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Three Steps for Supporting Intentional SEL in Out-of-School Time

June 19, 2019 Inform

By: Jessica Newman and Deborah Moroney; American Institutes for Research There is a lot of attention to SEL, both in and out of school. If you are reading this blog, it is likely you care very much about the topic. In this post, we focus our attention on SEL in out-of-school time (OST), which includes before and after school programs, community-based programs, and summer programs, and informal learning settings like museums, libraries, and recess. A key recommendation in the recently released call to action for whole child efforts, A Nation at Hope, was to intentionally partner outside of the school. This is common sense: children and youth spend 80% of their waking hours outside of school. Further, we know that […]

SEL Field Notes | June 14

June 14, 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! Research and Deep Dives RAND: Teacher and principal perspectives on social and emotional learning in America’s schools: Findings from the American Educator Panels Social and emotional learning (SEL) is the process through which students develop such interpersonal and intrapersonal competencies as teamwork, social awareness, self-regulation, and emotional awareness. Although schools in the United States have always […]

Measuring Social Reasoning in Children: Be Part of a National Norming Study!

June 12, 2019 Connect

By: Nicole Russo-Ponsaran and Ashley Karls, Rush University Wouldn’t it be great if educators had a standardized set of measures to evaluate students’ social-emotional learning skills? We know that millions of children in the United States have social-emotional challenges that are related to behavioral and academic difficulties. To address this, many states have adopted social-emotional learning standards, and schools are implementing programs that teach children how to interact positively with others. However, teachers often report not having any tools to effectively measure social-emotional skills in their students. How does social information processing relate to social emotional learning? Social information processing skills encompass the cognitive and emotional steps an individual takes to navigate challenging social situations. We enlist skills such […]

Balanced Local Assessment Systems Include SEL Thinking

June 5, 2019 Inform

By: Rick Stiggins, Pearson Assessment Training Institute Learning Sciences International has released a panel report detailing recommendations for the creation of local school district assessment systems designed to maximize student learning success by meeting the needs of all assessment users from the classroom to the boardroom. The report is coauthored by assessment experts Sue Brookhart, Dylan Wiliam, Jay McTighe, and me. Among the active ingredients in the systems we envision are the following: Attention to a diversity of assessment purposes (users and uses) Clear and appropriate learning targets, and Appropriate levels of assessment literacy among those who develop and implement local systems. Each of these offers an opening from which to see SEL as a key component of balanced […]

SEL Field Notes | May 31

May 31, 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 EdSurge: How are educators broadening their definitions of evidence? Joe Romano’s architecture and design students at the Annie Wright Schools in Tacoma, Wash., were engaged in a project to design and build tiny houses for Seattle’s homeless population. He hoped the project would create a shared culture of learning among students at the […]

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Three Steps for Supporting Intentional SEL in Out-of-School Time

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Measuring Social Reasoning in Children: Be Part of a National Norming Study!

Balanced Local Assessment Systems Include SEL Thinking

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