 1 hour and 38 minutes
North Carolina Local Education Agencies' Use of Funds Plans
This North Carolina Department of Public Instruction Website shares North Carolina local education agencies' American Rescue Plan Elementary and Secondary School Emergency Relief use of funds plans.
Tags:
Safe and Healthy Environments ; Providing Supports to Students, Young Children, and Families ; Teacher, Early Childhood Provider, Faculty, and Staff Well-being, Professional Development, and Supports
; PreK-12 Schools
Language: English
Resource Type: LEA Use of Funds Plans
Organization: North Carolina Department of Public Instruction
Estimated Engagement Time: Dependent on user
North Carolina State Plan for the American Rescue Plan Elementary and Secondary School Emergency Relief Fund
This Web page hosts North Carolina's approved state plan for the use of their awarded American Rescue Plan Elementary and Secondary School Emergency Relief funds.
Tags:
Safe and Healthy Environments ; Providing Supports to Students, Young Children, and Families ; Teacher, Early Childhood Provider, Faculty, and Staff Well-being, Professional Development, and Supports
; PreK-12 Schools
Language: English
Resource Type: ESSER State Plans
Organization: North Carolina Department of Public Instruction
Estimated Engagement Time: 1 hour and 6 minutes
New York Local Education Agencies' Use of Funds Plans
This New York State Education Department Website shares New York local education agencies' American Rescue Plan Elementary and Secondary School Emergency Relief use of funds plans.
Tags:
Safe and Healthy Environments ; Providing Supports to Students, Young Children, and Families ; Teacher, Early Childhood Provider, Faculty, and Staff Well-being, Professional Development, and Supports
; PreK-12 Schools
Language: English
Resource Type: LEA Use of Funds Plans
Organization: New York State Education Department
Estimated Engagement Time: Dependent on user
New York State Education Department American Rescue Plan: Elementary and Secondary School Emergency Relief State Plan
This Web page hosts New York's approved state plan for the use of their awarded American Rescue Plan Elementary and Secondary School Emergency Relief funds.
Tags:
Safe and Healthy Environments ; Providing Supports to Students, Young Children, and Families ; Teacher, Early Childhood Provider, Faculty, and Staff Well-being, Professional Development, and Supports
; PreK-12 Schools
Language: English
Resource Type: ESSER State Plans
Organization: New York State Education Department
Estimated Engagement Time: 6 hours and 38 minutes
New Mexico State Plan for the American Rescue Plan Elementary and Secondary School Emergency Relief Fund
This Web page hosts New Mexico's approved state plan for the use of their awarded American Rescue Plan Elementary and Secondary School Emergency Relief funds.
Tags:
Safe and Healthy Environments ; Providing Supports to Students, Young Children, and Families ; Teacher, Early Childhood Provider, Faculty, and Staff Well-being, Professional Development, and Supports
; PreK-12 Schools
Language: English
Resource Type: ESSER State Plans
Organization: New Mexico Public Education Department
Estimated Engagement Time: 1 hour and 19 minutes
New Jersey State Plan for the American Rescue Plan Elementary and Secondary School Emergency Relief Fund
This Web page hosts New Jersey's approved state plan for the use of their awarded American Rescue Plan Elementary and Secondary School Emergency Relief funds.
Tags:
Safe and Healthy Environments ; Providing Supports to Students, Young Children, and Families ; Teacher, Early Childhood Provider, Faculty, and Staff Well-being, Professional Development, and Supports
; PreK-12 Schools
Language: English
Resource Type: ESSER State Plans
Organization: New Jersey Department of Education
Estimated Engagement Time: 1 hour and 34 minutes
New Hampshire Local Education Agencies' Use of Funds Plans
This New Hampshire Department of Education Website shares New Hampshire local education agencies' American Rescue Plan Elementary and Secondary School Emergency Relief use of funds plans.
Tags:
Safe and Healthy Environments ; Providing Supports to Students, Young Children, and Families ; Teacher, Early Childhood Provider, Faculty, and Staff Well-being, Professional Development, and Supports
; PreK-12 Schools
Language: English
Resource Type: LEA Use of Funds Plans
Organization: New Hampshire Department of Education
Estimated Engagement Time: Dependent on user
New Hampshire State Plan: American Rescue Plan Act Elementary and Secondary School Emergency Relief Fund
This Web page hosts New Hampshire's approved state plan for the use of their awarded American Rescue Plan Elementary and Secondary School Emergency Relief funds.
Tags:
Safe and Healthy Environments ; Providing Supports to Students, Young Children, and Families ; Teacher, Early Childhood Provider, Faculty, and Staff Well-being, Professional Development, and Supports
; PreK-12 Schools
Language: English
Resource Type: ESSER State Plans
Organization: New Hampshire Department of Education
Estimated Engagement Time: 1 hour and 33 minutes
Nevada Local Education Agencies' Use of Funds Plans
This Nevada Department of Education Website shares Nevada local education agencies' American Rescue Plan Elementary and Secondary School Emergency Relief use of funds plans.
Tags:
Safe and Healthy Environments ; Providing Supports to Students, Young Children, and Families ; Teacher, Early Childhood Provider, Faculty, and Staff Well-being, Professional Development, and Supports
; PreK-12 Schools
Language: English
Resource Type: LEA Use of Funds Plans
Organization: Nevada Department of Education
Estimated Engagement Time: Dependent on user
Nevada State Plan for the American Rescue Plan Elementary and Secondary School Emergency Relief Fund
This Web page hosts Nevada's approved state plan for the use of their awarded American Rescue Plan Elementary and Secondary School Emergency Relief funds.
Tags:
Safe and Healthy Environments ; Providing Supports to Students, Young Children, and Families ; Teacher, Early Childhood Provider, Faculty, and Staff Well-being, Professional Development, and Supports
; PreK-12 Schools
Language: English
Resource Type: ESSER State Plans
Organization: Nevada Department of Education
Estimated Engagement Time: 2 hours and 3 minutes
Nebraska Local Education Agencies' Use of Funds Plans
This Nebraska Department of Education Website shares Nebraska local education agencies' Safe Return to In-Person Instruction and Continuity of Services plans as well as their American Rescue Plan Elementary and Secondary School Emergency Relief use of funds plans.
Tags:
Safe and Healthy Environments ; Providing Supports to Students, Young Children, and Families ; Teacher, Early Childhood Provider, Faculty, and Staff Well-being, Professional Development, and Supports
; PreK-12 Schools
Language: English
Resource Type: LEA Use of Funds Plans
Organization: Nebraska Department of Education
Estimated Engagement Time: Dependent on user
Montana State Plan for the American Rescue Plan Elementary and Secondary School Emergency Relief Fund
This Web page hosts Montana's approved state plan for the use of their awarded American Rescue Plan Elementary and Secondary School Emergency Relief funds.
Tags:
Safe and Healthy Environments ; Providing Supports to Students, Young Children, and Families ; Teacher, Early Childhood Provider, Faculty, and Staff Well-being, Professional Development, and Supports
; PreK-12 Schools
Language: English
Resource Type: ESSER State Plans
Organization: Montana Office of Public Instruction
Estimated Engagement Time: 1 hour and 41 minutes
Missouri Local Education Agencies' Use of Funds Plans
This Missouri Department of Elementary and Secondary Education Website contains a dashboard displaying Missouri local education agencies' American Rescue Plan Elementary and Secondary School Emergency Relief use of funds plans.
Tags:
Safe and Healthy Environments ; Providing Supports to Students, Young Children, and Families ; Teacher, Early Childhood Provider, Faculty, and Staff Well-being, Professional Development, and Supports
; PreK-12 Schools
Language: English
Resource Type: LEA Use of Funds Plans
Organization: Missouri Department of Elementary and Secondary Education
Estimated Engagement Time: Dependent on user
Missouri State Plan for the American Rescue Plan Elementary and Secondary School Emergency Relief Fund
This Web page hosts Missouri's approved state plan for the use of their awarded American Rescue Plan Elementary and Secondary School Emergency Relief funds.
Tags:
Safe and Healthy Environments ; Providing Supports to Students, Young Children, and Families ; Teacher, Early Childhood Provider, Faculty, and Staff Well-being, Professional Development, and Supports
; PreK-12 Schools
Language: English
Resource Type: ESSER State Plans
Organization: Missouri Department of Elementary and Secondary Education
Estimated Engagement Time: 1 hour and 40 minutes
Mississippi Local Education Agencies' Use of Funds Plans
This Mississippi Department of Education Website contains a dashboard displaying Mississippi local education agencies' American Rescue Plan Elementary and Secondary School Emergency Relief use of funds plans.
Tags:
Safe and Healthy Environments ; Providing Supports to Students, Young Children, and Families ; Teacher, Early Childhood Provider, Faculty, and Staff Well-being, Professional Development, and Supports
; PreK-12 Schools
Language: English
Resource Type: LEA Use of Funds Plans
Organization: Mississippi Department of Education
Estimated Engagement Time: Dependent on user
Mississippi State Plan for the American Rescue Plan Elementary and Secondary School Emergency Relief Fund
This Web page hosts Mississippi's approved state plan for the use of their awarded American Rescue Plan Elementary and Secondary School Emergency Relief funds.
Tags:
Safe and Healthy Environments ; Providing Supports to Students, Young Children, and Families ; Teacher, Early Childhood Provider, Faculty, and Staff Well-being, Professional Development, and Supports
; PreK-12 Schools
Language: English
Resource Type: ESSER State Plans
Organization: Mississippi Department of Education
Estimated Engagement Time: 58 minutes
Minnesota Local Education Agencies' Use of Funds Plans
This Minnesota Department of Education Website shares Minnesota local education agencies' American Rescue Plan Elementary and Secondary School Emergency Relief use of funds plans.
Tags:
Safe and Healthy Environments ; Providing Supports to Students, Young Children, and Families ; Teacher, Early Childhood Provider, Faculty, and Staff Well-being, Professional Development, and Supports
; PreK-12 Schools
Language: English
Resource Type: LEA Use of Funds Plans
Organization: Minnesota Department of Education
Estimated Engagement Time: Dependent on user
Minnesota State Plan for the American Rescue Plan Elementary and Secondary School Emergency Relief Fund
This Web page hosts Minnesota's approved state plan for the use of their awarded American Rescue Plan Elementary and Secondary School Emergency Relief funds.
Tags:
Safe and Healthy Environments ; Providing Supports to Students, Young Children, and Families ; Teacher, Early Childhood Provider, Faculty, and Staff Well-being, Professional Development, and Supports
; PreK-12 Schools
Language: English
Resource Type: ESSER State Plans
Organization: Minnesota Department of Education
Estimated Engagement Time: 1 hour and 47 minutes
Michigan Local Education Agencies' Use of Funds Plans
This document, made available by the Michigan Department of Education, contains Michigan local education agencies' American Rescue Plan Elementary and Secondary School Emergency Relief use of funds plans.
Tags:
Safe and Healthy Environments ; Providing Supports to Students, Young Children, and Families ; Teacher, Early Childhood Provider, Faculty, and Staff Well-being, Professional Development, and Supports
; PreK-12 Schools
Language: English
Resource Type: LEA Use of Funds Plans
Organization: Michigan Department of Education
Estimated Engagement Time: Dependent on user
Michigan State Plan for the American Rescue Plan Elementary and Secondary School Emergency Relief Fund
This Web page hosts Michigan's approved state plan for the use of their awarded American Rescue Plan Elementary and Secondary School Emergency Relief funds.
Tags:
Safe and Healthy Environments ; Providing Supports to Students, Young Children, and Families ; Teacher, Early Childhood Provider, Faculty, and Staff Well-being, Professional Development, and Supports
; PreK-12 Schools
Language: English
Resource Type: ESSER State Plans
Organization: Michigan Department of Education
Estimated Engagement Time: 1 hour and 55 minutes
Massachusetts State Plan for the American Rescue Plan Elementary and Secondary School Emergency Relief Fund
This Web page hosts Massachusetts' approved state plan for the use of their awarded American Rescue Plan Elementary and Secondary School Emergency Relief funds.
Tags:
Safe and Healthy Environments ; Providing Supports to Students, Young Children, and Families ; Teacher, Early Childhood Provider, Faculty, and Staff Well-being, Professional Development, and Supports
; PreK-12 Schools
Language: English
Resource Type: ESSER State Plans
Organization: Massachusetts Department of Elementary and Secondary Education
Estimated Engagement Time: 1 hour and 38 minutes
Maryland State Plan for the American Rescue Plan Elementary and Secondary School Emergency Relief Fund
This Web page hosts Maryland's approved state plan for the use of their awarded American Rescue Plan Elementary and Secondary School Emergency Relief funds.
Tags:
Safe and Healthy Environments ; Providing Supports to Students, Young Children, and Families ; Teacher, Early Childhood Provider, Faculty, and Staff Well-being, Professional Development, and Supports
; PreK-12 Schools
Language: English
Resource Type: ESSER State Plans
Organization: Maryland State Department of Education
Estimated Engagement Time: 2 hours and 16 minutes
Maine State Plan for the American Rescue Plan Elementary and Secondary School Emergency Relief Fund
This Web page hosts Maine's approved state plan for the use of their awarded American Rescue Plan Elementary and Secondary School Emergency Relief funds.
Tags:
Safe and Healthy Environments ; Providing Supports to Students, Young Children, and Families ; Teacher, Early Childhood Provider, Faculty, and Staff Well-being, Professional Development, and Supports
; PreK-12 Schools
Language: English
Resource Type: ESSER State Plans
Organization: Maine Department of Education
Estimated Engagement Time: 1 hour and 39 minutes
Louisiana Local Education Agencies' Use of Funds Plans
This document, made available by the Louisiana Department of Education, contains Louisiana local education agencies' American Rescue Plan Elementary and Secondary School Emergency Relief use of funds plans.
Tags:
Safe and Healthy Environments ; Providing Supports to Students, Young Children, and Families ; Teacher, Early Childhood Provider, Faculty, and Staff Well-being, Professional Development, and Supports
; PreK-12 Schools
Language: English
Resource Type: LEA Use of Funds Plans
Organization: Louisiana Department of Education
Estimated Engagement Time: Dependent on user
Louisiana State Plan for the American Rescue Plan Elementary and Secondary School Emergency Relief Fund
This Web page hosts Louisiana's approved state plan for the use of their awarded American Rescue Plan Elementary and Secondary School Emergency Relief funds.
