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

The E2C Hub brings together data from across three agencies to help educators, students and families, policy makers, researchers, and others understand how Massachusetts children progress from early care, through K-12 education, and into higher education and the workforce.

This online module provides tools, practices, and resources to help schools serve students with limited or interrupted formal education (SLIFE).

Use these tools and templates to support ELE program development and identification, screening, and English learner progress monitoring

Use this interactive blueprint to explore four pillars blocks of effective support for English learner success

A treasure trove of resources for school staff, youth, and families including tip sheets and training tools, webinars, “Know Your Rights” flyers, postsecondary transition support tools, and much more.

This blueprint helps schools and districts develop school-community partnerships to support youth experiencing homelessness and their families (McKinney-Vento support).

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.

Use these tools to support deeper learning grounded in grade-level, real-world, relevant, and interactive learning. Tools in the classroom support observations, lesson and unit unpacking, and student work review.

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.

The Massachusetts Department of Elementary and Secondary Education’s Office of Education Technology (OET) partnered with The Learning Accelerator (TLA) to develop this guide for educational technology (edtech) leaders in Massachusetts. 

This guide presents an overview of information related to K–12 edtech and provides insights and suggestions to support administrative teams as they plan for the future of edtech in their districts and schools.

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.

In recent years, DESE has published and utilized several frameworks and resources that capture elements of great schools and levers to create conditions that improve student outcomes. The Coherence Guidebook pulls them together into one place to illustrate a systems-level path toward deeper 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.

Tool kit created by UnboundEd that educators can use to facilitate a “brave conversation” about bias. Includes an overview of the 3-part conversation process, slide presentations with notes and resources, and activities you can use and adapt to support part of the conversation.

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.