Healthy Students, Healthy Schools Positively impacting the health of our youth
The Federal Partners in School Health (FPSH) is an alliance of Federal agencies that assists K-12 schools, local education agencies (LEAs or school districts), and state education agencies (SEAs) support the physical and mental health of all students and promote healthy school environments.
The mission of the FPSH is to promote coordination and collaboration across Federal agencies in order to assist these agencies continue their work in supporting the physical and mental health of all students and healthy, physical school environments.
This site is intended to serve as a portal where K-12 schools, local education agencies (LEAs or school districts), state education agencies (SEAs) and other stakeholders may access high quality federal and federally supported information, resources, and research that support individual student health and healthy school environments.
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School Health Index
Crosscutting
An online self-assessment and planning tool (also available in a downloadable, printable version) that schools can use to improve their health and safety policies and programs. It's easy to use and completely confidential.
Health Education Curriculum Analysis Tool (HECAT)
Crosscutting
The Health Education Curriculum Analysis Tool (HECAT) can help school districts, schools, and others conduct a clear, complete, and consistent analysis of health education curricula based on the National Health Education Standards and CDC's Characteristics of an Effective Health Education Curriculum.
CDC
Body Mass Index Measurement in Schools Executive Summary
Child Obesity, Crosscutting
This article describes the purpose of school-based BMI surveillance and screening programs, examines current practices, and reviews research on BMI measurement programs. The article summarizes the recommendations of experts, identifies concerns surrounding programs, and outlines needs for future research. Guidance is provided on specific safeguards that need to be addressed before schools decide to collect BMI information.
CDC
Childhood Obesity Factsheet
Child Obesity, Crosscutting
Overview of obesity and its causes
Putting Local School Wellness Policies into Action: Stories from Districts and Schools
Crosscutting
This publication is a compilation of 11 stories that provide examples of steps and strategies used to implement wellness policies, including activities in key areas such as improving school meals and increasing physical activity levels among students.
CDC
Health Education Curriculum Analysis Tool (HECAT) Brochure
Health and Academics
The Health Education Curriculum Analysis Tool (HECAT) can help school districts, schools, and others conduct a clear, complete, and consistent analysis of health education curricula based on the National Health Education Standards and CDC's Characteristics of Effective Health Education Curricula. The HECAT results can help schools select or develop appropriate and effective health education curricula and improve the delivery of health education. The HECAT can be customized to meet local community needs and conform to the curriculum requirements of the state or school district.
CDC
Tobacco Use Behaviors and Academic Grades
Crosscutting, Health and Academics
Data from the 2019 national Youth Risk Behavior Survey (YRBS) show that students with higher grades are less likely to use tobacco products compared to students with lower grades. It is important to remember that these associations do not prove causation. School health professionals, school officials, and other decision makers can use this fact sheet to better understand the connection between tobacco product use and grades and reinforce policies and practices that discourage tobacco product use in schools.
CDC
BAM! Body and Mind Classroom Resources for Teachers
Crosscutting
This web page contains a variety of information and resources for teachers of grades 4-8 to use in the classroom and help students make healthier lifestyle choices.
E-Learning Series: Training Tools for Healthy Schools.
Health and Academics
The Training Tools for Health Schools: Promoting Health and Academic Success, eLearning series consists of five core training tools that have been converted to 1-1.5 hour modules for the ease and flexibility for online learners to have easier access to our tools. Continuing education credits are offered to most partipant forth CSPAP and SHG. All five modules have a very robust GO Further section to gain additional knowledge and resources.
YRBSS: Youth Risk Behavior Surveillance System
Crosscutting
Monitors six types of Health risk behaviors that contribute to the leading causes of death and disability among youth and adults.
CDC
Whole School Whole Community Whole Child: A Collaborative Approach to Learning and Health
Crosscutting
This document describes the Whole School Whole Community Whole Child (WSCC) framework, a collaborative approach designed to improve learning and health in our nation's schools.
CDC
Virtual Health Schools
Crosscutting
The Virtual Healthy Schools is an interactive learning tool that shows how schools can use the Whole School, Whole Community, Whole Child model to support Health school environments.
Professional Development Practices
Crosscutting
The ultimate goal of professional development (PD) is the effective implementation of skills and strategies that enhance knowledge and transfer of learning. This guides list Professional Development Practices based on research and best practice and provide the best conditions for implementation to occur. They encompass the delivery of PD in a group setting (trainings, presentations, meetings) and one‚Äêon‚Äêone (general technical assistance, coaching/mentoring).
CDC
Understanding Professional Development
Crosscutting
This overview provides basic definitions for the following PD terms: training, workshop, technical assistance, presentation, and information session.
CDC
Understanding the Training of Trainers (ToT) Model
Crosscutting
This brief helps those who are in charge of state and district-wide trainings to further their understanding of a the ToT model. The Training of Trainers (ToT) model is intended to engage master trainers in coaching new trainers that are less experienced with a particular topic or skill, or with training overall. A ToT workshop can build a pool of competent instructors who can then teach the material to other people. Instead of having just one trainer who teaches a course for a long time, there are multiple trainers teaching the same course at the same time in the ToT model, thus creating a broader reach; sustainability; and is much more cost and time efficient.
CDC
At A Glance 2016: Healthy Schools
Crosscutting
Overviews of CDC's Healthy Schools program
CDC
MMWR School Health Guidelines to Promote Healthy Eating and Physical Activity
Crosscutting, School Health Guidelines
CDC combined the research and best practices for promoting healthy eating and physical activity in schools into nine guidelines. The guidelines serve as the foundation for developing, implementing, and evaluating school-based healthy eating and physical activity policies and practices for students.
CDC
School Health Guidelines to Promote Healthy Eating and Physical Activity: Executive Summary
Crosscutting, School Health Guidelines
Summarizes the current state of the physical activity and the physical education policies and practices of secondary schools (e.g., middle schools, high schools) across 26 jurisdictions (18 states, 6 large urban school districts, 1 territory, and 1 tribe)
CDC
Tips for Teachers: Promoting Healthy Eating & Physical Activity in the Classroom
School Health Guidelines
This tip sheet provides both evidence-based tips and resources for teachers to promote healthy eating and physical activity in the classroom. All of the tips are based on the School Health Guidelines to Promote Healthy Eating and Physical Activity.