Tags:
Safe and Healthy Environments ; Providing Supports to Students, Young Children, and Families ; Teacher, Early Childhood Provider, Faculty, and Staff Well-being, Professional Development, and Supports
; PreK-12 Schools
Language: English
Resource Type: ESSER State Plans
Organization: Louisiana Department of Education
Estimated Engagement Time: 1 hour and 51 minutes
Kentucky Local Education Agencies' Use of Funds Plans
This Kentucky Department of Education Website shares Kentucky local education agencies' American Rescue Plan Elementary and Secondary School Emergency Relief use of funds plans.
Tags:
Safe and Healthy Environments; Providing Supports to Students, Young Children, and Families; Teacher, Early Childhood Provider, Faculty, and Staff Well-being, Professional Development, and Supports
; PreK-12 Schools
Language: English
Resource Type: LEA Use of Funds Plans
Organization: Kentucky Department of Education
Estimated Engagement Time: Dependent on user
Kentucky State Plan for the American Rescue Plan Elementary and Secondary School Emergency Relief Fund
This Web page hosts Kentucky's approved state plan for the use of their awarded American Rescue Plan Elementary and Secondary School Emergency Relief funds.
Tags:
Safe and Healthy Environments ; Providing Supports to Students, Young Children, and Families ; Teacher, Early Childhood Provider, Faculty, and Staff Well-being, Professional Development, and Supports
; PreK-12 Schools
Language: English
Resource Type: ESSER State Plans
Organization: Kentucky Department of Education
Estimated Engagement Time: 2 hours and 27 minutes
Kansas Local Education Agencies' Use of Funds Plans
This Kansas State Department of Education Website shares Kansas local education agencies' American Rescue Plan Elementary and Secondary School Emergency Relief use of funds plans.
Tags:
Safe and Healthy Environments ; Providing Supports to Students, Young Children, and Families ; Teacher, Early Childhood Provider, Faculty, and Staff Well-being, Professional Development, and Supports
; PreK-12 Schools
Language: English
Resource Type: LEA Use of Funds Plans
Organization: Kansas State Department of Education
Estimated Engagement Time: Dependent on user
Kansas State Plan for the American Rescue Plan Elementary and Secondary School Emergency Relief Fund
This Web page hosts Kansas' approved state plan for the use of their awarded American Rescue Plan Elementary and Secondary School Emergency Relief funds.
Tags:
Safe and Healthy Environments ; Providing Supports to Students, Young Children, and Families ; Teacher, Early Childhood Provider, Faculty, and Staff Well-being, Professional Development, and Supports
; PreK-12 Schools
Language: English
Resource Type: ESSER State Plans
Organization: Kansas State Department of Education
Estimated Engagement Time: 1 hour and 34 minutes
Iowa Local Education Agencies' Use of Funds Plans
This Iowa Department of Education Website hosts a dashboard displaying Iowa local education agencies' American Rescue Plan Elementary and Secondary School Emergency Relief use of funds plans.
Tags:
Safe and Healthy Environments ; Providing Supports to Students, Young Children, and Families ; Teacher, Early Childhood Provider, Faculty, and Staff Well-being, Professional Development, and Supports
; PreK-12 Schools
Language: English
Resource Type: LEA Use of Funds Plans
Organization: Iowa Department of Education
Estimated Engagement Time: Dependent on user
Iowa State Plan for the American Rescue Plan Elementary and Secondary School Emergency Relief Fund
This Web page hosts Iowa's approved state plan for the use of their awarded American Rescue Plan Elementary and Secondary School Emergency Relief funds.
Tags:
Safe and Healthy Environments ; Providing Supports to Students, Young Children, and Families ; Teacher, Early Childhood Provider, Faculty, and Staff Well-being, Professional Development, and Supports
; PreK-12 Schools
Language: English
Resource Type: ESSER State Plans
Organization: Iowa Department of Education
Estimated Engagement Time: 48 minutes
Indiana State Plan for the American Rescue Plan Elementary and Secondary School Emergency Relief Fund
This Web page hosts Indiana's approved state plan for the use of their awarded American Rescue Plan Elementary and Secondary School Emergency Relief funds.
Tags:
Safe and Healthy Environments ; Providing Supports to Students, Young Children, and Families ; Teacher, Early Childhood Provider, Faculty, and Staff Well-being, Professional Development, and Supports
; PreK-12 Schools
Language: English
Resource Type: ESSER State Plans
Organization: Indiana Department of Education
Estimated Engagement Time: 1 hour and 27 minutes
Illinois Local Education Agencies' Use of Funds Plans
This Illinois State Board of Education Website shares Illinois local education agencies' American Rescue Plan Elementary and Secondary School Emergency Relief use of funds plans.
Tags:
Safe and Healthy Environments ; Providing Supports to Students, Young Children, and Families ; Teacher, Early Childhood Provider, Faculty, and Staff Well-being, Professional Development, and Supports
; PreK-12 Schools
Language: English
Resource Type: LEA Use of Funds Plans
Organization: Illinois State Board of Education
Estimated Engagement Time: Dependent on user
Illinois State Plan for the American Rescue Plan Elementary and Secondary School Emergency Relief Fund
This Web page hosts Illinois' approved state plan for the use of their awarded American Rescue Plan Elementary and Secondary School Emergency Relief funds.
Tags:
Safe and Healthy Environments ; Providing Supports to Students, Young Children, and Families ; Teacher, Early Childhood Provider, Faculty, and Staff Well-being, Professional Development, and Supports
; PreK-12 Schools
Language: English
Resource Type: ESSER State Plans
Organization: Illinois State Board of Education
Estimated Engagement Time: 1 hour and 18 minutes
Idaho Local Education Agencies' Use of Funds Plans
This Idaho State Department of Education Website shares Idaho local education agencies' American Rescue Plan Elementary and Secondary School Emergency Relief use of funds plans.
Tags:
Safe and Healthy Environments ; Providing Supports to Students, Young Children, and Families ; Teacher, Early Childhood Provider, Faculty, and Staff Well-being, Professional Development, and Supports
; PreK-12 Schools
Language: English
Resource Type: LEA Use of Funds Plans
Organization: Idaho State Department of Education
Estimated Engagement Time: Dependent on user
Idaho State Plan for the American Rescue Plan Elementary and Secondary School Emergency Relief Fund
This Web page hosts Idaho's approved state plan for the use of their awarded American Rescue Plan Elementary and Secondary School Emergency Relief funds.
Tags:
Safe and Healthy Environments ; Providing Supports to Students, Young Children, and Families ; Teacher, Early Childhood Provider, Faculty, and Staff Well-being, Professional Development, and Supports
; PreK-12 Schools
Language: English
Resource Type: ESSER State Plans
Organization: Idaho State Department of Education
Estimated Engagement Time: 1 hour and 43 minutes
Hawaii State Plan for the American Rescue Plan Elementary and Secondary School Emergency Relief Fund
This Web page hosts Hawaii’s approved state plan for the use of their awarded American Rescue Plan (ARP) Elementary and Secondary School Emergency Relief (ESSER) funds, as well as additional ARP ESSER plans and reports. The Hawaii State Department of Education serves as the state and local education agency for the island, making these state use of funds plans applicable to spending at the local level as well.
Tags:
Safe and Healthy Environments ; Providing Supports to Students, Young Children, and Families ; Teacher, Early Childhood Provider, Faculty, and Staff Well-being, Professional Development, and Supports
; PreK-12 Schools
Language: English
Resource Type: ESSER State Plans
Organization: Hawaii State Department of Education
Estimated Engagement Time: Dependent on user
Florida Local Education Agencies' Use of Funds Plans
This Florida Department of Education Website shares Florida local education agencies' American Rescue Plan Elementary and Secondary School Emergency Relief use of funds plans.
Tags:
Safe and Healthy Environments ; Providing Supports to Students, Young Children, and Families ; Teacher, Early Childhood Provider, Faculty, and Staff Well-being, Professional Development, and Supports
; PreK-12 Schools
Language: English
Resource Type: LEA Use of Funds Plans
Organization: Florida Department of Education
Estimated Engagement Time: Dependent on user
Florida Plan for the American Rescue Plan Elementary and Secondary School Emergency Relief Fund
This Web page hosts Florida's approved state plan for the use of their awarded American Rescue Plan Elementary and Secondary School Emergency Relief funds.
Tags:
Safe and Healthy Environments ; Providing Supports to Students, Young Children, and Families ; Teacher, Early Childhood Provider, Faculty, and Staff Well-being, Professional Development, and Supports
; PreK-12 Schools
Language: English
Resource Type: ESSER State Plans
Organization: Florida Department of Education
Estimated Engagement Time: 8 hours and 20 minutes
District of Columbia Local Education Agencies' Continuous Education Plans
This Office of the State Superintendent of Education Website shares District of Columbia local education agencies' Continuous Education and Health and Safety plans for the 2021-2022 school year.
Tags:
Safe and Healthy Environments ; Providing Supports to Students, Young Children, and Families ; Teacher, Early Childhood Provider, Faculty, and Staff Well-being, Professional Development, and Supports
; PreK-12 Schools
Language: English
Resource Type: LEA Use of Funds Plans
Organization: Office of the State Superintendent of Education
Estimated Engagement Time: Dependent on user
District of Columbia Plan for the American Rescue Plan Elementary and Secondary School Emergency Relief Fund
This Web page hosts the District of Columbia's approved state plan for the use of their awarded American Rescue Plan Elementary and Secondary School Emergency Relief funds.
Tags:
Safe and Healthy Environments ; Providing Supports to Students, Young Children, and Families ; Teacher, Early Childhood Provider, Faculty, and Staff Well-being, Professional Development, and Supports
; PreK-12 Schools
Language: English
Resource Type: ESSER State Plans
Organization: Office of the State Superintendent of Education
Estimated Engagement Time: 2 hours and 2 minutes
State of Delaware Plan for the American Rescue Plan Elementary and Secondary School Emergency Relief Fund
This Web page hosts Delaware's approved state plan for the use of their awarded American Rescue Plan Elementary and Secondary School Emergency Relief funds.
Tags:
Safe and Healthy Environments ; Providing Supports to Students, Young Children, and Families ; Teacher, Early Childhood Provider, Faculty, and Staff Well-being, Professional Development, and Supports
; PreK-12 Schools
Language: English
Resource Type: ESSER State Plans
Organization: Delaware Department of Education
Estimated Engagement Time: 2 hours and 1 minute
Connecticut Local Education Agencies' Use of Funds Plans
This Web page hosts the Connecticut State Department of Education grant management system, where the public may use the grants search function to access Connecticut local education agencies' American Rescue Plan Elementary and Secondary School Emergency Relief use of funds plans.
Tags:
Safe and Healthy Environments ; Providing Supports to Students, Young Children, and Families ; Teacher, Early Childhood Provider, Faculty, and Staff Well-being, Professional Development, and Supports
; PreK-12 Schools
Language: English
Resource Type: LEA Use of Funds Plans
Organization: Connecticut State Department of Education
Estimated Engagement Time: Dependent on user
Colorado Local Education Agencies' Use of Funds Plans
This Colorado Department of Education Website shares Colorado local education agencies' American Rescue Plan Elementary and Secondary School Emergency Relief use of funds plans.
Tags:
Safe and Healthy Environments ; Providing Supports to Students, Young Children, and Families ; Teacher, Early Childhood Provider, Faculty, and Staff Well-being, Professional Development, and Supports
; PreK-12 Schools
Language: English
Resource Type: LEA Use of Funds Plans
Organization: Colorado Department of Education
Estimated Engagement Time: Dependent on user
Colorado State Plan for the American Rescue Plan Elementary and Secondary School Emergency Relief Fund
This Web page hosts Colorado's approved state plan for the use of their awarded American Rescue Plan Elementary and Secondary School Emergency Relief funds.
Tags:
Safe and Healthy Environments ; Providing Supports to Students, Young Children, and Families ; Teacher, Early Childhood Provider, Faculty, and Staff Well-being, Professional Development, and Supports
; PreK-12 Schools
Language: English
Resource Type: ESSER State Plans
Organization: Colorado Department of Education
Estimated Engagement Time: 1 hour and 53 minutes
California State Plan for the American Rescue Plan Elementary and Secondary School Emergency Relief Fund
This Web page hosts California's approved state plan for the use of their awarded American Rescue Plan Elementary and Secondary School Emergency Relief funds.
Tags:
Safe and Healthy Environments ; Providing Supports to Students, Young Children, and Families ; Teacher, Early Childhood Provider, Faculty, and Staff Well-being, Professional Development, and Supports
; PreK-12 Schools
Language: English
Resource Type: ESSER State Plans
Organization: California Department of Education
Estimated Engagement Time: 2 hours and 4 minutes
Arkansas Local Education Agencies' Use of Funds Plans
This Arkansas Department of Education Website contains Arkansas local education agencies' American Rescue Plan Elementary and Secondary School Emergency Relief use of funds plans.
Tags:
Safe and Healthy Environments ; Providing Supports to Students, Young Children, and Families ; Teacher, Early Childhood Provider, Faculty, and Staff Well-being, Professional Development, and Supports
; PreK-12 Schools
Language: English
Resource Type: LEA Use of Funds Plans
Organization: Arkansas Department of Education
Estimated Engagement Time: Dependent on user
Arkansas State Plan for the American Rescue Plan Elementary and Secondary School Emergency Relief Fund
This Web page hosts Arkansas' approved state plan for the use of their awarded American Rescue Plan Elementary and Secondary School Emergency Relief funds.
Tags:
Safe and Healthy Environments ; Providing Supports to Students, Young Children, and Families ; Teacher, Early Childhood Provider, Faculty, and Staff Well-being, Professional Development, and Supports
; PreK-12 Schools
Language: English
Resource Type: ESSER State Plans
Organization: Arkansas Department of Education
Estimated Engagement Time: 1 hour and 40 minutes
Arizona Local Education Agencies' Use of Funds Plans
This Web page hosts the Arizona Department of Education grant management system, where the public may use the grants search function to access Arizona local education agencies' American Rescue Plan Elementary and Secondary School Emergency Relief use of funds plans.
