Intervening Early: Do Data on SEL and School Climate Help Identify Students at Risk of Poor Academic Outcomes?

Identifying students at risk of not meeting academic goals, such as graduation or being college ready, ranks high on the list of school and district priorities.

Developing School Climate Surveys for Statewide Accountability in Maryland

Fueled by evidence on the strong relationships between school climate and academic achievement, teacher satisfaction, health outcomes, and socio-emotional skills, states and districts are increasingly trying to measure school climate.

There’s More to Life than Test Scores: Measuring Social and Emotional Skills to Support Student Success

We know that student success means more than just high test scores, so measuring and assessing social and emotional skills should play an essential role in evolving educational priorities to support success for all students.

“I Am Someone Who Tends to Be Lazy”: The Importance of Soft Skills, and How Not to Measure Them in Schools

Guided by the recent Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA), states are scrambling to incorporate nonacademic skills into school measurement systems, raising the question: “What measures should schools use and for which purpose?”