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We Know SEL Skills Are Important, So How the Heck Do We Measure Them?

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At Nueva, when it comes to assessment, standards-based grading is king. They include not just academic standards, but several teacher-selected “habits”: responsibility, curiosity, creativity, and self-improvement. In other words, SEL competencies. LaRocca’s team use surveys provided by.

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How State Reform in New Hampshire Led to Teacher Autonomy

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Rethinking Success in a Supportive Climate As a first step, Sanborn ditched its traditional, letter-based grading system and instead adopted a set of rubrics that reflect a student’s competency on state and district academic standards. The rubrics use descriptors such as: limited, in-progress, meeting and exceeding.