Tags:
Safe and Healthy Environments ; Providing Supports to Students, Young Children, and Families ; Teacher, Early Childhood Provider, Faculty, and Staff Well-being, Professional Development, and Supports
; PreK-12 Schools
Language: English
Resource Type: LEA Use of Funds Plans
Organization: Arizona Department of Education
Estimated Engagement Time: Dependent on user
American Rescue Plan (ARP) Elementary and Secondary School Emergency Relief (ESSER) Fund: Arizona State Plan
This Web page hosts Arizona’s approved state plan for the use of their awarded American Rescue Plan Elementary and Secondary School Emergency Relief funds.
Tags:
Safe and Healthy Environments ; Providing Supports to Students, Young Children, and Families ; Teacher, Early Childhood Provider, Faculty, and Staff Well-being, Professional Development, and Supports
; PreK-12 Schools
Language: English
Resource Type: ESSER State Plans
Organization: Arizona Department of Education
Estimated Engagement Time: 1 hour and 51 minutes
Alaska Local Education Agencies' Use of Funds Plans
This Web page hosts the Alaska Department of Education and Early Development grant management system, where the public may use the grants search function to access Alaska local education agencies' American Rescue Plan Elementary and Secondary School Emergency Relief use of funds plans.
Tags:
Safe and Healthy Environments ; Providing Supports to Students, Young Children, and Families ; Teacher, Early Childhood Provider, Faculty, and Staff Well-being, Professional Development, and Supports
; PreK-12 Schools
Language: English
Resource Type: LEA Use of Funds Plans
Organization: Alaska Department of Education and Early Development
Estimated Engagement Time: Dependent on user
Alaska State Plan for the American Rescue Plan Elementary and Secondary School Emergency Relief Fund
This Web page hosts Alaska’s approved state plan for the use of their awarded American Rescue Plan Elementary and Secondary School Emergency Relief funds.
Tags:
Safe and Healthy Environments ; Providing Supports to Students, Young Children, and Families ; Teacher, Early Childhood Provider, Faculty, and Staff Well-being, Professional Development, and Supports
; PreK-12 Schools
Language: English
Resource Type: ESSER State Plans
Organization: Alaska Department of Education and Early Development
Estimated Engagement Time: 2 hours and 8 minutes
Alabama State Plan for the American Rescue Plan Elementary and Secondary School Emergency Relief Fund
This Web page hosts Alabama’s approved state plan for the use of their awarded American Rescue Plan Elementary and Secondary School Emergency Relief funds.
Tags:
Safe and Healthy Environments ; Providing Supports to Students, Young Children, and Families ; Teacher, Early Childhood Provider, Faculty, and Staff Well-being, Professional Development, and Supports
; PreK-12 Schools
Language: English
Resource Type: ESSER State Plans
Organization: Alabama State Department of Education
Estimated Engagement Time: 1 hour and 3 minutes
Resources for LGBTQI+ Students
This Web page contains resources from the U.S. Department of Education, the White House, and Federal agencies that provide guidance on supporting and protecting the rights of LGBTQI+ students.
Tags:
Safe and Healthy Environments; Providing Supports to Students, Young Children, and Families
; LGBTQIA students
; PreK-12 Schools; Colleges and Universities
Language: English
Resource Type: Federal Resources
Organization: U.S. Department of Education
Estimated Engagement Time: 11 minutes
Children's Social Emotional Development and Mental Health: Why Does It Matter?
This video highlights the value and impact of positive early social and emotional experiences on child development.
Tags:
Safe and Healthy Environments; Providing Supports to Students, Young Children, and Families
; Early Childhood Programs
Language: English
Resource Type: Federal Resources
Organization: U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Administration for Children and Families
Estimated Engagement Time: 5 minutes
OESE Back-to-School Success Stories
This Web page shares testimonials from school officials, parents, teachers, students, and school community members highlighting the hard work schools are doing and have done amid the COVID-19 pandemic to successfully reopen schools and keep students and staff safe and healthy.
Tags:
Safe and Healthy Environments; Providing Supports to Students, Young Children, and Families
; PreK-12 Schools
Language: English
Resource Type: Best Practices ; Implementation Stories
Organization: U.S. Department of Education, Office of Elementary and Secondary Education
Estimated Engagement Time: Dependent on user
Adolescent Behaviors and Experiences Survey
This Web page summarizes findings from the CDC Adolescent Behaviors and Experiences Survey, a study on the impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic on high school students.
Tags:
Safe and Healthy Environments; Providing Supports to Students, Young Children, and Families
; PreK-12 Schools
Language: English
Resource Type: Federal Resources
Organization: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
Estimated Engagement Time: 4 minutes
Resources for Education Providers and Families
This Office of Elementary and Secondary Education Website hosts a collection of resources, Webinars, guidance documents, and tools, organized by topic and audience, to support the needs of school communities.
Tags:
Safe and Healthy Environments; Providing Supports to Students, Young Children, and Families
; PreK-12 Schools
Language: English
Resource Type: Federal Resources
Organization: U.S. Department of Education
Estimated Engagement Time: 2 minutes
School-Based Health Services Resources
This curated resource list provides access to Federal resources on school-based physical, social, emotional, and behavioral health supports for children, youth, and young adults.
Tags:
Safe and Healthy Environments ; Providing Supports to Students, Young Children, and Families ; Teacher, Early Childhood Provider, Faculty, and Staff Well-being, Professional Development, and Supports
; Early Childhood Programs; PreK-12 Schools; Colleges and Universities
Language: English
Resource Type: Federal Resources
Organization: U.S. Department of Education; U.S. Department of Health and Human Services
Estimated Engagement Time: 37 minutes
#ARPStars Communications Toolkit
This toolkit is designed to help districts and schools communicate their progress in deploying American Rescue Plan funding to maintain safe learning environments and support students and staff.
Tags:
Safe and Healthy Environments ; Providing Supports to Students, Young Children, and Families ; Teacher, Early Childhood Provider, Faculty, and Staff Well-being, Professional Development, and Supports
; PreK-12 Schools
Language: English
Resource Type: Federal Resources
Organization: U.S. Department of Education
Estimated Engagement Time: 7 minutes
Letter to Educators and Parents Regarding New CDC Recommendations and their Impact on Children with Disabilities
This letter from Secretary Dr. Cardona offers clarity on recent CDC updates and provides information and resources to support school communities as they work to ensure a safe, inclusive learning environment for students with disabilities.
Tags:
Safe and Healthy Environments; Providing Supports to Students, Young Children, and Families
; Children and students with disabilities
; PreK-12 Schools
Language: English
Resource Type: Federal Resources
Organization: U.S. Department of Education
Estimated Engagement Time: 18 minutes
Clean Air in Buildings Challenge: Best Practices Guide
The guide from the Environmental Protection Agency provides best practices, recommendations, and resources for improving indoor air quality in buildings to reduce the risk of the airborne spread of viruses like COVID-19.
Tags:
Safe and Healthy Environments
; Early Childhood Programs; PreK-12 Schools; Colleges and Universities
Language: English
Resource Type: Best Practices ; Federal Resources
Organization: U.S. Environmental Protection Agency
Estimated Engagement Time: 5 minutes
2022 School Pulse Panel
This Web page presents findings from the 2022 School Pulse Panel, a study on the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic from a national sample of elementary, middle, high, and combined-grade public schools.
Tags:
Safe and Healthy Environments ; Providing Supports to Students, Young Children, and Families ; Teacher, Early Childhood Provider, Faculty, and Staff Well-being, Professional Development, and Supports
; PreK-12 Schools
Language: English
Resource Type: Best Practices
Organization: Institute for Education Sciences, National Center for Education Statistics
Estimated Engagement Time: 8 minutes
Letter from Secretary Cardona: CDC Guidelines
This letter from Education Secretary Dr. Cardona outlines new changes in masking guidelines for schools and early childhood facilities.
Tags:
Safe and Healthy Environments
; PreK-12 Schools
Language: English
Resource Type: Federal Resources
Organization: U.S. Department of Education
Estimated Engagement Time: 3 minutes
Social-Emotional Learning, School Safety, and School Climate
This fact sheet shares research on how social emotional learning can help foster positive classroom and school climates and prevent school violence.
Tags:
Safe and Healthy Environments; Providing Supports to Students, Young Children, and Families
; PreK-12 Schools
Language: English
Resource Type: Best Practices
Organization: Committee for Children
Estimated Engagement Time: 3 minutes
The American Rescue Plan Act Partnership, Assistance, Transformation, and Heightened Support Resource for States
This tool provides a template for state education agencies to share their progress and best practices deploying American Rescue Plan Elementary and Secondary School Emergency Relief funds.
Tags:
Safe and Healthy Environments ; Providing Supports to Students, Young Children, and Families ; Teacher, Early Childhood Provider, Faculty, and Staff Well-being, Professional Development, and Supports
; PreK-12 Schools
Language: English
Resource Type: Federal Resources
Organization: U.S. Department of Education
Estimated Engagement Time: 12 minutes
Testing as an Alternative to Quarantining: Key Considerations and Best Practices for Implementing Test to Stay
This resource provides guidance on designing and implementing a school-based Test to Stay program as an additional mitigation strategy for maintaining in-person instruction and protecting the health and safety of students and staff amidst the COVID-19 pandemic.
Tags:
Safe and Healthy Environments
; PreK-12 Schools
Language: English
Resource Type: Best Practices
Organization: The Rockefeller Foundation
Estimated Engagement Time: 22 minutes
The Virgin Islands Department of
Education’s Guide to Safely
Reopen Schools
This Website for education stakeholders in the U.S. Virgin Islands shares resources related to education and the COVID-19 pandemic, including a guide for the 2021–2022 school year.
Tags:
Safe and Healthy Environments; Providing Supports to Students, Young Children, and Families; Teacher, Early Childhood Provider, Faculty, and Staff Well-being, Professional Development, and Support
; PreK-12 Schools
Language: English
Resource Type: State or Local Resources
Organization: The Virgin Islands Department of Education
Estimated Engagement Time: 2 minutes
COVID-19 Information
This Web page provides information related to education and the COVID-19 pandemic in Guam.
Tags:
Safe and Healthy Environments; Providing Supports to Students, Young Children, and Families; Teacher, Early Childhood Provider, Faculty, and Staff Well-being, Professional Development, and Support
; PreK-12 Schools
Language: English
Resource Type: State or Local Resources
Organization: Guam Department of Education
Estimated Engagement Time: 6 minutes
COVID-19 Resources
This Web page offers information, updates, and resources related to education and the COVID-19 pandemic in Wyoming.
Tags:
Safe and Healthy Environments; Providing Supports to Students, Young Children, and Families; Teacher, Early Childhood Provider, Faculty, and Staff Well-being, Professional Development, and Support
; PreK-12 Schools
Language: English; Español
Resource Type: State or Local Resources
Organization: Wyoming Department of Education
Estimated Engagement Time: 9 minutes
COVID-19 Resource Center
This Website for school districts in Vermont shares information and resources related to continuity of learning, COVID-19 testing and recommendations, and Federal relief funding.
Tags:
Safe and Healthy Environments; Providing Supports to Students, Young Children, and Families; Teacher, Early Childhood Provider, Faculty, and Staff Well-being, Professional Development, and Support
; PreK-12 Schools
Language: English
Resource Type: State or Local Resources
Organization: State of Vermont Agency of Education
Estimated Engagement Time: Dependent on user
Resources Related to COVID-19
This Web page provides a curated list of resources and guidance documents related to education and the COVID-19 pandemic in Nevada.
Tags:
Safe and Healthy Environments; Providing Supports to Students, Young Children, and Families; Teacher, Early Childhood Provider, Faculty, and Staff Well-being, Professional Development, and Support
; PreK-12 Schools
Language: English; Español
Resource Type: State or Local Resources
Organization: Nevada Department of Education
Estimated Engagement Time: 6 minutes
Launch Nebraska
This Web page shares Nebraska's Framework for School Renewal and Acceleration, which includes planned actions and considerations for the 2021-2022 school year.
Tags:
Safe and Healthy Environments; Providing Supports to Students, Young Children, and Families; Teacher, Early Childhood Provider, Faculty, and Staff Well-being, Professional Development, and Support
; PreK-12 Schools
Language: English
Resource Type: State or Local Resources
Organization: Nebraska Department of Education
Estimated Engagement Time: Dependent on user
Acceleration and Evidence-Based Instruction: Planning for Learning During the 21-22 School Year
This Website offers guidance and resources for Montana educators and administrators on learning acceleration, assessment, professional learning, and summer enrichment opportunities during and after the 2021–2022 school year.
Tags:
Safe and Healthy Environments; Providing Supports to Students, Young Children, and Families; Teacher, Early Childhood Provider, Faculty, and Staff Well-being, Professional Development, and Support
; PreK-12 Schools
Language: English
Resource Type: State or Local Resources
Organization: Montana Office of Public Instruction
Estimated Engagement Time: Dependent on user
Healthy Schools
This Web page shares information supporting health and wellness at Mississippi schools both during and after the COVID-19 pandemic.
Tags:
Safe and Healthy Environments; Providing Supports to Students, Young Children, and Families; Teacher, Early Childhood Provider, Faculty, and Staff Well-being, Professional Development, and Support
; PreK-12 Schools
Language: English
Resource Type: State or Local Resources
Organization: Mississippi Department of Education
Estimated Engagement Time: 2 minutes
Kansas Department of Health and Environment COVID-19 Response
This Website provides details on Kansas’ response to the COVID-19 pandemic, including information and resources for K-12 schools.
Tags:
Safe and Healthy Environments; Providing Supports to Students, Young Children, and Families; Teacher, Early Childhood Provider, Faculty, and Staff Well-being, Professional Development, and Support
; PreK-12 Schools
Language: English; Español
Resource Type: State or Local Resources
Organization: Kansas Department of Health and Environment
Estimated Engagement Time: 2 minutes
COVID Relief Funding Resources
This Web page shares information and resources for Alaska school districts, families, and the public related to COVID relief funding and considerations for school closures.
