Sown to Grow, Inc.

Some schools have adopted multi-tiered system of support (MTSS) models to help students improve their social-emotional and academic outcomes.  In previous projects supported through ED/IES SBIR awards and other sources, the team developed a web-based intervention where middle school students provide reflections on their social and emotional health and academic experiences and a dashboard for educators to review and offer support afterward.

In this project, the team will develop a machine learning algorithm to strengthen an existing social and emotional learning (SEL) intervention for middle school students. Research indicates that adolescents' social and emotional skills strongly correlate with long term academic achievement and life outcomes. However, as students move from elementary to middle to high school, they sometimes experience declines in key social-emotional competencies, and significant gaps exist based on race and ...

In previous research and development, the company created Sown To Grow, a product for grade nine students to complete a weekly survey and write short reflections describing their social emotional learning, with results provided to educators.