COVID-19 Education Resources
COVID-19: A Changing Landscape in Education
American education is being transformed by the COVID-19 pandemic, the lockdown, and eventually, the recovery. As a leader in evidence-based educational policy and practice, the Johns Hopkins School of Education is on the front lines shaping how our profession responds to the challenges. This site is a trove of timely and relevant research, expertise, guidance, and resources to help families, teachers, and district leaders emerge from the crisis stronger than ever. Updated regularly. Please share.
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New global tracker to measure pandemic’s impact on education worldwide
A new COVID-19 Global Education Recovery Tracker, developed by Johns Hopkins, the World Bank, and UNICEF, shows that the COVID-19 pandemic has disrupted education for 1.6 billion children worldwide.
Education in focus
Eleven voices from across the School of Education take stock on the first anniversary of COVID-19 school shutdowns, assess the pandemic’s imprint on education, and predict what the future may hold
Insights on vaccination status for school reopening
The School of Education’s eSchool+ Initiative launches a one-stop, state-by-state dashboard of COVID-19 policies and vaccination progress to guide school policymakers, teachers, staff, and parents as they navigate a return to classroom education.
Voices+Opinion
OPINION
The American Rescue Plan can rescue education, if we use it to fund what works
Robert Slavin
Johns Hopkins K-12 School Reopening Policy Tracker
A multidisciplinary team of Johns Hopkins University researchers has launched a new website that provides a range of tools dedicated to assessing and guiding K-12 school reopening plans across the United States, including a School Reopening Policy Tracker that provides real-time analysis of the latest guidance documents from every state.
There has never been a greater need for schools of education to be relevant. It is time to come together and offer teachers, families, districts, and communities the very best of our research-to-practice expertise.
Christopher C. Morphew
Dean of the Johns Hopkins School of Education
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School Districts
Teaching COVID-19 to youth
Johns Hopkins Health Education and Training (HEAT) Corps is teaming up with foundations and local school districts to educate young people about the dangers of COVID-19 and how they can help to keep themselves and others from being infected.
Stronger school-parent partnerships
Researchers from the National Network of Partnership Schools asked educators how they responded to challenges of COVID-19 and found “silver linings” in parents’ engagement that should strengthen partnership programs as schools reopen. “[S]chools and families performed near-miracles to reimagine ‘education’ … , ” they write.
Supporting teachers
The wellbeing of teachers is a vital component of educational outcomes. The Johns Hopkins Institute for Education Policy offers a new resource, co-authored by School of Education Assistant Professor Lieny Jeon, which examines teacher stress and second-hand trauma—and how schools can support teachers during re-entry.
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Teachers
Renewed interest in social emotional learning
Research from the School of Education’s Hunter Gehlbach and doctoral candidate Claire Chuter says there is a clear link between the switch to remote learning and increased interest in “social emotional learning.” But, before any progress can be made, educators will have to agree on what “social emotional learning” means
Boosting relationships with families of students with disabilities
Linda Carling of the Center for Technology in Education offers tips for teachers to stay connected to families of students with disabilities in this challenging age of virtual learning.
Battling COVID-19 through education
Jennifer Morrison and Steve Ross teamed up with experts at the School of Public Health and the School of Medicine for a series of learning modules to help schools reduce disease transmission, improve testing, and better monitor the risks of COVID-19.
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Families
Two CSOS studies shed light on parent role in student progress
Keep the light on
From an interactive rendering of Dante’s Inferno to a real-time replay of the first moon landing, kids of all ages will light up at this list of 100 online education resources from the Johns Hopkins Center for Talented Youth.
SOE students create Vivi, a virtual college counselor
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Other COVID-19 Resources
Coronavirus Resource Center
A one-stop repository for all things COVID-19, assembled by the world’s leading experts at Johns Hopkins University and Johns Hopkins Medicine. Maps, data, advice, news. It’s all here.
School News Roundup
Read the latest roundup of COVID-19 news and subscribe to receive regular newsletters from expert voices at the Center for Safe and Healthy Schools, Consortium for School-Based Health Solutions, and the Johns Hopkins Berman Institute of Bioethics.
Campus-wide Coverage
A resource for faculty, students, and staff at Johns Hopkins University with a focus on the health and well-being of the university community and continuity of university operations. Daily updates.