1. Badging Breakfast: Preparing for Summer Badging
Tuesday, June 13, 2017
8:30-10:30 a.m.

2. Welcome & Introductions
David McAuley
Director of Summer Learning
Welcome & Introductions

3. Chris Smith
Executive Director
A vision for badging

4. target skills & Logistics
Kelsey Cowen
Data Partnership Manager
target skills & Logistics

5. What is badging?

6. What is badging? A visual representation of learning
An opportunity to recognize success in SEL:
Achievement
Growth

7. Boston Beyond’s Badging Initiative
4 Skills
Communication
Critical Thinking
Engagement in Learning
Perseverance
Teamwork
2 Types of Recognition
Achievement
Growth X
Eight badges to earn
Achievement
Growth

8. Since 2015, 3556 badges have been awarded to Boston youth.

9. Practical demonstration of skill-development
BASB’s badges currently rely on one of three ways to measure skill development
Student self-report
Adult observation
Practical demonstration of skill-development
Young people report on their own perceptions of their own grasp of certain skills, either by completing a survey or responding to interview questions
Advantages:
Captures youth’s sense of their own strengths and challenges
Reflects extent to which young person is developing image of self as skilled individual
Disadvantages:
Not an objective measure of change; influenced by young person’s attention to task in hand and aspects of their self-image that can impact self-perception
Adults working closely with young people in school or program settings observe and rate changes they see in a young person’s skill mastery over time
A degree more subjective
Captures ability of young person to display skill through behaviors and attitudes
Some skills are more externally demonstrated than others e.g. an improvement in organization may be easier to observe externally than an improvement in self-awareness
Does not necessarily imply change has been recognized by the young person
Young people work on tasks, activities or projects that provide personal or public demonstrations of their exploration and development of a certain skill
Tangible outcomes that can demonstrate growth to the young person and to other people
Creates evidence of skill gain that can be used by young people and programs to demonstrate progress
Qualitative measure; difficult to quantify degree of change, or to aggregate to draw conclusions about a program’s efficacy.

10. To award badges, BASB’s partners use the SAYO T to assess skill development
Validated pre/post survey completed by educators about each individual student
Developed by NIOST and Massachusetts DESE
Measures 7 skill areas

11. Process for awarding badges
Educator who knows (or will know) each student best records pre and post SAYO-T observations of student
Program records student attendance
Students with >80% attendance are eligible to earn badges

12. Process for awarding badges (cont.)
Students who were observed demonstrating these skills “most of the time” by the post assessment (4 out of 5 on the SAYO-T) are eligible to earn an achievement badge
Students whose SAYO-T score increases by at least 1 point between the pre and post observation are eligible to earn a growth badge
Given this criteria, badges are awarded at the discretion of the program.

13. A Tour of Badging through Cityspan
boston.cityspan.com

14. All SAYO T Post surveys complete.
Two Weeks Before End of Programming:
1. Input instructors and assign participants.
2. Send a reminder to instructors that Post is coming up.
Badging Timeline
Week Before Programming Begins:
1. Set up YouthServices to track attendance.
2. Input instructors.
3. Send introductory to instructors.
First Day of Programming:
1. Record attendance at the end of the day and assign participants.
2. Send Pre surveys to instructors.
3. Monitor progress.
Week Before Programming Ends:
1. Send Post surveys to instructors.
2. Monitor progress.
One Week After Last Day of Programming:
All SAYO T Post surveys complete.
One Week After First Day of Programming:
All SAYO T Pre surveys complete.

15. Discussion
David McAuley
Director of Summer Learning

16. Discussion Questions What excites you/worries you?
How do you envision implementing badging this summer? How do you think each site can make this an intentional practice linked to SEL?
How can we document your efforts this summer so we have an updated resource for best practices, lessons learned?
What would be most helpful to you, between now and summer and post summer, for your efforts?

17. Badging Study Opportunity
Lisa Gomi Hui
Director of Measurement and Improvement

18. Key Questions Encourage students? Positive badge culture?
Increased STEM interest?
Downsides?

19. Details Student Interviews (few students who did, didn’t earn badge)
Student Focus Groups
(equal # of students who did, didn’t earn badge)
Online Student Survey
(16 questions on badging process)
Staff Interviews
(few staff who can comment on badging process)

20. If yes… Anonymous feedback on badging for continuous improvement
BASB can help with timeline, incentives