Build Student Resilience for Learning and for Life

DESSA System

Accurately identify student strengths and behaviors that may inhibit learning. 
Surface the underlying social, emotional, and behavior skill needs. 
Build critical resilience skills with data-driven instruction.
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The only social-emotional behavioral screener with post-pandemic norms

DESSA Screeners and Assessments 
Universally screen students in 1 minute with 95% accuracy to gauge their social, emotional, and behavioral competence.  
With post-pandemic norms and nearly two decades of backing research, the DESSA ensures student results are reliable and relevant to the challenges students face today. 
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See why the DESSA is the #1 Evidence-based Social-Emotional Behavioral Screener 

With over 130 peer-reviewed studies, and nearly two decades of backing research, see why the DESSA is the proven choice.
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Data-Driven Instructional Strategies Build Student Resilience

DESSA Strategies and Interventions
With over 650 data-driven instructional lessons and data-driven tiered instructional recommendations offer universal strategies to cultivate resilience in all students, and tiered interventions to address student life skill needs.
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Cultivate Strength in Educators and Communities

DESSA Implementation Support
Our team of experts will guide you through implementation. With Professional Learning, Rostering Services, and a dedicated Implementation Success Team, we’ll help you make your DESSA System implementation a success.
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“I think it's important for students to have their strength based assessments, to look at the whole child and celebrate their successes in the classroom and be able to look at those areas of growth with them and be able to grow them within the classroom. And for teachers, we look at their data and we drive our instruction based on their data and we celebrate that as a school and we look at as a school how we can grow each child based on their needs.”

— Kannapolis City Schools
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DESSA skills align with student, classroom, school, & district goals.

Optimistic Thinking

This student can still see a bright future despite challenges at school.

Self-management

This student can self-regulate and think before they act.

Relationship Skills

This student has a trusted adult that engages them in learning.

Social Awareness

This student can take another students’ perspective and productively navigate conflict.

Self-awareness

This student knows how to answer a question in a job interview.

Responsible Decision-making

This student is actively engaging in their own learning journey.

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