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Kanawha County Schools details multi-tiered social-emotional learning supports
Summary
District staff described a three-tiered social-emotional learning system, partnerships with community mental-health providers, and plans to increase collaboration and professional development for school counselors and student support staff.
Mr. Duffy, a student-support presenter for Kanawha County Schools, told the school board Monday that the district is delivering a countywide social-emotional learning, or SEL, system that combines classroom lessons, targeted interventions and agency partnerships.
“The core components of that plan … support each student's academic success, their college and career readiness, and their social emotional well-being,” Mr. Duffy said, summarizing the district’s comprehensive school counseling program aligned with state policy 2315.
The district described the program as standards-based and organized as a multi-tiered system of supports: tier 1 prevention for all students, tier 2 targeted interventions for students identified as at-risk, and tier 3 intensive supports for those with the greatest needs. Elementary schools use a digital SEL curriculum in its sixth year (identified in the presentation as the Second Step program) and administer pre- and post-SEL surveys for…
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