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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 […]

State’s Support of Social Emotional Learning Assessment: Don’t Reinvent the Wheel

April 10, 2019 Connect

By Heather Hirsch, member of our National Practitioner Advisory Group Schools and districts across the country are looking to implement evidence-based SEL, and more of them are turning to state education agencies (states) for technical assistance. At the same time, states are beginning to develop social emotional learning (SEL) competencies, standards, or learning goals (see An Examination of Frameworks for Social and Emotional Learning (SEL) Reflected in State K-12 Learning Standards). As states work to support more school and district teams, states are also struggling to help school and district teams understand the appropriate uses of SEL assessment. State agencies can support these efforts in a number of ways. Last week 25 state teams, plus Puerto Rico and Washington D.C., gathered […]

SEL Field Notes: Keeping you informed on the latest in SEL

April 3, 2019 Inform 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. Research Grantmakers for Education: Trends in education philanthropy Grantmakers for Education’s Trends in Education Philanthropy: Benchmarking 2018-19 offers insights on the current and evolving priorities of the education funding community. The report, based on a survey of 91 education philanthropists, can help funders to understand their role in supporting education innovation and identify future priorities that hold the greatest promise for benefiting America’s learners. Piccolo, L. R., Merz, E. C., & Noble, K. G. (2019). School climate is associated with cortical thickness and executive […]

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