Tags:
Safe and Healthy Environments; Providing Supports to Students, Young Children, and Families; Teacher, Early Childhood Provider, Faculty, and Staff Well-being, Professional Development, and Support
; Early Childhood Programs; PreK-12 Schools
Language: English
Resource Type: State or Local Resources
Organization: Alaska Department of Education and Early Development
Estimated Engagement Time: Dependent on user
2022: Staying In School In-Person
This Federal resource details four important strategies for keeping schools open for in-person learning in 2022 and protecting the health and safety of students and staff: vaccination, testing programs, collaboration with local health departments, and monitoring community transmission levels.
Tags:
Safe and Healthy Environments
; PreK-12 Schools
Language: English
Resource Type: Best Practices ; Federal Resources
Organization: U.S. Department of Education
Estimated Engagement Time: 8 minutes
Preparedness for Child Care Providers
This free, online course by the Federal Emergency Management Agency supports childcare providers' preparedness for a variety of threats and hazards, including infectious disease outbreaks. The course includes safety considerations for child-care centers, preschools, and after-school and summer programs.
Tags:
Safe and Healthy Environments; Providing Supports to Students, Young Children, and Families
; Early Childhood Programs
Language: English
Resource Type: Best Practices ; Federal Resources
Organization: Readiness and Emergency Management for Schools Technical Assistance Center
Estimated Engagement Time: 2 hours
COVID-19 Data Dashboard
Developed by the U.S. Department of Education in collaboration with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, this dashboard shares current COVID-19 data and the impact of COVID-19 on K-12 schools.
Tags:
Safe and Healthy Environments
; PreK-12 Schools
Language: English
Resource Type: Federal Resources
Organization: U.S. Department of Education
Estimated Engagement Time: 2 minutes
Family Frequently Asked Questions About Testing
This short fact sheet provides answers to common questions that families may have about school-based COVID-19 testing programs.
Tags:
Safe and Healthy Environments
; PreK-12 Schools
Language: English
Resource Type: Best Practices
Organization: The Rockefeller Foundation
Estimated Engagement Time: 3 minutes
Start-Up Guide for COVID-19 Testing in Schools
This one-page guide offers resources to help schools implement COVID-19 testing programs.
Tags:
Safe and Healthy Environments
; PreK-12 Schools
Language: English
Resource Type: Best Practices
Organization: The Rockefeller Foundation
Estimated Engagement Time: 2 minutes
Toolkit: Strategies to Build Relationships with Students
This toolkit for educators provides strategies for building positive, trusting relationships with students.
Tags:
Safe and Healthy Environments; Providing Supports to Students, Young Children, and Families
; PreK-12 Schools
Language: English
Resource Type: Best Practices
Organization: Turnaround for Children
Estimated Engagement Time: 29 minutes
Campus Safety Presentation
This presentation reflects one local education agency's initiatives to share their reopening plan and mitigation strategies with their school community.
Tags:
Safe and Healthy Environments
; PreK-12 Schools
Language: English
Resource Type: Best Practices ; State or Local Resources
Organization: Iberville STEM Academy
Estimated Engagement Time: 6 minutes
University of Memphis - University Middle School Reopening Guide
This planning document shares reopening guidance and best practices from the University of Memphis' University Middle School.
Tags:
Safe and Healthy Environments
; PreK-12 Schools
Language: English
Resource Type: State or Local Resources
Organization: University of Memphis
Estimated Engagement Time: 12 minutes
School Reopening Planning Workbook: A Tool for School Districts
This workbook is a baseline plan district leaders can use to inform policies and operational decisions about reopening schools following closures due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
Tags:
Safe and Healthy Environments; Providing Supports to Students, Young Children, and Families
; PreK-12 Schools
Language: English
Resource Type: Best Practices
Organization: Chiefs for Change
Estimated Engagement Time: Dependent on user
Dear School Safety Partner: Cybersecurity and Cyber Safety
This TA Snapshot describes cybersecurity for schools and steps education agencies can take, with the collaboration of parents, to protect student privacy while increasing the use of digital learning and video-sharing platforms in response to COVID-19.
Tags:
Safe and Healthy Environments
; PreK-12 Schools
Language: English
Resource Type: Best Practices ; Technical Assistance Center Resources
Organization: Readiness and Emergency Management for Schools TA Center
Estimated Engagement Time: 6 minutes
SITE ASSESS Application
This mobile application for education agencies allows personnel to walk around buildings and grounds and conduct a site assessment. The app equips practitioners with information and knowledge about fundamental site assessment topics, allows users to add locality- and state-specific questions, and exports site assessment data for data analysis and recordkeeping.
Tags:
Safe and Healthy Environments
; PreK-12 Schools; Colleges and Universities
Language: English
Resource Type: Best Practices ; Technical Assistance Center Resources
Organization: Readiness and Emergency Management for Schools TA Center
Estimated Engagement Time: 5 minutes
Guide for Developing Emergency Operations Plans for Institutions of Higher Education
This virtual training guide focuses on higher ed emergency operations plans (EOPs), including the recommended planning process and key considerations for creating, revising, and enhancing high-quality EOPs. The six-step planning process is flexible and can be adapted to accommodate an institution’s unique characteristics and situation.
Tags:
Safe and Healthy Environments
; Children and students with disabilities
; Colleges and Universities
Language: English
Resource Type: Best Practices ; Technical Assistance Center Resources
Organization: Readiness and Emergency Management for Schools TA Center
Estimated Engagement Time: 2 hours and 17 minutes
Cybersecurity Considerations for Institutions of Higher Education Fact Sheet
This fact sheet describes cybersecurity considerations for institutions of higher education (IHEs). The fact sheet includes background information on threats facing IHE systems and networks and provides strategies to prepare for threats, respond to and recover from threats, as well as details on how this topic relates to overall emergency operations plan development and school safety, security, emergency management, and preparedness.
Tags:
Safe and Healthy Environments
; Colleges and Universities
Language: English
Resource Type: Best Practices ; Technical Assistance Center Resources
Organization: Readiness and Emergency Management for Schools TA Center
Estimated Engagement Time: 19 minutes
Long Beach Community College Framework for Reconciliation
This Web page shares Long Beach Community College's ongoing restorative approach to acknowledging and repairing the harm done by systemic racial injustice and inequity.
Tags:
Safe and Healthy Environments
; Racial/ethnic subgroups
; Colleges and Universities
Language: English
Resource Type: State or Local Resources
Organization: Long Beach Community College District
Estimated Engagement Time: Dependent on user
Five Guiding Principles to Improving School Facilities
This resource includes information to help PreK-12 school districts use Federal COVID-19 relief funding for school building improvements.
Tags:
Safe and Healthy Environments ; Providing Supports to Students, Young Children, and Families ; Teacher, Early Childhood Provider, Faculty, and Staff Well-being, Professional Development, and Supports
; PreK-12 Schools
Language: English
Resource Type: Innovative Spotlight
Organization: Center for Green Schools
Estimated Engagement Time: Dependent on user
COVID-19 Testing in K-12 Settings: A Playbook for Educators and Leaders
This playbook offers detailed, step-by step guidance to support educators, leaders, and their public health partners implement COVID-19 testing programs in schools.
Tags:
Safe and Healthy Environments
; PreK-12 Schools
Language: English
Resource Type: Best Practices
Organization: Testing for America
Estimated Engagement Time: 1 hour and 40 minutes
COVID-19 Testing in K-12 Settings: '"Day in the Life Of" Case Studies
These case studies help systems simulate COVID-19 testing during a typical school day for students, staff, and families. The resources can be used to test processes, identify gaps, refine plans, and share those plans with the community.
Tags:
Safe and Healthy Environments
; PreK-12 Schools
Language: English
Resource Type: Best Practices
Organization: Chiefs for Change
Estimated Engagement Time: 38 minutes
COVID-19 Testing and Vaccination Programs Frequently Asked Questions
This resource is designed for school and district leaders to use as they consider common questions regarding COVID-19 screening, testing, and vaccination programs for their education systems.
Tags:
Safe and Healthy Environments
; PreK-12 Schools
Language: English
Resource Type: Best Practices
Organization: Chiefs for Change
Estimated Engagement Time: 36 minutes
Consolidated Tabletop Resources for Implementation of COVID-19 Testing in K-12 Settings
This series of interactive tabletop exercises can help districts develop and refine their COVID-19 testing program. The exercises guide educators as they consider key questions such as how often to test students and staff; where and how to set up testing facilities; how to obtain consent for testing; and how to manage inventory, collect samples, communicate test results, track testing data, and dispose of personal protective equipment.
Tags:
Safe and Healthy Environments
; PreK-12 Schools
Language: English
Resource Type: Best Practices
Organization: Chiefs for Change
Estimated Engagement Time: 56 minutes
"Day in the Life Of" Simulations
This set of "day in the life" simulations can help school administrators and planners simulate a typical school day for students, staff, and families. These exercises help test proposed processes, identify gaps, refine plans, and support information-sharing with the school community.
Tags:
Safe and Healthy Environments
; PreK-12 Schools
Language: English
Resource Type: Best Practices
Organization: Chiefs for Change
Estimated Engagement Time: 23 minutes
Arts & Physical Education Re-Entry: A Disciplined Approach to Active and Creative Learning
This comprehensive guide offers considerations for reopening arts and physical education programs following school closures related to the COVID-19 pandemic.
Tags:
Safe and Healthy Environments
; Children and students with disabilities
; PreK-12 Schools
Language: English
Resource Type: State or Local Resources
Organization: Arizona Department of Education
Estimated Engagement Time: 1 hour and 26 minutes
Home at Heritage – HCU COVID-19 Campus Re-entry Plan
This resource outlines one university's approach to reopening campus in the Spring 2021 semester.
Tags:
Safe and Healthy Environments
; Colleges and Universities
Language: English
Resource Type: Best Practices ; State or Local Resources
Organization: Heritage Christian University
Estimated Engagement Time: 15 minutes
Time to Act: How School Superintendents Keep Equity at the Center of Their Leadership
This resource guide helps district and school leaders increase equity by shifting mindsets away from historical and systemic inequalities and by acting to provide equity-centered leadership.
Tags:
Safe and Healthy Environments
; PreK-12 Schools
Language: English
Resource Type: Best Practices ; Technical Assistance Center Resources
Organization: Region 1 Equity Assistance Center (Center for Education Equity)
Estimated Engagement Time: 1 hour and 36 minutes
Back-to-School Week: Safer Schools and Campuses Best Practices Clearinghouse
This presentation contains general information regarding the U.S. Department of Education's Back-to-School Week event, including daily agendas, presenter information, and topical resources spanning the 5-day event.
Tags:
Safe and Healthy Environments ; Providing Supports to Students, Young Children, and Families ; Teacher, Early Childhood Provider, Faculty, and Staff Well-being, Professional Development, and Supports
; Early Childhood Programs; PreK-12 Schools; Colleges and Universities
Language: English
Resource Type: Best Practices ; Federal Resources ; Technical Assistance Center Resources
Organization: U.S. Department of Education
Estimated Engagement Time: Dependent on user
U.S. Department of Education: Supporting Child and Student Social, Emotional, Behavioral, and Mental Health Needs
This resource is intended to supplement the information in the ED COVID-19 Handbook, Volume 1: Strategies for Safely Reopening Elementary and Secondary Schools; Volume 2: Roadmap to Reopening Safely and Meeting All Students’ Needs; and Volume 3: Strategies for Safe Operation and Addressing the Impact of COVID-19 on Higher Education Students, Faculty, and Staff by providing focused information and resources to promote mental health and social and emotional well-being among students.
Tags:
Safe and Healthy Environments
; Early Childhood Programs; PreK-12 Schools; Colleges and Universities
Language: English
Resource Type: Best Practices ; Federal Resources
Organization: U.S. Department of Education
Estimated Engagement Time: 2 hours and 50 minutes
President Biden Announces Update on Operational Planning for COVID-19 Vaccinations for Kids Ages 5-11
This fact sheet presents the Biden Administration’s announcement of a plan to ensure that, if a vaccine is authorized for children ages 5-11, it will be quickly distributed and made conveniently and equitably available to families across the country. This announcement is in anticipation of the Federal Drug Administration’s independent advisory committee meeting on October 26, 2021, and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s independent advisory committee meeting on November 2-3, 2021.
Tags:
Safe and Healthy Environments
; Early Childhood Programs; PreK-12 Schools
Language: English
Resource Type: Best Practices ; Federal Resources
Organization: The White House
Estimated Engagement Time: 9 minutes
Healthy Davis Together
This website provides information about, and examples from, Healthy Davis Together, which supports a safe and healthy return to face-to-face instruction. Healthy Davis Together is a joint project between the City of Davis and the University of California, Davis with the goal to facilitate a coordinated and gradual return while preventing the spread of COVID-19 in the Davis community. Healthy Davis Together brings together epidemiology and health promotion both in the city and on campus.
Tags:
Safe and Healthy Environments
; PreK-12 Schools
Language: English; Español
Resource Type: Best Practices ; State or Local Resources
Organization: Healthy Davis Together
Estimated Engagement Time: 3 minutes
NAfME and NFHS Return to Music Guidance Phase III August 2021
This Web page provides safe, research-based strategies and ideas for teaching music education during the 2021-22 school year.
Tags:
Safe and Healthy Environments
; PreK-12 Schools
Language: English
Resource Type: Best Practices
Organization: National Association for Music Education
Estimated Engagement Time: 3 minutes
Back-to-School Week, Day 2: Connections Between Healthy Schools and a Healthy Climate
These presentation materials highlight the Green Ribbon Schools award and the U.S. Department of Education's role in sustainable schools, climate, and infrastructure.
Tags:
Safe and Healthy Environments
; PreK-12 Schools
Language: English
Resource Type: Best Practices ; Federal Resources ; Technical Assistance Center Resources
Organization: U.S. Department of Education
Estimated Engagement Time: Dependent on user
Back-to-School Week, Day 2: Shared Safety – A Coordinated Strategy to Improve our Schools' Learning Environment
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
Language: English
Resource Type: Best Practices ; Federal Resources ; Technical Assistance Center Resources
Organization: U.S. Department of Education, Newark Community Street Team
Estimated Engagement Time: Dependent on user
Back-to-School Week, Day 2: Safety, Privacy and Security in Technology: Fixing All Your Problems in 20 Minutes
This presentation highlights available resources to support education agencies' understanding of Federal requirements regarding online safety and security and includes information on how education stakeholders can engage in virtual learning while protecting student data and privacy.
