Educator Supports
Teaching Innovation: New School Staffing Strategies Inspired by the Pandemic
This report examines how schools and districts created innovative staffing and scheduling strategies in reaction to emerging needs during the pandemic. The report delves into new staffing strategies, conditions during the pandemic that enabled them, how educators overcame barriers to the innovations, and how the strategies could be sustained and scaled post-pandemic.
Making Teacher Diversity a Priority: One Strategy to Improve Student Engagement

Post-pandemic, the country has been plagued by chronic absenteeism, with some reports finding that two-thirds of students in the country attend a school with high levels of chronic absence (20% of students missing four or more weeks).

Advancing and Sustaining Student and Staff Wellbeing Initiatives: A Resource Guide for States
This guide provides state leaders an overview of five actions necessary to establish lasting, effective student and staff wellbeing initiatives.
NPSS-Aligned Programs In All 50 States
This map highlights some of the organizations and efforts around the country working in one or more of these five roles to provide students with the academic, social, mental health, and other supports they need to recover from the impacts and disruptions of the pandemic and thrive.
RESTART Network Study Teams Share Progress and Key Learnings

Members of the RESTART Network’s Core Research teams gathered during the 2024 RESTART Network Forum to share progress and key learnings from their studies with members of other research teams and representatives from the Institute of Education Sciences and Office of Elementary and Secondary Education. Representatives from each of the five teams, hailing from states across the country, presented emerging trends of student experiences and outcomes during COVID-19 pandemic.

Curriculum That Counts
The January 2024 Issue of the State Education Standard from the National Association of State Boards of Education features articles about curriculum and education materials.
COVID-19 Revealed New Roles for Cities to Create a Continuum of Support for Youth and Families. They Shouldn't End with the Pandemic
This brief provides an overview of the use of learning pods in the 100 largest cities in the U.S.
Coming Back Stronger: 2021-2022 Kindergarten Readiness Assessment Report
This report provides a summary of the results of the Kindergarten Readiness Assessment used to assess the majority of the kindergarteners enrolled in Maryland's public schools in 2021-2022.
Advocacy, Collaboration, and Intervention: A Model of Distance Special Education Support Services Amid COVID-19
This journal article shares the steps taken by a school to advocate for and implement a model that allows special education services to access the behavior-analytic educational supports they had received on campus (e.g., Board Certified Behavior Analyst and paraprofessional support) in a novel and remote manner.
Educator Attrition in North Carolina Public Schools: Updates through September 2023
This brief analyzes the current state - as of September 2023 - of teacher and principal attrition in North Carolina public schools.