L8, P1 In March 2017, it was announced that that Chan Zuckerberg Initiative (CZI) purchased the Summit Learning Platform to enter the emerging market of harvesting student data through social-emotional learning management systems (SE-LMS). www.edsurge.com/news/2017-03...

L8, P2 Then, in June 2021, CZI began promoting a free online reflection tool for teachers and students. www.edsurge.com/news/2021-06....

L8, P3 It was also during this period of time that CZI partnered with CASEL and the Fordham Institute to research more effective methods of selling the public on social-emotional learning (SEL). bsky.app/profile/disr...

L8, P4 The evolution of similar types of online reflective tools caught the interest of Kappan and they dug into the data to discover some concerning facts about the accelerating fad of “personalized learning.” kappanonline.org/dont-go-alon...

L8, P5 In 2023, CZI shifted its focus from harvesting data through personalized learning platforms towards merging personalized learning with AI. www.chalkbeat.org/2023/10/4/23...

L8, P6 What do you think CZI's next “pet project” will be? chanzuckerberg.com/newsroom/asu...

L8, P7 Because we are past the time for investigating the school-wide social-emotional learning management systems (SE-LMS) that have been developed over the past five years by big tech companies surveilling how children think, feel and learn in school. www.laprogressive.com/education-re...

The potential for medical intervention to cause unintended harm has been known since the beginnings of early medicine. Whether due to diagnosis, intervention, negligence or error, harm caused by a healer is referred to as iatrogenesis. youtu.be/guLy500DGjg

L7, P1 Universal school-based prevention is meant to reduce the onset and progression of mental health problems. It borrows from the population-based prevention model developed by Rose (1985) to reduce the prevalence of cardiovascular problems in adults. pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC...

L7, P2 The limits of this approach were apparent from its early beginnings. pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC...

L7, P3 Moreover, the population-based preventative model is contraindicated when it may have adverse effects. pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC...

L7, P4 Recent research suggests that universal school-based preventive interventions applying the principles of DBT have iatrogenic effects on students. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

L7, P5 Similarly, universal school-based mindfulness interventions have been shown to less than effective when further evaluated. www.frontiersin.org/journals/psy...

L7, P6 The first study of mindfulness-based stress reduction was conducted in 1982. It is worth noting that the initial audience was adults living with chronic pain. v-assets.cdnsw.com/fs/Articles_...

L7, P7 According to the researcher, the expectation of relief, i.e., a placebo effect, is a key aspect of the program.

L7, P8 As were high demand characteristics, behavioral compliance and long-term maintenance.

L7, P9 The researcher noted a major limitation of this study was the lack of a matched comparison control.

L7, P10 Such a study was conducted in 2013 comparing MBSR to an active control condition and found MBSR to be no more effective than the active control. pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC...

L7, P11 These studies help us understand why researchers have not found universal school-based mindfulness interventions to have a significant effect on student outcomes. pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC...

L7, P12 And, the first published study on the effectiveness of DBT helps us see why this universal school-based intervention has been less than successful.

L7, P13 Take note that the abstract of this study refers to three sets of outcomes and the target population is not appropriate for a public school setting.

L7, P14 Next, note that the key difference between the treatment and control conditions is the dosage of therapy. DBT consists of individual and group therapy as well as on-call crisis support. Those in the control condition only received therapy.

L7, P15 This helps us see why only one set of outcomes were improved for the treatment condition. Neither group showed improvement related to affective outcomes.

L7, P16 Based on this discussion of limitations, it would seem as no surprise that DBT-based universal interventions in schools would be ineffective, at best, when applied to an adolescent population.

Historically, efforts to promote the wellbeing of college students through sophisticated systems of screening and service delivery have been ineffective and show the need for shifting the standard model of primary prevention to something a little more socially progressive. youtu.be/r3IHODEZ_pI

L6, P1 A recently released study in JAMA reports that children’s health in the US has declined from 2007 to 2023. jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...

L6, P2 However, a major limitation of the study related to the lack of stratification across socioeconomic status. jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...

