These reopening surveys can invite students and families into the reopening process as well as enable districts to determine those students and families most in need of additional in-person instruction.

This brief describes principles and examples for building coherent assessment systems, informed by research and lessons learned from 3 decades of assessment reform.

This website provides resources and modules for building a trauma-informed school, and it recommends that these resources be used as part of a group-based training.

This website provides a series of resources showing social and emotional learning in action, including a road map for reopening schools and a district resource center.

This site summarizes and links to a 2015 book that details evidence-based interventions to end excessive disciplinary actions taken against African American students.

This 2015 article describes practices for teachers to create an everyday culture of caring and trust, including morning meetings that can be even more essential during remote learning.

EL Education provides a series of tools and texts as part of an integrated English language arts curriculum to help meet the needs of English learners within inclusive school environments.

The Washoe County School District website compiles distance learning and family wellness resources to promote social and emotional learning at home.

This report led by LPI Senior Advisor Hanna Melnick provides a framework for measuring social and emotional learning and how it should be included in accountability systems.

This brief analyzes a needs assessment given to 600 students and families from low-income communities of color and emphasizes the specific challenges faced by high school juniors and seniors as well as the need for additional mental health supports.

The Friday Institute's website at North Carolina State University includes a series of education briefs as well as a library of COVID-19 resources.

This 2019 article describes how teachers at one elementary school integrated social and emotional learning into their existing academic lessons.

This 2011 systematic review of social and emotional learning studies finds an overall positive effect on student achievement and offers four recommended practices.

This website provides links to several resources on how to implement restorative practices, including an equity magnifier and a restorative practice trainer's guide.

This website presents the Model Code on Education and Dignity with tailored, searchable policy recommendations and the ability to download a comprehensive 150-page report grounded in principles of human rights and freedom from discrimination.

This website explains the practice of Multi-Tier Systems of Supports (MTSS) within the state of North Dakota and includes five essential components with student testimonials.

This case study profiles San Jose State University's elementary teacher preparation program, which has prioritized social and emotional learning for the past decade.

This PDF describes the core principles of a restorative school, including how to put relationships first, while acknowledging the importance of history, race, language, and justice in shaping those relationships.

This 2016 article examines how school resource officers criminalize misbehaviors and act as central components in the school-to-prison pipeline.

This resource page curated by Dignity in Schools links to several tools related to collecting data on social and emotional learning and decreasing the criminalization of student behavior.

This 2013 article links to several resources for educators to implement restorative practices and highlights Oakland Unified as a successful implementer.

This downloadable PDF is an implementation guide for restorative practices for schools using a systematic, whole-school approach that builds a vision through continuous improvement.

This comprehensive road map from July 2020 offers extensive guidance on how to reopen schools with activities, tools, and essential questions to sustain social and emotional learning throughout the year.

This web page includes a five-part webinar series and describes how social and emotional learning can build more authentic relationships among students and adults as well as incorporate anti-racist practices, all placed within a transformative framework.