The overall goal
of this extension
of our existing work in partnership with TFF and Achievement First Bridgeport Academy (AFBA) is to continue and
expand our work in Bridgeport focusing in several keys areas: (1) building
knowledge about (a)
children's emerging skills and areas
of challenge in the social - emotional domain and why these skills are critical to school success, and (b) the ways in which adult stress and skills in the social - emotional domain can impede or foster
children's social - emotional skill
development; (2) identifying, deploying, and evaluating strategies to build adult and
child skills in social - emotional learning with an emphasis on the Tauck Family Foundation's (TFF) five essential SEL skills; and (3) developing and testing a performance management system for SEL that (a) guides the identification
of strategies, (b) provides a mechanism for ongoing progress monitoring, feedback, and changes to practice, and (c) serves as an anchor point for ongoing coaching and support in using SEL strategies.
TXCC assisted the Texas Education Agency (TEA) staff with coordination
of the council's work to inform policymakers and stakeholders about high - quality
development and implementation
of expanded learning opportunities for public school
children, applying
knowledge of research and best practices in this area.