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May 3, 2019 SEL Field Notes

This newsletter is curated by the American Institutes for Research and CASEL for the Measuring SEL Collaborator Network and aims to keep you engaged with news, research, and resources relevant to measurement and data in the field of social and emotional learning. Please let us know what you are reading, doing and seeing in the field that’s worth sharing. Tell us about it here! Measurement in Practice EdSurge: How SEL Can Promote Hard Conversations About Mental Health Between 2015 and 2018, eight students and one teacher from Olathe Public Schools committed suicide. Through each heartbreaking loss, administrators and staff worked to find lifesaving mental health supports and strategies for the 30,0000 students in Kansas’ second largest district. Twelve of […]

The SEL Assessment Guide turns 6-months old. What are we learning?

May 1, 2019 Inform

It’s been almost six months since our SEL Assessment Guide launched and we are very excited about our success with engaging users and impacting practice. In this week’s blog, we’ll share what we are learning about how many users we are reaching, who our users are, and what they are saying about their experience with the Guide. Since we launched in November, our SEL Assessment Guide has seen more than 14,000 users, coming from all fifty US states and 68 countries. The majority of users coming to the site (57% of users) identify as a practitioner working in a school or district, which is encouraging, since that was our target audience. Insights from User Behavior Thanks to the magic of […]

Two For One: Using Our Academic Assessment Practices to Measure SEL

By: Rose Pennington, Institute of Positive Psychology and Education Having spent last year out of the classroom and devoted to my PhD studies, I am loving being back with students (albeit three days a week) because I can apply much of what I have been studying to my practice, to see how it looks like ‘in real life.’ Given that my thesis is examining the ways in which teachers can promote both academic potential and social and emotional skills, I have been considering whether the strategies touted for academic assessment would also serve to measure the social and emotional competencies I want my students to demonstrate. At my school there is a targeted focus this year on formative […]

SEL Field Notes | April 17

April 17, 2019 SEL Field Notes

This newsletter is curated by the American Institutes for Research and CASEL for the MeasuringSEL Collaborator Network and aims to keep you engaged with news, research, and resources relevant to the field of social and emotional learning. Please let us know what you are reading, doing and seeing in the field that’s worth sharing. Tell us about it here! Research Weissberg, R. P. (2019). Promoting the social and emotional learning of millions of school children.Perspectives on Psychological Science, 14(1), 65-69. Since 1976, Weissberg has focused professionally on answering one key question: How can schools, families, and communities work together to foster positive life opportunities and optimal development for young people? In answering that question, he has been fortunate to work with […]

Austin’s Experience Using Multiple Measures of SEL

April 17, 2019 Inspire SEL Assessment in Action

By Lindsay Lamb, Program Evaluation Coordinator, Austin Independent School District Measures of students’ SEL competence can be used alongside other data to support decisions around program implementation. Currently, the Austin Independent School District’s (AISD) Department of Research and Evaluation (DRE) uses multiple measures to assess effective SEL implementation, including an SEL Implementation Survey; AISD Student Climate Survey; Teaching Empowering, Leading, Learning (TELL) AISD Staff Climate Survey; Family Survey; PK-6th grade students’ personal development skills (report card ratings); and academic performance, attendance, and discipline data. Elementary school teachers’ assessment of their students’ SEL skills Every 9 weeks, teachers assess the frequency with which their PK-6th grade students engage in SEL-related skills using the personal development skills report card ratings. These ratings are […]

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Austin’s Experience Using Multiple Measures of SEL

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