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Design Challenge Winner: The SRASEC

August 8, 2018 Inspire

By: Ryan Kettler My colleagues (Drs. Kelly A. Feeney-Kettler and Leah Dembitzer) and I propose a measure of social-emotional competence based on selected-response items. The Selected Response Assessment of Social Emotional Competence (SRASEC) will be computer administered in a game-like format and will be appropriate for elementary school students in kindergarten through fifth grade. As a direct assessment, the measure will indicate students’ knowledge of social-emotional competence, yielding key information about specific areas needing further development to support positive student outcomes. The SRASEC, Social-Emotional Competence, and Achievement Measures of social-emotional competence and student achievement have historically been difficult to compare in part because they have been based on different methodologies (i.e., rating scales and observations for social-emotional…

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Design Challenge: Year 2 Winners and Lessons Learned

July 25, 2018 Inspire

By: Clark McKown, xSEL Labs This spring, the Assessment Work Group mounted a second design challenge to identify direct assessment tools to supplement districts’ current emphasis on teacher and student surveys that measure SEL competencies. We will release a brief detailing the winners, lessons learned, and building on the key design principles for effective assessments that we established in the first Design Challenge. Read it here later this week. In the mean time, blog readers can get an early look into our findings from the competition… For the second design challenge, we wished to increase practitioner input so that we might shine a light on assessments that are responsive to clearly expressed practitioner needs. To that end, our second…

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Partnering with Students to Understand SEL Data: Student Data Summits

July 18, 2018 Inspire

By Nathan Noble, 11th Grade Student at Wooster High School/Student Advisory Council member and Dr. Laura Davidson, Director of Research and Evaluation, Washoe County School District (WCSD) Since 2009, WCSD’s Office of Accountability has hosted Annual Data Summits where the Board of Trustees, educators, parents, and community members come together for a day of facilitated conversations around district performance data and initiatives. These days provide a forum to examine data patterns on a wide range of topics, from college and career readiness, disproportionality in disciplinary referrals, and patterns in student self-reported social and emotional competencies collected as part of WCSD’s Annual Student Climate Survey. In 2014, a focus group with high school students (Davidson et al., 2017) revealed a…

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SEL Conference Afterthoughts: Every Classroom, Every Day 2018

June 13, 2018 Inspire

By: Tim Dohrer, Director, Master of Science in Education Program, School of Education and Social Policy, Northwestern University; Tom Golebiewski, Consultant, Wolcott School, Adjunct Faculty, School of Education and Social Policy, Northwestern University; Miriam Pike, Head of School, Wolcott School. Illustration by: Isabelle Richards On Friday April 27, over 150 educators from across the country gathered at Wolcott School in Chicago to explore best practices for integrating social & emotional skills into classrooms and schools. The goal was to showcase teachers who had developed lessons and units that teach to the SEL skills areas and learning standards. Two practitioner-based keynote speeches framed the work going on in schools nationally and regionally. Molly Gosline, SEL Coordinator at Adlai S. Stevenson…

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A Framework for SEL Integration: It’s Time to Teach Differently – PART 2

March 28, 2018 Inspire

By Dr. Tara Laughlin, Director of Readiness Curriculum at PAIRIN Last week’s blog introduced an SEL integration framework, offering educators a systematic way to integrate social-emotional skills into any grade level and content area. Because this framework synthesizes several well-known and widely used practices in a novel way, it may be helpful to “see” it in action. Here’s a vignette to illustrate how it works, from the perspective of a team of teachers. Brett, Maya, and Jerrod make up the 8th grade science team at a local middle school. At one of their team meetings, the three sit down to plan their next unit of instruction. Step 01: Identify As they normally would, the team begins by…

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Design Challenge Winner: The SRASEC

Design Challenge: Year 2 Winners and Lessons Learned

Partnering with Students to Understand SEL Data: Student Data Summits

SEL Conference Afterthoughts: Every Classroom, Every Day 2018

A Framework for SEL Integration: It’s Time to Teach Differently – PART 2

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