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2004 Edition |
CASEL Publication
Helps Schools Choose Effective SEL Programming |
| The Collaborative for Academic, Social,
and Emotional Learning (CASEL) has published an informative
guide designed to help schools choose an effective SEL
program for their students. Out of 250 programs that
were rigorously reviewed and evaluated, eighty were
chosen to be included in the guide entitled, Safe and
Sound: An Educational Leader’s Guide to Evidence-Based
Social and Emotional Learning (SEL) Programs. Out of
those eighty programs, the Social Decision Making/Problem
Solving Program is proud to announce that it is one
of only 22 programs that received the designation as
a “Select SEL” program. The Safe and Sound
publication can be downloaded from the
CASEL website or ordered directly from CASEL. You
can get to their website on our Favorite
Links page. |
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Download Evaluation Tools
Program evaluation is an important component of successful
programming for social emotional learning. Several of our
current evaluation tools are now available on-line for your
convenience. These are some simple and efficient measures
designed to help schools address the request for evaluation
by New Jersey’s Department of Education for Character
Education funding. Because this funding is minimal, many
districts have found these measures to be a straightforward
and effective way to address the request for an evaluation
component. These measures will provide some basic quantitative
and qualitative data that schools and districts will find
useful in program planning, funding proposals, and various
school and district reports. Feel free to print and duplicate
them for use in your building or district.
Whenever possible, we recommend a more comprehensive evaluation
plan. Additional measures and information regarding formulating
a more extensive research design can be found on the CASEL
website and in the Evaluation Tools Publications section
of the Research/Publications
page on this website. EdSolution, a non-profit educational
organization, is helping districts in New Jersey and the
New Jersey Center for Character Education to create evaluation
plans and measures that may be available on-line in the
future. You can explore their website from our Favorite
Links page. If you have further questions about program
evaluation, please contact us at (732)-235-9280.
Our Website Has a New Look and New Links
Our website has a whole new look thanks to Liyaa Chen
of the Information Services department here at UMDNJ's University
Behavioral HealthCare (UBHC). Liyaa did a fabulous job updating
our site and aligning it with the other websites at UBHC.
Thanks Liyaa for all your hard work and creativity.
While you are checking out our new look, be sure to click
on Favorite
Links and view some of the new links to the work of
our colleagues in the field of SEL. In addition to the New
Jersey Center for Character Education (NJCCE) at Rutgers
University, a link is now available to Project
EXSEL, which was described in the Roving Reporter section
of the 2002 Newsletter on our website.
There is also a link to the Leonard
Gordon Institute for Human Development through Play at Temple
University. This attention-grabbing website by Dr. Marianne
Torbert, a professor of physical education and kinesiology
at Temple, contains developmental games and activities for
children in pre-school and elementary school that enhance
both physical and SEL skills. These games and activities
have been used extensively by schools in Cape May Special
Services School District with much success.
Have you met our newest staff member?
Teresa Farley Shapiro, Ph.D. has joined our staff as a
Program Development Specialist I. Terry came to us with
extensive background in social emotional learning and she
has had experience using our program in her previous positions
as a school psychologist in several New Jersey school districts.
We are very excited that Terry has joined our staff as a
trainer and consultant, and her dynamic personality has
made her a great addition to our team.
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