CDC
School Health Profiles
Crosscutting
The School Health Profiles (Profiles) is a system of surveys assessing school health policies and practices in states, large urban school districts, territories, and tribal governments. Profile surveys are conducted every 2 years by education and health agencies among middle and high school principals and lead health education teachers.
CDC
SHPPS: School Health Policies and Program Study
Crosscutting
The School Health Policies and Practices Study (SHPPS) is a national survey periodically conducted to assess school health policies and practices at the state, district, school, and classroom levels.
CDC
CDC's Promoting Parent Engagement in School Engagement in School Health: A facilitator's Guide for Staff Development
Crosscutting
The purpose of the staff development program, Promoting Parent Engagement in School Health, is to provide teachers and other school staff with an introduction to parent engagement and guidance on how to engage parents in school health activities. This Facilitator's Guide provides the step-by-step procedures, activities, handout materials, resources, and PowerPoint® presentation (with facilitator narrative and notes) needed to implement this staff development program. In addition, an e-mail template to use in promoting the availability of this program to school staff — and inviting them to participate — is included.
CDC
SHPPS School Health Policies and Practices Study
Crosscutting
SHPPS is a national survey periodically conducted to assess school health policies and practices at the state, district, school, and classroom levels. This fact sheet reports data from the 2014 study, which collected data at the school and classroom levels.
CDC
Healthy Schools, Healthy Kids Website
Crosscutting
EPA's comprehensive schools website offers all the resources you need to establish, maintain, or enhance a school environmental health program.
EPA/OCHP
School Siting Guidelines
Crosscutting, School Siting
Guidance which helps school districts evaluate the environmental factors to make the best possible school siting decisions.
EPA/OCHP
EPA's Voluntary Guidelines for States: Development and Implementation of a School Environmental Health Program
Crosscutting
Guidnce help states establish and sustain environmental health programs for K-12 schools.
EPA/OCHP
Appendix A: Model Program for the State School Environmental Health Guidelines
Crosscutting
Guidance for establishing a holistic, comprehensive, and actionable strategy that integrates preventive measures and addresses environmental health issues by fostering well-maintained school buildings and grounds
EPA/OCHP
Sensible Guide for Healthier School Renovations
Crosscutting
An overview of how to avoid key environmental health hazards and ways to minimize children's exposures as they prepare for and undergo renovations
EPA/OCHP
Sensible Steps to Healthier School Environments
Crosscutting
Guidance which provides information on the most cost-effective, affordable measures school districts can take to protect the health of students and staff.
EPA/OCHP
Smart School Siting Tool
Crosscutting, School Siting
EPA developed the Smart School Siting Tool under its Smart Growth Implementation Assistance Program to help school agencies and other local government agencies work together to better align school siting and other community development decisions.
EPA/OCHP
Travel and Environmental Implications of School Siting
Crosscutting, School Siting
Results from research study which evaluated the relationship between school location, travel choices, and the environment.
EPA/OCHP
Health Insurance for Children: How Schools can Help with Chronic Conditions Fact Sheet
Chronic Conditions and Diseases
This fact sheet provides schools with guidance on how to improve educational outcomes of students by connecting them to health insurance.
CDC
Managing Chronic Health Conditions in Schools: The Role of the School Nurse Fact Sheet
Chronic Conditions and Diseases
This fact sheet focuses on the role of the school nurse in helping students manage their conditions.
CDC
Managing Food Allergies in Schools Toolkit
Chronic Conditions and Diseases
This toolkit, based on the voluntary food allergy guidelines, includes numerous tip sheets for specific audiences such as school transportation staff, classroom teachers, school administrators, superintendents, and school nutrition staff. It also includes public use PowerPoint slides and podcasts.
CDC
Research Brief: Addressing the Needs of Students with Chronic Health Conditions: Strategies for Schools
Chronic Conditions and Diseases
This brief summarizes current scientific knowledge from a systematic literature review on the relationship between the role of school health services in the health and academic outcomes of students with chronic health conditions.11 It also reflects position statements and guidelines from national organizations with expertise in school health, and the Whole School, Whole Community, Whole Child (WSCC) approach for comprehensive school health.12 School districts and schools can use the following strategies and activities to address the needs of students with chronic health conditions
CDC
Research Brief: Chronic Health Conditions and Academic Achievement
Chronic Conditions and Diseases
This brief describes the relationship between certain chronic health conditions and academic achievement, based on a review of the scientific literature. These include seizure disorders/epilepsy, asthma, diabetes, poor oral health conditions, and food allergies. These are examples of chronic health conditions that are commonly observed among school-aged youth, possibly affect academic achievement, or use significant resources when addressed at school. Academic achievement refers to academic performance, educational behaviors, and cognitive skills. This brief also makes recommendations for future research.
CDC
Preventing Child Abuse and Neglect: A Technical Package for Policy, Norm, and Programmatic Activities
Injury
This technical package represents a select group of strategies based on the best available evidence to help prevent child abuse and neglect. These strategies include strengthening economic supports to families; changing social norms to support parents and positive parenting; providing quality care and education early in life; enhancing parenting skills to promote healthy child development; and intervening to lessen harms and prevent future risk. These strategies range from a focus on individuals, families, and relationships to broader community and societal change. This range of strategies is needed to better address the interplay between individual-family behavior and broader neighborhood, community, and cultural contexts. This package supports CDC's Essentials for Childhood framework for preventing child abuse and neglect. Commitment, cooperation, and leadership from numerous sectors, including public health, education, justice, healthcare, social services, business/labor, and government can bring about successful implementation of this package.
CDC
National Coordinating Committee on School Health and Safety (NCCSHS)
Nutrition
Website containing a variety of documents, including speakers' slides, from each annual meeting of NCCSHS
HRSA
Voluntary Guidelines for Managing Food Allergies in Schools and Early Care and Education Programs
Chronic Conditions and Diseases, Nutrition
This set of guidelines describes evidence- and practice-based strategies to address and manage food allergies within schools and early care and education programs.
