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Comprehensive Health and Physical Education Curriculum Guide
In 2023, MA DESE released an updated Comprehensive Health and Physical Education (CHPE) Curriculum Framework that provides standards and guidance for effective CHPE programs. This guide is intended to provide districts with an overview of how available CHPE curricula align with the CHPE Framework.
CASEL SEL Program Guide & Comparison Tool
Use CASEL’s online tool to review and compare programs that help students develop strong social and emotional skills. Search by grade or grade level, program approach, setting, student characteristics, and other criteria.
National Guidelines for Integrated Student Support
This report distills the collective expertise of leading researchers and practitioners from the nation's most rigorously evaluated student support models. By analyzing successful interventions, the working group identified the core practices essential for high-quality implementation. This resource serves as a framework to help schools and communities build effective, comprehensive systems that address the holistic needs of every student.
Implementing MTSS in Secondary Schools
Practical strategies to address logistical and instructional challenges secondary schools often encounter implementing MTSS including intervention blocks, scheduling, teaming, and other practices. The 2022 report focused on early implementation. The 2025 report updates and extends the toolkit of strategies and includes additional resources and examples. It also expands the focus of MTSS to include student well-being.
Inclusive Academy Video Facilitation Guide
Use this series of videos and trainer’s resources to help staff understand inclusive practices
Using MTSS to Support Student Well-Being: Fact Sheets for Schools
Use this series of fact sheets to refine tiered supports for student social emotional development and mental wellbeing. Topics include the research basis, student identification, data use, and educator wellbeing.
Massachusetts SLIFE Toolkit
This online module provides tools, practices, and resources to help schools serve students with limited or interrupted formal education (SLIFE).
DESE Paraeducator e-Learning Modules
Use these modules to orient and train new paraeducators and provide a deeper dive into specific areas of practice.
Wraparound Replication Cookbook: Recipes for Creating Strong School Culture and Addressing Social Emotional Barriers to Learning
This cookbook is the result of the Massachusetts Wraparound Zone Initiative, an initiative aimed at helping schools tackle both academic and non-academic barriers to student learning, and includes recipes for strengthening school culture, creating strong student success teams, engaging family members as partners, building community partnerships and coalitions, and much more.
Safe and Supportive Schools Self-Reflection Tool
The revised Safe and Supportive Schools Implementation Guide & Self-Reflection Tool provides an inquiry-based year-long or multi-year process to document current practices that support students` behavioral health ranging from the whole school community to individual students that require more intensive supports.