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Students' Social-Emotional Development

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Chris Lord and SEL Team   Peabody Public Schools, Massachusetts   [email protected]
April 20 2021

Yes. Catalyzed in part by the Best of Marshall Memo PDF, Peabody Public Schools has taken a serious look at SEL this year:
1) Our school system has developed an SEL team of about 20 educators, at least two from each building in our district.
2) Our SEL Team got a copy of "Social-Emotional Learning in the Classroom" as a book read and followed up with a 90-minute training by one of the authors, Deb Brady.
3) Peabody has a district-wide 'Vision of the Graduate" with 7 elements for all learners to develop K-12, one of the 7 elements is "Self Manager".
4) Using the district-wide Self-Manager Rubric, all homeroom teachers rated their homeroom students (6000 students in our district) on the 5 sub-components of the rubric: Persistence, Respect, Strengths & Struggles, Strategies & Routines and Health Lifestyle
5) This Self Manager data will give us the teacher perspectives of student social-emotional health based on the observations of homeroom teachers.
6) At the same time, all students grades 3-12 took the online SELIS Survey based on the "Social-Emotional Learning in the Classroom" book above
7) Each student and their family will get an SEL profile based on the results of the SELIS survey.
8) Our SEL Team will analyze the data from Self Manager and SELIS to inform school improvement plans for the fall.
9) We plan to run a correlation of Self Manager and SELIS data to see if the teacher's perspective of social-emotional health (Self Manager) correlates with the student's perspective (SELIS) of social-emotional health.