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The 2020 Mary Utne O’Brien Awards for Excellence in Expanding the Evidence-Based Practice of SEL were presented to Dr. Sheldon Berman, Superintendent of the Andover Public Schools, and Byron Sanders, President and CEO of Big Thought.

The award recipients share more about how they advanced SEL in their communities with a focus on:

  • Adult SEL for successful, systemic implementation of SEL
  • Systems of SEL to embedded SEL in the school day and afterschool

Learn more: https://casel.org/awards/

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