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Data & Research Informing the Portrait

Nevada Department of Education

Nearly 35 percent of Nevada students were chronically absent (missing 10% or more of enrolled school days) in the 2022-23 school year. 

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U.S. Department of Education

Irregular attendance can be a better predictor of whether students will drop out before graduation than test scores.

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Annenberg Institute for School Reform at Brown University

Teachers’ job satisfaction is at the lowest level in five decades, with just 42% of educators now believing that the stress of their job is worth it, compared to 81 percent in the 1970s. This is a reflection of the immense challenges teachers face without adequate support. 

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Scholaroo

Nevada is leading the nation's teacher shortage, with a shortage of core subject elementary teachers and special education teachers, including math and language arts teachers in every grade level (K-12).

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U.S. Chamber of Commerce

74% of hiring managers agree that there is a skills gap in the current labor market, with 48% saying that candidates lack the skills needed to fill open jobs.

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Empty Classrooms

Teacher Shortages

Skills Gap

Linda Darling-Hammond & Christina R. Krone

New advances in neurobiology are revealing that brain development and the learning it enables are directly dependent on social-emotional experience. 

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Society for Research in Child Development

Compared to controls, SEL participants demonstrated significantly improved social and emotional skills, attitudes, behavior, and academic performance that reflected an 11-percentile-point gain in achievement.

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Learning Science

Frontiers in Psychology

Social emotional learning programs are increasingly being implemented to facilitate development of social competencies, decision-making skills, empathy, and emotion regulation.

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Collaborative for Academic, Social, and Emotional Learning (CASEL)

Programs that promote various skills improved students’ social-emotional skills, attitudes about self and others, connection to school, positive social behavior, and academic performance

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