Maine Department of Education Launches Maine’s Whole Student Pandemic Response Page

The Maine's whole student Pandemic Response Logo ( a circle with a thick blue outline with Maine's Whole Student Pandemic Response - Maine Department of Education and a star motif in the center) super imposed over a opaque navy square and a picture of smiling children playing in a tent.

The page showcases programs created with Federal Emergency Relief Funding and elevates the voices of the educators and students they support.

The Maine Department of Education (DOE) has launched a new webpage to showcase how the Maine DOE used federal emergency relief funding to invest in Maine’s Whole Student Pandemic Response. The effort highlights the initiatives the DOE created with federal funding and the impact on students, educators, schools, and communities. View the new webpage here.

A circle with a thick navy outline and a picture of students hands on top of one another over snow.The Maine Department of Education (DOE) prioritized a Whole Student Approach using federal emergency relief funding to help students, educators, and schools respond and recover from the COVID-19 pandemic. The DOE’s Whole Student Approach was developed in partnership with educators, administrators, parents, students, and educational organizations. It seeks to create vibrant school environments where all students are safe, healthy, supported, engaged, challenged, and prepared. Together, these six tenets form the foundation for students’ success in school, life, careers, and as citizens of our great state.

The DOE has invested federal emergency relief funding in efforts to bolster literacy, provide hands-on outdoor learning opportunities, expand engaging project-based learning, bring interdisciplinary computer science education to every Maine school and grade level, expand pre-k, support student and educator wellbeing, ensure safe and healthy schools, and so much more.

The new landing page on the Maine DOE website features descriptions of the programs the Maine DOE created with federal emergency relief funding and stories from educators, students, and schools showcasing the impact of the programs and the continued efforts to support schools with the lingering impacts of the pandemic. The webpage includes details on the total federal emergency relief fundingA large circle with a thick navy line around it, and a picture of students working at their desks wearing masks . received by the Maine DOE and links to a federal relief funding dashboard featuring reimbursements made to school administrative units (SAUs) for their pandemic-related investments.

 

The Maine DOE will continue to update Maine’s Whole Student Pandemic Response page to feature how emergency relief funding continues to be used to support students, schools, and educators in Maine. We will also feature how schools and SAUs have used the funding they received.

Click Here to Visit Maine’s Whole Student Response Page

If you have a story of how your school or SAU used Federal Emergency Relief Funding, please share it here. We’d love to feature your efforts.

American Rescue Plan Act (ARP) funding supports Maine’s Whole Student Pandemic Response efforts.