Tags:
Safe and Healthy Environments
; PreK-12 Schools
Language: English
Resource Type: Best Practices ; Federal Resources ; Technical Assistance Center Resources
Organization: U.S. Department of Education, Student Privacy Policy Office
Estimated Engagement Time: Dependent on user
Back-to-School Week, Day 2: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Discuss Guidance and Resources
This presentation shares updated Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) guidance for COVID-19 prevention in schools in the 2021-22 school year and includes resources to support schools' implementation of CDC-recommended mitigation strategies.
Tags:
Safe and Healthy Environments
; PreK-12 Schools
Language: English
Resource Type: Best Practices ; Federal Resources ; Technical Assistance Center Resources
Organization: U.S. Department of Education, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
Estimated Engagement Time: Dependent on user
PBS Learn Anytime, Anywhere
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
Language: English
Resource Type: Innovative Spotlight
Organization: Corporation for Public Broadcasting: Public Broadcasting Service
Estimated Engagement Time: 2 minutes
HHS: Guide to On-Site Vaccination Clinics for School
Vaccination is our leading public health strategy to end the COVID-19 pandemic. Getting school communities vaccinated will go a long way in preventing outbreaks before they happen and help to ensure students can remain learning in person at school. All over the country, leaders from all sectors are mobilizing to help young Americans get their COVID-19 vaccination. We are relying on education, health, and community leaders to lead the way. As part of back-to-school efforts, we are asking school districts nationwide to host pop-up vaccine clinics in their schools and neighborhoods.
Tags:
Safe and Healthy Environments
; PreK-12 Schools
Language: English; Español
Resource Type: Best Practices
Organization: U.S. Department of Health and Human Services
Estimated Engagement Time: 7 minutes
HHS: Back to School Toolkit
This toolkit has resources for school district leaders, teachers, parent leaders, and school supporters that want to help increase confidence in and uptake of COVID-19 vaccines in their school communities, answer questions, and outline school guidance about COVID-19. It includes information from CDC and new, tailored materials from the HHS COVID-19 Public Education Campaign.
Tags:
Safe and Healthy Environments
; PreK-12 Schools
Language: English; Español
Resource Type: Best Practices
Organization: U.S. Department of Health and Human Services
Estimated Engagement Time: Dependent on user
American College Health Association COVID-19 Resources
This Web page hosts a variety of health-related resources relevant to COVID-19 and institutions of higher education (IHEs). Resources include webinars, guides, research briefs, and workshops to support IHE communities in best practices around operation and continued supports in the era of COVID-19.
Tags:
Safe and Healthy Environments
; Colleges and Universities
Language: English
Resource Type: Best Practices ; State or Local Resources
Organization: American College Health Association
Estimated Engagement Time: Dependent on user
Boston Public Schools' Collective Bargaining Agreement on Use of Masks with Clear Panels
This collective bargaining agreement describes how Boston Public Schools utilizes masks with a clear panel in circumstances when the visibility of a speaker’s mouth is necessary. This resource offers an innovative model for accommodating diverse student and staff needs while adhering to COVID-19 safety protocols.
Tags:
Safe and Healthy Environments
; PreK-12 Schools
Language: English
Resource Type: Innovative Spotlight; State or Local Resources
Organization: Boston Public Schools
Estimated Engagement Time: 5 minutes
ED COVID-19 Handbook, Volume 1: Strategies for Safely Reopening Elementary and Secondary Schools
The U.S. Department of Education’s COVID Handbook Volume 1 focuses on ensuring the physical safety of elementary and secondary school settings. The handbook aligns with guidance from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
Tags:
Safe and Healthy Environments
; PreK-12 Schools
Language: English
Resource Type: Best Practices ; Federal Resources
Organization: U.S. Department of Education, Office of Planning, Evaluation and Policy
Development
Estimated Engagement Time: 46 minutes
Responding to COVID-19: Brief Action Steps for School Crisis Response Teams
This document for school crisis response teams provides specific suggestions for the immediate school response to the threat presented by COVID-19 to in-person learning. These suggestions guide the reader in developing an emergency operations plan and taking actions to address communication and warning; public, medical, and mental health; continuity of operations; and recovery.
Tags:
Safe and Healthy Environments
; PreK-12 Schools
Language: English
Resource Type: Best Practices
Organization: National Association of School Psychologists
Estimated Engagement Time: 20 minutes
ED COVID-19 Handbook, Volume 3: Strategies for Safe Operation and Addressing the Impact of COVID-19 on Higher Education Students, Faculty, and Staff
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
Language: English
Resource Type: Best Practices ; Federal Resources
Organization: U.S. Department of Education, Office of Planning, Evaluation and Policy Development
Estimated Engagement Time: 1 hour and 37 minutes
COVID Data Tracker
This COVID Data Tracker Weekly Review provides an up-to-date interpretive summary of the previous week’s key data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s COVID Data Tracker.
Tags:
Safe and Healthy Environments
; Early Childhood Programs; PreK-12 Schools; Colleges and Universities
Language: English
Resource Type: Best Practices ; Federal Resources
Organization: The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
Estimated Engagement Time: Dependent on user
American Psychological Association's Guide to Schooling and Distance Learning During COVID-19
This handbook provides guidance to administrators, educators, and parents by sharing practical, evidence-based strategies to enhance student learning and social and emotional well-being, whether in person or online, and offers suggestions on how to implement these strategies as schools reopen. Additionally, the handbook has a section on ensuring equity within reopening plans, recognizing the disproportionate impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on historically underserved communities.
Tags:
Safe and Healthy Environments
; Racial/ethnic subgroups
; Early Childhood Programs
Language: English
Resource Type: Best Practices
Organization: American Psychological Association
Estimated Engagement Time: 18 minutes
An Evidence Summary of Paediatric COVID-19 Literature
This resource provides a variety of research literature related to COVID-19 and children and young people, particularly on the transmission and spread of COVID-19.
Tags:
Safe and Healthy Environments
; Early Childhood Programs
Language: English
Resource Type: Best Practices
Organization: Don't Forget the Bubbles
Estimated Engagement Time: Dependent on user
Child Care Center Facility Model Standards During COVID-19
This resource provides helpful information on important standards to help ensure the physical safety of childcare centers.
Tags:
Safe and Healthy Environments
; Early Childhood Programs
Language: English
Resource Type: Best Practices
Organization: Bipartisan Policy Center
Estimated Engagement Time: 9 minutes
North Carolina Models the Way for National Discussion and Decisions on School Re-Openings During COVID-19 Pandemic
This Website details the partnership established between North Carolina school districts and the ABC Science Collaborative in order to reopen schools with informed decision-making processes and evidence-based practices that are grounded in the collection and analysis of local data.
Tags:
Safe and Healthy Environments
; PreK-12 Schools
Language: English
Resource Type: Best Practices ; State or Local Resources
Organization: ABC Science Collaborative
Estimated Engagement Time: 4 minutes
Considerations for In-person Music Education and Performing Arts Activities
This video provides an overview of research-based mitigation strategies for safe in-person music education and performing arts activities.
Tags:
Safe and Healthy Environments
; PreK-12 Schools
Language: English
Resource Type: Best Practices
Organization: NAMM Foundation
Estimated Engagement Time: 7 minutes
When to Test Website: A Resource to Inform COVID Testing Plans in Schools
This Website was developed by the National Institutes of Health and some of its partners to help school districts and other organizations calculate the amount of COVID-19 testing that might be necessary, given particular circumstances. The Website also includes information about the likely cost of testing programs.
Tags:
Safe and Healthy Environments
; PreK-12 Schools
Language: English; Español
Resource Type: Innovative Spotlight; Best Practices; Federal Resources
Organization: Consortia for Improving Medicine with Innovation & Technology, Massachusetts Institute of Technology Institute for Data Systems and Society, National Institute of Biomedical Imaging and Bioengineering, National Institutes of Health
Estimated Engagement Time: Dependent on user
Recovering, Rebuilding, and Renewing: The Spirit of New York's Schools Reopening Guidance
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
Language: English
Resource Type: Implementation Stories; Lessons Learned; State or Local Resources
Organization: Region 2 Comprehensive Center
Estimated Engagement Time: 3 hours and 31 minutes
Navigating Next
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
Language: English
Resource Type: State or Local Resources
Organization: Region 12 Comprehensive Center
Estimated Engagement Time: 25 minutes
Davis Joint Unified School District Reopening Resources
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
Language: English
Resource Type: Implementation Stories; Lessons Learned; State or Local Resources
Organization: Davis Joint Unified School District
Estimated Engagement Time: Dependent on user
COVID Relief for K-12: Use of Funds Advisory Memo
This advisory memo describes how States can assist local education agencies in distributing authorized Federal funds to implement strong infection prevention and control programs throughout their school systems. This memo provides a funding framework that includes details on one-time and ongoing expenses, additional fiscal priorities and considerations, and recommended investments to support educational equity.
Tags:
Safe and Healthy Environments
; PreK-12 Schools
Language: English
Resource Type: Best Practices
Organization: The COVID Collaborative, Harvard’s Edmond J. Safra Center, Brown School of Public Health, and New America
Estimated Engagement Time: 12 minutes
The Science is Clear: Layered Infection Prevention and Control Measures Allow Return to Safe In-Person Learning
This document serves as a scientific consensus, explaining the research and evidence on infection prevention and control programs in schools. The information provided in this document, aligned to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention guidance on layered mitigation strategies, includes details on ventilation and filtration, testing and tracing, physical distancing, cleaning and disinfection, vaccines, masks and handwashing.
Tags:
Safe and Healthy Environments
; PreK-12 Schools
Language: English
Resource Type: Best Practices
Organization: The COVID Collaborative, Harvard’s Edmond J. Safra Center, Brown School of Public Health, and New America
Estimated Engagement Time: 15 minutes
Roadmap to Healthy Schools: Building Organizational Capacity for Infection Prevention and Control
This operational guide to school-based infection prevention and control provides recommendations and considerations for State and local leaders to return to in-person learning safely and sustainably. The guide also includes case studies on schools and districts that have reopened safely, sharing practical advice and insight into "what works" in the field.
Tags:
Safe and Healthy Environments
; PreK-12 Schools
Language: English
Resource Type: Best Practices
Organization: The COVID Collaborative, Harvard’s Edmond J. Safra Center, Brown School of Public Health, and New America
Estimated Engagement Time: 54 minutes
Reopening Schools Safely: New Evidence on Mitigating COVID-19 Spread Webinar
In this webinar, panelists review research literature on COVID-19 and school reopening, describing best practices in remote and hybrid learning options, and outlining a case study in which data and analytics were used to inform the reopening of Pennsylvania schools.
Tags:
Safe and Healthy Environments
; PreK-12 Schools
Language: English
Resource Type: Best Practices ; Technical Assistance Center Resources
Organization: Regional Educational Laboratory Mid-Atlantic
Estimated Engagement Time: 1 hour and 2 minutes
Reopening Schools Safely: New Evidence on Mitigating COVID-19 Spread
This infographic provides easy-to-read summaries of research on school reopening. The resource highlights recent findings that support the effectiveness of mitigation strategies in reopening schools safely and reducing risk of COVID-19 transmission among students and staff.
Tags:
Safe and Healthy Environments
; PreK-12 Schools
Language: English
Resource Type: Best Practices ; Technical Assistance Center Resources
Organization: Regional Educational Laboratory Mid-Atlantic
Estimated Engagement Time: 1 hour and 1 minute
Considerations for Reopening Pennsylvania Schools
This memo describes the operations and outcomes of a research-practice partnership between the Regional Educational Laboratory Mid-Atlantic and Pennsylvania Department of Education. The memo provides details on the organizations' three-part project, which included a literature review of public health and education research, interviews with Pennsylvania education stakeholders, and a computational modeling project to inform the reopening of Pennsylvania schools.
Tags:
Safe and Healthy Environments
; PreK-12 Schools
Language: English
Resource Type: Best Practices ; Technical Assistance Center Resources
Organization: Regional Educational Laboratory Mid-Atlantic
Estimated Engagement Time: 1 hour and 48 minutes
High-Quality Career and Technical Education During COVID-19: Challenges and Innovations
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
Language: English
Resource Type: Best Practices
Organization: Association for Career and Technical Education
Estimated Engagement Time: 1 hour and 11 minutes
One Educator's Perspective on Safe and Healthy Environments for PreK-5 Students and Teachers
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
Language: English
Resource Type: Implementation Stories; Lessons Learned
Organization: Individual Educator
Estimated Engagement Time: 3 minutes
Lasell University Holway Early Childhood Centers: COVID-19 Health and Safety Plan
This guide outlines policies and procedures that promote the health and safety of teachers and children when reopening early childhood programs in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic. Created through local city and state partnerships, this resource provides detailed operational guidance on a range of topics, from enhanced safety and mitigation strategies to early childhood social and emotional health.
Tags:
Safe and Healthy Environments
; Early Childhood Programs
Language: English
Resource Type: Best Practices
Organization: Lasell University Holway Early Childhood Centers
Estimated Engagement Time: 57 minutes
How Child Care Programs Can Help Get Child Care Staff Vaccinated
This document shares ways in which child care directors and family child care homes can support their staff in getting COVID-19 vaccinations.
Tags:
Safe and Healthy Environments
; Early Childhood Programs
Language: English
Resource Type: State or Local Resources
Organization: North Carolina Department of Health and Human Services
Estimated Engagement Time: 7 minutes
RE:UNION: Excellence, Reimagined. Virginia Union University Spring 2021 Opening Plan
This resource guide outlines the reopening plans of the university and includes detailed information regarding campus policies, procedures and specific COVID-19 protocols.
Tags:
Safe and Healthy Environments
; Colleges and Universities
Language: English
Resource Type: State or Local Resources
Organization: Virginia Union University
Estimated Engagement Time: 29 minutes
Establishing Safe and Healthy Environments: Best Practices
This report outlines the safety protocols, mitigation strategies and support services established in response to the COVID-19 pandemic at the university. The report includes a matrix utilized for responding to direct and indirect exposures among campus employees.
