Research Briefs and Reports

Provides administrators with strategy-based actions to support the well-being of educators. This resource aims to guide administrators when addressing burnout and demoralization among staff, heightened by the COVID-19 pandemic, through concrete examples of efforts to address such challenges.

Provides an overview of the problem of bullying over mask-wearing, as well as strategies for schools to prevent and intervene in bullying. This brief explores what educators and administrators might expect as students return to school after their lives were upended by the pandemic, and how to make sure all students return to safe, stable learning environments.

Describes opportunities for K-12 schools to to partner with colleges and universities in building comprehensive school mental health services. This brief highlights strategies and exemplars to help accelerate innovation and advancement in K-12 school mental health systems.

Provides information about female genital mutilation/cutting (FGM/C) and its prevalence in the United States. It highlights specific strategies educators, school-based health staff and school administrators, can use to identify and help girls who have experienced or are at risk of experiencing FGM/C.

Presents a collection of data and reports on the implementation of the Gun-Free Schools Act (GFSA) across U.S. states and other jurisdictions with the goal of strengthening the quality of GFSA data submissions. 

Describes how social bullying is defined, what distinguishes it from other types of aggression, how commonly it occurs in schools, and what factors contribute to social bullying involvement. It also summarizes research findings concerning the impacts of social bullying on individual social development and adjustment and identifies implications for school learning environments. The last section describes school-based approaches for preventing and reducing social bullying.