Parabola Project: Tools and Strategies for Reopening Schools

The Parabola Project offers education leaders tools and strategies to minimize health risks while maximizing learning when reopening schools.

Ariadne Labs and The Learning Accelerator launched the Parabola Project to help school system leaders identify options for school reopening during the COVID-19 pandemic. The Parabola Project draws on expertise from both the education and health communities to rapidly develop evidence-informed tools.

Resources include:

School Reopening Readiness Guide

Ongoing Leadership Processes

Enabling Systems and Structures

Essential Supports


The School Reopening Readiness Guide is designed to assist district and school leaders in developing, evaluating, and executing your operational plans to reopen schools for in-person learning, as well as in assessing your readiness to implement these plans. It is also available as a document, which can be saved as a PDF for offline viewing.


Ongoing Leadership Processes


Enabling Systems and Structures


Essential Supports


Project Partners

The Parabola Project is a partnership between Ariadne Labs and The Learning Accelerator. Funding has been provided by the One8 Foundation.