Virginia Regulatory Town Hall
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Department of Education
 
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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  8:36 pm
Commenter: Anonymous

ACT is even in the SEL biz. SEL is moneymaking off of children, not about children's well-being
 

https://thejournal.com/articles/2019/07/16/act-acquires-social-emotional-learning-company.aspx?s=the_bc_240719&m=1

The acquisition of Mawi Learning is the latest step being undertaken by the organization to evolve into what a "learning, measurement and navigation company." Other moves in this direction have included an affiliation with ProExam, enabling ACT to introduce SEL products; purchase of Knovation and OpenEd for online OER content for personalized learning; investment in Smart Sparrow and its digital course creation platform; collaboration with the NROC Project to create ACT CollegeReady; and acquisition of the National Research Center for College and University Admissions (now known as Encoura) and the American College Application Campaign for their student navigation tools and resources.

VDOE, before implantation of these standards will you provide a list to taxpayers of all the companies, including foreign owned, in the SEL biz in Virginia public schools?  There is a LOT of money being made by these companies off of children.  Does not seem like much of the Covid federal dollars will be used to benefit children's educations.  

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