This resource focuses on implementing early warning systems, with a focus on the “ABCs” (absenteeism, behavior referrals, and course failure) which are highly predictive indicators for dropping out. Includes staffing, scheduling, and other resource shift examples, and highlights “do now” and “build toward” practices.

Youth MOVE is a youth-driven, chapter membership organization focused on improving systems and services that support positive growth and development. This includes training and professional development for mental health workers, with a focus on strengthening youth voice, peer support, and leadership in systems of care. Other tools and resources are designed specifically for young people, to use themselves or in their role as a peer supporter or advocate.

A quick reference guide focused on ensuring instruction aligns across classrooms and tiers in ways that maximize student learning.

This collection of short, user-friendly tip sheets and tools help schools think about the infrastructure and supports they need for a strong multi-tiered system of support.

OpenSciEd is a Next Generation Science standards-aligned curriculum for elementary, middle, and high school students and is designed for how students learn science best. From 2018 to 2025, Massachusetts contributed to the development of these open-source K–12 science instructional materials through collaboration on scope and sequence, design specifications, and the instructional model of the curricular materials. The curriculum is available to download for free from the OpenSciEd website.

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.

This DESE video series provides close-up examples of strong daily instructional practices that create the conditions for deeper learning experiences. The collection includes PK-12 examples in math, literacy/ELA, ESL, history, and science.

Use this series of short 1-2 minute videos to introduce family members to English Learner Education. Available in English, Chinese, Haitian Creole, Portuguese, Spanish, and Vietnamese.

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.

Learn about high school improvement efforts at three Boston schools — East Boston High, 2023 School on the Move Winner, and two finalists, Boston Green Academy and Fenway High.

Use this video collection to learn about ways educators in schools across Massachusetts are transforming professional learning using a variety of collaborative and lesson internalization methods.

Learn how five different schools approach the challenge of creating meaningful advisories for high school students.

This guide helps educators put high school students at the center of conferencing. Tools include a student engagement matrix and strategies for engaging students who are in different places, conference planning and student preparation steps, a conference meeting protocol, coaching tips, and examples.

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.

Use this collection of guidance and online tools to help students grades 6-12 explore options and plan for life after high school.

This resource mapping template will help you inventory the Curriculum & Instruction/ Interventions, Assessments, and Data-Based Decision practices you are currently using (or have the goal of using) at each tier.

The School Climate Survey Suite is a set of four multidimensional surveys to measure student, teacher, administrator, faculty, and family perceptions of school climate. The surveys are brief, reliable, and valid for assessing perceived school climate among students in Grades 3-12. The manual was updated 2022 (Version 2).

Resources describing connections between the Massachusetts Mathematics Curriculum Frameworks and development of student social and emotional skills.

These grade and content-specific What to Look For (WtLF) Observation Guides are designed to support observations of classroom content and practice. They highlight what the teacher and students should be doing in a standards-aligned classroom.

This EDWIN report helps school and district leaders understand equity gaps in students’ learning experiences with effective educators; for example, the report shows how often students had assignments with different types of teachers over the past one to five years. This series of three videos and related guidance explain how the report works and how to interpret and use the data.