This brief considers principal and school leader preparation programs and provides recommendations that can help prepare principals to lead through crises.

This brief shares firsthand student experiences and examples of how state boards of education are incorporating student voice through student advisory councils, virtual office hours, and more.
This report shares study findings on the High-Impact Tutoring (HIT) Initiative, which provides students with additional academic supports to help schools manage learning loss and reduce chronic absenteeism.
This journal article investigates differences in students' levels of internalizing and externalizing behaviors as well as school referrals for special education services from before and after the onset of the pandemic.
This journal article evaluates the impacts on well-being of an intervention that had first-grade students create a gratitude journal over the course of 28 weeks.
This report describes specific actions for how state leaders can use learnings from the pandemic and create lasting systemic changes that benefit students.