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Salem-Keizer releases fall 'belonging' results, outlines behavioral-health expansion
Summary
The Salem-Keizer SD 24J board heard fall survey results showing 61% of grades 3–5 and 34% of grades 6–12 reporting a positive sense of belonging, and staff outlined behavioral-health programs and aspirational clinician coverage goals amid staffing limits.
Chris Moore, the district’s director of social-emotional learning, presented fall survey results and next steps on student belonging and behavioral health.
Moore said the district’s target for grades 3–5 was about 63 percent and the fall interim result was roughly 61 percent. “Some of the trends you’ll see over time are that our Asian students regularly have the highest sense of belonging, and our students who are native and indigenous often have the lowest,” Moore said, calling attention to persistent subgroup gaps.
The presentation also flagged secondary results: the district’s target for grades 6–12 was 35 percent, and fall results were about 34 percent, Moore said. He described patterns by gender and grade level, noting that sense of belonging typically declines as…
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