Student Wellbeing
This journal article looks at how different environmental contexts during the pandemic, including socioeconomic status and children's schooling modality, predict experiences of psychological distress for parents.
It won’t come as a surprise to most, that when students feel like they belong in school and are meaningfully connected to their peers and adults in the building, school becomes a safe place where they want to be.
This guide provides state leaders an overview of five actions necessary to establish lasting, effective student and staff wellbeing initiatives.
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.
In April 2024, the RESTART Network hosted the Actionable Insights from Research and Practice to Support Pandemic Recovery forum This two-day forum brought together researchers, policymakers, education leaders and practitioners to discuss accelerating student learning, fostering student connectedness and social emotional learning, and emerging research related to pandemic recovery.
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.
This report provides a summary of the first year of the Illinois Learning Renewal - SEL study.
This report summarizes the developing base of literature on learning acceleration approaches and shares promising practices from New Jersey schools.
This article provides specific strategies to help school-based speech-language pathologists understand and address students communication skills in the wake of the pandemic.
Social emotional learning (SEL) is a vital component of learning environments that foster well-being and success for both students and educators. Students have experienced profound learning and mental health challenges since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic, and the Illinois State Board of Education (ISBE) invested in Learning Renewal–SEL programs to address these challenges. The American Institutes for Research (AIR®) is collaborating with ISBE to evaluate its Learning Renewal–SEL initiative, which is described in Exhibit 1.