Better Together: A Coordinated Response for Principals and District Leaders
This brief highlights the important role that principals play in operating school buildings every day, and how districts can support them do that job.
After-Action Review Guide
This guide, developed to support education agencies, describes the important process of monitoring, reflecting, and making mid-course corrections during significant disruptions like COVID-19.
Strategic Budgeting: Using Evidence to Mitigate the “COVID Slide” and Move Towards Improvement
This tool examines the impact of school disruptions on student learning, increased learning loss for our most vulnerable students, and the realities of impending budget shortfalls in districts and states.
Returning to School: A Toolkit for Principals
This toolkit, organized around change, communication, collaboration, and care, delves into school and classroom level practices, structures, and systems that support both staff and students (and their families).
Considerations for Reopening Pennsylvania Schools
The Pennsylvania Department of Education (PDE) and the Mid-Atlantic Regional Educational Laboratory (REL) collaborated to produce guidance for the re-opening of school buildings in the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic.
Putting Our Money Where Our Values Are
As America grapples with an ongoing pandemic, an economic recession, and renewed national recognition of systemic racism, our nation’s students, families, and educators are at the center.