Wednesday, July 28, 2021
State and local education leaders rely on systems of assessment to provide valid and timely information to monitor student outcomes and address students' learning needs. In this second webinar of the two-part series, REL Pacific will present research on social and emotional learning and indicators of school quality to describe how holistic systems of assessment can extend beyond academic outcomes to ensure that students have equitable opportunities to learn and support whole-child development. The webinar will address the following questions:
Webinar
Katie Buckley, Teach for America
W. Christopher Brandt, Center for Assessment
Fern Yoshida, Hawaiʻi Department of Education
Roger Fiedler, McREL International
This second webinar in a three-part series examined the impacts of explicitly teaching social and emotional learning skills in schools on student academic and non-academic outcomes. Additionally, this presentation shared evidence-based practices for incorporating SEL measures into a balanced system of assessments to support SEL skill development and explained how Hawaiʻi educators are using SEL assessment as part of a multi-tiered system of support to improve students' SEL skills and well-being.