This spring, students in grades 6-11 were administered the Developmental Relationships Survey from Search Institute. This survey includes the 3 Core Measures of Developmental Relationships, Social and Emotional Competencies, and Equitable Practices. Developmental relationships are close connections through which young people discover who they are (identity), gain abilities to share their own lives (agency), and learn how to interact with and contribute to the world around them (committed to their community). Search Institute’s research has shown that when young people experience developmental relationships with caring adults, they tend to report a wide range of positive outcomes including social-emotional strengths, increased resiliency, and greater academic motivation. The results from this survey will allow us to examine how Ashland students view their relationships with their teachers, their own social-emotional competence, and how equitable they feel their school environment is. We will celebrate the areas of strength and put interventions in place to strengthen areas of opportunity by adopting the developmental relationships framework. To learn more about Search Institute and the developmental relationships framework, please click
here. Stay tuned for more information in the fall!
