At the risk of running two articles on Social Emotional Learning back-to-back we are sharing a blog story from Nancy Bailey's Website. Give this a read and consider whether you need to intervene in your local school district. Why would parents and teachers, tired of high-stakes testing in their public schools, wish to sign onto more assessment that tests, tracks, and profiles their child’s behavior online? States are setting up SEL standards about what children should think and feel. How does one standardize such things? Here are the concerns. SEL is ill-defined, unproven and still connected to Common Core. There’s a mish-mash of psycho-social, neuroscience talk, and … [Read more...]