Skills
A comprehensive K-12 solution that supports and develops students’ essential life skills. With tools for screening, tracking, and intervention, it helps educators guide student growth in the areas that matter most.
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Skills supports student growth in 5 CASEL competencies:
Self awareness
Subskills: Identifying emotions, accurate self-perception, recognizing strengths, self confidence, self-efficacySelf management
Subskills: Impulse control, stress management, goal setting, self- motivation, self- disciplineSocial awareness
Subskills: Empathy, respect for others, perspective taking, appreciating diversityRelationship skills
Subskills: Communication, relationship building, social engagement, teamworkResponsible decision making
Subskills: Analyzing solutions, solving problems, reflecting, identifying problems, evaluatingHow Skills helps create real impact
Skills doesn’t just collect data—it turns it into meaningful action across classrooms and campuses. Here’s how it works.
1. Assess: Understand every student clearly
Student support starts with knowing where each student stands. Skills provides fast, research-backed screeners that collect insight from both students and teachers, offering a holistic view of student needs.
- Student self-assessments and teacher screeners for multiple perspectives
- Age-appropriate, CASEL-aligned questions for reliable insights
- Quick implementation across classrooms and grade levels
2. Plan: Turn data into a targeted plan
Once the data is in, Skills takes the guesswork out of next steps. With automated tier placements, grouping, and personalized recommendations, educators can move quickly from insight to action.
- Tier placement suggestions with 97% accuracy
- Diagnostic assessments to pinpoint priority subskills
- Smart grouping tools and lesson recommendations tailored to group needs
3. Review: Monitor progress and refine support
As instruction happens, Skills helps educators monitor progress in real time. Dynamic dashboards and flexible reports reveal what’s working—so intervention plans stay responsive and effective.
- Real-time dashboards showing group and student-level growth
- Customizable reporting across class, school, or district
- Intervention plans and playlists can be reviewed and adjusted with ease
4. Do: Deliver instruction that drives growth
With planning and insight in place, Skills supports educators in delivering engaging, targeted SEL lessons. Whether it’s full-class instruction or small group intervention, everything needed is built in.
- Over 6,000+ age-leveled resources, aligned to CASEL’s SAFE model
- Flexible lessons, interventions, and self-paced SELf Study activities
- Track student progress and engagement from the same platform
Why schools choose Skills
Satchel Pulse Skills doesn’t just support SEL—it makes it actionable, measurable, and manageable across every classroom.
Built for real classrooms and real situations
With ready-to-use lessons, practical strategies, and student-friendly tools, Skills fits seamlessly into the school day without overwhelming staff.
Grounded in research, designed to go further
Developed with over 30 years of SEL research and fully aligned with CASEL, it gives schools confidence in every screener, lesson, and report.
Gives every student a path forward
From universal screeners to intensive, one-on-one interventions, Skills helps every student build the life skills they need to succeed.
We work with school districts in over 40 states.
Change for the better
We asked our customers “What changed for the better since you switched to Skills?” Thousands responded, here’s some of what they said.
