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.
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How to Use Effective Communication & Connected Collaboration to Strengthen Schools & Communities In a panel format, attendees will learn how school Districts…
Say What- Effective Communication and Connected…
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Remarks by Dr. Mary C. Wall
Remarks by Dr. Mary C. Wall
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Balancing Public Health Interventions with Social, Emotional and Academic Outcomes
Plenary Remarks- Dr. Lisa C. Barrios, CDC
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Dr. Deborah Birx keynote address.
Keynote- Dr. Deborah Birx
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Strategies 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…
Beyond Covid: Overall Infection Prevention &…
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Panelists will discuss the modifications and accommodations used to support students with disabilities, key partners that helped, and the programs, practices, and…
Transforming Lessons Learned into Awareness,…
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Leveraging partnerships to drive response efforts now and in the future. Departments of health, department of education and educators’ unions will discuss the…
Sustaining Innovative Partnerships Between Public…
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The people and partnerships that drive robust response efforts. Panelists will share how historical context influenced pandemic response, key partners within and outside…
Tribal Nation Response
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School-based, rather than school-placed, research with schools and communities. In a panel format, attendees will learn best practices and lessons learned when…
Community-engaged research and rapid feedback…
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How 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,…
Using Peer to Peer Networks to Drive Response…
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The 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…
Scaling testing: costs and benefits of different…
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Models for providing behavioral and physical health care to all students. Panelists will discuss how they’re using telehealth to support student health locally and…
Increasing access and equity to care with digital…
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Considerations for developing and using simulated models to make decisions about mitigation measures on the local level. Panelists will discuss the role that modeling…
Using Modeling to Make Decisions
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How 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…
School Located Vaccination
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Lessons learned and operational and policy considerations for sustaining diagnostics in K-12. Attendees will learn about the role that testing played in K-12,…
The Evolution and Future of Diagnostics in K-12
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How 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…
Improving indoor air quality in K-12
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