Tags:
Safe and Healthy Environments
; Racial/ethnic subgroups; students from low-income backgrounds; Student veterans; Military-connected students
; Colleges and Universities
Language: English
Resource Type: Implementation Stories; Lessons Learned
Organization: Hallmark University
Estimated Engagement Time: 6 minutes
Orleans Technical College Welcome Back Guide
This guide outlines the reopening plans of the college and includes detailed information on safety protocols and campus policies.
Tags:
Safe and Healthy Environments
; Colleges and Universities
Language: English
Resource Type: State or Local Resources
Organization: Orleans Technical College
Estimated Engagement Time: 13 minutes
How the CE 3116 Construction Materials Labs were Continued In-person at the Missouri University of Science and Technology during the COVID-19 Pandemic
This program profile highlights the modification of a construction materials lab to provide students with hands-on experience while maintaining a safe environment for in-person instruction at the university. The profile describes prior lab operations, newly developed Centers for Disease Control and Prevention-compliant operations, and lessons learned from students’ experiences throughout the changes made to the university's instructional strategies.
Tags:
Safe and Healthy Environments
; Colleges and Universities
Language: English
Resource Type: Implementation Stories; Lessons Learned
Organization: Missouri University of Science and Technology
Estimated Engagement Time: 4 minutes
Veterans Upward Bound Program
This program profile outlines the COVID-19 mitigation strategies and lessons learned at a Veterans Upward Bound Program.
Tags:
Safe and Healthy Environments
; Students from low-income backgrounds; First-generation college students; Student veterans; Military-connected students
; Colleges and Universities
Language: English
Resource Type: Best Practices ; State or Local Resources
Organization: Pima County Community College District- East Campus
Estimated Engagement Time: 1 minute
Return to Campus Guidelines
This program profile describes the college’s approach to implementing mitigation strategies and preparing for and sustaining in-person operations safely. The profile details the impacts on TRIO students of the COVID-19 pandemic, the college’s subsequent mitigation measures and the lessons learned from students' experiences.
Tags:
Safe and Healthy Environments
; Children and students with disabilities; First-generation college students; Students from low-income backgrounds
; Colleges and Universities
Language: English
Resource Type: Implementation Stories; Lessons Learned; State or Local Resources
Organization: Columbia College
Estimated Engagement Time: 3 minutes
GEAR UP West Conference
This virtual conference offers keynote presentations and breakout sessions over a wide range of topics, including The Science and Theory of Hope, The Pandemic Brain, and Creating Trauma-Responsive Schools that Foster Resilient Environments for Youth & Adults.
Tags:
Safe and Healthy Environments; Teacher, Early Childhood Provider, Faculty, and Staff Well-being, Professional Development, and Supports
; Students from low-income backgrounds
; Colleges and Universities
Language: English
Resource Type: Best Practices ; Implementation Stories ; Lessons Learned
Organization: Washington Student Achievement Council
Estimated Engagement Time: Dependent on user
Best Practices for Operating Safely During a Pandemic
This innovative spotlight profile describes the college's COVID-19 hotline. This telephone line addresses questions and concerns and provides information to the college community regarding campus shutdowns and the transition to remote learning.
Tags:
Safe and Healthy Environments; Providing Supports to Students, Young Children, and Families
; First-generation college students
; Colleges and Universities
Language: English
Resource Type: Implementation Stories; Lessons Learned; Innovative Spotlight
Organization: Massachusetts College of Liberal Arts
Estimated Engagement Time: 2 minutes
University of the Potomac Safe Reopening Plan- COVID-19 Pandemic Fall 2020
This guide outlines the university's reopening plan and lists strategies used by the institution to address challenges caused by COVID-19, such as adapting services and implementing mitigation measures.
Tags:
Safe and Healthy Environments
; Colleges and Universities
Language: English
Resource Type: State or Local Resources
Organization: University of the Potomac
Estimated Engagement Time: 13 minutes
Safer Music Education
This program profile outlines the COVID-19 mitigation strategies and lessons learned at a music education program.
Tags:
Safe and Healthy Environments
; PreK-12 Schools
Language: English
Resource Type: Implementation Stories; Lessons Learned
Organization: Mona Shores Public Schools Music Department
Estimated Engagement Time: 1 minute
Student and Employee Codes of Personal Responsibility
This resource provides an example of an employee code of personal responsibility for following safety protocols on a college campus. The resource includes practical instructions and guidelines on how to follow these safety protocols.
Tags:
Safe and Healthy Environments
; Colleges and Universities
Language: English
Resource Type: State or Local Resources
Organization: Lakeland Community College
Estimated Engagement Time: 4 minutes
Benedict College Emergency & Risk Team Reporting and Discussion Guides
This spreadsheet offers a sample of reporting and discussion guides for personal protective equipment (PPE) and safety protocols management used by the college’s Emergency & Risk Team. The spreadsheet includes data on PPE inventory distribution and collection, COVID-19 testing inventory and methodology, and a daily overview of safety protocols and completion of tasks in an Incident Command System format.
Tags:
Safe and Healthy Environments
; Colleges and Universities
Language: English
Resource Type: Implementation Stories; Lessons Learned; Innovative Spotlight
Organization: Benedict College
Estimated Engagement Time: Dependent on user
University of Cincinnati Clermont College TRIO Talent Search Program
This implementation profile shares a success story from the college's TRIO Talent Search program. By using data, developing local partnerships and collaborating with school district information technology managers, this program provided grade-specific support to students during pandemic-related school closures.
Tags:
Safe and Healthy Environments ; Providing Supports to Students, Young Children, and Families ; Teacher, Early Childhood Provider, Faculty, and Staff Well-being, Professional Development, and Supports
; Students from low-income backgrounds; First-generation college students
; PreK-12 Schools; Colleges and Universities
Language: English
Resource Type: Implementation Stories; Lessons Learned
Organization: University of Cincinnati, Clermont College
Estimated Engagement Time: 2 minutes
The Return: How Should Education Leaders Prepare for Reentry and Beyond?
This report shares research and provides recommendations for increasing student achievement and well-being. The report, produced in partnership with the Johns Hopkins Institute for Education Policy, offers recommendations on transitioning from the agrarian school calendar to a longer and more flexible academic year; implementing new staffing models; focusing on the social and emotional well-being and skills of students; and adopting high-quality instructional materials with robust teacher supports and curriculum-aligned formative and summative assessments.
Tags:
Safe and Healthy Environments; Providing Supports to Students, Young Children, and Families
; Children and students with disabilities; English learners
; PreK-12 Schools
Language: English
Resource Type: Best Practices
Organization: Chiefs for Change
Estimated Engagement Time: 20 minutes
COVID-19 Open Iconography Library
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
Language: English
Resource Type: Innovative Spotlight
Organization: Brooklyn Laboratory Charter School
Estimated Engagement Time: 4 minutes
Engage Equitably: Communication Resources for Schools at a Time of COVID-19 & Beyond
This resource shares public health communication templates and guidance for districts, administrators and teachers. Templates are available for a variety of situations including instructional model changes, positive cases and closures, and alerts for parents when a student is showing symptoms of COVID-19.
Tags:
Safe and Healthy Environments
; PreK-12 Schools
Language: English
Resource Type: Best Practices ; Innovative Spotlight
Organization: Brooklyn Laboratory Charter School
Estimated Engagement Time: Dependent on user
Instructional Program Scheduling Map
This instructional program scheduling map builds on the charter school's strategic reopening documents to provide best practices for physical distancing as schools reopen. The blueprint provides guidance on how best to rearrange teams of educators and groups of students to ensure that those receiving in-person instruction can do so safely.
Tags:
Safe and Healthy Environments
; PreK-12 Schools
Language: English
Resource Type: Best Practices ; Innovative Spotlight
Organization: Brooklyn Laboratory Charter School
Estimated Engagement Time: 39 minutes
Public School Facilities Planning in the Era of COVID-19 Guide
This guide shares the charter school's experience utilizing a collaborative and community-based planning process for reopening. The guide outlines how the school gathered stakeholder input, built partnerships and incorporated public health guidance to develop a strategic reopening approach.
Tags:
Safe and Healthy Environments
; PreK-12 Schools
Language: English
Resource Type: Best Practices ; Innovative Spotlight
Organization: Brooklyn Laboratory Charter School
Estimated Engagement Time: Dependent on user
Integrated Student Supports State Policy Toolkit
This toolkit for State policymakers and school leaders provides detailed information on systems of integrated student support. The toolkit outlines the core components of integrated student support models and offers policy and research contexts for understanding how and why to implement integrated wraparound services to support students' academic and nonacademic needs.
Tags:
Safe and Healthy Environments
; PreK-12 Schools
Language: English
Resource Type: Best Practices
Organization: Boston College Center for Optimized Student Support
Estimated Engagement Time: 1 hour and 44 minutes
Restart and Recovery: The Role of a School Leader Website
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
Language: English
Resource Type: Best Practices
Organization: National Association of Secondary School Principals (NASSP)
Estimated Engagement Time: Dependent on User
Restart and Recovery: The Role of the School Leader, Brief 3: Leveraging Principals in Ensuring Academic Success
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
Language: English
Resource Type: Best Practices
Organization: National Association of Secondary School Principals (NASSP)
Estimated Engagement Time: 20 minutes
Restart and Recovery: The Role of the School Leader, Brief 2: Wellbeing and Connection
This brief is the second in a series designed to support school leaders in implementing the Restart & Recovery guidance developed by the Council of Chief State School Officers. This brief focuses on staff and student well-being, connection and tailored student support services.
Tags:
Safe and Healthy Environments
; Racial/ethnic subgroups; English learners; Undocumented students; Children and students with disabilities; LGBTQIA students
; PreK-12 Schools
Language: English
Resource Type: Best Practices
Organization: National Association of Secondary School Principals (NASSP)
Estimated Engagement Time: 19 minutes
Restart and Recovery: The Role of the School Leader, Brief 1: Systems Conditions
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
Language: English
Resource Type: Best Practices
Organization: National Association of Secondary School Principals (NASSP)
Estimated Engagement Time: 18 minutes
Back to School Guide in the Era of COVID-19
This resource provides practical tips for parents, guardians, caregivers, administrators, teachers, paraprofessionals and students to navigate the challenges of returning to school while maintaining physical and mental health.
Tags:
Safe and Healthy Environments; Providing Supports to Students, Young Children, and Families
; Children and students with disabilities
; PreK-12 Schools
Language: English
Resource Type: Best Practices
Organization: American Occupational Therapy Association
Estimated Engagement Time: 40 minutes
Warren Township Schools: Lessons Learned and Best Practices for Operating Safely During the COVID-19 Pandemic
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
Language: English
Resource Type: Implementation Stories; Lessons Learned; State or Local Resources
Organization: Warren Township Schools
Estimated Engagement Time: 7 minutes
Performance Guidelines
This resource provides an example of COVID-19 safety protocols for high school performances, competitions, and musical productions. The resource includes guidelines on physical distancing, assigned spaces, mask usage, and other safety protocols specific to competitions and performances.
Tags:
Safe and Healthy Environments
; PreK-12 Schools
Language: English
Resource Type: State or Local Resources
Organization: The School District of Lee County
Estimated Engagement Time: 2 minutes
COVID-19 Situational Update
This resource provides an example of communication to district personnel regarding up-to-date information about community and district health, COVID-19 vaccinations and testing, community outreach, and employee assistance.
Tags:
Safe and Healthy Environments
; PreK-12 Schools
Language: English
Resource Type: Best Practices ; State or Local Resources
Organization: The School District of Lee County
Estimated Engagement Time: 3 minutes
New Mexico Outdoor Learning Guidance for 2020-2021 School Reentry
This fact sheet provides administrators, teachers, and families with practical tools, resources, and practices to safely conduct outdoor learning and reduce the risk of COVID-19 transmission.
Tags:
Safe and Healthy Environments
; PreK-12 Schools
Language: English
Resource Type: Innovative Spotlight; State or Local Resources; Best Practices
Organization: New Mexico Public Education Department
Estimated Engagement Time: 5 minutes
Operating Safely During COVID-19: School Nutrition Staff Safety, Food Safety, and COVID-19
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
Language: English
Resource Type: State or Local Resources
Organization: Virginia Department of Education, Office of School Nutrition Programs
Estimated Engagement Time: 6 minutes
Operating Safely During COVID-19: Back to School Toolkit
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
Language: English
Resource Type: State or Local Resources
Organization: Virginia Department of Education, Office of School Nutrition Programs
Estimated Engagement Time: 36 minutes
Teaching Virtual Lab Science Classes, Synchronously, to Students at a Rural, Remote, Native-American-Serving Non-Tribal Community College
This program profile highlights how Northland Pioneer College redesigned lab science classes to replicate key components of the in-person lab experience and maintain student engagement in active learning during the remote instruction period. The program included the provision of lab material kits for students at home and the use of technology to connect students online.
Tags:
Safe and Healthy Environments
; Students from low-income backgrounds; Racial/ethnic subgroups
; Colleges and Universities
Language: English
Resource Type: Lessons Learned ; Innovative Spotlight
Organization: Northland Pioneer College
Estimated Engagement Time: 2 minutes
Lessons from the ABC Science Collaborative
This program profiles provides lessons learned through collaborations between school and community leaders, as well as scientists and physicians, to make informed decisions about returning to in-person learning. The profile outlines how decisions may be informed through evidence in the medical literature, a core set of principles for mitigating COVID-19 transmission, a national program for equitable access to information, and symptom-tracking tools.
Tags:
Safe and Healthy Environments
; PreK-12 Schools
Language: English
Resource Type: Best Practices
Organization: ABC Science Collaborative
Estimated Engagement Time: 4 minutes
COVID-19 Best Practices for Summer Camps
This program profile shares planning and implementation procedures for safe operation of an in-person summer learning camp that was held in the San Francisco Bay Area of California during the COVID-19 pandemic. It offers guidance, strategies, and lessons learned for providing in-person summer learning experiences for students while maintaining compliance with Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and local county health guidelines.
Tags:
Safe and Healthy Environments
; PreK-12 Schools
Language: English
Resource Type: Lessons Learned
Organization: DesignX
Estimated Engagement Time: 11 minutes
College of Central Florida COVID-19 Plan
This program profile describes the College of Central Florida's COVID-19 pandemic response and lists strategies used by the institution to address challenges caused by COVID-19, such as adapting services and implementing mitigation measures.
