The document outlines a professional development session scheduled for October 13, focusing on the Devereux Students Strengths Assessment (DESSA), which measures students' social-emotional development. It addresses the assessment process, its benefits for understanding and supporting students, and the importance of collaboration among co-teachers. The document also includes logistical details about account setup and deadlines for quarterly assessments.

1. Professional Development
DESSA
Friday, October 13
4:30-5:15pm
82nd Street Academics
TRCS2

2. Agenda
o Week 3 Check In
o Ice Breaker
o What is DESSA?
o Account Set Up
o DESSA Assessments Information
o Deadlines
o Closing

3. 3rd week of program check in
OVERVIEW
01 02 03
How is your class?
Any challenges
arising with any
specific students?
You can share any
successful
moments that have
happened in your
classrooms.
How are you
keeping your
groups structured?
Let's share ideas
and learn from
each other.
GLOWS PLANNING

4. What is
DESSA?

5. DESSA stands for Devereux Students
Strengths Assessment
DESSA is a social emotional learning assessment that is used to
monitor your students social and emotional development throughout
the school year.
DESSA is a standardized, strength-based behavior rating scale that
is typically completed in 5-8 minutes (per child).
It is used by educators to measure a child’s social-emotional capacity
for children from kindergarten to 8th grade.

6. What are the
benefits of
DESSA?

7. Benefits of DESSA
In completing the assessment for the child, the child will then be placed under a category to
determine whether they’re: Typical, Struggling and need help with instruction, or Strength.
Seeing which category our students fall under will then help us learn how to best support
them in the classroom. This can be done by utilizing your “aperture” account and toggling
over to the resources section to learn about what you can implement during lessons to
further assist the struggling students in developing their literacy skills.
https://apertureed.com/k-8-sel/

8. What DESSA Measures:
In answering assessment questions, You’ll be able to see the percentile of where
each student is at for:
Self-Awareness
Self-Management
Social Awareness
Relationship Skills
Goal-Directed Behavior
Personal Responsibility
Decision Making
Optimistic Thinking

9. Let’s explore the
website together!
Co-teachers should be sitting together.
If you have an existing account, you may log in to verify that all your students you
have access to are accurate.
 New Users: A link will be sent to your 82nd Street email account, you will then create your
account and password.
 Your username will be your email address and your password will be of your choice.
 Once you have created your account, please write your information down so you will not
forget it.

11. Best assessment tips
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02
03
Please take your time in
answering the questions for each
student.
To gather accurate information for
each child, you must be engaging
daily with your whole class, or else
you won’t know how to answer
certain questions.
For best results, utilize the
resources on the website to help
your students in the areas they
struggle in.

12. DESSA Assessments
Oct 20 Dec 20 Feb 20
Assessments are due quarterly. This means 4 assessments throughout afterschool is
in session. These assessments will help us see if there’s any progress or great strides
that our students are making.
Leads have accounts, this should not limit the work that
the Assistants are doing. They are just as involved in a
classroom. Co-teachers must reach out to each other to
collaborate and work together on this.
Mar 20

13. Thank
you!

14. Resource
Page
https://apertureed.com/