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SchoolSafety.gov provides resources, like guidance, training, and fact sheets, to help schools create and maintain a safe learning environment. 

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Guidance
Cybersecurity
Ransomware Guide

Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency, September 2020

This guide outlines ransomware prevention best practices and provides a response checklist to follow should your organization be a victim of ransomware. It is intended for information technology professionals as well as others within an organization involved in developing cyber incident response policies and procedures or coordinating cyber incident response.

Guidance
Cybersecurity
Cyber Safety Series: Video Call Safety

Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency, August 2020

In this new world of video calls, it’s more important than ever that we use good good cyber safety practices during every meeting we attend.

Guidance
Mental Health
Strategies for Educators to Support the Social and Emotional Needs of Students Impacted by the COVID-19 Pandemic and the Demand for Racial Justice: Plans for Reopening Schools

Department of Education, July 2020

Educators and students alike are facing unprecedented uncertainty around the 2020-2021 school year. Regardless of how learning is organized—remote, in-person, or hybrid—it is crucial for schools to focus on restoring environments and relationships that support student wellness, connection, and ultimately, achievement.

Guidance
Infectious Diseases and Public Health
Social Distancing

Department of Health and Human Services, July 2020

Guidance on keeping a safe distance to slow the spread.

Guidance
Infectious Diseases and Public Health
Joint Guidance on the Application of FERPA and HIPAA to Student Health Records

Department of Education, and Department of Health and Human Services, December 2019

The U.S. Department of Education and the Office for Civil Rights at the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services released updated joint guidance addressing the application of the Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act (FERPA) and the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996 (HIPAA) Privacy Rule to records maintained on students. 

Guidance
Infectious Diseases and Public Health
Testing in Institutions of Higher Education

Department of Health and Human Services, June 2020

Visit this CDC page for considerations for ways in which institutions of higher education (IHEs) can help protect students, faculty, and staff and slow the spread of the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19).

Guidance
Infectious Diseases and Public Health
Keep Children Healthy During the COVID-19 Outbreak

Department of Health and Human Services, June 2020

Based on available evidence, most children do not appear to be at higher risk for COVID-19 than adults. While some children and infants have been sick with COVID-19, adults make up most of the known cases to date.

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