Tags:
Safe and Healthy Environments
; Colleges and Universities
Language: English
Resource Type: Best Practices
Organization: College of Central Florida
Estimated Engagement Time: 10 minutes
Turtle Mountain Community College COVID-19 Response Plan
This program profile shares a detailed plan of action for phased school reopening. The plan offers guidance for students, teachers, faculty, and staff during each phase of reopening and is customizable based on COVID-19 caseload and local community needs.
Tags:
Safe and Healthy Environments
; Colleges and Universities
Language: English
Resource Type: Best Practices ; State or Local Resources
Organization: Turtle Mountain Community College
Estimated Engagement Time: 18 minutes
Certainty in a Time of Uncertainty
This reopening plan utilizes local, state, and federal public health guidance to provide a detailed outline for safely reopening schools. It shares best practices for encouraging student retention and success; supporting students by strengthening organizational capacity; and increasing the health, safety and well-being of students, faculty, staff and the community.
Tags:
Safe and Healthy Environments
; Colleges and Universities
Language: English
Resource Type: Best Practices ; State or Local Resources
Organization: Hocking College
Estimated Engagement Time: 2 minutes
San Bernardino County & Victor Valley College’s COVID-19 Testing Site
This program profile describes a partnership between Victor Valley College and San Bernardino County, California, that involved working to increase organizational capacity and to support whole community health through the creation and operation of a no-cost COVID-19 testing site.
Tags:
Safe and Healthy Environments
; Colleges and Universities
Language: English
Resource Type: Best Practices
Organization: Victor Valley College
Estimated Engagement Time: 4 minutes
Utica College COVID-19 Surveillance Testing Protocol
This Web page hosts a collection of tools and resources for students, faculty, and staff that share guidance and best practices for safe campus operation during and after the COVID-19 pandemic. Featuring Utica College's COVID-19 surveillance testing protocol and reopening guides, this Web page also holds archives of the college's historical COVID-19 response plans and communications.
Tags:
Safe and Healthy Environments
; Colleges and Universities
Language: English
Resource Type: Best Practices ; Innovative Spotlight
Organization: Utica College
Estimated Engagement Time: Dependent on user
Northeast Iowa Community College Coronavirus Website & Playbook
This Website and playbook serve as a comprehensive guide and resource hub for Northeast Iowa Community College’s COVID-19 response. The Website and playbook detail the procedures and protocols implemented to ensure safe and healthy environments and to communicate updates on public health data and developments in campus operations and services.
Tags:
Safe and Healthy Environments
; Colleges and Universities
Language: English
Resource Type: Best Practices
Organization: Northeast Iowa Community College
Estimated Engagement Time: 1 minute
COVID-19 Recommendations for Postsecondary Education
This program profile provides a selection of Neumann University’s best practices to maintain safe and healthy environments and support students, faculty, and staff during remote learning and limited in-person instruction throughout the COVID-19 pandemic. It includes details on practices such as investing in a robust technological infrastructure before the onset of COVID-19, allowing for student and faculty choice in classroom instruction methods and limiting in-person class sizes.
Tags:
Safe and Healthy Environments
; Colleges and Universities
Language: English
Resource Type: Best Practices
Organization: Neumann University
Estimated Engagement Time: 3 minutes
Personal Protective Equipment Inventory Management Sample Report
This innovative spotlight shares a data-driven approach for ensuring accessible and transparent management of personal protective equipment (PPE). The university utilizes materials management software and data dashboards to track the receipt, distribution, usage, and current inventory of PPE and ensures the university maintains supply and anticipates future needs.
Tags:
Safe and Healthy Environments
; Colleges and Universities
Language: English
Resource Type: Lessons Learned ; Innovative Spotlight
Organization: Western Carolina University
Estimated Engagement Time: Dependent on user
Personal Protective Equipment Inventory Management Western Carolina University
This program profile provides an innovative model for use of personal protective equipment (PPE) and the management of COVID-19 related materials on college and university campuses. The program utilizes existing software, namely TMA warehouse inventory management software and Tableau data dashboards, to enable all inventory management stakeholders to have reliable, transparent access to actionable PPE inventory data.
Tags:
Safe and Healthy Environments
; English learners
; Colleges and Universities
Language: English
Resource Type: Lessons Learned ; Innovative Spotlight
Organization: Western Carolina University
Estimated Engagement Time: 2 minutes
Jarvis Christian College COVID-19 Best Practices
This fact sheet provides a bulleted list of Jarvis Christian College’s procedures, protocols, and services to maintain safe and healthy environments and support students, faculty, and staff during the return to in-person campus activities.
Tags:
Safe and Healthy Environments
; Colleges and Universities
Language: English
Resource Type: Best Practices
Organization: Jarvis Christian College
Estimated Engagement Time: 3 minutes
Incident Command Model
This program profile highlights the innovative COVID-19 pandemic response management model employed at Defiance College. The college’s Incident Command model sets in place collaborative decision-making and accountability structures to craft an appropriate and consistent administrative response to the COVID-19 pandemic.
Tags:
Safe and Healthy Environments
; Colleges and Universities
Language: English
Resource Type: Lessons Learned; Innovative Spotlight; State or Local Resources
Organization: Defiance College
Estimated Engagement Time: 3 minutes
Social Emotional Wellness: Considerations for Youth in Marginalized Groups
This infographic guide includes key facts, essential questions, and links to curated resources that promote the social-emotional well-being of youth in marginalized groups.
Tags:
Safe and Healthy Environments
; Racial/ethnic subgroups
; PreK-12 Schools
Language: English
Resource Type: State or Local Resources
Organization: Virginia Department of Education
Estimated Engagement Time: 4 minutes
Social Emotional Wellness: Considerations for Military-Connected Learners
This infographic guide includes key facts, essential questions, and links to curated resources that promote the social-emotional well-being of military-connected learners.
Tags:
Safe and Healthy Environments
; Student veterans; Military-connected students
; PreK-12 Schools
Language: English
Resource Type: State or Local Resources
Organization: Virginia Department of Education
Estimated Engagement Time: 1 minute
Santa Fe College (Gainesville, Florida) Response to the COVID-19 Pandemic
This implementation story shares a comprehensive outline of Santa Fe College’s strategies and initiatives to assist students, faculty, staff, and community members by providing public health information and support services during both the remote instruction period and the return to in-person instruction.
Tags:
Safe and Healthy Environments
; Students from low-income backgrounds; First-generation college students
; Colleges and Universities
Language: English
Resource Type: Best Practices ; Lessons Learned
Organization: Santa Fe College
Estimated Engagement Time: 3 minutes
COVID-19 Preparedness Plan
This guide from the Nova Academy of Cosmetology shares procedures and protocols to maintain safe and healthy environments for students, staff and clients during the COVID-19 pandemic. The guide provides an example of best practices for cosmetology programs or other education programs that require client interactions.
Tags:
Safe and Healthy Environments
; Colleges and Universities
Language: English
Resource Type: Best Practices
Organization: Nova Academy of Cosmetology
Estimated Engagement Time: 7 minutes
Tennessee State University Operations Guide Spring/Fall 2020 – Updated Spring 2021: COVID-19 Best Practices
This program profile outlines the best practices implemented at Tennessee State University to maintain a safe and healthy campus environment amidst the COVID-19 pandemic. It highlights protocols and procedures for residential buildings and campus life, courses and classrooms, research labs and employees.
Tags:
Safe and Healthy Environments
; Colleges and Universities
Language: English
Resource Type: Best Practices
Organization: Tennessee State University
Estimated Engagement Time: 14 minutes
Strategies for Maintaining Campus Health and Safety during COVID-19
This program profile highlights Rowan-Cabarrus Community College’s best practices for maintaining a safe and healthy campus environment and developing support networks for students. The college implemented a variety of strategies including a COVID-19 dashboard, a team of health screeners, an online student assistance form and a laptop loaner program.
Tags:
Safe and Healthy Environments
; Colleges and Universities
Language: English
Resource Type: Best Practices
Organization: Rowan-Cabarrus Community College
Estimated Engagement Time: 4 minutes
LinkedIn Learning
This program profile shares an education technology implementation success story
from University of La Verne. The university supports student success by integrating LinkedIn Learning technology with general education and career center Web platforms. By combining these tools, University of La Verne leverages technology to enhance retention, student success and student career outcomes.
Tags:
Safe and Healthy Environments
; English learners, First-generation college students, Students from low-income backgrounds, Undocumented students
; Colleges and Universities
Language: English
Resource Type: Best Practices ; Innovative Spotlight
Organization: University of La Verne
Estimated Engagement Time: 3 minutes
Mental Health (Telehealth) Support for College Students
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
Language: English
Resource Type: Best Practices
Organization: Iowa Lakes Community College
Estimated Engagement Time: Dependent on user
Update on Transmission of SARS CoV2 Variants
This Web page offers current information on the existence and incidence of COVID-19 variants and shares actionable guidance which individuals, schools, districts and communities can use to stay healthy and protected against different variants of COVID-19.
Tags:
Safe and Healthy Environments
; PreK-12 Schools
Language: English
Resource Type: Best Practices ; State or Local Resources
Organization: ABC Science Collaborative
Estimated Engagement Time: 3 minutes
Update on School Lunch
This Web page provides guidance on maintaining physical distancing in schools during lunchtime. It also offers guidance and mitigation strategies to support education agencies with working to ensure lunchtime remains safe when inclement weather reduces access to outdoor space.
Tags:
Safe and Healthy Environments
; PreK-12 Schools
Language: English
Resource Type: Best Practices ; State or Local Resources
Organization: ABC Science Collaborative
Estimated Engagement Time: 2 minutes
Update on Masking
This Web page shares current research and best practices on double-masking and offers insight on how double-masking combined with other COVID-19 mitigation strategies can help ensure safe and healthy school environments.
Tags:
Safe and Healthy Environments
; PreK-12 Schools
Language: English
Resource Type: Best Practices ; State or Local Resources
Organization: ABC Science Collaborative
Estimated Engagement Time: 2 minutes
Update on Bus Safety
This Web page shares COVID-19 safety and mitigation strategies specific to school bus transportation.
Tags:
Safe and Healthy Environments
; PreK-12 Schools
Language: English
Resource Type: Best Practices ; State or Local Resources
Organization: ABC Science Collaborative
Estimated Engagement Time: 4 minutes
ABC Pandemic Management Platform
This online platform hosts an integrated set of tools for gathering, monitoring and analyzing the daily health information of students and adults at school.
Tags:
Safe and Healthy Environments
; PreK-12 Schools
Language: English
Resource Type: Best Practices ; State or Local Resources
Organization: ABC Science Collaborative
Estimated Engagement Time: Dependent on user
Kentucky Department of Education COVID-19 Guidance 2.0
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
Language: English
Resource Type: State or Local Resources
Organization: Kentucky Department of Education
Estimated Engagement Time: 2 hours and 53 minutes
The Guidance and Safety Expectations and Best Practices for Kentucky Schools
This guide outlines universal expectations and best practices for reopening Kentucky K-12 schools amidst the COVID-19 pandemic. The guide includes detailed information about social distancing, mask requirements, screening and school health policies, sanitation efforts, and contact tracing.
Tags:
Safe and Healthy Environments
; PreK-12 Schools
Language: English
Resource Type: Best Practices ; State or Local Resources
Organization: Kentucky Department of Education
Estimated Engagement Time: 20 minutes
Warner Public Schools’ COVID-19 Plan
This document details one public school district's mitigation approaches to ensure safe operation during the COVID-19 pandemic.
Tags:
Safe and Healthy Environments
; Racial/ethnic subgroups
; PreK-12 Schools
Language: English
Resource Type: Lessons Learned
Organization: Warner Public Schools
Estimated Engagement Time: 1 minute
Rethinking Schools: A Public Health Guided Return to Site-Based Classroom Instruction in the Age of COVID-19
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
Language: English
Resource Type: Best Practices ; State or Local Resource ; Lessons Learned
Organization: Marin County Office of Education
Estimated Engagement Time: Dependent on user
Marin County Schools Dashboard
This dashboard uses interactive maps to share current information on school opening status and COVID-19 spread. Originally created to provide visual information for the Marin County school district community, this Website provides a template other school districts can model when creating a geographic information systems dashboard.
Tags:
Safe and Healthy Environments
; PreK-12 Schools
Language: English
Resource Type: Innovative Spotlight
Organization: Marin County Office of Education
Estimated Engagement Time: Dependent on user
Northern Essex Community College’s Guide for Returning to Work and FAQ
This guide provides support and guidance on reopening and mitigating the spread of COVID-19 in colleges and universities. The comprehensive guide features sections on cleaning protocols, case tracking and reporting, air quality and safety, and student and faculty support services.
Tags:
Safe and Healthy Environments
; Colleges and Universities
Language: English
Resource Type: Best Practices ; State or Local Resources
Organization: Northern Essex Community College
Estimated Engagement Time: 40 minutes
St. Petersburg College Comeback Plan
This video for students, staff and faculty outlines St. Petersburg College’s COVID-19 mitigation protocols and procedures established to facilitate a safe and healthy environment for in-person instruction and activities during the COVID-19 pandemic. The video provides an example of leveraging multimedia formats to communicate important safety protocols to school communities.
Tags:
Safe and Healthy Environments
; Colleges and Universities
Language: English
Resource Type: Best Practices ; State or Local Resources
Organization: St. Petersburg College
Estimated Engagement Time: 3 minutes
COVID-19 Resource Page
This Web page provides resources that support students, teachers, faculty, staff and the greater community. It compiles local, state and federal public health resources; shares a detailed return to campus plan; and offers information on COVID-19 vaccination eligibility and accessibility.
Tags:
Safe and Healthy Environments
; Colleges and Universities
Language: English
Resource Type: Best Practices
Organization: Rowan-Cabarrus Community College
Estimated Engagement Time: 3 minutes
Institutional Effort to Combat an Invisible Enemy
This Web page provides regular updates about the COVID-19 pandemic to faculty, staff, students, and families of Navajo Technical University. It also provides broadly applicable resources on health and wellness, safety protocols and reopening plans.
