Assessment tool helps schools look at students holistically
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The short version
- UConn's Technology Commercialization Services (TCS) facilitated the connection, as the university has licensed the ESSY Whole Child Screener to Metamorphix.
- The latter will incorporate the screening program into Cascades, a multi-tiered system of support (MTSS) whole child platform.
- As part of the development of the screener, the Project ESSY team gathered multiple rounds of feedback from school administrators, teachers, parents, students and advisory boards to establish the feasibility of the assessment.
What happened
Then, they conducted a large pilot test to validate it and learn how schools used it to guide decision-making, the results of which are published in the journal School Mental Health . "School leaders expressed appreciation for the holistic view it gave them about their students.
Why it matters
They shared that it aligned with their philosophies about child development and they hadn't yet seen a tool that was so well-rounded," Koslouski says.
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