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.

Access session materials from the February 2020 MTSS Planning Institute opportunity, developed as a follow-up to the September 2019 MTSS Leadership Institute based on educator requests for additional learning opportunities and facilitated planning time.

Note: The Massachusetts MTSS Blueprint was updated in 2025. Many tools from the 2020 institute are aligned to older 2018 version of the Blueprint.

This online training module for special educators and IEP teams provides an overview of the IEP process and related requirements including timelines, family communication, and key questions for determining eligibility.

This online interactive training module was developed by DESE and guided by partnership work with LEAP districts and collaboratives. It is intended to deepen understanding of the impact that poverty can have on student performance.

Session materials from DESE’s 2019 MTSS Leadership Institute. Note: Some materials are based on the 2018 Massachusetts MTSS Blueprint which was updated in 2025.

Edwin Analytics is a powerful reporting and data analysis tool that gives authorized districts and state level users access to new information, reports, and perspectives on education and programs that specifically support improvements in teaching and learning. 

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.

Use these materials and training modules to orient staff and family members on the role ELPACs play and how to start and manage them

This guide provides practical strategies and resources liaisons can use to support student mental health, improve family outreach, create partnerships, leverage funding, and address compassion fatigue

Use these modules to orient and train new paraeducators and provide a deeper dive into specific areas of practice.

Find workshop materials from DESE’s 2025 Instructional Leadership Institute. Session topics included instructional vision and planning, designing for school belonging, scheduling, student support structures, multilingual learners, budgeting, and more.

Ground your learning community in DESE’s vision for Massachusetts students. Available in 8 languages.

Session materials from DESE’s first Instructional Leadership Institute in 2023

The Better Together training module helps educators think about and do family partnership. The module is based on the Massachusetts Family, School, and Community Partnership Fundamentals. It includes research, family voice videos, practice spotlights, and a Fundamentals Reflection Process Tool Kit school and district teams can use to identify the next stage or level of their family school partnership.

Access session materials from the 2018 LEA event on topics including creating a pipeline of diverse educators, developing multi-tiered systems of support, equitable access to high quality curriculum, bilingual education, ensuring racial and cultural equity, effectively engaging families, student mobility, approaches to addressing students’ mental health needs, integrating social emotional and academic learning, and more.

DESE’s October 2019 Leading with Access & Equity Conference had a great line-up of sessions! Access all conference materials here.

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.

These free training modules for educators are part of the Clough Foundation Training and Access Project (TAP) Online series, which offers free courses designed to build the capacity of school communities to address social-emotional learning and behavioral health. TAP is a part of the Boston Children’s Hospital Neighborhood Partnerships Program (BCHNP). 

The National Center on Safe Supportive Learning Environments (NCSSLE) is a training and technical assistance center funded by the U.S. Department of Education to address factors that result in disciplinary problems, poor conditions for learning, and educator burnout. NCSSLE has developed a number of tools, online modules, and other materials related to these topics and more.

Training materials to support use of the Massachusetts educator evaluation framework. Includes facilitator tools, videos, handouts and slides needed to provide educator training workshops.