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Social-emotional learning (SEL) is an area of student development which has become a priority across the country. CASEL defines SEL as “the process through which all young people and adults acquire and apply the knowledge, skills, and attitudes to develop healthy identities, manage emotions and achieve personal and collective goals, feel and show empathy for […]

SuperEval is pleased to announce their returning sponsorship and participation in the New York Council of School Superintendents (NYSCOSS) 2021 Fall Leadership Summit: The Ride of a Lifetime. The conference, which runs Sunday, September 26 through Tuesday, September 28 in Saratoga Springs, NY will feature keynote speakers, unique networking opportunities, and a presentation from SuperEval’s […]

Recently, New York State announced an update to the Annual Professional Performance Review (APPR) process. Traditionally, the APPR process requires a Student Performance Category and is based on student assessment data. This value, which is a numerical value between 0-20, is combined with other data to generate an APPR score. Due to the COVID-19 pandemic and […]

The COVID-19 pandemic has been to the American education system what the Internet was to traditional journalism, or Netflix was to home entertainment viewing. It caused an unexpected but irreversible paradigm shift, ushering in as many benefits and improvements as it caused sleepless nights to leaders, parents, and students. As our nation cautiously reopens, we […]

SuperEval is proud to announce they are a returning sponsor of the Rural Schools Association (RSA) of New York State 2021 Summer Conference: Resilience, Recovery, Resurgence: Resetting the Rural Reality. This three-day conference will feature educational breakout sessions, organization awards, and a variety of keynote speakers. Additionally, SuperEval’s Dr. Michael Horning Jr. will be co-presenting […]

The academic classroom model is centuries old. While some corporations have embraced remote workforces, and some online universities have carved a niche for themselves in the higher education space, ask any educator if two years ago they would have predicted even the possibility of permanently hybrid learning, and the vast majority would have been highly […]

The COVID-19 crisis separated families from loved ones, ended lives prematurely, and caused millions of Americans to lose their jobs. In the first few months of the coronavirus pandemic alone, over 22 million U.S. workers lost their jobs. As of December 2020, even though many previously furloughed or laid off employees had returned to work, […]

Trigger Warning: This article includes information about mental illness and discusses topics such as depression, PTSD, eating disorders, and suicide. May is Mental Health Awareness Month, a time to recognize, support, and uplift the needs of the millions of Americans living with mental health conditions. As a school district leader, May is a time to […]

After a year that challenged educators, parents, and children to rethink academic norms and adapt to unprecedented change, reflecting on our education system’s collective successes and failures reveals that the most prosperous districts were those managed by the strongest leaders. Being a leader in education took on a genuinely monumental expectation last year as superintendents, […]

The SuperEval Team is excited to share some new updates to our platform. We take great pride in taking the feedback from our partners and implementing those ideas into improvements and enhancements to our platform. Together we can co-create the best platform and process to drive meaningful leadership evaluations. We hope you find the updates […]