Louisiana’s Guidebooks

Annually, the Department releases Guidebooks to support educators in implementing Louisiana’s K-12 education policies and initiatives. Each guidebook provides practitioners with detailed information on state policies, statewide programs, and access to tools that help individual educators achieve goals with their students.

To view one of the guidebooks, please click the picture below.

2020-2021 School System Planning Guide


High School Planning Guide

Pre-K through Third Grade Guidebook

2015 Student Privacy Guide Button

Librarian Guidebook

English Learner Guidebook: Changing Educational Outcomes for English Learners

Louisiana Healthy Schools - School Health Advisory Council Guidebook

World Languages Compendium Thumbnail

Effective Dual Language Immersion Programming Thumbnail

Guide to Early World Languages Programming Thumbnail

International Associate Teacher Program Thumbnail

Guide to World Languages Programming (9-12) Thumbnail

Each guidebook provides practitioners with detailed information on state policies, statewide programs, and access to tools that help individual educators achieve goals with their students. The intent of publishing the guidebooks is not, however, for every school or school system to adopt all of the items they contain. Rather, the guidebooks provide a variety of options for use in the school system, unique plans each school system and school should have for itself and its students.

There is no one plan for each student’s life. Likewise, each teacher needs different supports, and each school has goals all its own. Louisiana Believes starts with the idea that those closest to students – parents, teachers, and administrators – should be trusted to determine the best path for children. The Louisiana Guidebooks are tools for them to use in carrying out that most important of missions.