These playbooks provide a roadmap for the creation, design, and adoption of policies, processes, programs, and practices that State and local educational agencies, nonprofit organizations, families, and communities need to support and implement high-quality, effective, inclusive, and evidence-based dual language immersion programs.

• Source: National Clearinghouse for English Language Acquisition
• Resource Type: Best Practices, Evidence-Based Practices, Implementation Strategies

This web page organizes information about the Department's promotion of school infrastructure and environmental sustainability through multiple communications and outreach tools designed to share best practices and connect schools with partnerships and resources. Out-of-school time programs can share how they are advancing environmental sustainability for a chance to be highlighted.

• Source: U.S. Department of Education
• Resource Type: Best Practices, Evidence-Based Practices, Leadership and Management Practices
• Year: 2024

This toolkit is intended to help out-of-school time programs, nonprofits, schools, and school districts consider where and how to bring corporate volunteers in to serve as tutors, mentors, student success coaches, student support coordinators, and/or postsecondary transition coaches.

• Source: National Partnership for Student Success
• Resource Type: Implementation Strategies, Innovation and Best Practices, Leadership and Management Practices
• Year: 2023

This toolkit was created to help families choose education services that meet their child’s needs. Schools and programs may share the toolkit as a resource for English learners and their families.

• Source: National Clearinghouse for English Language Acquisition
• Resource Type: Best Practices, Implementation Strategies
• Year: 2023

This user-friendly web page explains the U.S. Department of Education's five-step process for using evidence-based practices to support student learning and learning recovery. It provides guidance on how to identify local needs, select and implement relevant evidence-based practices, and examine and reflect on the outcomes associated with a practice's use.

• Source: Institute of Education Sciences
• Resource Type: Evidence-Based Practices

This 1-hour online module explores executive functions and explains why many students struggle with cognitive processes related to learning. It then examines why it's critical for teachers to explicitly teach these students when, where, and how to use effective study strategies.

• Source: IRIS Center at Vanderbilt University's Peabody College
• Resource Type: Implementation Strategies, Research
• Year: 2022

This 2.5-hour module is a companion to the Executive Functions Part 1 module. It includes strategies that can help students who have difficulty with executive functions like time management and focus. These strategies include graphic organizers, notetaking, mnemonics, organization of materials, time management, comprehension strategies, and self-regulation strategies.

• Source: IRIS Center at Vanderbilt University's Peabody College
• Resource Type: Implementation Strategies, Research
• Year: 2022

This web page is for faith-based and other neighborhood organization grantees, subgrantees, and contractors that provide program services to beneficiaries under a grant or subgrant. The stated purpose for the page is to provide a clear and uniform understanding of the fundamental principles that apply to award recipients, along with guidance and regulations for implementing their awards.

• Source: U.S. Department of Education
• Resource Type: Policy/Guidance Documents
• Year: 2024

This web page describes the GEAR UP descretionary grant program, which may be of intersest to out-of-school time programs focusing on career prep. GEAR UP provides grants to States and partnerships seeking to prepare low-income middle and high schools to enter and succeed in postsecondary education.

• Source: U.S. Department of Education
• Resource Type: Leadership and Management Practices
• Year: 2024

This web page provides access to the Healthier Generation Assessment for Out-of-School Time (OST) and other tools to help OST programs plan and implement best practices to create a healthier OST environment for students.

• Source: Healthier Generation
• Resource Type: Evidence-Based Practices, Implementation Strategies, Innovation and Best Practices, Research
• Year: 2023

This playbook provides information and tools to support out-of-school time providers and support networks interested in expanding or beginning to offer high-impact tutoring programs. 

• Source: National Student Support Accelerator (a program of the Stanford Accelerator for Learning and EdSolutions at Stanford University)
• Resource Type: Best Practices, Evidence-Based Practices, Implementation Strategies
• Year: 2023

This guidance document and supplemental resources present research-based methods and best practices to maximize instruction for students with disabilities.

• Source: University of Florida CEEDAR Center
• Resource Type: Implementation Strategies, Research
• Year: 2024