Sharing SEL Assessments with the Community
Washoe County School District (WCSD) is one of eight urban school districts that partnered with CASEL to implement comprehensive SEL practices at all grade levels since 2012. Since then, all schools in the district have implemented Social and Emotional Learning – a key component of WCSD’s strategic plan – through staff training, curriculum, and integration of standards into schools and classrooms. In 2013, WCSD and CASEL received an Institute of Education Sciences grant to develop a measure to assess students’ social and emotional competencies and study how they impact student academic and behavioral outcomes. This researcher-practitioner partnership collaborated to improve self-assessments of social emotional competencies as part of a regular school climate survey. Over the past four years, Washoe has […]
