In this report we focus on measures of social and emotional learning and their efficacy in educator evaluation. Using literature review and three focus group panels, we examined what the field says about these measures and well as what expert teachers think

There  are more than 200 books to teach social justice and create equitable learning environments--all recommended by State Teachers of the Year and Finalists.

The titles listed in this free resource cover all age groups from early learning to adult and touch on a variety of social justice issues, including racism, classism, religious persecution, sexism, xenophobia, LGBTQ issues and other forms of othering.

by Nate Bowling

"James Fields easily could have been one of my students. He graduated high school in 2015. He’s old enough to drive, not old enough to legally drink, but there were signals of his turn toward Nazism when he was in high school. The second I saw Fields’ tragic mugshot on the news I thought about a series of conversations I had with a former student."

By Tom Rademacher

"The beginning of the year is an especially important time to connect with families, but we often use it for some of our least important communication. Now isn't the time for reminders about materials and copying and pasting your district's tardy policy. Now is the time to let parents know what is most important to you as a teacher, what big goals you have for their students, and start forming the team that will get you there."

By Rebecca Mieliwocki

"Every year administrators line up those spiffy binders full of the latest, greatest solutions for teachers, and every year we willingly take them. We leaf through them, sit for the one-day training, and then guiltily slide them onto the shelf when we get back to our classroom. You know the shelf. The one where the other dozen binders live, untouched."