CDC
Parent Engagement: Strategies for Involving Parents in School Health
Nutrition
This publication defines and describes parent engagement and identifies specific strategies and actions that schools can take to increase parent engagement in schools' health promotion activities. The audiences for this publication include school administrators, teachers, support staff, parents, and others interested in promoting parent engagement. Each of these audiences has different but important roles and responsibilities related to garnering support for, and implementing, these strategies and actions.
CDC
Comprehensive Framework for Addressing the School Nutrition Environment and Services
School Nutrition Environment and Services
This CDC framework provides school nutrition professionals, school health professionals, administrators, teachers, and parents detailed information on the components of a school nutrition environment and how, together, they influence a students' access to healthy foods and beverages at school.
CDC
Increasing Access to Drinking Water in Schools
School Nutrition Environment and Services
This tool kit provides school health councils, nutrition services providers, principals, teachers, parents, and other school staff with information and tools to ‚• Meet free drinking water requirements in NSLP and SBP programs. ‚• Help make clean, free drinking water readily available throughout multiple points in school settings. ‚• Promote water consumption as a healthy beverage. the easy-to-use tool kit includes background information, needs assessment tools, implementation strategies, and evaluation guidance to provide students with access to drinking water as part of a healthy nutrition environment.
CDC
Parents for Healthy Schools
Physical Activity
A set of resources containing a guide, PPT presentation, and idea sheets to help schools and school groups (e.g., parent teacher associations (PTA), parent teacher organizations (PTO), school wellness committees) engage parents to create healthy school environments.
CDC
Youth Physical Activity Guidelines Toolkit
School Based Physical Education and Physical Activity
The Toolkit provides you with the resources, materials, and guidance necessary to inform other adults who work with and care for youth about the importance of regular physical current physical activity guidelines, and how to encourage physical activity among youth. Toolkit activity, materials highlight specific strategies that schools, families, and communities can use to support youth physical activity.
CDC
Comprehensive School PA Programs: A Guide for Schools
School Based Physical Education and Physical Activity
This guide provides schools with the step-by-step process to develop, implement, and evaluate a comprehensive school physical activity program (CSPAP). The guide can be read and utilized by an existing school health council or wellness committee, or by a new group or committee made up of physical education coordinators and teachers, classroom teachers, school administrators, recess supervisors, before- and after-school program supervisors, parents, and community members. It can be used to develop a new comprehensive school physical activity program or assess and improve an existing one.
Physical Activity, School Based Physical Education and Physical Activity
The Physical Education Curriculum Analysis Tool (PECAT) will help school districts conduct a clear, complete, and consistent analysis of written physical education curricula, based on national physical education standards. The PECAT is customizable to include local standards. The results from the analysis can help school districts enhance existing curricula, develop their own curricula, or select a published curriculum for delivering quality physical education in schools. The online PECAT will guide you through completing the entire PECAT, allow you to enter your scores for all PECAT analyses, calculate your overall scores, help you to identify strengths and weaknesses of the curriculum being considered, and guide you through establishing a curriculum improvement plan.
CDC
Recess Planning In Schools: A Guide to Putting Strategies for Recess into Practice January 2017
School Based Physical Education and Physical Activity
designed to help schools develop a school recess plan. A school recess plan identifies the strategies a school will use to organize and implement recess at the school. This plan should be a written document that can be shared with all school staff, students, and parents.
CDC
Strategies for Recess in Schools December 2016
School Based Physical Education and Physical Activity
This guide provides evidence-based strategies for planning and providing recess in schools to increase physical activity participation and improve academic achievement (e.g., performance, behavior, attention).
CDC
Mold Remediation in Schools and Commercial School Buildings Guidance
Controlling Moisture and Mold
Moisture problems in school buildings can be caused by a variety of conditions, including roof and plumbing leaks, condensation and excess humidity. EPA's guidance provides information on mold prevantion, ways to investigate, evaluate and remediate moisture and mold problems.
EPA/OAR/IED
Protecting Students and Staff with Green Cleaning
Guidance lists tips that schools can use to start greening their cleaning products and practices.
EPA/OCHP
Managing Asthma in the School Environment
Indoor Air Quality
Helpful resource tool to assist school district with taking action to manage asthma triggers in the school environment. The guide contains useful tips and steps to develop an asthma management program, including reducing asthma triggers and helpful case studies.
EPA/OAR
Managing Radon in Schools
Controlling Pollutants
A website filled with guidance, tools and resources school districts can use to learn about Radon in Schools, including basics on radon and simple steps on how to test & mitigate when necessary.
EPA/OAR/IED
Strategies for Addressing Asthma in Schools
Physical Environment
Document provides a compilation of information and resources
CDC
Creating Healthy Indoor Air Quality in Schools
Physical Environment
EPA's comprehenisve schools website providing guidance, tools and resources related to indoor air quality in schools.
EPA/OAR/IED
Indoor Air Quality Tools for Schools Action Kit.
Indoor Air Quality
The Indoor Air Quality Tools for Schools (IAQ TfS) Kit is a comprehensive collection of information necessary to assess, improve and implement an effective IAQ management plan at little- or no cost using straightforward activities and in-house staff. The Action Kit includes information on best practices, industry guidelines, sample policies and a sample IAQ management plan.
EPA/OAR
School IAQ Assessment Mobile App
Indoor Air Quality
The School IAQ Assessment Mobile App provides schools access to EPA's comprehensive school IAQ management guidance and detailed walkthrough assessment checklists that address critical building-related environmental health issues.
EPA/OAR
IAQ Tools for Schools: Framework for Effective School IAQ Management
Indoor Air Quality
The Framework for Effective School IAQ Management is a set of strategies, approaches and techniques that can be used to put the IAQ Tools for Schools guidance into action immediately to achieve results using 6 key drivers and successful strategies. The Framework also offers seven Technical Solutions. which outline the major IAQ issues that can be address in order to achieve reliable, clean, efficient and healthy indoor environments in schools.
EPA/OAR
IAQ Master Class Professional Training Webinar Series
Indoor Air Quality
The IAQ Master Class Webinar Series is designed to build capacity and provide robust foundational technical knowledge to start, improve or sustain an IAQ management program. The comprehensive web-based webinar series is comprised of ten 1-hour trainings features technical experts, industry leaders and school district staff from across the country.
