In Defense of Teacher Rating Scales for SEL Assessment
As I’ve worked with educators to support their wise use of SEL assessment to inform practice, a few themes have ...
Social and Emotional Competence Assessment for Instructional Planning
Over the past few months, I’ve had the good fortune of leading a handful of workshops for educators on SEL ...
Social and Emotional Competence and the Conditions for Learning
A few weeks ago, I had the honor of speaking about SEL assessment at a convening of the National Governors ...
The View of Social and Emotional Learning from the Principal’s Office
Last month, CASEL released an important report, Ready to Lead (2019 update), about principals’ views of social and emotional learning. ...
Consumer’s Guide to Social and Emotional Assessment, Part II: Reliability and Its Consequences
This is the second part in our blog series about how to evaluate the merits of an SEL assessment. The ...
Consumer’s Guide to Social and Emotional Assessment, Part I: How To Know if an Assessment is Up to Snuff
A Consumer’s Guide to Social and Emotional Assessment Before getting into the business of assessing student social and emotional competence, ...
SEL Exchange Speaker Blog
Why do you believe the SEL field is gaining momentum, and how do you hope the upcoming SEL Exchange captures ...
Evaluating Social Emotional Learning (SEL) Program Impact
Why, How, and When to Get Help with SEL Program Evaluation Most of us want to know if what we’re ...
Social Emotional Learning (SEL) Assessment: Build or Buy?
Well-intended colleagues in the SEL community sometimes encourage school districts to create their own social and emotional competence assessments. They ...
Evidence-Based SEL and Data-Informed SEL: Not the Same; Both Important
Since I received my PhD, I have worked hard to unlearn the copious amounts of jargon endemic to the social ...
