Promote Educators’ Social, Emotional, and Behavioral Competence
Boost educators’ confidence in their ability to deliver high-quality behavioral instruction.
Sustaining a strength-based approach to developing student resiliency requires staff to fully understand the importance of each competency and how educator practices contribute to academic success, fewer classroom disruptions, and lifelong wellbeing.
Limit Stress on Educators
Provide staff with the skills they need to overcome adversity and manage challenges with optimistic thinking.
Much like students, adults that develop strengths in social and emotional competencies are better equipped to make positive decisions, manage emotions, develop relationship skills, achieve goals, and remain optimistic in the face of obstacles.
“EdSERT provides a common knowledge for the leaders and teachers in our school district. Together, we are building our competence through a time of learning, self-reflection, and application.”
— Jennifer Greene MTSS District Coordinator, Greene County Schools
DESSA-Aligned Modules for Adults
Increase educator understanding of social, emotional, and behavioral instruction to maximize student growth.
Each EdSERT unit focuses on one of the following competencies: Self-Awareness, Self-Management, Social-Awareness, Relationship Skills, Goal-Directed Behavior, Personal Responsibility, Decision Making, and Optimistic Thinking.
Classroom Practices and Strategies
Self-development designed specifically for educators.
EdSERT simultaneously increases educators’ own social-emotional competence and provides strategies to leverage with students.
Self-Reflective Assessments and Personal Planning Tools
Lay the foundation for skill development with a focus on DESSA competencies
Educators consider their own strengths and growth areas with structured self-assessments to forge personalized self-development plans. These plans increase their success in connecting with students and delivering rigorous behavioral instruction.
“We think about professional development where we sit down to review fluency or a skill for math, learn how to differentiate it, break it down, make it make sense, and then going to teach it, but we don’t do the same with SEL or the emotional intelligence side of things. I really liked having time for educators to sit down, see how these strategies applied to them personally, and then be able to bring them back to their classrooms.” — Larissa Gregory Memphis Teacher Residency
— Larissa Gregory Memphis Teacher Residency
Ready to develop educator resilience skills in your district?
Center educator growth to drive student success.
Get access to research-backed strategies, reflection tools, and professional development resources with EdSERT.
