A three-part process to help ensure that an appropriate assessment is selected and used in a way that promotes positive and equitable outcomes for all students
Developmental Assets Profile-DAP
The Developmental Assets Profile is social-emotional assessment which measures the internal strengths and external supports of young people, and their growth in these key areas over time.
The Assessment Guide
CASEL’s interactive SEL Assessment Guide helps educators select and use the most popular SEL student assessments.
Self-Care: Self-Talk for Secondary School
A short collection of activities to help middle and high school students develop the key self-care practice of positive self-talk, ranging from affirmations to gratitude.
COVID-19 Remote Advisory Activities
Offers a range of activities to help students continue to develop socially, emotionally, and personally with their peers. While all activities focus on relationship building, some couple that with basic tasks such as attendance and grade checks.
Strategies for Elevating Student Voice
CASEL’s Strategies for Elevating Student Voice offers examples of ways staff can support and elevate a broad range of student perspectives and experiences. This tool includes classroom-based strategies such as interactive pedagogy, classroom community building, and project-based learning.
The Field Guide for Accelerating Learning, Equity and Well-Being
The Field Guide provides LEAs with tools to reflect on key lessons learned from 2020, plan a safe return to campus, respond to logistical needs of scheduling, develop effective communication plans, create continuity of learning, facilitate goal-setting, gain inspiration for what lies ahead, and more. It also includes a Personalized Planning tool.
Engaging Parents and Families to Support the Recovery of Districts and Schools
One in a series aimed at providing K-12 education decision makers and advocates with an evidence base to ground discussions about how to best serve students during and following the novel coronavirus pandemic. This brief provides strategies to consider and to avoid in regards to: How can schools and districts support families in their diverse …
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Evidence-Based Practices for Assessing Students’ Social and Emotional Well-Being
Part of a series of briefs aimed at providing K-12 education decision makers and advocates with an evidence base to ground discussions about how to best serve students during and following the novel coronavirus pandemic. This one provides strategies to consider and to avoid around the central question, How can schools and districts monitor students’ …
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Virtual Family Engagement Coaching
A two-week family engagement plan focused on improving student reading with daily messages and ideas (and scripts) for connecting personally with families through videos, chats, Facebook live events, or phone calls.