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Frameworks

A framework is simply a tool that helps organize ideas in order to provide a foundation for thinking and acting. Social and Emotional Learning (SEL) is a field with a growing number of different frameworks. Finding a useful framework can help provide a foundation for SEL assessment and improvement efforts. However, having so many frameworks can be confusing, and selecting a framework or combining frameworks can be difficult.

Frameworks


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The members of the Assessment Work Group responsible for Measuring SEL are preparing a series of briefs on SEL frameworks. These briefs will summarize key issues, describe a specific framework and its source, or explore similarities, differences, and potential alignments among them.




Framework Brief Series

We are planning to release four series of briefs design to help practitioners of many types think about and use SEL-related frameworks in their own SEL efforts. All briefs will be posted here by the end of 2018 and will also be announced via our blog and communications directly to members of the Collaborator Network.  Please join the network if you wish to be notified of their release. The four series revolve around the following themes:



Frame

Briefs that frame ways to think about and work on SEL including the importance and use of frameworks, the challenges and opportunities they represent, and criteria to consider in selecting a framework for use in practice.



Describe

Descriptions and Reviews of several common SEL Frameworks on important criteria to consider and created with input from the framework developers.



Compare

Insights and tools developed by other major efforts looking at frameworks in order to help practitioners look across and compare different frameworks.



Learn

Learning more about special topics and case examples in SEL from leading experts on topics around using developmental perspectives to what it means to use an equity lens to the development and role of state standards to how one district integrated SEL into their strategic plan.




These briefs will be released starting Fall of 2018 and will be available here on the Measuring SEL site. Our goal is to help provide concise, easily accessible information about what frameworks are, where to learn more, and how to use them to improve the everyday implementation of SEL along with activities to consider in moving forward. Join the Collaborator Network to learn when new briefs are posted.

 

Have an idea for a topic these briefs should cover or other resources we should know about? Contact us at blytth008@gmail.com.