MySEL is an iOS App that is designed to assess educator skills in supporting children’s social and emotional learning. This tool, based on the Pyramid Model, was designed to help educators better understand all the different components that make up social and emotional learning, assess the fidelity of the use of these skills and provide reflection opportunities as to where support might be most needed. The overarching goal here is to prevent challenging behaviors in the classroom and to help educators be better equipped with effective strategies when challenges do arise.

• Two age group options (Toddler and Preschool)
• Information Icons ⓘ that provide examples for most of the skills
• Ease of use (users can come and go from the app and data is saved)
• A PD certificate is provided upon completion that can be printed out or emailed.
• Available in English and Spanish

MySEL provides two type of reports for a fee.

Individual Self-Assessment Reports - Educators receive a copy of their reports via email. Although educators can always see and change their selections in the app, a report is often more desirable for looking at the results in a big picture.

Aggregate Classroom Reports - Directors can have classrooms complete the self-assessment and the MySEL Classroom Inventory. When complete, they obtain aggregate reports for each classroom. (A minimum of three participants are required per classroom.)

Contact us at cdenis@mysel.org for more information on reports.

1. Educators are provided with 115 social and emotional learning skills to reflect on (in an easy to use mobile app)
2. Educators are prompted to self-assess the skills provided
3. Administrators complete the MySEL Classroom Inventory
4. Educators receive their individual report and tier one resources (once their self-assessment is complete)
5. MySEL Advisors analyze the Self-Assessment Data and the MySEL Classroom Inventory to create classroom reports
6. Administrators receive a classroom report that includes Admin and Educator recommendations.
7. Educators apply recommended skills to the classroom
8. Administrators apply recommended skills program-wide
9. Everyone enjoys a reduction of challenging behaviors in the classroom

The Pyramid Model has supported social and emotional development in early childhood classrooms for over 20 years. Through evidence-based research, innovative techniques, and global reach, the Pyramid Model empowers children from birth to 5 years to succeed in school and life. The inventory of practice is one Pyramid Model tool that evaluates practices within the social and emotional curriculum and daily care of children.

To learn more about the Pyramid Model visit https://www.pyramidmodel.org/

Benefits to Directors and Administrators:

• Aggregate data provides guidance on professional development plans for classrooms/whole programs.
• Aggregate data provides guidance on pedagogical goal setting for classrooms and the center as a whole.
• Allows the administration to see that educators’ skill proficiency is in alignment with the philosophy of the program.
• Aggregate reports provide an option to for data-driven decision-making.

Benefits to Educators:

• Helps educators have a better idea of what skills they should be using to support SEL. Just completing the app increases awareness of important supports educators should be offering to children.
• Clarity of where to focus professional development for specific skill development.
• Completing the App becomes an entry point for teachers to the Pyramid Model or a refresh to those who are familiar with the framework but haven’t been using it.
• Educators can go back and update their proficiency ratings to see their growth.

Benefits to Early Childhood Coaches:

• Knowing where educators are in their understanding and use of social and emotional supports for children (through the MySEL reports).
• Provides prompts for reflection/discussion during debriefs.
• Allows them to see how challenging behaviors are viewed as a team process (including families).
• Provides a self-directed option while classrooms wait for their turn in a coaching cycle.
• Gives them a direction for where to target goals that are developed with educators.

Benefits to Early Childhood Instructors, Faculty, Students:

• The App provides baseline data on where students are coming into the class in their understanding of SEL.
• For students, it gives them a glimpse of what skills they will be learning about as well as an ideal introduction to the Pyramid Model.
• At the end of the term, students repeat the assessment and are able to compare before and after results to show their growth in understanding.

While MySEL will provide aggregate data to your programs’ administration team after everyone completes the app, your individual data will only be shared with you. Aggregate data means data points representing a group average instead of information from an individual. There must be at least three individuals in a group to provide this aggregate data. Included in your classroom data would be all educators who spend time in your classroom, including floats, support staff and leadership. This data is valuable as it will be used to help your leadership best determine what areas specifically to concentrate on as they develop PD opportunities. Being able to target specific areas around preventing challenging behaviors as well as how to handle the behaviors in the most effective way when they do arise. It’s our hope that your reflections are the most effective way to determine those specific strategies that you are looking for. See our privacy policy here.