COVID-19 Resource Center

Resources for Education Leaders

During the Spring and Summer of 2020 our nation and our schools have faced innumerable and unprecedented challenges; over 100,000 lives lost to COVID-19, over 40 million people unemployed, and a renewed reckoning with police brutality and racism in America. State and local leaders are faced with momentous decisions about education and school re-openings that beg for coherent policy solutions, which require trust, communication, and participation by many from outside the K12 system.

We engaged a diverse cross-section of experts, stakeholders and practitioners to offer suggestions and examples for concrete actions state and local leaders can take to make sure schools have access to mon¬ey, people, and collaborative structures that ultimately benefit students, families, and society. Click each link for more information and contact us to share other promising practices: educationinfo@aspeninstitute.org.

• Foster Cross-Agency & Community Partner Collaboration
  • State Children’s Cabinets
    • Forum for Youth Investment Resources
    • Children’s Funding Project
  • Local Cabinets
    • Toolkit
  • Data Sharing
    • CDC WSCC Model
    • ASCD Toolkit for Implementing WSCC Model
    • The National Neighborhood Indicators Project – Model MOUs
    • 2019 Profile – Data Sharing Arrangements in Indiana
  • Collective Impact
    • Strive Together Partnership Examples
  • Early Childhood
    • National P-3 Center Peer-to-Peer conversations
    • Guidance on how early childhood agencies can work together
• Fully Leverage Federal Funds and Streamline Eligibility and Reimbursement
  • Medicaid
    • Center Budget and Policy Priorities’ Guide to Conducting Outreach and Enrollment Campaigns
    • Community Catalyst and Healthy Schools Campaign Summary specific of State Actions for Expanding School-Based Provision of Services and Billing
    • Guide to Expanding Medicaid-Funded School Health Services (Dec. 2019)
    • Links to each State’s School Medicaid Website
    • Case Study of Massachusetts Plan to Expand Medicaid Reimbursement for School-Based Health Services
    • The School-Based Health Alliance Collected Links to Effective State Policies for Streamlining Medicaid Eligibility and Reimbursement Protocols
  • CHIP
    • Georgetown University Research on Impact of Proactive Outreach and Enrollment in Medicaid and Children’s Health
    • Insure Kids Now Website with toolkits and customizable forms
  • Tele-health
    • National Health Law Program State Actions to Make Telehealth Accessible During Covid-19
  • Food Benefits
    • The Food Research Action Council (FRAC) Best Practices for Leveraging Funds
  • Counselors and Social Workers
    • The Dignity in Schools Counselors Not Cops Initiative Model Policies and Resources
• Identify Additional Human Capital to Support Students and Teachers
  • Community Schools
    • RAND Assessment of Impact of New York City’s Community Schools Initiative
    • Model Job Descriptions for Community School Coordinators
    • Education Redesign Lab at Harvard Graduate School of Education Success Plans Report
    • City Connects Program at Boston College Approach
    • Partnership for the Future of Learning, Community Schools Playbook
  • Asset Mapping
    • The National Center for School Mental Health at University of Maryland Guide
    • School Mental Health Quality Guide
  • Licensure
    • Interstate Medical Licensure Compacts
  • Service Partnerships
    • Report by The Everyone Graduates Center at the Johns Hopkins University School of Education
  • Tutors
    • Hechinger Report – Takeaways from the Research on Tutoring to Address Coronavirus learning loss