COVID-19 Education Relief Funds
Emergency relief funds for COVID-19 are designed to help districts and schools plan and implement evidence-based solutions that strengthen learning, accelerate achievement, and create equitable learning environments.
Background
Congress has passed several economic stimulus packages (CARES, CRRSA, and ARP) to help schools tackle immediate needs, provide continuity of learning, and plan and prepare for post-pandemic needs. The portion of stimulus funds that impact K–12 schools is known as ESSER (Elementary and Secondary School Emergency Relief).
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What Funding Is Available?
The chart below provides an overview of the current economic relief bills and shows how the funds are distributed. More information is available at the U.S. Department of Education website.
CARES Act | CRRSA Act | ARP Act | |
Amount of Funding | $13 Billion | $54 Billion | $122 Billion |
Spending Deadline | September 2022 | September 2023 | September 2024 |
Allocation Methodology | Title I-A Formula | Title I-A Formula | Title I-A Formula |
To learn more about your local funding, visit your state's department of education website.
How Can Funds Be Used?
Education leaders have flexibility to use these funds to best meet their individual circumstances. Allowable uses include instructional materials, educational software, professional learning, assessments, salaries, internet connectivity, and devices as well as summer-school and after-school activities. A portion of the funds must be used to implement evidence-based interventions to address learning loss.
Funding Priorities
View the charts below to explore HMH’s high-quality solutions and evidence-based programs available for purchase with stimulus funds.
Accelerate the Path to Proficiency
While it is hard to predict the exact impact COVID-19 will have on learning, we can prepare for the challenges ahead and ensure students have access to the most effective, proven solutions to accelerate achievement. It is critical to differentiate and personalize instruction to engage students in whole groups, small groups, and individual settings.
Address Social and Emotional Needs
Leaders and teachers must continue to assess the extent to which the social-emotional needs of students are being addressed while also ensuring all students have equitable access to the kinds of learning experiences, strategies, and supports needed to be successful both in and out of school. It is now more urgent than ever to notice, empathize, and address students’ social and emotional well-being and, ultimately, their academic learning.
If you are interested in… | Explore this HMH solution | Grades | Ideal for | Learning Environments | Recommended Implementation Model(s) |
Social and emotional learning | Pre-K–4 | All learners |
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Social and emotional learning | 8–12 | All learners |
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Assess to Identify Student Needs
Assessment plays a key role in providing teachers and administrators with the data they need to carefully plan and deliver instruction. Educators will increasingly need to leverage a variety of formative assessment options to obtain data that can inform instruction.
If you are interested in… | Explore this HMH solution | Grades | Ideal for | Learning Environments | Recommended Implementation Model(s) |
Quickly screening students for dyslexia or reading difficulties | K–3 | Emergent readers; Students at risk for reading failure; All learners including Spanish speakers |
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Automated oral reading fluency assessment without bias | K–5 | Emergent readers; Students at risk for reading failure; English learners |
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Growth measures to build the right instructional plan | 2–11 | All learners including Spanish speakers |
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Growth measures to build the right instructional plan | K–12 | All learners including Spanish speakers |
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Leverage High-Quality Curricula
Now more than ever, schools need to leverage high-quality curricula to help take some of the load off students, teachers, and families and caregivers. It is important to implement instructional programs that provide a coherent and cohesive experience designed to keep students engaged and empower teachers.
If you are interested in… | Explore this HMH solution | Grades | Evidence of Effectiveness | Ideal for | Learning Environments | Recommended Implementation Model(s) |
Equitable access to high-quality instructional materials from a single digital hub | K–12 | Demonstrates a rationale | All learners |
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Build and Expand Educator Capacity
The need to empower educators through comprehensive, research-based professional learning across technology, pedagogy, content, and social and emotional learning has grown immensely due to the shifting education climate. By providing teachers with professional learning that is personalized and sustainable, school leaders can ensure their teachers receive knowledge, practice, and support in the areas where it is most needed to improve student learning outcomes.
HMH is proud to be recognized as an organization that provides the best curriculum-aligned professional learning services and to be included in the Professional Learning Partner Guide (PLPG) from Rivet Education. Similar to the curriculum reviews published by EdReports, the PLPG is a searchable database of highly recommended professional learning partners with the expertise to support the implementation of high-quality instructional materials.
If you are interested in… | Explore this HMH solution | Grades | Ideal for | Learning Environments |
Strategic planning to build executive and instructional leaders | K–12 | District and School Leadership Teams; Professional Learning Communities (PLCs); Grade Level Teams; Instructional Coaches |
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Personalized professional development and coaching across learning environments | K–12 | Grade Level Teams; Professional Learning Communities (PLCs); Instructional Coaches |
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Personalized professional development and coaching across learning environments | K–12 | Grade Level Teams; Professional Learning Communities (PLCs); Instructional Coaches |
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HMH program-specific resources (on-demand and live remote sessions) | K–12 | Teachers; Instructional Coaches |
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COVID-19 Resources for Educators
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HMH Grant Support
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Sample Grant Narrative: We provide sample descriptive language about HMH programs and services to assist you and your leadership team in preparing and completing the narrative section(s) of your grant application. Contact your HMH Account Executive for more information.