As you are winding down the holiday season and school opening seems like a distant memory, I’m grateful that there are leaders like you across the country who have accepted the challenge of leading your district through uncertain times. As a former superintendent, I know sitting at the top can be a lonely job. Your […]

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Many educators have accepted that SEL curricula can have a positive impact on everything from student mental and physical well-being to academics, attendance and graduation rates. In fact, a February 2015 study from the Center for Benefit-Cost Studies of Education at Teachers College, Columbia University, concluded that, on average, every dollar invested in SEL programming […]

How can district leaders guarantee that they will get accurate and actionable results from SEL assessments? What are the biggest challenges? "You need to ensure that you have a consistent behavior that you're measuring throughout the whole school. You don't want pockets of teachers measuring one thing and other teachers measuring something else." —Stefan Kohler, […]

Their surroundings may be idyllic, but educators in one Cape Cod district found themselves confronting the struggles experienced by systems across the nation. Barnstable Public Schools (5,300 students) had over several years seen an uptick in at-risk students and children with complex needs. This, along with promising research from organizations such as the Collaborative for […]

Learn how the Integrated Student Supports model can reduce chronic absenteeism under ESSA.