L6, P3 An earlier study published by JAMA in 2022 addressed this limitation by looking at obesity rates in adolescents from 1999 to 2018. jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...

L6, P4 The researchers found different rates of obesity for adolescents based on household income and head of household education level. jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...

L6, P5 These finding coincide with an ever increasing divide in economic inequality as measured by the Gini Coefficient, which increased steadily from 1999 to 2020. jamanetwork.com/journals/jam... fred.stlouisfed.org/series/GINIA...

L6, P6 But, the relationship between wealth and health outcomes is nuanced and differs between children and adults. academic.oup.com/jes/article/...

L6, P7 For example, this data brief from the NCHS shows adult obesity rates differed across individual groups based on a variety of demographic variables. www.cdc.gov/nchs/data/da...

L6, P8 These data suggest that rising inequality contribute to adverse health outcomes for adults at all levels of the income pyramid. www.cdc.gov/nchs/data/da...

L6, P9 And, as was the case for adolescents, rising rates of adult obesity coincide with increased economic inequality from the 1980s through the present date. www.cdc.gov/nchs/data/da... fred.stlouisfed.org/series/GINIA...

L6, P10 Yet, recent advice from the CDC does not mention economic inequality as a factor influencing rising rates of childhood obesity, helping us see why population-based preventative models fall short in promoting the social and emotional wellbeing of children. www.cdc.gov/obesity/fami...

Campbell’s law describes how standardized surveys and achievement tests shape public policy by distorting the processes underlying social decision-making when obtaining statistically significant outcomes is prioritized over maintaining meaningfully measurable growth. youtu.be/F8C5FnWiBpY

L5, PI In the 1980s, the state of public education faced a rising tide of mediocrity placing the nation at risk of economic collapse. Twenty-five years later, this survey was conducted to reflect on the past, evaluate the present and plan for the future. files.eric.ed.gov/fulltext/ED5...

L5, P2 And, three years later the same survey was used to assess the state of education following an actual threat to the nation. files.eric.ed.gov/fulltext/ED5... files.eric.ed.gov/fulltext/ED5...

L5, P3 Here we can see that the average rating of teacher satisfaction steadily increased since the first year of the survey before crashing in 2011. files.eric.ed.gov/fulltext/ED5...

L5, P4 Similarly, the percentage of teachers likely to leave the profession dropped prior to the recession before returning to baseline levels of the prior years. files.eric.ed.gov/fulltext/ED5...

L5, P5 However, these rating differed across teachers based on multiple variables according to the survey results in 2011. files.eric.ed.gov/fulltext/ED5...

L5, P6 Yet, the prior survey did not indicate such variability across years of experience nor teaching location. files.eric.ed.gov/fulltext/ED5...

L5, P7 Following the Great Recession, a common observation amongst teachers was a reduction in school budgets which also affected teacher satisfaction and retention. One area of concern related to job security, which dropped precipitously from 2006 to 2011. files.eric.ed.gov/fulltext/ED5...

L5, P8 Given these factors, it’s easy to understand why researchers recognized the coming crisis related to teacher retention. learningpolicyinstitute.org/sites/defaul...

L5, P9 A crisis caused by a dip in the demand for teachers, as related to budget cuts, which naturally accelerated the drop in supply. learningpolicyinstitute.org/sites/defaul...

L5, P10 A problem made worse by fewer college students pursuing a degree in education. www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/...

L5, P11 Fast forward to the present and we see conditions for teachers have not improved. www.pewresearch.org/social-trend...

L5, P12 Likely, future efforts to improve how students learn socially emotionally through commercially packaged curriculum will have a negligible effect on achievement until their material conditions at home and in the community improve. www.pewresearch.org/social-trend...

One of the few things that consistently replicates across published studies in the social sciences is the inability of independent researchers to find effect sizes as robust as the initial findings. There is one other thing that tends to replicate within a discipline. youtu.be/284G4Ez3pb4

L4, P1 Having reviewed its past efforts at reforming SEL, let’s shift our focus to what CASEL is doing to promote the types of programs that are used to help students learn socially and emotionally. bsky.app/profile/disr...