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School Improvement Plans and SEL Assessment
SEL in the School Improvement Plans According to two large-scale pre-pandemic surveys of educators, more than half of American school districts are implementing some form
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Blog posts about assessing student social-emotional learning
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Aligning SEL Assessment for Data-Informed Instruction
We create and offer high-quality social and emotional learning assessments because we believe that SEL assessment can support teaching, learning, and student outcomes. As the
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Leading with SEL Data
All Educators Are Leaders One important job of a leader is to make difficult decisions about where to invest scarce resources. In that sense, all
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Consumer’s Guide to Social and Emotional Assessment, Part I: How To Know if an Assessment is Up to Snuff
A Consumer’s Guide to Social and Emotional Assessment Before getting into the business of assessing student social and emotional competence, most people would agree that
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SEL Exchange Speaker Blog
Why do you believe the SEL field is gaining momentum, and how do you hope the upcoming SEL Exchange captures and advances that momentum? First,
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Evaluating Social Emotional Learning (SEL) Program Impact
Why, How, and When to Get Help with SEL Program Evaluation Most of us want to know if what we’re doing is making a difference.
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Social Emotional Learning (SEL) Assessment: Build or Buy?
Well-intended colleagues in the SEL community sometimes encourage school districts to create their own social and emotional competence assessments. They do so, as far as
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Evidence-Based SEL and Data-Informed SEL: Not the Same; Both Important
Since I received my PhD, I have worked hard to unlearn the copious amounts of jargon endemic to the social sciences. Don’t get me wrong:
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How to Measure SEL Key Performance Indicators
(Spoiler Alert: The Answer is, Carefully) I just attended a terrific meeting with educational leaders and educational innovators. It was inspirational to engage
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Social and Emotional Learning (SEL) Programs and Practices
Educators who want to focus on supporting student social and emotional learning (SEL) face very real challenges as they move from intention to action. One