Continuous Improvement of SEL Implementation within Minneapolis Public Schools: Tracking the Journey and Pivoting Along the Way
InformBy: Rafiqah Mustafaa and Kate Diamond Last week’s blog post highlighted Guilford County Schools’ strategic planning process during the “Organize” phase of systemic social and emotional learning (SEL) implementation. Once planned, a district enters the “Implement” stage in consistently documenting efforts and monitoring the implementation process to address challenges that arise. A key feature within this stage of continuous improvement is that of rapid learning cycles. When teams collect formative data, they engage with that data to make evidence-based decisions “in the moment” and potentially course-correct or reprioritize workstreams instead of waiting until the end of the year to reflect. This week’s post will share how the Minneapolis Public Schools (MPS) SEL team; MPS Research, Evaluation, and Assessment team (REA);…