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Back to School Means Back to SEL for America’s Teachers and Principals

September 4, 2019 Inform

By Laura Hamilton, Christopher Doss, and Elizabeth Steiner Educators across the U.S. are embarking on a new school year, developing lesson plans and figuring out their students’ academic needs. They are also likely to be considering ways to support the non-academic aspects of their students’ development. Teachers and principals know that to be successful in college and careers, kids need to master a range of social and emotional skills such as teamwork, communication, and the ability to manage their emotions. Schools are increasingly adopting social and emotional learning (SEL) programs and practices to build these skills, and policymakers can benefit from understanding the educator perspective: how they feel about emphasizing SEL, what they are doing to promote SEL, and […]

New Help in Finding the Best Framework for Your Work: Check out the New Descriptive Framework Series

August 28, 2019 Inform

We are excited to announce the final series of our Framework Brief series! The Descriptive Brief series intends to help practitioners and organizations determine their priority needs and provides illustrative snapshots of prominent frameworks in the SEL field. This new series provides a guide to prioritizing needs and rating frameworks to see which best fits your context. In previous series, we helped Frame ways to use and work with frameworks, Learn about the importance of development and equity, and reviewed existing efforts and tools to Compare frameworks and their competencies – including state standards. Given the multitude of SEL frameworks – at least 136 by AIR’s count! – it can be confusing and difficult to choose which framework can […]

SEL Field Notes | August 23

August 23, 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 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 Georgia Public Broadcasting: How schools use social, emotional learning curriculum to teach mental health As mental health becomes a political talking point, Georgia schools are finding innovative ways to make social and emotional learning part of the curriculum. Dr. Debra Murdock is the executive director for Cherokee County School District’s Social Emotional Learning initiative. […]

Promoting Equity with SEL Measurement

August 21, 2019 Inspire

By Laura Davidson, Director of Research & Evaluation, Washoe County Schools and Elizabeth Breese, Panorama Education By asking students to report their mindsets, attitudes, and behaviors related to social-emotional learning through SEL self-report surveys, districts can gain new perspective on how to promote equity in schools. Which student groups are reporting well below—or well above—average for social-emotional learning topics such as growth mindset, self-management, and social awareness? Are students experiencing school safety, sense of belonging, or teacher-student relationships differently based on race, ethnicity, and socio-economic status? To answer these questions, districts combine SEL data with the data available in their student information systems (SIS) to view trends across student groups including: Chronically absent students English language […]

Student Engagement and Voice in SEL and School Climate Systems

August 14, 2019 Inform

By: Kay A. Augustine, Ed.D., Iowa Department of Education The growth of Social-Emotional Learning (SEL) in research, practice, and visibility in the media is building in momentum and focus. With this comes the expectation of producing evidence and accountability for the efforts taking place. As the field grows in depth and breadth, the challenge is to keep a focus on SEL as a process and to engage all stakeholders, including students in the efforts. SEL and School Climate As the field provides opportunities for considering the impact of SEL implementation, it is important to recognize that SEL and school climate relate, intersect, and influence the impact of each. Osher and Berg (2018) underscore that to have a healthy school, you […]

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