Powerpoint - The Wallace Foundation

New market research in
social and emotional
learning: Introduction
Webinar
December 12, 2016
Lucas Held, Director of Communications
The Wallace Foundation
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Our goals for today
 Share survey findings
 Get your reactions
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Where this fits in Wallace’s approach
Market
research helps
sheds light on
the larger
context for our
work
Catalyze Broad
Impact
(Improve practice and
policy nationwide)
Understand the
Context
(Engage with the external
environment to identify
knowledge gaps, field
interest, and barriers)
Generate
Improvements and
Insights
(Build promising new
approaches and new
evidence/knowledge)
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Our goal: To better understand
 Terminology: How is it used – and heard –
among key audiences for our work?
 To help us use terms that are clear
 And help us avoid terms that communicate
unintended messages or associations
 Framing: What underlying perspectives on
the issue motivate – or discourage – interest?
Note: While we think the findings have broad relevance, Wallace
is not suggesting any particular term or frame is ideal for all
groups or purposes, as this will depend on the particular context.
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Key audiences whose views we
sought to understand
 Leaders in K-12 education
 Leaders in afterschool
Wallace’s initiative, now
in a planning phase, will
bridge these two sectors;
we sought to find terms
acceptable to both
 Policymakers in education
 Afterschool intermediaries
 Funders
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Limits to the study: It did not
probe the federal policy process
 Edge Research did probe partisan associations of terms
 We did not ask Edge to map the federal policy landscape
 Since the survey, we have become aware of some concerns
among some federal lawmakers. These resulted in ESSA
omitting any specific mention of social and emotional learning.
Concerns apparently focused on:
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The term “social and emotional learning” (SEL) as well as other terms
Gathering SEL data on children (“psychological profiling”)
Taking on a role often assumed by parents or religious institutions
Diverting time from academic instruction
 Extent of concerns is not clear – we will be monitoring them
 We think the results of this survey remain highly relevant – and
are using its conclusions to guide our thinking
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Our presenters
Pam Loeb, principal, Edge Research
Pam
Stacia Tipton, senior research
analyst, Edge Research
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Thank you!
 The full PowerPoint presentation and a recording of
the webinar will be posted on
www.wallacefoundation.org on Thursday, Dec. 15
 For questions and comments:
 The Wallace Foundation
 Lucas Held: [email protected]
 Melissa Connerton: [email protected]
 Edge Research
 Pam Loeb: [email protected]
 Stacia Tipton: [email protected]
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