Best Practices for Assessing Students' Social Emotional Competencies within an MTSS Framework

As many districts move towards developing system-wide practices to support social-emotional learning and development, questions remain regarding how to assess and monitor students’ social-emotional competencies.

This webinar outlines best practices for selecting evidence-based social-emotional screeners and assessments. We also:

• Demonstrate how assessment data can be used to identify the needs of students and inform the intervention planning process;
• Spotlight the DESSA system, from Aperture Education, which provides districts and schools with a comprehensive SEL assessment tool;
• Share details on the research supporting the DESSA’s reliability and validity, as well as how the tool can be used to accurately identify students needing SEL support;
• Finally, we will demonstrate how SEL assessment data is stored and utilized on the Branching Minds platform. 

Check out this Harmony SEL Crosswalk from Aperture Education!
When used with an MTSS approach, the Harmony SEL Crosswalk can be used to identify supplemental instructional programming at Tier 2 and Tier 3. Download the Harmony SEL Crosswalk.