The DESSA
The DESSA Comprehensive SEL System, an online software platform, allows educators to measure, strengthen, and support social-emotional competence in youth, grades K-12.
The CASEL-aligned DESSA System includes a suite of evidence-based social emotional learning (SEL) assessments, a universal screener that can be administered in less than a minute, and foundational practices and growth strategies to strengthen social and emotional competence.
Actionable data and reporting helps SEL program administrators measure the impact of their social emotional learning programs and social emotional learning curricula and helps educators understand students’ SEL strengths and needs.
A strength-based, nationally standardized, valid and reliable tool for screening and progress monitoring of social-emotional competence. This tool informs school-wide social emotional learning (SEL) initiatives, assesses the efficacy of SEL interventions, and helps educators identify students who need additional support and/or social emotional skill instruction.
A standardized, strength-based SEL assessment that measures the social and emotional competence of youth across 8 different categories (Decision Making, Goal Directed Behavior, Optimistic Thinking, Personal Responsibility, Relationship Skills, Self-Awareness, Self-Management, and Social Awareness). This tool helps educators better understand an individual student's social-emotional strengths and weaknesses so that they can tailor social emotional learning to that individual student.
DESSA Home Activities:
The results of the DESSA can connect individual students with growth strategies for building social emotional skills. Below are some home activities that you can do with your child to help them develop these important skills.
