Full Description
To better serve the whole child, look at the whole report card.
Students are more than their academic grades—you know it and their parents know it. The progress they make in social-emotional learning and character development is essential to their success in school and in life. But while educators have made great strides in improving grading for academic achievement, we've left too many teachers still guessing when it comes to outdated behavior ratings and comment sections.
That's where this book comes in. Grounded in research and in the author's work with teachers and administrators, it offers guidance on retooling report cards to better reflect the whole child, integrating SEL and CD into any school- or district-wide grading system. Resources include
Guided exercises for analyzing existing report cards
Samples and suggested report card designs
Tips on improving communication with parents
Case studies highlighting common challenges
Testimonials from teachers and students
"When you take report cards to the next level, you make sure that communication reflects all of the important characteristics of success—and ensure that students develop the skills they need for the future. This book brilliantly illuminates the key role played by social-emotional learning in each student's development and it challenges the tradition of relegating the SEL/EQ observations to the back of the report card. If we want to develop better communities, this book shows the way."
Dr. Neil MacNeill PhD, EdD - Head Master
Ellenbrook Indpendent Primary School
"The ultimate goal of misbehavior is attention. When children don't get the attention they need through the proper behavior, they will get it any way they can. Children want to be loved and cared about. SEL will help them to learn the proper ways to get attention. It will also help teachers better understand the misbehaviors and redirect students toward positive behavior."
Pamela L. Opel - Teacher, Intervention Specialist
Gulfport School District
Contents
Introduction
Annotated Table of Contents
Process Overview and How this Guide can be Utilized
Chapter 1- Is it Realistic to Include SEL Skills and Character on Report Cards?
Chapter 2 - Methods Currently in Practice: Yours and Others'
Chapter 3 - Adapting Your Report Card Comments for SEL and/or Character
Chapter 4 - Implementation and Case Study Examples
Chapter 5 - Implementation with Case Study Examples for Schools with Current SEL or Character Programming
Chapter 6 - Most Frequent Challenges Addressed and Overcome: Reassuring and Involving Parents, Aligning to Early Childhood Education and Career and Technical Education Goals
Chapter 7 - Checklist of Important Considerations
Chapter 8 - Literature Review on Previous Studies Related to "The Other Side" of the Report Card
Chapter 9 - Guidelines and Resources for Social-Emotional and Character Development Programming in Schools
Essential Reference Tables
Table 1: The CASEL 5: Definitions and Skills Examples
Table 2 Character Strengths and Behavioral Indicators
Table 3 - Steps to Evaluating Current Report Card Comments in Your School
Table 4 - Common Characteristics of Student Behavior by Grade and the Overlap with SEL
Table 5 - Common Characteristics of Student Behavior by Grade and the Overlap with Character
Table 6 - Example: SEL Likert Rating System
Table 7 - Example: Character Likert Rating System
Table 8 - Example: SEL Rubric Rating System
Table 9 - Example: Character Rubric Rating System
Online Supplement - Developmentally Adapted SEL Likert Rating System With References
Online Supplement- SEL Skill Trajectory Grades 1-12
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