Student Wellbeing
This article shares seven important insights into how Guilford County Schools in Greensboro, North Carolina transitioned ESSER-funded programs to help engage students after the pandemic and ease absentee rates.
This article describes practical, accessible, and research-informed guidance for schools to tackle the challenge of student attendance through high-quality partnerships between schools, parents, and community members.
This article suggests that one intervention that can address chronic absenteeism in schools is to proactively share information about attendance with families.
This article highlights the Student Alliance for Flourishing (SAFF) program, which focuses on improving the well-being and addressing the psychological needs of both students and educators.
This report shares data on rising rates of chronic absenteeism in the United States and documents prevalent strategies that schools and districts are using to get students back in school.
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.