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Department of Education

State Board of Education

Guidance Document Change: The 2020 Virginia General Assembly passed House Bill 753 directing the Virginia Department of Education (VDOE) to develop guidance standards for social emotional learning (SEL) for all public students in grades Kindergarten through 12 in the Commonwealth. The Virginia Social Emotional Learning Standards were developed in collaboration with an SEL Advisory Committee, composed of educators, community leaders, agency personnel, and parents. The Virginia SEL Standards are aligned with the Profile of a Virginia Graduate and centered in equity. This intentional focus allows the Standards to explicitly teach the skills needed to be “life ready” and to create more equitable learning environments.

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5/24/21 11:43 am

Commenter: sped education

NO SEL. one more initiative that will not be implemented with fidelity or student benefit

This is just one more initiative for an already failing public education system that will not be able to be implemented with fidelity or student benefit. We are over worked and over stressed. Public schools are struggling to get the basic curriculum taught to students, and especially special education students. May we please, especially after the COVID year, have the support to focus on academics, and the social/ emotional support we already provide everyday. This is way too much for the public schools to take on. It will not be effective. It will actually harm the students we are trying to help. SEL is one more thing added to the number of ineffective mandates, that makes it so there are a bunch of half implemented ideas with nothing getting done well. NO SEL!

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