Leaps was initially developed to help people, adults and children, who were moving from institutions into the community and they needed to increase their social intelligence and their emotional intelligence. Many of these individuals were very bright intellectually but they lacked the adaptive or emotive skills to fit into society. They were taught systematically how to grow their social capacity while simultaneously increase their emotional intelligence so that they could integrate into a more independent societal setting. Great success was achieved!
Fast forward to today, after decades of research, adaptation, and application Leaps has taken the clinical process of deficit assessment and addressment within the scope of social capacity and emotional intelligence and used it to create individual scope plans to increase learning capacity thereby increasing the student’s ability to learn. In other words, Leaps has taken the clinical and made it classroom ready for the educators. Assess your student, lessons are recommended to address the assessed deficits, progress is measured, targets are given, success is achieved.
The wonderful thing about increasing a student’s social and emotional learning capacity is that when the student learns to sit in class and pay attention and get along with other students and the teacher and feel better about himself and understand the stresses and expectations of being a student – learning can occur – all learning. Leaps is Social and Emotional Learning.
Reports & Case Studies
Case Study: Impact of Leaps Pro-Social Intervention on Elementary Student Behavior and Academic Achievement
Impact of Leaps Pro-Social Intervention
Case Study: Broward County
Case Study: Broward County
Study: Leaps Impact on Behavioral Incidents, Attendance, and Grades: A Pre and Post Participation Measurement
Leaps Impact on Behavioral Incidents, Attendance, and Grades
Study: The Effect of Skills Training on Classroom Measurements of Learning and Compliance
Lamar Consolidated School District Participants: Students Aged 10 – 17
Study: Orange County Public Schools Leaps Results
Orange County Public Schools
School Stories
More About Leaps
Classroom Challenges Assessment Module
Every license for Leaps includes the Classroom Challenges tool. It’s a simple way to assess and address skills deficits within a small group or for the whole class.
CASEL Core Competencies Align with Leaps
Leaps is particularly well-aligned with the CASEL core competencies, in fact our tools extend even beyond this important framework.The Collaborative for Academic, Social and Emotional Learning (CASEL) outlines five core competencies of social and emotional learning...
How is Leaps different from other K12 resources?
Leaps is different because it is born out of psychosocial remediation training. We are sometimes called an SEL provider, and in some respects, we do provide social emotional learning opportunities. But, unlike other programs that are focused on SEL, Leaps was...
New Leaps 5.0 Now Available!
We're so excited to announce that Leaps 5.0 is up and running. All users accounts have been updated and new users will have full access to our beautiful new system. We're updated more than just the look and feel, with more emphasis on user experience, ease of use and...
Sample: Student Skills Profile Assessment Report
Leaps assessments generate skill profile reports. These profiles score the student in 10 critical skills on a 5-point Likert scale. The report contains graphs, scatter plots and verbal interpretations for family communication all...
Common Sense Needs To Be Taught
Social and emotional skills are common sense skills and common sense isn’t always common. It needs to be taught, both at home and in schools.
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