English Teachers Conducting Social Emotional Screenings By Alyson Meyers 9th and 10th grade English teachers districtwide have been tasked with evaluating their students’ social and emotional health
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Across the district, 9th and 10th grade English teachers have been tasked with screening their students’ social and emotional health. Juniors and seniors have been excluded because the program is in its beginning stages. “They are taking a snapshot of students’ strengths and seeing where students are doing great as far as social emotional learning,” Conifer High School (CHS) Prevention Specialist Melanie Lewis said. English teachers have been provided with a program called SSIS SEL,
a product developed by Pearson Assessments. SSIS SEL grades students on a number scale that assesses different aspects of their socialemotional wellbeing. The program has one assessment occurring in the fall, one in the winter, and the last in the spring.
“One of the problems with the test is that a lot of those items overlap. It’s hard to tell the difference between self-regulation and self-awareness,” English teacher Joshua Nielson said. Nielson and other teachers in the English department have raised
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