Cultivate Survey for Learning Environments
Cultivate is a survey and framework designed to support educators in creating learning environments that can change what students believe and, thus, how they perform.
Needs Assessment
Child Trauma Screener
CHDI joined with the Connecticut Department of Children and Families and Yale to develop a brief and free trauma screening measure for children called the Child Trauma Screen (formerly called the Connecticut Trauma Screen). Schools can use this screener to identify children who may be suffering from trauma exposure and need more comprehensive assessment or treatment. Intended for use by intake staff, clinicians, child welfare workers, juvenile probation officers, pediatric providers, school personnel, case managers, care coordinators, or other professionals interested in screening children for trauma.
CARE assessment (Culturally responsive, anti-racist, and equitable) tool
The CARE assessment (Culturally responsive, anti-racist, and equitable) tool meausres schools on these 5 domains of a CARE school are: (1) Teaming and Collaboration; (2) School Climate; (3) School Discipline; (4) Curricula and Teaching Practices; and (5) Professional Development.Each indicator includes a few ways schools may demonstrate success in each area. The included examples are not exhaustive but illustrative, and ratings in each domain can be used as a starting place for quality improvement initiatives. This assessment tool provides suggestions for action planning that can be tailored to meet your school’s needs using the resources in the SHAPE resource library.
CARE assessment (Culturally responsive, anti-racist, and equitable) tool Read More »
Best Practices in Universal Screening for Social, Emotional, and Behavioral Outcomes: An Implementation Guide
The purpose of this guide is to summarize the current state of research and practice related to universal SEB screening and provide practical and defensible recommendations.
Attendance Self-Assessments
Use these tools to gain a deeper understanding of what is and could be happening to improve attendance at a school or district. They are also excellent tools for laying the foundation for a team of key stakeholders to begin working together to reduce student absences. Attendance Works welcomes comments and suggestions on the self-assessment tools.
Universal Behavior Screeners
A compilation of various screener tools used to assess behavior, social, and/or academic risk.
Trauma-Informed Care Organizational Assessment
This Organization Assessment is a tool for organizations to assess their implementation of trauma-informed care in many different domains.
SEL Survey User Guide
SOCIAL-EMOTIONAL LEARNING ASSESSMENT: Measure, understand, and develop students’ life skills. Increase student achievement and well-being with research-backed social-emotional learning survey, reporting dashboards, and student support planning tools.
SEL Assessment Framework: Brief Series
As the field of social and emotional learning has evolved, a variety of helpful and important ways to assess students’ social-emotional competence have emerged, including strategies for how teachers can monitor their students’ progress on social and emotional development in the classroom, and how schools can assess quality of implementation. CASEL does not yet recommend SEL measures for accountability purposes, but thsi site provides lots of ideas and potential resources to explore and download.
School Mental Health Questionnaire
The School Mental Health Quality Assessment School Version (SMHQA-S) is designed for school teams to 1) assess the comprehensiveness of their school mental health system and 2) identify priority areas for improvement. The SMHQA-S covers seven domains of comprehensive school mental health, which includes a full continuum of supports for the wellbeing of students, families, and the school community.