Assessing Social and Emotional Development

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The Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA) encourages states to incorporate measures of school climate and student engagement into their accountability systems. California also prioritizes such items as part of the Local Control Funding Formula (LCFF). SEL Solutions at American Institutes for Research (AIR) recently released Ready to Assess—a collection of tools for policymakers and education leaders to use when deciding whether and how to assess students’ social and emotional (SE) development. The toolkit includes: