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a school-based practitioner playing name that tune by calling out the latest trends in education as little more than repurposed grift and grab of forty years of neoliberal public school reform, who grew bored of correcting the record, so, like, meh…
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In March 2017, it was announced that that Chan Zuckerberg Initiative (CZI) purchased the Summit Learning Platform to enter the emerging market of harvesting student data through social-emotional learning management systems (SE-LMS).

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August 28, 2025 at 10:37 AM
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Then, in June 2021, CZI began promoting a free online reflection tool for teachers and students.

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August 28, 2025 at 10:34 AM
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It was also during this period of time that CZI partnered with CASEL and the Fordham Institute to research more effective methods of selling the public on social-emotional learning (SEL).

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In the fall of 2021, the Fordham Institute partnered NewSchools Venture Fund, CASEL and the Chan Zuckerberg Foundation to explore better ways to market and promote social-emotional learning.

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August 28, 2025 at 10:33 AM
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The evolution of similar types of online reflective tools caught the interest of Kappan and they dug into the data to discover some concerning facts about the accelerating fad of “personalized learning.”

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Don’t go ‘Along’ with corporate schemes to gather up student data - Kappan Online
If it’s free online, you are the product. – Karl Hodge (2018) In the summer of 2021, Gradient Learning and its partner the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative began marketing a “free” digital tool, named Along...
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August 28, 2025 at 10:32 AM
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In 2023, CZI shifted its focus from harvesting data through personalized learning platforms towards merging personalized learning with AI.

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August 28, 2025 at 10:30 AM
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What do you think CZI's next “pet project” will be?

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August 28, 2025 at 10:28 AM
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Because we are past the time for investigating the school-wide social-emotional learning management systems (SE-LMS) that have been developed over the past five years by big tech companies surveilling how children think, feel and learn in school.

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August 28, 2025 at 10:25 AM
The potential for medical intervention to cause unintended harm has been known since the beginnings of early medicine.

Whether due to diagnosis, intervention, negligence or error, harm caused by a healer is referred to as iatrogenesis.

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Lecture Seven of disruptSEL
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July 15, 2025 at 2:10 PM
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Universal school-based prevention is meant to reduce the onset and progression of mental health problems.

It borrows from the population-based prevention model developed by Rose (1985) to reduce the prevalence of cardiovascular problems in adults.

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July 15, 2025 at 12:58 PM
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The limits of this approach were apparent from its early beginnings.

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July 15, 2025 at 12:54 PM
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Moreover, the population-based preventative model is contraindicated when it may have adverse effects.

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July 15, 2025 at 12:54 PM
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Recent research suggests that universal school-based preventive interventions applying the principles of DBT have iatrogenic effects on students.

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July 15, 2025 at 12:53 PM
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Similarly, universal school-based mindfulness interventions have been shown to less than effective when further evaluated.

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July 15, 2025 at 12:53 PM
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The first study of mindfulness-based stress reduction was conducted in 1982.

It is worth noting that the initial audience was adults living with chronic pain.

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July 15, 2025 at 12:52 PM
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According to the researcher, the expectation of relief, i.e., a placebo effect, is a key aspect of the program.
July 15, 2025 at 12:52 PM
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As were high demand characteristics, behavioral compliance and long-term maintenance.
July 15, 2025 at 12:51 PM
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The researcher noted a major limitation of this study was the lack of a matched comparison control.
July 15, 2025 at 12:51 PM
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Such a study was conducted in 2013 comparing MBSR to an active control condition and found MBSR to be no more effective than the active control.

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July 15, 2025 at 12:50 PM
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These studies help us understand why researchers have not found universal school-based mindfulness interventions to have a significant effect on student outcomes.

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July 15, 2025 at 12:50 PM
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And, the first published study on the effectiveness of DBT helps us see why this universal school-based intervention has been less than successful.
July 15, 2025 at 12:49 PM
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Take note that the abstract of this study refers to three sets of outcomes and the target population is not appropriate for a public school setting.
July 15, 2025 at 12:48 PM
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Next, note that the key difference between the treatment and control conditions is the dosage of therapy. DBT consists of individual and group therapy as well as on-call crisis support.

Those in the control condition only received therapy.
July 15, 2025 at 12:48 PM
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This helps us see why only one set of outcomes were improved for the treatment condition. Neither group showed improvement related to affective outcomes.
July 15, 2025 at 12:47 PM
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Based on this discussion of limitations, it would seem as no surprise that DBT-based universal interventions in schools would be ineffective, at best, when applied to an adolescent population.
July 15, 2025 at 12:46 PM
Historically, efforts to promote the wellbeing of college students through sophisticated systems of screening and service delivery have been ineffective and show the need for shifting the standard model of primary prevention to something a little more socially progressive.

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Lecture Six of disruptSEL
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July 9, 2025 at 5:24 PM