Safe and Healthy Environments
School and campus approaches to implementing the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s (CDC) recommended mitigation strategies and preparing for and sustaining in-person operations safely. This includes recommendations across all grade and age levels of students served, with focus both on reopening buildings for the first time as well as keeping them open safely.
Providing Supports to Students
School and campus strategies to meet student social, emotional, mental health, academic, and other needs, including access to food and other basic needs. This includes a specific focus on the most vulnerable learners and ensuring that resources provided by schools and campuses will be able to connect with and meet the needs of those disconnected from learning.
Teacher, Faculty, and Staff Well-Being, Professional Development, and Supports
School and campus strategies to address the social, emotional, health, and other needs of teachers, faculty, and staff.
Implementation Stories
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Innovative Spotlight
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Federal, State & Local Guidance
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Submit Best Practices
States, regions, and localities have always been leaders of innovation, and the pandemic has spurred schools, institutions, and individuals to find new ways to meet students’ needs. Help the Department capture and elevate your stories through our best-practices clearinghouse. Together, we can ensure efforts to safely reopen schools are always grounded in science and proven practices, so we do what is most effective for students and families. Select your education audience below to submit a best practice story, tool, or resource.
Message from the Secretary
Our top priority in the coming months must be to work together to safely reopen all schools for in-person learning, beginning with children in grades K-8. The data, and daily experience, show our children need us to find a way to take this step. My career experiences have taught me that education is primarily a state and local endeavor, and I know students, educators, administrators, staff, and families have performed heroically under these difficult circumstances to take steps toward reopening and to support students wherever they are learning. From a federal perspective, our role is to provide support, guidance, and directions on how to do it safely.
U.S. Secretary of Education
Dr. Miguel Cardona
Our Mission
To develop, maintain and continually enhance a Safer Schools and Campuses Best Practices Clearinghouse to enable schools and institutions of higher education to share lessons learned and best practices for operating safely during the pandemic.
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