A District That Prioritizes Social-Emotional Learning Grapples with How to Measure If It Works
May 15, 2018
By: Swikar Patel, Guest Blogger
Source: Education Week
The Washoe County school district in Nevada’s second largest city has been way ahead of most other districts in its approach to social-emotional learning, especially in measuring students’ SEL skills, which are part of its accountability system.
My colleague, Evie Blad, chronicled the district’s efforts at building a thoughtful social-emotional learning program back in 2016.
As she noted, with the passage of the Every Student Succeeds Act, the main federal K-12 law, states are now required to include at least one measure other than test scores in their accountability systems, an issue that has raised the profile of social-emotional measurement questions.