EPA/OAR
IAQ Knowledge to Action Professional Training Series
Indoor Air Quality
The IAQ Knowledge to Action Professional Training Webinar Series builds on foundational technical knowledge and increases capacity to take immediate action. Topics covered include funding, assessments and walkthroughs using the IAQ Mobile App, staff training, gaining buy-in, and using evaluation and data to improve your IAQ management program.
EPA/OAR
Improving Academic Performance Through Better Indoor Air Quality in Schools
Indoor Air Quality
A comprehensive set of resources that helps school districts make the important connection between indoor air quality, student academic performance and bettering student health. The resources help districts to learn about the impacts and how they can improve a school's indoor environment.
EPA/OAR/IED
Energy Savings Plus Health: Indoor Air Quality Guidelines for School Building Upgrades
Indoor Air Quality
This guidance helps school districts administer the relationship between energy efficiency and IAQ in schools during school renovation or new construction projects. Using the guidance and tools helps to reduce health risks and improve energy efficiency. This Web page gives you access to guidelines, examples of school energy efficiency projects, the Interactive Air Quality Planner and additional resources.
EPA/OAR
IAQ Design Tools for Schools
Indoor Air Quality
IAQ Design Tools for Schools website provides both detailed guidance as well as links to other information resources to help design new schools as well as repair, renovate existing facilities. Though its primary focus is on IAQ, it is also intended to encourage school districts to embrace the concept of designing sustainable schools.
EPA/OAR/IED
Best Practices for Reducing Near-Road Air Pollution Exposure at Schools
Resource which helps school communities identify strategies for reducing traffic-related pollution exposure at schools located downwind from heavily traveled roadways (such as highways), along corridors with significant trucking traffic, or near other traffic or vehicular pollution sources.
EPA/OCHP
Idle Free Schools Toolkit
Controlling Pollutants
Toolkit that includes all the information needed to run an effective idling reduction campaign at a school in order to reduce student exposure to toxic vehicle exhaust.
EPA/OCHP
Model AHERA Asbestos Management Plan for Local Education Agencies
Controlling Pollutants
Guidance provides step-by-step instructions for developing an asbestos management plan under the Asbestos Hazard Emergency Response Act (AHERA).
EPA/OCHP
EPA's 3Ts
Controlling Pollutants
Guidance developed to assist schools with lead in drinking water prevention programs.
EPA/OCHP
Toolkit for Safe Chemical Management in K-12 Schools
Controlling Pollutants
Web-based tool kit helps schools start chemical management programs that will improve their chemical management practices.
EPA/OCHP
Chemical Management Resource Guide for School Administrators
Controlling Pollutants
This document is intended to aid K-12 public school districts and private, religious, and independent schools and school system policymakers in reducing dangerous chemical use and implementing responsible chemical management practices
EPA/OCHP
Polychlorinated Biphenyl (PCB)-Containing Fluorescent Light Ballasts (FLBs) in School Buildings
Controlling Pollutants
Guidance that provides information to school administrators and maintenance personnel on the hazards posed by PCBs in PCB-containing fluorescent light ballasts, how to properly handle and dispose of these items, and how to properly retrofit the lighting fixtures in your school to remove potential PCB hazards.
EPA/OCSPP/OPPT
TSCA Storage Disposal Requirements for Fluorescent Light Ballasts
Controlling Pollutants
The TSCA Storage Disposal Requirements for Fluorescent Light Ballasts document provides information on disposal options for fluorescent light ballasts.
EPA/OCSPP/OPPT
Factsheet: Practical Actions for Reducing Exposure to PCBs in Schools and Other Buildings
Controlling Pollutants
The Factsheet: Practical Actions for Reducing Exposure to PCBs in Schools and Other Buildings provides guidance for schools administrators and other building owners and managers on reducing possible exposures to PCBs.
EPA/OCSPP/OPPT
PCBs in Building Materials - Questions and Answers
Controlling Pollutants
PCBs in Building Materials - Questions and Answers document provides information to better understand the types of building materials that may contain PCBs, potential for building occupant exposure to PCBs, and how exposure to PCBs can be assessed and reduced.
EPA/OCSPP/OPPT
Actions for Reducing Exposuresto PCBs in Indoor Building Environments
Controlling Pollutants
Actions for Reducing Exposuresto PCBs in Indoor Building Environments Diagram shows the actions to be taken to reduce exposure to PCBs in indoor building environments.
EPA/OCSPP/OPPT
Actions for Reducing Exposuresto PCBs in Indoor School Building Environments
Controlling Pollutants
Actions for Reducing Exposuresto PCBs in Indoor School Building Environments Diagram shows the actions for shows the actions to be taken to reduce exposure to PCBs in indoor school building environments.
EPA/OCSPP/OPPT
Exposure Levels for Evaluating Polychlorinated Biphenyls (PCBs) in Indoor School Air
Controlling Pollutants
Exposure Levels for Evaluating Polychlorinated Biphenyls (PCBs) in Indoor School Air webpage provides information on EPA's calculated exposure levels that are intended to maintain overall below the oral reference dose of of 20 ng PCB/kg body weight per day.
EPA/OCSPP/OPPT
Polychlorinated Biphenyl (PCBs) in Building Materials
Controlling Pollutants
Polychlorinated Biphenyl (PCBs) in Building Materials page provides guidance on managing PCBs in building materials to help minimize possible exposures to building occupants.
EPA/OCSPP/OPPT
Steps to Safe Renovation and Repair Activities
Controlling Pollutants
Steps to Safe Renovation and Repair Activities webpage highlights precautionary measures and best work practices for conducting repairs or renovations in older buildings that have PCB-containing building materials, but do not have an abatement planned.
EPA/OCSPP/OPPT
How to Test for PCBs and Characterize Suspect Materials
Controlling Pollutants
How to Test for PCBs and Characterize Suspect Materials webpage provides information for someone watning to test for the presence of PCBs in a building.
EPA/OCSPP/OPPT
Steps to Safe PCB Abatement Activities
Controlling Pollutants
Steps to Safe PCB Abatement Activities webpage provides information on the steps to safe PCB abatement activities that apply when PCBs have been found to be present in tested air and/or building materials, or when a contractor undertakes a PCB-abatement activity.
