Administrators in Naperville School District 203, where SEL has been entrenched in the curriculum for years, have focused first on professional development for teachers in the post-COVID world.

In Chicago, students as young as elementary age learn to organize and build civic leadership skills within the district's 200 student voice committees.

Student voice has had a significant impact on diversifying the curriculum and altering the dress code in Maryland's Howard County Public School System.

Walking to school, prepackaged meals and non-contact sports outdoors run a lower risk of transmitting coronavirus in schools. Contact sports, choirs and bands, and buses pose the highest risk.