This resource from the National Association of School Psychologists and the National Association of School Nurses provides information and guidelines for parents to use when talking to their children about COVID-19. The document is available in English, Spanish, Amharic, Chinese, Korean, French, Vietnamese, Bahasa, Urdu, and Hmong.
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Strategies to Build Leadership Team Capacity on Continuous Improvement and Intensive Interventions
This resource from the Region 7 Comprehensive Center describes strategies to build school leadership team capacity to implement a continuous improvement planning model and effectively use data to make informed instructional decisions. The first section details the research behind continuous improvement models, how to adopt them, and offers targeted state-level suggestions. The second section describes the intensive intervention process and […]
SEA Opportunities to Support Principals and School Leadership Teams
This resource from the Region 7 Comprehensive Center describes steps to create distributed school leadership teams and provides a range of strategies state education agencies (SEAs) can use to support principals and leadership teams. This paper cites research that suggests that school leadership teams are not truly distributed until leaders in new roles are given time and authority; otherwise principals […]
State Guidance on Distance Learning During COVID-19: A Review of Four States’ Approaches
Considering how COVID-19 may impact the upcoming school year, members of the Region 7 Comprehensive Center (R7CC) Advisory Board requested information about best practices on distance and blended learning. In response to this inquiry, this Fast Response provides a summary of guidance on what four states are providing for distance and blended learning. The states included in the brief are […]
A Practitioner’s Guide to Responding to COVID-19 Series: Predicting the Impact of COVID-19 on Out-of-School Learning Loss
In response to questions and concerns about COVID-19 from state leadership within Region 7, a series of annotated bibliographies was created to inform stakeholders about the potential impact of increased out-of-school time and possible strategies to mitigate harm to students’ academic development. The purpose of the series of bibliographies is to address three main questions. Question 1: What will the […]