EPA/OCSPP/OPPT
Summary of Tools and Methods for Caulk Removal
Controlling Pollutants
Summary of Tools and Methods for Caulk Removal webpage provides information in the form of a table provides information on the suitability, advantages/disadvantages,and protective measures on different tools and methods used for caulk removal.
EPA/OCSPP/OPPT
ENERGY STAR® K-12 tools and resources
Energy Efficiency
EPA's ENERGY STAR® K-12 tools and resources assist school districts with planning and implementing cost-effective energy efficiency upgrades.
EPA/OAR/CPPD
Pest Control in the School Environment
Pest Management
This booklet introduces and reacquaints readers with effective IPM. It presents recommendations for best management practices for IPM in schools. Throughout the nation, schools that have adopted IPM report long term, sustainable pest mitigation that both reduces the use of pesticides and is cost effective.
EPA/OCSPP/OPP
School Integrated Pest Management Webinar Series
Pest Management
Webinar series featuring experts from across the country relaying educational and practical strategies for establishing and improving integrated pest management programs in schools.
EPA/OCSPP/OPP
General resources for school integrated pest management implemetation
Pest Management
There are various sources of documents to use in your school integrated pest management (IPM) program. The examples listed here provide a basic set of information to start with.
EPA/OCSPP/OPP
Readiness and Emergency Management for Schools (REMS) Technical Assistance (TA) Center
Crosscutting
Readiness and Emergency Management for Schools (REMS) Technical Assistance (TA) Center, The REMSTA Center is the nation's higher ed and K-12 school safety, security, and emergency management and preparedness hub for information and services (e.g., guidance, training, tools, resources). The REMS TA Center serves K-12 schools and institutions of higher education (IHEs), public and private, as well as their local, state, and Federal partners with shared school safety responsibilities. They develop and maintain comprehensive, all-hazard, and high-quality campus and school Emergency Operations Plans (EOPs). These plans focus on continually protecting the whole school community before, during, and after possible emergencies. In addition to its free virtual trainings, the REMS TA Center offers numerous interactive tools such as its EOP Assist software, which helps generate customized plans and its SITE ASSESS app which facilitate the walk-through and safety inspection of campus and buildings
National Center on Safe and Supportive Learning Environments (NCSSLE)
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National Center on Safe and Supportive Learning Environments (NCSSLE), provides training and technical assistance to schools, school districts, and educational agencies to support efforts aimed at creating and nurturing safe and supportive learning environments. The national center addresses a wide variety of topics that impact school climate, ranging from bullying and violence prevention to tools for measuring and identifying needs for school climate.
Center to Improve Social and Emotional Learning and School Safety (Center)
Mental Health
The purpose of the Center to Improve Social and Emotional Learning and School Safety (Center) is to provide technical assistance to support States and districts in the implementation of social and emotional learning evidence-based (as defined in this notice) programs and practices. The Center will enhance the capacity of (1) State educational agencies (SEAs) to support their local educational agencies (LEAs) and (2) LEAs to support their schools.
Technical Assistance Center on Positive Behavioral Interventions and Supports (PBIS)
Mental Health
The Technical Assistance Center on Positive Behavioral Interventions and Supports (PBIS) supports schools, districts, and states to build systems capacity for implementing a multi-tiered approach to social, emotional and behavior support. The broad purpose of PBIS is to improve the effectiveness, efficiency and equity of schools and other agencies. PBIS improves social, emotional and academic outcomes for all students, including students with disabilities and students from underrepresented groups.
COVID-19 Resources for Schools, Students, and Families
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This US Department of Education webpage is intended to provide states, communities, educators, and families with resources and flexibilities that empower students to continue pursuing their education goals during this coronavirus pandemic. This includes the ongoing development of guidance and policies related to elementary and secondary education, special education, higher education, and other essential components of lifelong learning.
Elementary and Secondary School Emergency Relief Fund (ESSER II Fund) Fact Sheet
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The Coronavirus Response and Relief Supplemental Appropriations Act, 2021 (CRRSA), was signed into law on December 27, 2020 and provides an additional $54.3 billion for the Elementary and Secondary School Emergency Relief Fund (ESSER II Fund). ESSER II Fund awards to SEAs are in the same proportion as each State received funds under Part A of Title I of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965, as amended, in fiscal year 2020. This ESSER II Fact Sheet outlines the primary differences between ESSER Fund under the CARES Act enacted on March 27, 2020, and the ESSER II Fund under the CRRSA, Public Law 116-260 enacted on December 27, 2020.
Creating Healthy Indoor Air Quality in Schools Comprehensive Website
Indoor Air Quality
EPA's comprehenisve schools website providing guidance, tools and resources related to indoor air quality in schools.
EPA/OAR
Healthy Indoor Environments in Schools Webinar Series
COVID-19 Related, Indoor Air Quality
The Health Indoor Environments in Schools Webinar Series is intended to help school staff working to ensure that schools are healthy place to work and learn. The web-based webinar series cover best ventilation and cleaning practices.
EPA/OAR
IAQ Tools for Schools Preventive Maintenance Guidance and Tools
Indoor Air Quality
This guidance walks school districts through the steps to develop and implement an IAQ preventive maintenance plan. School and school district staff will find tips to help make the case for a preventive maintenance plan and gain the buy-in needed from your school community. You also will find detailed guidance on the importance of facility walkthroughs and assessments, integrated pest management (IPM), green cleaning, heating, ventilating, air conditioning (HVAC) equipment upkeep, and mold and moisture prevention, and how you can include them in your plan. Find tips on staffing and communication, as well as ways to evaluate your program to make your IAQ preventive maintenance plan a success.
EPA/OAR
Lead Poisoning Prevention Outreach Materials for Daycare Providers
Controlling Pollutants
EPA and the National Head Start Association created a series of outreach materials for daycare providers to help teach parents and children about the harmful effects of lead poisoning and how to reduce risk.
