Virginia Regulatory Town Hall
Agency
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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5/26/21  1:06 pm
Commenter: Anonymous

Ethical Principles of Psychologists and Code of Conduct
 

The American Psychological Association has ethical requirements and a code of conduct around privacy and confidentiality.  https://www.apa.org/ethics/codeThese SEL proposed standards as written are seen as workarounds by some people of these requirements.  Kids should not be secret patients in schools.  Instead kids should be protected against the attempts to collect and track their thoughts and emotions in the false name of accessing academic content.  We need enforced privacy protections for kids and when this happens the SEL data collection industry hopefully will stop being profitable for venture capitalists, technology companies and school administrators. 

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