STUDENT AND TEACHER ENGAGEMENT STRATEGIES
- Research Brief: Preparing for Post-COVID-19 Student Reengagement – This report offers strategies for planning for learning loss; discusses how students returning to school after an extended illness, natural disaster, or traumatic experience struggle with re-engagement and learning loss; and recommends specific strategies for re-engaging students following disruptions from the COVID-19 pandemic.
- Supporting Educational Leaders’ Self-Efficacy and Agency – This report reviews best practices for developing self-efficacy and agency among administrators while also developing leadership skills for educators and staff at all levels.
INSTRUCTIONAL EFFECTIVENESS
- Research-Based Strategies for Online Reading and Math Instruction – This infographic outlines plans for group discussions, summarizes guiding questions for selecting interactive programs, details example strategies for student self-assessment, and how to improve parent involvement.
- Infobrief: Defining College and Career Readiness – The overview includes commonly-used definitions, outcomes, and components of 21st century skills which are competencies that students need to be most successful in the digital age.
TEACHER & OPERATIONAL SUPPORT
- Best Practices in Monitoring Attendance and Engagement Across Environments – This report informs states and district reopening plans by providing recommendations for monitoring attendance in hybrid and virtual learning models, including guidance on tracking the nature of student absences (e.g., truancy, chronic absenteeism, COVID-19 and other excused absences). Hanover has reviewed select policies and practices at the state and district levels, as well as recommendations issued by key national organizations.
- Staff Well-Being Check-Ins during COVID-19 – This infobrief provides guidance for school leaders and other managers to support staff members through check-ins during the COVID-19 pandemic.