EPA/OCSPP
Renovate Right: Important Lead Hazard Information for Families, Child Care Providers, and Schools
Controlling Pollutants
Renovate Right provides information for homeowners, tenants, child care providers and parents about the legal requirements for safe lead practices during renovation activities. The document is available in English and Spanish.
EPA/OCSPP
Fight Lead Poisoning with a Healthy Diet
Controlling Pollutants
This brochure discusses how proper nutrition can protect against lead's harmful effects, and features fast nutritious recipes. The brochure is available in English and Spanish.
EPA/OCSPP
Lead Poisoning and Your Children
Controlling Pollutants
This pamphlet contains information on protecting children from lead poisoning, such as getting children tested for lead, and reducing other exposures from lead-based paint and lead in water. It unfolds into a full poster summarizing seven basic steps for lead risk reduction. The pamphlet is available in English and Spanish.
EPA/OCSPP
EXHALE Technical Guides
Crosscutting
EXHALE is a package of six strategies that can be used individually or together to achieve better asthma control for both children and adults. The EXHALE guides explain how the strategies can be applied by different stakeholders, including people with asthma, schools, healthcare professionals, and public health professionals.
COVID-19 Handbook Volume 1: Strategies for Safely Reopening Elementary and Secondary Schools.
Crosscutting
ED recently released COVID-19 Handbook Volume 1: Strategies for Safely Reopening Elementary and Secondary Schools. To reopen safely during the COVID-19 pandemic and maximize the amount of in-person instruction, schools need sufficient resources and strong state and local public health measures. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and the U.S. Department of Education (ED) provide recommendations and considerations based on the most recent scientific evidence to support school and district leaders and educators in meeting these ever evolving, significant challenges.
Integrating a Trauma-Informed Approach within a PBIS Framework
Mental Health
Integrating a Trauma-Informed Approach within a PBIS Framework is a guide intended to describe how to integrate trauma-informed approaches into the PBIS framework to ensure efforts are linked to student outcomes. Strategies and tools to ensure effectiveness are included.
Seizing the Moment: Race Equity Mindsets, Social and Emotional Well-Being, and Outcomes for Students
Mental Health
Seizing the Moment: Race Equity Mindsets, Social and Emotional Well-Being, and Outcomes for Students is a webinar and panel discussion that addresses the interrelationships among race equity mindsets, social and emotional well-being, and outcomes for Black, Latinx, and other students of color.
Policy Brief: SEL and Racial Equity
Mental Health
Policy Brief: SEL and Racial Equity. This brief reviews education-focused, evidence-based racial equity strategies and discusses how they might overlap with SEL. The brief identifies five key policy areas. The brief identifies the following policy areas to promote racial equity in K–12 education and provides analysis of how SEL is implicated.
Physical Activity Guidelines for School-Aged Children and Adolescents
Physical Activity
This web page provides information on physical activity guidelines and recommendations for children ages 6 through 17 years found in Chapter 3 of the Physical Activity Guidelines for Americans, 2nd edition.
CDC
Health and Academics
Crosscutting
Research shows a strong connection between healthy behaviors and academic achievement (e.g., grades, standardized tests, graduation rates, attendance).5-10 Data from the 2019 National Youth Risk Behavior Survey (YRBS) illustrate the prevalence of health behaviors among children and adolescents that can have a significant impact on learning and a lifetime of healthier living.
CDC
Water Access in Schools Microlearning Modules
Nutrition
These short video training modules guide schools on steps to take to help students drink more water during the day. School staff will learn what can be done to ensure water is available, safe, and promoted as an ideal beverage choice.
CDC
Inclusive School Physical Education and Activity
Physical Activity
This brief is for state education and health leaders. It defines inclusion, identifies relevant federal policies, describes the current status of inclusion in the United States, and suggests ways to promote inclusion.
CDC
Benefits of School-Based Physical Activity
Physical Activity
This infographic helps illustrate how school-based physical activity benefits not only students, but the school, teachers, and community.
CDC
Featured COVID-19 Response Resources from the REL Program
COVID-19 Related
In response to COVID-19, the 10 Regional Educational Laboratories (RELs) have collaborated to produce a series of evidence-based resources and information about teaching and learning in a remote environment, as well as other considerations brought by the pandemic. See below for a roundup of featured resources on this topic. A full list of resources is available on the REL COVID-19 webpage.
ED
COVID-19 Resources for Schools, Students, and Families
COVID-19 Related
This US Department of Education webpage is intended to provide states, communities, educators, and families with resources and flexibilities that empower students to continue pursuing their education goals during this coronavirus pandemic. This includes the ongoing development of guidance and policies related to elementary and secondary education, special education, higher education, and other essential components of lifelong learning.
ED
Ensuring Drinking Water Quality in Schools During and After Extended Closures
Water Quality
The purpose of this factsheet is to 1) provide guidance to schools on maintaining drinking water quality during extended closures, and 2) recommend start-up procedures when reopening to ensure that drinking water is safe for consumption.
EPA/OAR
Ensuring Drinking Water Quality in Child Care Facilities During and After Extended Closures
Water Quality
The purpose of this factsheet is to: 1) provide guidance to child care facilities on maintaining drinking water quality during extended closures, and 2) recommend start-up procedures when reopening to ensure that drinking water is safe for consumption.
EPA/OAR
EPA Supports Healthy Indoor Environments in Schools During COVID-19 Pandemic
COVID-19 Related
EPA's Indoor Air Quality (IAQ) Tools for Schools Program set of health and safety resources for stakeholders who are working to ensure that schools are healthy places to work and learn during the COVID-19 pandemic.
EPA/OAR
Coronavirus (COVID-19)
COVID-19 Related
EPA's website providing key resources on the emerging, rapidly evolving situation on the coronavirus disease (COVID-19).
EPA/OAR
List N: Disinfectants for Coronavirus (COVID-19)
COVID-19 Related
EPA's List N: Disinfectants for Coronavirus (COVID-19) includes products to kill COVID-19 when used according to label directions. Children should not use these products.
EPA/OAR
The Role of Districts in Developing High-Quality School Emergency Operations Plans
Crosscutting
This guide, The Role of Districts in Developing High-Quality School Emergency Operations Plans (District Guide), complements the earlier School Guide by recommending specific roles and responsibilities for district-level administrators and staff.
