o support children’s learning at home during the COVID-19 pandemic utilizing modules. The IRIS Center is a national center dedicated to improving education outcomes for all children, especially those with disabilities birth through age 21, using effective evidence-based practices and interventions.
Coping in Hard Times: Fact Sheet for Parents (NCTSN): Describes how families' ways to reconcile may be affected by economic hardships. This comprehensive product from the National Child Traumatic Stress Network offers a variety of ways to cope during these uncertain times.
CDC COVID-19: How to Prepare (For Parents): Presents indicators of stress during an infectious disease outbreak, to guide parents about changes in their children that might indicate anxiety. This CDC page also provides guidance for supporting children through this period, including answering their questions and sharing facts, reassuring them that they are safe, limiting exposure to news coverage and social media, and keeping up regular routines. It offers self-care tips for parents to cope with stress due to COVID-19.
Tips for Supporting Yourself During the Pandemic: Offers parents and caregivers six suggestions for self-care to help fortify parents support their children's needs for safety and security in the context of the national emergency. The National Center for Pyramid Model Innovations developed this succinct, two-page guidance, and also offers an extensive bank of resources for Emergencies and Natural Disasters: Helping Children and Families Cope.
COVID-19 Planning Guide and Self-Assessment for Higher Education: Offers practical planning resources to help institutions gauge how effectively they are addressing a range of COVID-19 scenarios. This guide and accompanying risk assessment from Johns Hopkins Center for Health Security are intended to accommodate a wide range of institutions: public, private, large, small, comprehensive, specialized, urban, and rural. The tools will help institutions ensure continuity through the pandemic and might challenge them to rethink some of the basic assumptions and values of their institutions.
COVID-19 Resources: Lists ongoing news, resources, and events regarding COVID-19 and post-secondary education, provided by the American College Health Association’s COVID-19 Task Force.
Here's a List of Colleges That Require Students or Employees to Be Vaccinated Against Covid-19: Provides a map showing the locations of colleges that are requiring vaccines of at least some students or employees; a graphic showing the pace at which campuses have made their announcements; and a searchable list of those campuses. That list links to the actual announcements or statements issued by the institutions. The Chronicle of Higher Education is maintaining and updating this list, which had identified over 1,080 such campuses as of 10/19/21.
COVID-19 Guidance for Institutions of Higher Learning: Offers official CDC resources (July 2021) for administrators, faculty, staff, and students regarding operational considerations, when to quarantine, testing, contact tracing in higher education institutions, and student stress and travel guidelines.
COVID-19 Vaccine Toolkit for Institutions of Higher Education (IHE), Community Colleges, and Technical Schools: Provides official CDC materials to help administrators and staff at institutions of higher education (IHE) share clear, complete, and accurate messages about COVID-19 vaccines. These unified messages can help build confidence among students and staff and encourage COVID-19 vaccination among students.
COVID-19 Information and Resources: Presents an ongoing list of guidance and policies related to elementary and secondary education, special education, higher education, and other essential components of lifelong learning from the U.S. Department of Education. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) also continues to provide updated guidance for school settings. This information will help equip states, communities, educators, and families with resources and flexibilities that empower 