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Sown to Grow: Leading-Indicator MTSS Platform That Elevates Student Voice and Emotional Well-Being

NCER
Program: Small Business Innovation Research
Award amount: $250,000
Project director: William Bielinski
Awardee:
Sown to Grow, Inc.
Year: 2024
Award period: 8 months (05/01/2024 - 01/02/2025)
Project type:
Phase I Development
Contract number: 91990024C0009

Purpose

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.

Project Activities

The project team will develop a prototype with logic-based algorithms to identify and categorize students based on the structured data from their reflections, emoji inputs, social-emotion learning survey responses, and other factors that would potentially trigger a tier 2 or tier 3 intervention. The team will develop a dashboard to provide counselors information with recommendations for intervention. At the end of Phase I, they will conduct a pilot study with 60 students over a 12-week period. They will examine whether the algorithms accurately identify and assign students to tier 2 and tier 3 interventions based on their written reflections, and whether MTSS practitioners understand and believe they can use the results from the prototype to inform intervention.

Products and publications

Project website:

Sown to Grow

Questions about this project?

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Tags

Data and AssessmentsEducation TechnologyK-12 EducationSocial/Emotional/Behavioral

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