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Supporting and Implementing SEL
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Why SEL Assessment?
SEL assessment is the foundation of effective instruction and student learning.
SEL assessments allow educators to explore where their students have been, where they are, and where they might go if we don’t intervene. Tracking student progress across the Collaborative for Academic, Social, and Emotional Learning (CASEL’s) Competencies is key to identifying and responding to student needs. By having both recurring and accurate assessment data, school leaders can guide their staff with implementing effective interventions. With Satchel Pulse, you can utilize a variety of features to not only make the SEL assessment process seamless, but to actively grow toward your goals.
How Satchel Pulse can help
Satchel Pulse streamlines and automates the social emotional learning assessment and screening process so you can spend more time looking at the data that counts.
Gather student self assessment through quick surveys that are easy to understand for respondents of any age with a simple, sliding scale. All questions are available for translation and audio narration to support students with diverse needs.
Use a time efficient, universal screener that assesses the CASEL social emotional skills. The teacher rubric supports the consistency of ratings, ensuring teachers make the most accurate assessments and eliminate subjectivity.
Reduce your workload with Satchel Pulse’s automated reminders for teacher screenings and student SEL assessments. Take a quick view of the status of the assessments so you know exactly where your teachers and students are at.
Case study
Dodge County Schools Case Study
Find out how Satchel Pulse supported students’ SEL skills in this district.
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- We’ll talk to you about SEL assessment tools and monitoring SEL in your district.
- We’ll show you how you can provide teacher screening and student assessment.
- Learn how to use the data to deliver solution-provided tier 2 and 3 interventions.
The benefits of SEL assessment
SEL assessments play a role in maximizing SEL program benefits for your students.
Boosts academic success
Developing a strong SEL program improves the academic performance of students. Research shows that SEL can raise achievement scores by an average of 11 percentile points.
Reduces behavior problems
Social and emotional learning promotes prosocial, responsible behaviors and decreases risky behaviors and conduct problems both in and out of the classroom.
Promotes positive mental health
Promoting healthy relationships, emotionally safe environments, and social and emotional development cultivates essential protective factors against mental health risks.
The power of Satchel Pulse SEL assessment and screening
Accurately screen students’ SEL skills directly aligned with the CASEL competencies, take actionable steps, and efficiently manage this within Satchel Pulse for continuous improvement.
CASEL alignment
Screening and student SEL assessments use research-based questions tightly aligned with the CASEL competencies.
Actionable data
Identify and group students based on any group or demographic you choose, then quickly assign an intervention plan.
Effective management
Satchel Pulse monitors real-time SEL assessments and provides a student profile that gives a clear and holistic view of all student data.
Satchel Pulse SEL assessment tools
Satchel Pulse delivers competency reports and automatically suggests tier placement recommendations reducing the workload for your school district.
View school and district results
Quickly view each schools’ CASEL competency scores. Quickly assess areas of success and opportunities for growth. Drill down further to see how each school meets the needs of specific students.
Diagnostic assessment report
After a universal screener, the diagnostic assessment report automatically identifies students with the lowest subskill scoring and indicates the need for interventions to support those identified students.
Tier recommendation & approval
Satchel Pulse offers recommended tier placements based on student scores and teacher ratings compared to normative data. School leaders get an interactive view of the students in each tier and their movements.
Satchel Pulse student profile
Satchel Pulse gathers student information from current and historical SEL assessment results, so educators get a complete view of their progress.
View the complete student SEL journey
The student profile shows the scores for all screening windows, teacher scores overlaying with student scores and any current interventions. The student profile presents students’ diagnostic assessment results with GPA, demographic information and easily integrates with Clever and Classlink. If a student transfers to another school, you can still track and monitor their progress to see their continued SEL progress.
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Partnerships
SEL Providers Association
Satchel Pulse is proud to be founding member of the SEL Providers Association.
The Ed Tech Joint Powers Authority (Ed Tech JPA)
Satchel Pulse is an approved partner of Ed Tech JPA, serving districts nationwide.
Missouri Association of School Administrators (MASA)
Satchel Pulse is proud to support the Missouri Association of Rural Educators through our Associate Membership.
Missouri Association of Rural Education (MARE)
Satchel Pulse supports the Missouri Association of Rural Educators through our Associate Membership.
Social Emotional Learning Resources
Infographic
Blog Post
Kelli Helle
Webinar Recording
Lisa Westman
Dr. Byron McClure
Webinar Recording
Shawna Jensen
You are in good company
Dodge County Schools
MTSS District CoordinatorThe teachers and admin have all seen the SEL results and the value of Satchel Pulse. We are all very impressed!
Bibb County School District
ParaprofessionalYou are covering all my needs. You seem to know what is needed for all who participate.
Bensenville School District
TeacherSatchel Pulse is great! It is helping with communication between staff and the higher ups!
Dodge County Schools
MTSS District CoordinatorSatchel Pulse has the whole package: having a screener and an intervention library together, as well as the incredible support I’ve received.
Raymore Peculiar School District
TeacherThis is the easiest survey system I have ever used.
Dawson County School District
Executive Director of Student ServicesWe like that we can gather feedback frequently in smaller intervals, this helps us keep a beat on perception throughout the year.
Limestone County School District
SuperintendentAs a new superintendent in the district, Satchel Pulse has been a huge help and will continue being so. We all want feedback and want our employees to know they have a voice, Satchel Pulse has provided that for us.
Dodge County Schools
MTSS District CoordinatorWe’ve never had anything quite like Satchel Pulse. I think they are groundbreakers by providing both SEL screeners and interventions.
Hickman Mills C-1 School District
Associate SuperintendentLast year we had the least amount of resignations and retirements within the last five years.
Mekoryuk School
PrincipalSatchel Pulse gives an equal voice to every staff member, which they did not have before using this.
Douglas County School System
TeacherSatchel Pulse is so intuitive and easy to use. Help is always available if we ever need it!
Eek School
PrincipalThis is awesome. I can export the results from our student wellbeing survey with one click and compare results week on week.
Nelson Island School
PrincipalThe survey took very little time and the interface was student friendly. The students especially liked using the sliding scale with the different faces instead of numbers or words, that made it easier for them.
Oakland Unified School District
TeacherFor me leading and teaching through the lens of SEL means supporting students to learn with and from each other and to take charge of their own learning.
CASEL
Vice President of Practice & ProgramsThere's an 11 to 1 return on investment, so for every dollar invested in programming around social and emotional learning, we see that they're saving 11 dollars. There are lots of reasons people are coming to the conclusion that this is something that we need to be prioritizing.
CASEL
Co-Founder & Board ChairThe truth is emotion drives attention and attention drives learning. Our country needs social and emotional learning tools now more than ever.
Dallas Independent District
Deputy SuperintendentIf you care about outcomes, you need to care about SEL. It is the pathway to get the outcomes that we all desire.