DESSA Professional Development for Organizations Staff

Professional Development DESSA

1. Professional Development DESSA Friday, October 13 4:30-5:15pm 82 nd Street Academics TRCS2

2. Agenda Week 3 Check In Ice Breaker What is DESSA? Account Set Up DESSA Assessments Information Deadlines Closing

3. 3 rd week of program check in OVERVIEW 01 02 03 How is your class? Any challenges arising with any specific students? You can share any successful moments that have happened in your classrooms. How are you keeping your groups structured? Let's share ideas and learn from each other. GLOWS PLANNING

4. What is DESSA?

5. DESSA stands for Devereux Students Strengths Assessment DESSA is a social emotional learning assessment that is used to monitor your students social and emotional development throughout the school year. DESSA is a standardized, strength-based behavior rating scale that is typically completed in 5-8 minutes (per child). It is used by educators to measure a child’s social-emotional capacity for children from kindergarten to 8 th grade.

6. What are the benefits of DESSA?

7. Benefits of DESSA In completing the assessment for the child, the child will then be placed under a category to determine whether they’re: Typical, Struggling and need help with instruction, or Strength. Seeing which category our students fall under will then help us learn how to best support them in the classroom. This can be done by utilizing your “aperture” account and toggling over to the resources section to learn about what you can implement during lessons to further assist the struggling students in developing their literacy skills. https://apertureed.com/k-8-sel/

8. What DESSA Measures: In answering assessment questions, You’ll be able to see the percentile of where each student is at for: Self-Awareness Self-Management Social Awareness Relationship Skills Goal-Directed Behavior Personal Responsibility Decision Making Optimistic Thinking

9. Let’s explore the website together! Co-teachers should be sitting together. If you have an existing account, you may log in to verify that all your students you have access to are accurate. New Users: A link will be sent to your 82 nd Street email account, you will then create your account and password. Your username will be your email address and your password will be of your choice. Once you have created your account, please write your information down so you will not forget it.

10. Best assessment tips 01 02 03 Please take your time in answering the questions for each student. To gather accurate information for each child, you must be engaging daily with your whole class, or else you won’t know how to answer certain questions. For best results, utilize the resources on the website to help your students in the areas they struggle in.

11. DESSA Assessments Oct 20 Dec 20 Feb 20 Assessments are due quarterly. This means 4 assessments throughout afterschool is in session. These assessments will help us see if there’s any progress or great strides that our students are making. Leads have accounts, this should not limit the work that the Assistants are doing. They are just as involved in a classroom. Co-teachers must reach out to each other to collaborate and work together on this. Mar 20

12. Thank you!

13. Resource Page https://apertureed.com/