The COVID-19 pandemic presented significant challenges to the US response, including how to address the needs of K-12 education. Now, nearly 30 months responding to this crisis, state, local, tribal, and territorial public health and education leaders, researchers, and federal government partners with colleagues from across the country came together to reflect.
Coordinated by the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and Brown University School of Public Health, and generously supported by The Rockefeller Foundation, this symposium provided a platform to discuss pandemic response accomplishments, identify and document best practices, lessons learned, and foster collaborations and connections among attendees.
- To highlight the significant impact of The Rockefeller Foundation’s private-public partnerships and investments to aid K-12 public schools across the nation during the COVID pandemic.
- To share data that inform us of the effectiveness of the diverse range of K-12 strategies implemented by the Rockefeller-funded K-12 Cross-Cities Learning Group.
- To have a frank discussion of what worked during the height of the pandemic, what effective practices were identified, and what challenges remain.
As a result of this symposium, participants will be able to:
- Understand how cross-sector partnerships facilitated pandemic response in K-12.
- Understand the differential impacts of the pandemic on underserved populations.
- Prepare participants to leverage traditional and non-traditional partners to mitigate against inequitable outcomes in the future.
- Provide input that will result in a book that serves as a record and reference to guide future public health response efforts in K-12.
- Connect with colleagues in public health and education to share accomplishments, lessons learned, and best practices.
-
From Anna Simon
17 plays 0How to Use Effective Communication & Connected Collaboration to Strengthen Schools & Communities In a panel format, attendees will learn how school Districts… -
From Anna Simon
3 plays 0Remarks by Dr. Mary C. Wall -
From Anna Simon
7 plays 0Balancing Public Health Interventions with Social, Emotional and Academic Outcomes -
From Anna Simon
2 plays 0Dr. Deborah Birx keynote address. -
From Anna Simon
11 plays 0Strategies to apply in K-12 communities to prepare for future outbreaks of infectious diseases. Panlists will discuss what schools and districts can do to prevent and… -
From Anna Simon
8 plays 0Panelists will discuss the modifications and accommodations used to support students with disabilities, key partners that helped, and the programs, practices, and… -
From Anna Simon
6 plays 0Leveraging partnerships to drive response efforts now and in the future. Departments of health, department of education and educators’ unions will discuss the… -
From Anna Simon
5 plays 0The people and partnerships that drive robust response efforts. Panelists will share how historical context influenced pandemic response, key partners within and outside… -
From Anna Simon
3 plays 0School-based, rather than school-placed, research with schools and communities. In a panel format, attendees will learn best practices and lessons learned when… -
From Anna Simon
8 plays 0How to use networks to increase knowledge about promising practices, enable just-in-time access to resources, and foster peer-to-peer connection. In a panel format,… -
From Anna Simon
6 plays 0The opportunities and challenges of the models we stood up, practices ready for replication and pitfalls to avoid. Panelists will discuss the costs and benefits of a… -
From Anna Simon
10 plays 0Models for providing behavioral and physical health care to all students. Panelists will discuss how they’re using telehealth to support student health locally and… -
From Anna Simon
2 plays 0Considerations for developing and using simulated models to make decisions about mitigation measures on the local level. Panelists will discuss the role that modeling… -
From Anna Simon
8 plays 0How to strengthen and sustain school-located vaccination by advancing health equity In a panel format, attendees will learn how the pandemic shaped and strengthened SLV… -
From Anna Simon
4 plays 0Lessons learned and operational and policy considerations for sustaining diagnostics in K-12. Attendees will learn about the role that testing played in K-12,… -
From Anna Simon
10 plays 0How to leverage time-limited funding to make a lasting impact on indoor-air quality in K-12. In a panel format, attendees will learn about innovative policy and…