l districts in the data set are a mix of sizes and are distributed nationally to represent local decision-making across the country.
Coronavirus (COVID-19) Pandemic - Data Hub V 2.1: Provides official economic, demographic and American Community Survey [ACS] data from the U.S. Census Bureau that can help inform COVID-19 policy- and operational decision-making.
COVID-19 After Action Review Toolkit: Offers a toolkit that can help organizations reflect, assess, learn, and improve. Organizations can use the review tool retrospectively to assess previous activities; and can also use it to guide in-action reviews of ongoing activities. Mathematica and the Public Health Foundation collaboratively developed this toolkit to help organizations conduct effective, equitable, and trauma-informed After Action reviews.
State Policies/Statements on Re-Opening: Provides a list of hyperlinks to policy documents or news stories from every state describing their school reopening plans and actions (collected during July 2020).
OESE Back to School Success Stories: Presents a catalogue of testimonials written and submitted by parents, teachers, school officials, and community members sharing their positive experience bringing students back to school in the wake of COVID-19-related school disruptions and closings. (OESE welcomes submittal of additional submittals. Please reach out to: email@example.com.)
NGA Education’s State Reopening Tracking: Indicates actions that states have taken to reopen educational settings, including childcare settings, camps and summer school programming, K-12 schools, and postsecondary institutions. The included chart displays an evolving analysis of reopening in the education sector but is not exhaustive of statewide actions. The list addresses statewide guidance but does not address K-12 school or school district level guidance.
Colorado: Planning the 2020-21 School Year: Serves as a statewide hub for communication, including a statewide framework and toolkit for school and district leaders, to support school districts’ provision and continuity of learning for the 2020-21 school year.
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: Describes the use of a multi-tiered systems of support (MTSS) framework to support students, families, and educators during the transitions back to school during and following the global pandemic in a manner that prioritizes their health and safety, social and emotional needs, and behavioral and academic growth.
Seven Ways Schools Can Maintain Supportive Climates: A positive school climate is crucially important to school success. Climate affects attendance, engagement, learning and even graduation rates. This infographic provided in English and Spanish by the Region III Equity Assistance Center, IDRA EAC-South shares ways that school districts can ensure safe and supportive campus climates for students, teachers, staff and families during this pandemic.
Best Practice Guide: Five Ways to Talk with Students Returning After Pandemic Closures: Describes five common situations educators might expect to see, due to the stresses of the pandemic, as students return to school, and offers five ways educators can start a one-to-one conversation to help understand what’s underlying a student’s behavior, based on those situations. This tip sheet was developed by Kognito, and draws from the American Academy of Pediatrics and adaptations of evidence-based motivational interviewing (MI).
What Students Are Saying about What It's Like to Be Back in School: Provides a variety of first-person insights by high school students as part of the New York Times’ Learning Network series, Current Events Conversation. Many teenagers are back in school for the first time since March 2020. Some are thrilled to be with their peers and teachers again, while others have had a hard time adjusting. But most agreed that going back to school in an ongoing pandemic feels