Blog

Educators know literacy development is a complex process that goes beyond decoding words on a page. While assessments are essential to ensure students get the interventions they need, educators might find additional holistic support in a surprising element — through helping develop social-emotional skills.

Let's take a closer look at how social-emotional learning (SEL) can support literacy development and improve student outcomes.

The steady integration of technology in the classroom has ushered in a proliferation of digital assessments, which offer immense promise to reduce educator workloads and give them better insight into their students’ unique learning needs. Yet for all the ease they provide, digital assessments shouldn’t be deployed as a plug-and-play solution, at least initially. Without proper preparation, you run the risk of yielding inaccurate results, technical difficulties and even testing irregularities.