This webinar, created for the American Educational Research Association (AERA), provides an overview of how to support students’ social-emotional (SE) competency development through a data-informed approach.

We begin with a discussion of the rationale behind measuring SE competency, the research supporting this claim, and an examination of different types of assessments that are intended to measure students’ SE competency. We also discuss policy levers currently available to support a locally-created, systematic, and data-informed approach to social-emotional learning. Finally, the webinar provides an overview of ways to use resulting data from SE competency measures (at the classroom-, school-, and system-level) to identify areas of need and strength, gauge the effect of practices that aim to develop students’ SE competencies, and address issues of equity by asking whether those practices are working equally well for all students.

“We must resist thinking in siloed terms when it comes to social-emotional learning (SEL), academics, and equity. Rather, these elements of our work as educators and partners go hand in hand.”

HEAD & HEART,
TransformEd & ANet