The other side of the report card : assessing students' social, emotional, and character development / Maurice J. Elias, Joseph J. Ferrito, Dominic C. Moceri ; foreword by Timothy Shriver and Mark Greenberg
Published
Thousand Oaks, California : Corwin, a SAGE Company, [2016]
1. Is It Realistic to Include Social-Emotional Skills and Character on Report Cards? -- 2. Methods Currently in Practice: Yours and Others' -- 3. Adapting Your Report Card Comments for SEL and/or Character -- 4. Implementation and Case Study Examples -- 5. Implementation With Case Study Examples for Schools With Current SEL or Character Programming -- 6. Most Frequent Challenges Addressed and Overcome: Reassuring and Involving Parents and Aligning to Early Childhood Education and Career and Technical Education Goals -- 7. Checklist of Important Considerations -- 8. Literature Review on Previous Studies Related to "The Other Side" of the Report Card
Summary
To better serve the whole child, look at the whole report card. Students are more than their academic grades - you know it and their parents know it. The progress they make in social-emotional learning and character development is essential to their success in school and in life
