School-Based Staff Training

The Urban Assembly’s team of SEL Specialists will provide both live and asynchronous training to School-Based Staff around effectively mapping and assessing high-quality SEL activities through the UA’s Resilient Scholars Program (UARSP) Portal Matrix. The UARSP Portal provides real-time actionable data to identify trends across the student population, make data-informed decisions, and create actions to address trends and gaps. 

Our team of SEL Specialists will work directly with SEL Implementation Leads to guide them through RSP Portal setup, and SEL assessment and ratings, including:

Organizing Schools Around SEL Principles

MTSS Refinement 

Initiative-Related Problem Solving

Familiarization Professional Learning for Staff

Time: 1 hour

Audience: All School-Based Staff except staff

Description: An overview of Social Emotional Learning (SEL) and strength based assessments.  Participants will understand the foundations of social emotional learning, principles of strength based assessments and key aspects of StrongResilientNYC.

Go To Training

Instructions:
Navigate to "My Courses"
Click on "StrongResilientNYC: Familiarization"

Certification Pathway

Time: 18 hours
Modules 1 and 2 to be completed before schools administer the DESSA. 
Module 3 to be completed by end of administration window.


Audience: School-Based Staff who have been selected to be SEL Implementation Leads

Description:

Module 1: Overview and Organizing around Social Emotional Learning (SEL).  Participants will understand the components of the StrongResilientNYC initiative, principles of high quality SEL, the Aperture system and strength based assessments,  bias in assessments and how to avoid it, and confidentiality and data privacy considerations.

Module 2: The Resilient Scholars Portal:  Participants will understand how to map principles of SEL to school activities utilizing  the Resilient Scholars Matix, how SEL skills contribute to effectiveness of widely used instructional strategies, and how these instructional strategies facilitate SEL and academic development.

Module 3: Tool + Concept Integration. Participants will understand how to utilize the strengths/challenges outlined in the DESSA results and the Resilient Scholars Portal matrix to implement MTSS, implement the StrongResilientNYC initiative at their school,  and complete a certification review.

Go To Training

Instructions:
Navigate to "My Courses"
Click on "StrongResilientNYC: Certification Pathway"

Questions?

For WeLearn system access questions:

For questions or problems regarding training modules, contact: 
NYCSupport@ApertureEd.com

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About Urban Assembly and Resilient Scholars Program 

The Urban Assembly is a model provider of learning solutions that boost student growth and school performance. In partnership with the NYCDOE, the UA created small, career-themed high-performing public schools. Now a school support organization, the UA provides innovative social-emotional learning, academic, and postsecondary readiness learning solutions for our network of 23 schools.

The UA’s Resilient Scholars program (UARSP) is an integrated social-emotional learning model specifically for middle and high school students. UARSP is a three-year implementation model that consists of direct instruction to students, school-wide implementation, integration and sustainability, and assessment of student progress. UARSP serves approximately 6,000 students in NYC, and has been implemented in schools in California, New Jersey, California, Virginia, Delaware, Wisconsin, and Massachusetts.