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.

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.

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.