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Hoosick Falls Central School District Uses SEL Assessment to Inform Instruction

Hoosick Falls Central School District in Rensselaer County, New York, has been using the Holistic Student Assessment (HSA) for 5th- to 12th-grade students since 2014. Each school uses physical education and wellness time to administer the survey, which takes 10 to 15 minutes to complete. Why did you choose the the measure? Our district began to incorporate social-emotional learning seven years ago and wanted an assessment that was student self-reported. The measure’s results dashboard allows teachers to view data trends at the student, grade and school-wide levels. This allows practices to be adjusted to be more responsive to students’ needs. How do you use the measure? Our schools use the data from this measure: To inform instructional practices. We examined…

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Continuously Improving SEL in an Out of School Time Program

Excel Beyond the Bell is a network of out-of-school-time (OST) providers in San Antonio, Texas, that serves more than 55,000 youth per year. As of November 2017, 25 of Excel Beyond the Bell’s providers administer the Developmental Assets Profile (DAP) to 1,200 students twice a year, generally during March and October. The Excel team uses these data to foster continuous improvement in their network by determining where supports may be needed and when resources may exist. Why did you choose this measure? Our OST network wanted to find a tool that could do two things: (1) analyze SE competencies at various levels (e.g., student and program) and (2) provide data universal enough for use across the many OST programs we…

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One District’s Journey: From Commitment to Assessment

October 17, 2018 Inspire SEL Assessment in Action

By: Christine Igoe and Lisa Xagas, Naperville District 203 Background Information Naperville Community School District 203 (D203), located in the western suburbs outside of Chicago, serves nearly 17,000 EC-12 students. In the 2013-2014 school year, the district spearheaded a community engagement series to gather feedback and input for developing Focus 2020, the district five year strategic plan. At that time, the community, families, and staff expressed the need to educate the whole child to ensure students learned not only academic content but also gained the social-emotional skills necessary to be successful in life. As a result, the journey towards a comprehensive social-emotional learning plan became a key initiative within the district five year strategic plan. Initial planning began by establishing…

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Council Bluffs Community School District Uses SEL Assessment to Facilitate Conversations with Students

October 10, 2018 Inspire SEL Assessment in Action

Council Bluffs Community School District in Council Bluffs, Iowa, serves 9,000 students. In September 2017, they began using the Panorama student survey and teacher measure in their 6th- to 12th-grade classrooms. It is administered digitally during their advisement period and takes about 20 minutes. The developer collects the data and provides reports with grade-, school- and district-level trends. Why did you choose this measure? In early 2016, Chief Academic Officer Dr. Corey Vorthmann met with administrators and teacher leaders and developed a profile of a graduate ready for the future that contained social emotional indicators as well as academic indicators. They wanted a system that uses the CASEL framework to provide a common language, that would be specific enough for…

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Design Challenge Winner: PAIRIN’s Problem-Solving Performance Assessment

September 19, 2018 Inspire

By: Tara Laughlin, PAIRIN The world is full of problems. Not to be a downer, but I’m setting the stage here. On a personal, professional, local, national, and international level, it can sometimes feel like everywhere you turn, there’s a new problem waiting to be solved. Given this sheer volume of problems, I think it’s safe to say the world needs an equally impressive corps of effective problem solvers. How do we help develop the next generation of problem solvers? And how do we know when someone has reached the status of master problem solver? Answering those questions is not as hard as it may seem. Just as the best way to determine if someone is an effective…

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Hoosick Falls Central School District Uses SEL Assessment to Inform Instruction

Continuously Improving SEL in an Out of School Time Program

One District’s Journey: From Commitment to Assessment

Council Bluffs Community School District Uses SEL Assessment to Facilitate Conversations with Students

Design Challenge Winner: PAIRIN’s Problem-Solving Performance Assessment

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