By Clark McKown In a time of divisive public discourse, it’s nice to know that parents, teachers, and others agree that the abilities to interact successfully with others and to make and maintain positive relationships are valuable skills to be
By Clark McKown Many SEL programs, when taught with sufficient quality and intensity, produce measurable improvements in student social, emotional, and academic outcomes. Those measurable benefits are summarized nicely in a meta-analysis of the impact of SEL programs on student
By Clark McKown So you want to assess your students’ SEL skills. Before you get started, please keep in mind an important fact. Assessments are dumb. They don’t know how you’re going to use them and they have no say
By Clark McKown When you boil it down, an educational test is a sample of behavior that is evaluated to make a judgment about a child’s academic strengths and needs. To test reading fluency, for example, a child reads a
By Clark McKown We all know that success in school and life depends on more than book smarts. There is a lot of talk these days about what skills, other than IQ, matters, and what educators can do to nurture
