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Innovations for Social and Emotional Learning Implementation: Lessons From the TOOLBOX Implementation Research Project

Fri, April 13, 2:15 to 3:45pm, Crown Plaza Times Square, Floor: Fifth Floor, Room 501/502

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In order to scale up social and emotional learning programs, schools must develop an infrastructure for assessment and implementation. The TOOLBOX Implementation Research Project was intended to address practice-relevant questions with empirical information. This symposium will (1) compare student social-emotional competence on district-derived report card indicators to scores on the DESSA-Mini, a standardized behavior rating scale, (2) create and evaluate a new method for assessing dosage of SEL programming delivered through lesson-based and strategy-based approaches, and (3) determine how dose-form and dose-quality relate to gains in student social-emotional competence. Findings have implications for reducing teacher bias in assessment, measuring dosage more broadly (and separately by grade-level sub-groups), and differentiating implementation approaches in grades K-2 and grades 3-5.

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