Back to School Resources

This blog post was originally published on August 11, 2011. It has been updated to make sure all the links and resources are still live and new resources have been added. 

Whether you’re sending someone back to school or heading back to school yourself, diabetes requires additional considerations and preparation to ensure students are safe and thriving at school. One of the wonderful things about the diabetes community is the resources they make available for some of the different situations we might find ourselves in. We thought it might be helpful to share some of our favorite community resources about diabetes and school:

• The American Diabetes Association has created some Safe at School resources.
• For college-bound kids, the Diabetes Link has some amazing resources right here.
• The Beyond Type 1 team also created a set of school resources including write-ups specific to your grade (elementary, high school, college) or role within a school (teacher, coach, etc), including some downloadable guides that can help present diabetes to people who may be unfamiliar with it.
• Our friends at Breakthrough T1D have also created some helpful school kits geared to both caregivers, independent students and teachers.

For kids using diabetes devices, our different partners have built out these resources for school nurses:  

• Medtronic: School Employee Guide
• Tandem: Control-IQ School Care Tips
• Insulet: Omnipod 5 Caregiver Guide
• Dexcom UK: Dexcom - A Guide for Schools
• Panther: PANTHERTOOLS®

If you need a book to read to your child’s class, here are a few favorites: 

• Marina and the Microscope
• Riley and the Magic Range
• Billy and the Bionic Badge 
• Type Strong
• Just Ask
• Coco goes back to school
• Children with Diabetes Library 

Do you have any other resources you have found helpful with the diabetes and school journey? Is there something missing that you think needs to be created? Feel free to share your thoughts with us by sending an email to community@tidepool.org 

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