Strategies for Using American Rescue Plan Funding to Address the Impact of Lost Instructional Time

Posted by U.S. Department of Education on December 14, 2021

On December 2, the U.S. Department of Education launched two multistate communities of practice to support states in addressing the impact of lost instructional time from the pandemic on students’ social, emotional, and mental health and on their academic well-being.

The Department is launching the Evidence-Based Interventions: Using American Rescue Plan Resources to Accelerate Learning community of practice with the National Comprehensive Center and Toward an Equitable Education and Recovery: Transforming Kindergarten Community of Practice in partnership with the Campaign for Grade Level Reading and the Department’s T4PA Center, among other partners. The communities of practice are the Department’s most recent efforts to support families by addressing the impact of lost instructional time.

This fall, the Department released “Strategies for Using American Rescue Plan Funding to Address the Impact of Lost Instructional Time,” a resource to support educators as they implement, refine, and work to continuously improve their strategies for supporting students.