ED
Lessons from the Field: Strategies for Safely Returning to School: The Latest Federal Guidance
COVID-19 Related
Lessons from the Field: Strategies for Safely Returning to School: The Latest Federal Guidance This webinar by the U.S. Department of Education (ED), the Office of Elementary and Secondary Education's Office of Safe and Supportive Schools, and the National Center on Safe Supportive Learning Environment (NCSSLE) featured updates from the CDC and ED on preparing to return to school for the 2021-22 school year. Following the federal agency updates, practitioner questions were addressed by the CDC and ED staff to allow field personnel to better understand and ultimately operationalize guidance. Webinar materials and resources.
ED
Center to Improve Social and Emotional Learning and School Safety Center
Social Emotional Learning
The purpose of the Center to Improve Social and Emotional Learning and School Safety (Center) is to provide technical assistance to support States and districts in the implementation of social and emotional learning evidence-based (as defined in this notice) programs and practices. The Center will enhance the capacity of (1) State educational agencies (SEAs) to support their local educational agencies (LEAs) and (2) LEAs to support their schools.
ED
Mindfulness in Schools: Evidence on the Impacts of School-Based Mindfulness Programs on Student Outcomes in P-12 Educational Settings
Social Emotional Learning
This research brief looks at what currently known about the impacts of school-based mindfulness programs (SBMPs) on student outcomes. The analysis examines 54 research studies conducted between 2000 and 2019.
ED
Seizing the Moment: Race Equity Mindsets, Social and Emotional Well-Being, and Outcomes for Students
Social Emotional Learning
Seizing the Moment: Race Equity Mindsets, Social and Emotional Well-Being, and Outcomes for Students is a webinar and panel discussion that addresses the interrelationships among race equity mindsets, social and emotional well-being, and outcomes for Black, Latinx, and other students of color.
ED
Back To School Roadmap
Back To School, Crosscutting
The Department of Education has developed a Return to School Roadmap to support educators and school leaders, parents, families, and communities and lead students on a path to return to in-person learning this fall, where they are safe and supported. The goal of the Roadmap is to make sure every student has the support and opportunities they need to heal, learn, and grow in their classrooms and create an environment where they belong and can thrive.
ED
Back-to-school tips for parents emphasize communication, organization, and staying up-to-date on special education news.
Back To School
Reading Rocket presents some back-to-school tips for parents emphasize communication, organization, and staying up-to-date on special education news.
Back to School: 10 Tips for a Successful School Year During COVID
Back To School
Back to School: 10 Tips for a Successful School Year During COVID
From Deficit Messaging to Asset Thinking: How Can Schools Frame Pandemic Learning & SEL?
Back To School
An ED Homeroom blog article relevant to the Social Emotional Learning (SEL) and mental wellness of students.
Meeting the President's Call to Support the Safe and Sustained Reopening of Schools
Back To School
An ED Homeroom blog article relevant to the Department of Educations work around safe and sustained reopening of schools.
OESE Back-to-School Success Stories
Back To School
Visit this Office of Elementary and Secondary Education's webpage to read insitfule back to schoo success stories from the perspective of schools, parents, students, grantees, community members and other education stakeholders to promote the continuing discussion of educational innovation.
How Has the Pandemic Affected Students' Social-Emotional Well-Being? A Review of the Evidence to Date
Social Emotional Learning
This report is part of a series that aims to provide a definitive account of the best available evidence on how the COVID-19 pandemic has affected America's students. This research aims assess what we know about the pandemic's effects on students' academic progress, its effects on their mental health and social-emotional well-being, and its impact on students with disabilities.
ED
Navigating Social and Emotional Learning from the Inside Out
Social Emotional Learning
This in-depth guide to 33 evidence-based SEL programs — aimed at elementary schools and Out of School Time (OST) providers — offers information about curricular content and programmatic features that practitioners can use to make informed choices about their SEL programs.
ED
Trauma-Sensitive Schools and Social and Emotional Learning: An Integration
Social Emotional Learning
This brief examines how trauma-sensitive schools (TSS) and SEL can be integrated and expanded — through shared understanding and vision, a readiness to integrate approaches, a shift in mindsets, joint implementation and evaluation, support of adult SEL, and an enhanced equity lens ‚Äî to create safe, supportive, and culturally responsive schools that prevent school-related trauma and foster thriving, robust equity, and transformative learning.
ED
Design Principles for Schools: Putting the Science of Learning and Development Into Action
Social Emotional Learning
This playbook is a collaborative product that provides the scientific foundation for the Guiding Principles for Equitable Whole Child Design
ED
Embracing a New Normal: Toward a More Liberatory Approach to Family Engagement
Social Emotional Learning
This report explores the dynamics and barriers that stand in the way of effective family-school partnerships and outlines how to reach a more liberatory, solidarity-driven, and equity-focused family engagement practice that supports educational excellence for all children.
ED
Getting Started with Restorative Practices in Schools: A Guide for Administrators and Teacher Leaders
Social Emotional Learning
This guide is designed to help school leaders and educators use restorative approaches to build relationships and address conflict. These practices help facilitate community building and address infractions, enabling students to take responsibility for their actions and repair harm when possible.
ED
Serving the Whole Person: An Alignment and Coherence Guide for Local Education Agencies
Social Emotional Learning
This Alignment and Coherence Guide's central purpose is to help local education agency (LEA) leaders implement conditions for equitable learning and development for students, families, and educators, through their work to improve the alignment and coherence of their whole-person initiatives.
ED
Serving the Whole Person: An Alignment and Coherence Guide for State Education Agencies
Social Emotional Learning
This Alignment and Coherence Guide's central purpose is to help state education agency (SEA) leaders implement conditions for equitable learning and development for students, families, and educators, through their work to improve the alignment and coherence of their whole-person initiatives.
ED
Playbook: 5 Steps for Building & Strengthening Students' Networks
Social Emotional Learning
This playbook was developed to help K-12 and postsecondary leadership and nonprofits that work with those institutions implement and adapt strategies, tools, and metrics that build and strengthen their students' networks in support of their well-being and with the aim of expanding their postsecondary and career options.
