Specialization in Social and Emotional Learning The field of social and emotional learning (SEL), like most fields, has its silos. This, as I see it,
In the last blog post, I suggested using a student SEL assessment that is designed to measure the skills your SEL program is designed to
Is your school district using an evidence-based social emotional learning (SEL) program or curriculum? If so, how are you measuring skills to inform instruction and
If you’ve been following my posts over the past year, you probably know that I believe in the power of SEL skill assessment to improve
In my conversations with educators, the issue of assessment time has come up a lot lately. Here’s the issue: On the one hand, many educators
As you know, I spend a lot of my time thinking and talking about how to assess student social and emotional learning skills. Among the
What the $#&^!@* is Direct Assessment of Student Social and Emotional Learning Skill? I think you’ll agree with me that terminology is, well… boring. But
Defining Social Emotional Learning Skills There are many frameworks, models, and definitions of Social and Emotional Learning (SEL). As a result, when trying to comes
Recently, the xSEL Labs team met with a group of educators in an ethnically and socioeconomically diverse school district that is using our SEL assessment
People often have very strong opinions about student assessment, particularly when it comes to social and emotional learning assessment. This is especially true when discussing
