Meeting Student Social-Emotional and Academic Needs Through Technology-Supported Best-Practice in Instruction
Project Description:
High needs students face the chronic challenge of socioeconomic disadvantage due to poverty and/or social rejection and discrimination due to their race/ethnicity. These challenges create disparities in students' academic and mental health outcomes. Project Description: We will simultaneously target multiple sources of educational and mental health disparities by shifting instruction toward a student-centered approach (i.e., cooperative learning, CL). We will support this shift with technology (PeerLearning.net), combined with SEL curricular materials designed to leverage the benefits of CL/technology, to enable high-fidelity, low-burden implementation and build social-emotional skills and positive, supportive peer relations, targeting the key social-psychological antecedents contributing to educational and mental health disparities. Project Objectives and Expected Outcomes: We will train and support teacher to reach at least 2,700 high-needs Grade 9 students with high-quality social-emotional learning (SEL) lessons based upon CL concepts supported by technology. We expect students to demonstrate a positive impact on academic, social-emotional, and mental health outcomes. We also expect teachers to increase their self-efficacy and experience reduced stress and burnout. Innovation: Our project addresses a wide range of social-psychological antecedents contributing to both educational and mental health disparities and does so by focusing on both curriculum and evidence-based instruction (CL), supported by innovative technology (PeerLearning.net). Proposed Implementation Sites: Salem-Keizer Public Schools. Partners: UO Foundation, Portland State, Lane Community College, WestED, Brian Smith/Sabina Low (consultants).
Keyword(s):
Social-Emotional Support
Core Function(s):
Performing Research or Evaluation, Developing & Disseminating Information, Continuing Education/Community Training, Other Direct/Model Services, Demonstration Services
Area of Emphasis
Education & Early Intervention, Other - Assistive Technology, Other - Cultural Diversity
Target Audience:
Students/Trainees (long or intermediate trainees), Professionals and Para-Professionals
Unserved or Under-served Populations:
Racial or Ethnic Minorities, Disadvantaged Circumstances, Limited English, Geographic Areas
Primary Target Audience Geographic Descriptor:
Regional
COVID-19 Related Data:
N/A
