The DESSA has been a trusted useful resource for colleges for over 15 years and whereas we’ve advanced over time, we’re nonetheless absolutely dedicated to supporting educators as they develop scholar social, emotional, and behavioral strengths.
A Fast Recap of Our Historical past:
The DESSA was initially developed within the mid-2000s with roots in resilience idea. Centered on the assumption that understanding the strengths of each scholar is essential to proactively constructing optimistic behavioral abilities that guarantee lifelong success and wellbeing. In 2017, Aperture Training was fashioned as an impartial three way partnership between the Devereux Heart for Resilient Youngsters and Apperson, a writer and survey supplier, to develop a digital platform that leveraged the total energy of the DESSA. In 2022, Aperture Training was acquired by Riverside Insights, a trusted chief in instructional assessments. In 2024, we’re persevering with this evolution by altering the title of our digital platform from the Aperture System to the DESSA System. That is an thrilling change for us, a return to our core focus of serving to educators ship high-quality instruction guided by correct, dependable, and actionable behavioral knowledge.
What to Discover on the New Web site:
As you be taught in regards to the DESSA System, we suggest reviewing the “How We Assist” part of this web site to be taught extra about how we help districts with MTSS applications, cultivating scholar resilience and wellbeing, addressing the foundation causes of power absenteeism, bettering faculty and profession readiness, and extra.
Don’t neglect to browse the “Assets” part as effectively, right here you’ll discover inspiring success tales from our associate districts, strategic outcomes-focused webinars with skilled panelists, useful guardian assets, funding steerage, and weblog posts overlaying the most recent DESSA analysis, information, and product updates.
All in favour of studying extra about our journey to changing into essentially the most trusted supplier of evidence-based social, emotional, and behavioral knowledge and helps? View our full historic timeline within the “About Us” part.
To entry 130+ peer-reviewed articles, research, and convention shows, please try the brand new “Analysis” part of the web site. Right here you possibly can be taught extra in regards to the foundational analysis and growth course of that results in our suite of standardized, norm-referenced, psychometrically sound screeners and assessments.
New to the DESSA System? Right here’s What’s Included:
Whereas the roots of our strength-based strategy to measuring and supporting scholar behavioral strengths haven’t modified, our suite of screeners, assessments, trainings, and interventions has expanded lately. With the DESSA System you’ve got every thing you want to develop foundational scholar abilities at your fingertips.
The DESSA System consists of DESSA Screeners and Assessments that precisely establish the suitable tier of social, emotional, and behavioral help for every scholar and supply focused competency-specific knowledge to tell tailor-made educational planning. As soon as college students’ abilities have been measured, educators have entry to DESSA Methods and Interventions with over 600 classes to develop DESSA-aligned strengths. With automated data-driven educational suggestions, educators save time analyzing knowledge and choosing essentially the most high-impact classes to implement within the classroom, in small teams, and for individualized interventions. Members of the DESSA Implementation Help group present skilled steerage, district-wide coaching, safe knowledge administration, and customized strategic recommendation to make sure your DESSA program launches efficiently and may be sustained whereas preserving scholar and employees wellbeing on the middle.
