Building Organizational and Individual Capacities in State and Local Education Agencies: The First Five Years of the Center to Improve Social and Emotional Learning and School Safety

Abstract

A s state education agencies (SEAs) and local education agencies (LEAs, or districts) make efforts to improve schooling on a larger, systemic scale, their efforts are often held back by inadequate capacity (e.g., content expertise, systems or structures to facilitate change) within these organizations (