Tags:
Safe and Healthy Environments
; Students from low-income backgrounds; Racial/ethnic subgroups; Student veterans; Military-connected students; Students experiencing homelessness; First-generation college students
; Colleges and Universities
Language: English
Resource Type: Best Practices
Organization: Navajo Technical University
Estimated Engagement Time: Dependent on user
Opening the University Safely Protocols
This Web page for the Missouri Baptist University community outlines the university’s COVID-19 mitigation protocols and procedures established to facilitate a safe and healthy environment as the school reopened in Fall 2020. These protocols and procedures were implemented and communicated by the University’s COVID Action Team and enabled the university to navigate a successful reopening.
Tags:
Safe and Healthy Environments
; Colleges and Universities
Language: English
Resource Type: Best Practices ; State or Local Resources
Organization: Missouri Baptist University
Estimated Engagement Time: 6 minutes
Ring the Bell: Return to In-Person Learning Guidance
This Web page is a resource hub for New Mexico educators and families that provides local data, guidance and tools to maintain safe and healthy environments and to support students and families as schools return to in-person instruction. It offers resources broadly applicable to the education field, including a COVID-19 response toolkit for public schools; reentry support documents; and guidance and resources for educators, school safety and student supports, families and the community.
Tags:
Safe and Healthy Environments
; PreK-12 Schools
Language: English; Español
Resource Type: State or Local Resources
Organization: New Mexico Public Education Department
Estimated Engagement Time: 4 minutes
Guidance Related to Child Care During COVID 19
This Web page shares strategies for reducing the risk of exposure and spread of COVID-19 in early child care and education settings.
Tags:
Safe and Healthy Environments
; Early Childhood Programs
Language: English
Resource Type: Best Practices ; Federal Resources ; State or Local Resources
Organization: North Carolina Department of Public Instruction
Estimated Engagement Time: 32 minutes
Safe Mealtime Procedures in Schools
This Web page offers a step-by-step framework and implementation models for schools to plan mealtime procedures that are appropriate for their facilities and resources, ensure the safety of students and staff, and address the needs of remote students. It highlights examples of schools that have returned to in-person or hybrid instruction.
Tags:
Safe and Healthy Environments
; PreK-12 Schools
Language: English
Resource Type: Best Practices
Organization: The Learning Accelerator
Estimated Engagement Time: 10 minutes
Mask and PPE Culture Topic Page
This Web page shares key recommendations, considerations and strategies for building a mask-wearing culture in schools. Accompanying resources include a toolkit for educators on school mask culture, guides on mask protocols, examples from the field, and educational stories and a video for students.
Tags:
Safe and Healthy Environments
; PreK-12 Schools
Language: English
Resource Type: Best Practices
Organization: The Learning Accelerator
Estimated Engagement Time: 3 minutes
Trauma-Responsive Care: A Framework for Resilience for Tribes
This webinar for early childhood providers offers guidance on how to identify the impact of adverse childhood experiences on children, caregivers and families; recognize the value of culturally responsive approaches to support resiliency in children, families and Indigenous communities; and understand the elements of a trauma-responsive system of care.
Tags:
Safe and Healthy Environments
; Racial/ethnic subgroups
; Early Childhood Programs
Language: English
Resource Type: Federal Resources ; Technical Assistance Center Resources
Organization: Office of Child Care National Center on Tribal Early Childhood Education
Estimated Engagement Time: 1 hour and 16 minutes
Office of Child Care & Office of Head Start National Centers’ COVID-19 Resources for Tribal Early Care and Education Programs
This report and resource compilation is designed for early care and education programs administered by Tribal Nations, Tribal consortia, and other entities who work with Tribal child care providers, Tribal Head Start or Early Head Start programs, and Tribal Home Visiting programs. These resources support program leaders in navigating the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on Tribal children, families, providers, staff and communities.
Tags:
Safe and Healthy Environments
; Racial/ethnic subgroups
; Early Childhood Programs
Language: English
Resource Type: Federal Resources ; Technical Assistance Center Resources
Organization: Office of Child Care National Center on Tribal Early Childhood Education
Estimated Engagement Time: 12 minutes
Child Care and Development Fund Health and Safety Requirements Brief #1: Prevention and Control of Infectious Diseases
This brief for Licensing and Child Care and Development Fund administrators provides an overview of national guidelines and state requirements on the prevention and control of infectious disease in child care settings. The brief supports administrators considering revisions to state standards for both licensed and license-exempt providers, and guides school and home care provider efforts to improve the health and safety of their learning environments.
Tags:
Safe and Healthy Environments
; Early Childhood Programs
Language: English
Resource Type: Federal Resources ; Technical Assistance Center Resources
Organization: Office of Child Care Early Childhood Quality Assurance Center (HHS TA Center)
Estimated Engagement Time: 9 minutes
Out-of-School-Time Emergency Preparedness, Response and Recovery Toolkit
This toolkit for out-of-school-time programs provides program leaders with multiple resources for supporting safe and healthy environments for school-age children. The toolkit also contains a section providing guidance related to the COVID-19 pandemic.
Tags:
Safe and Healthy Environments
; Students from low-income backgrounds
; Early Childhood Programs
Language: English
Resource Type: Federal Resources ; Technical Assistance Center Resources
Organization: Office of Child Care National Center for Afterschool and Summer Enrichment (HHS TA Center)
Estimated Engagement Time: Dependent on user
Perspectives from Research and Practice: Limiting COVID-19 Transmission in Child Care Programs
This webinar shares perspectives from epidemiology, state human services and health departments, and child care providers about how Rhode Island was able to limit COVID-19 transmission in child care settings. Panelists also explore strategies for minimizing transmission moving forward based on CDC guidance, state requirements, and provider experiences offering care under new protocols to keep children, families and child care staff healthy and safe.
Tags:
Safe and Healthy Environments
; Early Childhood Programs
Language: English
Resource Type: Federal Resources ; Technical Assistance Center Resources
Organization: Office of Childcare State Capacity Building Center (HHS TA Center)
Estimated Engagement Time: 1 hour and 24 minutes
COVID-19: Key Questions to Ask Before School Reopens
This discussion guide provides key questions for parents, students, and community members to ask during reopening discussions with district and local school leaders. Question topics include school operations, academic recovery, social-emotional and health supports, remote learning and family engagement.
Tags:
Safe and Healthy Environments
; PreK-12 Schools
Language: English
Resource Type: Best Practices
Organization: SPAN Parent Advocacy Network
Estimated Engagement Time: 6 minutes
Effective Classroom Instructional & Behavior Management Strategies
This presentation for educators provides an overview of strategies to create supportive and positive classrooms using positive behavioral interventions and supports.
Tags:
Safe and Healthy Environments; Teacher, Early Childhood Provider, Faculty, and Staff Well-being, Professional Development, and Supports
; PreK-12 Schools
Language: English
Resource Type: Best Practices ; Technical Assistance Center Resources
Organization: Positive Behavioral Interventions and Supports (PBIS)
Estimated Engagement Time: Dependent on user
Positive Behavioral Interventions and Supports and Continuity of Learning: Getting Systems Back Up and Running
This presentation offers strategies for schools to establish and maintain systems to keep education safe, predictable and positive upon return to in-person instruction following school closures, remote learning, and possible trauma related to the COVID-19 pandemic.
Tags:
Safe and Healthy Environments; Teacher, Early Childhood Provider, Faculty, and Staff Well-being, Professional Development, and Supports
; PreK-12 Schools
Language: English
Resource Type: Best Practices ; Technical Assistance Center Resources
Organization: Positive Behavioral Interventions and Supports (PBIS)
Estimated Engagement Time: 6 minutes
Returning to School During and After Crisis: A Guide to Supporting States, Districts, Schools, Educators, and Students through a Multi-Tiered Systems of Support Framework during the 2020-2021 School Year
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
Language: English
Resource Type: Best Practices ; Technical Assistance Center Resources
Organization: Positive Behavioral Interventions and Supports (PBIS)
Estimated Engagement Time: 58 minutes
Getting Back to School after Disruptions: Resources for Making Your School Year Safer, More Predictable and More Positive
This practice guide presents six strategies school teams can use to ensure a safe, predictable and positive school year. These strategies are applicable for all students experiencing school closure, as well as for individual students returning from extended time away from school.
Tags:
Safe and Healthy Environments
; PreK-12 Schools
Language: English; Español
Resource Type: Best Practices ; Technical Assistance Center Resources
Organization: Positive Behavioral Interventions and Supports (PBIS)
Estimated Engagement Time: 3 minutes
Virtual Individualized Education Program Meeting Tip Sheets
This guide provides information on holding and participating in virtual individualized education program meetings. The resource includes technology tips, tips for hosting virtual meetings and tips for participating in virtual individualized education program meetings.
Tags:
Safe and Healthy Environments
; PreK-12 Schools
Language: English
Resource Type: Best Practices ; Technical Assistance Center Resources
Organization: PROGRESS Center
Estimated Engagement Time: Dependent on user
Western Educational Equity Assistance Center Guidance for Reopening Schools
This video provides guidance for secondary school administrators on school reopening.
Tags:
Safe and Healthy Environments
; PreK-12 Schools
Language: English
Resource Type: Best Practices ; Technical Assistance Center Resources
Organization: Region 4 Equity Assistance Center (WEEAC)
Estimated Engagement Time: 15 minutes
Healthy Students = Strong Learners
This documentary shares information and evidence from one state's efforts to improve the health and academic outcomes of public school students through expanding access to health care.
Tags:
Safe and Healthy Environments
; PreK-12 Schools
Language: English
Resource Type: Best Practices ; Technical Assistance Center Resources
Organization: Regional Educational Laboratory Midwest
Estimated Engagement Time: 27 minutes
Learning for a Lifetime
This documentary focuses on strategies for promoting a positive school climate, trust between students and staff, and the implementation of Social and Emotional Learning (SEL) practices. The documentary also provides an overview of fundamental SEL concepts.
Tags:
Safe and Healthy Environments
; PreK-12 Schools
Language: English
Resource Type: Lessons Learned; Implementation Stories; Technical Assistance Center Resources
Organization: Regional Educational Laboratory Midwest
Estimated Engagement Time: 27 minutes
COVID-19: Evidence-Based Resources
This website is a collaboration of the 10 Regional Educational Laboratories to provide evidence-based resources and guidance about teaching and learning in a remote environment.
Tags:
Safe and Healthy Environments
; Early Childhood Programs; PreK-12 Schools; Colleges and Universities
Language: English
Resource Type: Best Practices ; Technical Assistance Center Resources
Organization: Regional Educational Laboratory Midwest
Estimated Engagement Time: 26 minutes
Supporting Student’s Social and Emotional Learning
These two webinars provide education and guidance for districts and schools in implementing Social and Emotional Learning practices.
Tags:
Safe and Healthy Environments
; PreK-12 Schools
Language: English
Resource Type: Best Practices ; Technical Assistance Center Resources
Organization: Regional Educational Laboratory Midwest
Estimated Engagement Time: 51 minutes
Seizing the Moment: Race Equity Mindsets, Social and Emotional Well-Being, and Outcomes for Students
In this webinar, panelists share research on race equity mindsets, social and emotional well-being, and outcomes for Black, Latinx, and other students of color, providing evidence for equity focused program models in schools as a driver for improving student outcomes. Panelists provide practical strategies for school leaders to: advance equitable learning environments for Black, Latinx, and other students of color, promote positive relationships among educators, students, and families, and foster agency and belonging.
Tags:
Safe and Healthy Environments
; Racial/ethnic subgroups
; PreK-12 Schools
Language: English
Resource Type: Lessons Learned; Best Practices; Technical Assistance Center Resources
Organization: Regional Educational Laboratory West
Estimated Engagement Time: 1 hour and 25 minutes
The School Climate Survey Compendium
The School-Climate Survey Compendium is a collection of valid and reliable surveys, assessments, and scales of school climate that can assist educators in their efforts to identify and assess conditions for learning.
Tags:
Safe and Healthy Environments
; PreK-12 Schools
Language: English
Resource Type: Best Practices ; Technical Assistance Center Resources
Organization: The National Center on Safe and Supportive Learning Environments (NCSSLE)
Estimated Engagement Time: Dependent on user
The ED School Climate Surveys (EDSCLS)
The ED School Climate Surveys (EDSCLS) allow States, local districts, and schools to collect and act on reliable, nationally validated school climate data in real-time.
Tags:
Safe and Healthy Environments
; PreK-12 Schools
Language: English
Resource Type: Best Practices ; Technical Assistance Center Resources
Organization: The National Center on Safe and Supportive Learning Environments (NCSSLE)
Estimated Engagement Time: Dependent on user
The School Climate Improvement Resource Package
This package includes a variety of resources to meet a range of needs among stakeholders interested in improving school climate. These resources include: Quick Guide on Making School Climate Improvements; School Climate Improvement Reference Manual; School Climate Improvement Action Guides; School Climate Data Interpretation Resources; and Online Modules.
Tags:
Safe and Healthy Environments
; PreK-12 Schools
Language: English
Resource Type: Best Practices ; Technical Assistance Center Resources
Organization: The National Center on Safe and Supportive Learning Environments (NCSSLE)
Estimated Engagement Time: Dependent on user
Creating A Safe and Respectful Environment in Our Nation's Classrooms - Learning Module
This tool provides support for educators to reduce instances of bullying behavior and build a supportive classroom climate in which bullying is less likely to occur. The content is available in Train the Trainer and Individual formats.
Tags:
Safe and Healthy Environments
; PreK-12 Schools
Language: English
Resource Type: Best Practices ; Technical Assistance Center Resources
Organization: The National Center on Safe and Supportive Learning Environments (NCSSLE)
Estimated Engagement Time: Dependent on user
Framework and Accompanying Tools
This framework and supporting tools help educators identify key areas to focus on to create a safe and supportive school climate. Resources include parent and educator guides and school climate surveys to support states, districts and schools in assessing and improving conditions for learning.
Tags:
Safe and Healthy Environments
; PreK-12 Schools
Language: English
Resource Type: Best Practices ; Technical Assistance Center Resources
Organization: The National Center on Safe and Supportive Learning Environments (NCSSLE)
Estimated Engagement Time: Dependent on user