Virginia Regulatory Town Hall
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Department of Education
 
Board
State Board of Education
 
Guidance Document Change: The 2020 Virginia General Assembly passed House Bill 753 directing the Virginia Department of Education (VDOE) to develop guidance standards for social emotional learning (SEL) for all public students in grades Kindergarten through 12 in the Commonwealth. The Virginia Social Emotional Learning Standards were developed in collaboration with an SEL Advisory Committee, composed of educators, community leaders, agency personnel, and parents. The Virginia SEL Standards are aligned with the Profile of a Virginia Graduate and centered in equity. This intentional focus allows the Standards to explicitly teach the skills needed to be “life ready” and to create more equitable learning environments.
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5/19/21  8:09 pm
Commenter: Dave

I cannot see how the SEL competencies can have measurable standards applied to children.
 

The SEL competencies define can not be measured as mathematics, reading comprehesion, or language usage.  Developing a standard to sigmatize children will be worse than beating them with a stick to discipline them.  This has no place in the classroom.  

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