ED
Reimagining excellence: A blueprint for integrating social and emotional well-being and academic excellence in schools
Social Emotional Learning
This blueprint — designed with input from in-person and remote educators, leaders, researchers, professional learning providers, and technical assistance providers ‚Äî strives to detail the indicators of learning programs that successfully integrate equity, well-being, and academics.
ED
Turnaround for Children Toolbox
Social Emotional Learning
The Turnaround for Children Toolbox is an online hub for science-grounded ideas and resources that empower educators — including teachers, school and district leaders, student support staff, and many others — to embed an equitable, whole-child purpose into our education system.
ED
Real-Time Redesign Guide
Social Emotional Learning
This toolkit provides leaders with a realistic, inclusive, and rapid process for making targeted improvement toward more equitable and resilient teaching and learning through a series of guided activities paired with examples from real schools.
ED
The Partnerships for Social and Emotional Learning Podcast
Social Emotional Learning
This podcast series from The Wallace Foundation shares findings and early lessons from a RAND Corporation study of the PSELI initiative. The five episodes feature in-depth conversations with practitioners in schools and afterschool programs, and leaders in districts and out-of-school time intermediary organizations, about their experiences working together to help children develop social and emotional skills
ED
Infographic: Benefits of School-Based Physical Activity
Physical Activity
Regular physical activity in childhood and adolescence is important for promoting lifelong health and well-being and preventing a variety of health conditions. Schools are in a unique position, regardless of learning mode, to help students attain the recommended 60 minutes of moderate-to-vigorous physical activity daily.
CDC
Increase Access to Drinking Water in Schools
Nutrition
1 in 5 children and adolescents do not drink any plain water during the day, and about half of school-aged children are underhydrated. Learn how to increase water access in schools.
CDC
School Nurses Help Keep Students Healthy
Chronic Conditions and Diseases
In 1902, the first-ever school nurse, Lina Rogers, reduced absenteeism by helping students and their families manage contagious diseases. Learn how school nurses continue to care for students over a century later.
CDC
Give Your Kids a Healthy and Active Summer
Crosscutting
Parents play a powerful role in helping their children prepare mentally, physically, and emotionally for the upcoming school year. Here are some ways you can give your child a healthy and active summer through activities that help them be safe, healthy, engaged, supported, and challenged.
CDC
What Parents Need to Know About School Meals
Nutrition
School meals are free for all children through June 30, 2022. Visit your school district's website for more information.
CDC
Tips for Promoting School Employee Wellness
Crosscutting
You can have an employee wellness program and follow CDC Guidelines for Operating Schools During COVID-19.
CDC
Back to School - Ideas for Parents
Crosscutting
As summer ends, there is a lot to do to get kids ready for school. This is especially true because of the COVID-19 pandemic. Learn what parents can do to get ready for the new school year, too
CDC
USDA's Team Nutrition's Back to School Website
Back To School
Check out Team Nutrition's Back to School webpage for easy access to resources that assist with supporting a safe re-opening; communicating about school meals; planning healthy meals; and peer learning and resource sharing.
ED
Strategies for Using American Rescue Plan Funding to Address the Impact of Lost Instructional Time
Back To School
NEW Strategies for Using American Rescue Plan Funding to Address the Impact of Lost Instructional Time This new resource, "Strategies for Using American Rescue Plan Funding to Address the Impact of Lost Instructional Time" by the U.S. Department of Education (Department) is to support educators as they implement, refine, and work to continuously improve their strategies for supporting students through this pandemic. This guidance is intended to lift up best practices and evidence-based approaches, all of which can be supported with American Rescue Plan (ARP) funds. The new resource on lost instructional time is part of the Department's Return to School Roadmap, a guide for states, schools, educators, and parents to prepare for the return to in-person learning this fall. The Roadmap focuses on three landmark priorities, including building school communities and supporting students' social, emotional, and mental health
ED
Lessons from the Field - Returning to School: Strategies for Reengaging PreK-12 Students
Back To School
Lessons from the Field - Returning to School: Strategies for Reengaging PreK-12 Students This webinar by the U.S. Department of Education (ED), Office of Elementary and Secondary Education's Office of Safe and Supportive Schools, the National Center on Safe Supportive Learning Environments (NCSSLE) and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention shares strategies for reconnecting with PreK—12 students returning to school this Fall. Following the brief presentation by the federal agencies, field-based practitioners shared strategies they have found effective to reengage students, including special populations, through outreach and sustained connections.
ED
Spotlight on School-based Mental Health by the National Center for Education Research
Social Emotional Learning
A blog series, Spotlight on School-based Mental Health by the National Center for Education Research (NCER) was launched to unpack the why, what, when, who, and where of providing mental health services in schools. This first blog in the series focuses on the why by discussing three IES-funded projects that highlight the importance of these services.
ED
Promoting #DeafSuccess: Guides for High Schools, Colleges, and Families
Back To School
These back to school guides by the National Deaf Center on Postsecondary Outcomes for colleges, high schools, deaf students, and their families with key strategies, common pitfalls and evidence-based practices to help deaf students reach #DeafSuccess
ED
COVID-19 Resources for Schools, Students, and Families
Social Emotional Learning
Selecting the Right Interventions to Support Students' Mental Health Needs This document by Regional Educational Laboratories Appalachia contains additional resources on decision making and can be used to select appropriate evidence-based programs (EBPs) based on school, state, or district needs.
ED
Guidance Reaffirms Importance of Full Implementation of Individuals with Disabilities Education Act Amidst COVID-19 Pandemic
Back To School
Guidance Reaffirms Importance of Full Implementation of Individuals with Disabilities Education Act Amidst COVID-19 Pandemic
ED
Proven Strategies to Improve Indoor Air Quality in Schools
Indoor Air Quality
Putting strategies in place to ensure adequate ventilation and filtration in school buildings is critical for providing healthy indoor air to students and staff. To reduce pollutants in the air and limit the spread of viruses and bacteria, schools should maximize ventilation rates to the extent possible by bringing in as much outdoor air as weather and outdoor air quality permit. When sufficient HVAC adjustments are not possible, consider other means of bringing in outdoor air, and also consider increasing HVAC filter efficiency and using portable air cleaners as a supplemental filtration strategy
