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Strategies for Social and Emotional Learning: Preschool and Elementary Grade Student Learning Standards and Assessment

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Organization: 
National Center for Mental Health Promotion and Youth Violence Prevention and Collaborative for Academic, Social, and Emotional Learning
Publisher: 
Education Development Center
Date Published: 
October, 2011

This publication provides Safe Schools/Healthy Students (SS/HS) project directors (PDs) with information and strategies to implement and assess Social and Emotional Learning (SEL) in their schools and districts. The purpose of this brief is to:

  1. Describe SEL student learning standards
  2. Introduce a set of universal teacher-rated assessment tools that can be used to measure SEL with preschool through elementary-school children
  3. Provide guidance on implementing and assessing SEL in school settings
  4. Explain how to effectively use SEL assessment tools to monitor students