Researcher

When School Wasn't "School": Developing Culturally Responsive Practice during the COVID-19 Lockdowns

This journal article explores how the COVID-19 pandemic enabled teachers to facilitate culturally responsive practices in their teaching.

The Stickiness of Pandemic-Driven Disenrollment from Public Schools

This article explores the variations in pandemic-driven disenrollment from public schools.

2023 RESTART Network Virtual National Symposium: Learnings from Research and Practice to Increase Student Engagement

On October 3, 2023, the RESTART Network hosted the 2023 Virtual National Symposium featuring the National Association of State Boards of Education and the Council of Chief State School Officers. The webinar included presentations from researchers and policy leaders who are leading efforts to advance academic recovery.

Practical Strategies for Developing Inclusive Events

By Kylie Klein, Senior Researcher & RESTART National Network Lead

Post-Pandemic Onset Public School Enrollment and Mobility: Evidence From Virginia

This article analyzes public school mobility and enrollment post-pandemic in Virginia.

In for a Dollar: A Descriptive Look at How North Carolina Traditional School Districts Have Planned and Used COVID-19 Emergency Funding

In this brief, an analysis is conducted on the patterns of allocation, spending, and intended investments of money provided to school districts in North Carolina by the Elementary and Secondary School Emergency Relief (ESSER) funds.

The $190 Billion Question: How is Public Education Recovering from the Pandemic?

Three years ago, schools across the country shut their doors and scrambled to continue student learning online, all with the goal of stopping the spread of COVID-19. This shift to remote learning had dire unintended consequences: lost learning time, chronic absenteeism, and losing students to drop out – for some groups of students far worse than others. In doing so, inequities in our public education system that were already glaring have now become far worse.

Paying for Access: Are Tutoring Contracts Focused on the Right Things?

This brief shares results from interviews with 68 central office and program leaders to learn about COVID-19 recovery interventions.

Addressing the Long-Term Effects of the COVID-19 Pandemic on Children and Families

This report provides recommendations for programs, supports, and interventions to counteract the negative effects of the pandemic on child and family well-being and offers a path forward to recover from the harms of the pandemic, address inequities, and prepare for the future.

“We will need to build up the atmosphere of trust again”: Service providers’ perceptions of experiences of COVID-19 amongst resettled refugee adolescents

This article describes the perspective of educators and other school-affiliated service providers on the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on mental health and wellbeing of adolescent resettled refugees and access to and quality of education and support services for adolescent resettled refugees.