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Initial Report from the Regional SEL Landscape Survey

To understand what actions are taking place across sectors to shift adult practices and to increase student success skills including youth engagement, motivation, and social emotional learning, we conducted an online survey of the Road Map Region in November 2017. Sixty-two people responded to the [...]

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Meet our Social Emotional Learning Strategy Manager, Mona Grife!

Mona Grife is our new Social Emotional Learning Strategy Senior Manager and will be our point person on cross-sector planning with Road Map districts (and possibly beyond).  She comes to us with over a decade of experience that has centered on building dynamic youth programs and collaborative [...]

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