Our organization has provided high quality, valid and reliable social and emotional assessments to school districts throughout the US, including to VA school districts for the past 4+ years. We have seen (and measured) first hand the difference that teaching students these critical skills makes. Although there are always a small handful of vociferous, generally well-intentioned opponents of SEL, our school district and state clients rarely report that these individuals continue to cause issues after adoption. Please don't let the loud few opponents prevent you from doing what years of mounting evidence has shown is right thing to do to support your students.