In the 2016-2017 school year, my school, Washtenaw Alliance for Virtual Education, was lucky enough to receive funding from the NoVo Foundation for an SEL grant that would allow us to focus on bringing in mental health professionals to better...
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Over the last few months we’ve worked with the Michael & Susan Dell Foundation (MSDF) to create – and launch – the How I Know: Designing Meaningful Formative Assessment Practice project. #HowIKnow was created in an effort to improve and...
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The murder of my 6 year old son, Jesse Lewis, five years ago in his first grade classroom at Sandy Hook Elementary School fundamentally shifted my focus in life. Before, I would read the headlines of a similar tragedy, cry,...
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For decades, the US has largely relied on a one-size-fits-all approach to schooling. Highly varied kids go to school at a fixed age, for a fixed number of hours and days; far too have varied gaps and learning that their...
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This is the fourth in a series of posts written by teacher awardees of the NoVo Social Emotional Learning Innovation Fund. You can read the first post here, the second post here , the third post here and learn more...
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This is the third in a series of posts written by teacher awardees of the NoVo Social Emotional Learning Innovation Fund. You can read the first post here, the second post here and learn more about the Fund and other...
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It’s no secret that smart, strategic collaboration can help turn education ideas into reality. That’s why the launch of the Excellence Through Social-Emotional Learning (exSEL) Network is so exciting. exSEL is a partnership between nine Massachusetts school districts–Brockton, Canton, Fitchburg,...
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This is the second in a series of posts written by teacher awardees of the NoVo Social Emotional Learning Innovation Fund. You can read the first post here, and learn more about the Fund and other winners here. Last summer,...
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Social and emotional learning (SEL) holds great potential for improving learning and college and career-ready outcomes for all students. But there is much work to do to ensure that high-quality, integrated SEL is present in a meaningful and asset-based manner...
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Social emotional learning (SEL) holds great potential for improving learning and college and career-ready outcomes for all students. But there is much work to do to ensure that high-quality, integrated SEL is present in a meaningful and asset-based manner in...
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