Thread by @Woodshed2012

While on the subject of DOJ STOP grants, let’s talk about the PASS survey and reporting required under this grant.

PASS or Pupil Attitudes to Self and School is an assessment tool designed to track students “feelings” or social and emotional well-being. One of the primary domains of the survey is SEL (social and emotional learning). 🧵1/
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The Pennsylvania Office for Safe Schools under the PA Dept of Ed (PDE) administers this as the PA School Climate Survey. SEL is one of the three domains central to the survey, given not just to students, but staff, parents and community members as well as part of the broader Whole-Child, Whole-School, Whole-Community model. This reflects the shift away from ACADEMIC intelligence to EMOTIONAL intelligence. Schools are, of course, incentivized to participate through grant monies, with results shared between state and federal agencies and third-party orgs. 🧵2/

Another core focus of grant funding is Restorative Practices (RP). RP and SEL work hand-in-hand to create societal change through social consciousness and collectivism—core socialist principles. Children (and adults) are taught that systemic racial disparities exist in classrooms, where one race is disproportionally punished over another. In turn, RP works to eliminate punishment and produce equitable outcomes, instead bringing the offender and the ‘harmed’ together to repair harm through reconciliation. 🧵3/

7 MINDSETS advertises their partnership with PDE, as well as several other state public education agencies.

Numerous Pennsylvania school districts decided to pilot the 7 MINDSETS curriculum, with many going on to keep the digital program in their schools.

7 MINDSETS openly advertises their curriculum alignment with CASEL Core Competencies. 🧵4/
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7 MINDSETS promotes teachers talking to students about sensitive social issues from biased positions of “violent” mob attacks (1/6), “false claims” of stolen presidential elections (2020), and high profile police killings of black and brown Americans (George Floyd etc).
The article even suggests that colorblind education fuels inequalities and can lead to white students minimizing the role of race in society.
You can imagine then what their platform promotes and the agenda driving them. 🧵5/

7 MINDSETS also provides Tier 2 and Tier 3 Mental Health and multi-tier systems of support (MTSS) through acquired BASE Education, a CASEL-recommended provider. The BASE mental health platform begins with Baseline, a student assessment of needs that assigns modules based on results captured from a 41 question survey. 🧵6/

A demo of BASE shows just how involved “assigned adults” become in a student’s emotional/mental health. Open ended responses are required, with a minimum of 10 characters before a student may move on to the next part of the module. The program also looks for “firewords” that trigger immediate intervention. Teachers, staff, and parents also have modules that can be assigned. Alarmingly, the demo presenter from the video is sure to let the viewers know that parents WILL NOT see what their student is typing—only the assigned adult. 🧵7/

7 MINDSETS provides an entire page, and subsequent packets at your request, on funding streams available to help purchase their products.
BASE offers mental health resources, including a checklist that advocates for increased mental health services in schools. 🧵8/

On the board of 7 MINDSETS is Scott Shickler and Jeff Waller, founders of Magic Wand Foundation, an organization whose sole purpose is to empower youth for a collective mind-shift on a global scale. 🧵9/

Magic Wand Foundation’s board includes, in addition to Shickler and Waller, Nicole Armstrong. Nicole comes from Renaissance Learning who, together with GL Assessment, provides the software for the PASS surveys mentioned earlier. 🧵10/

7 MINDSETS also acquired the Better Together adult SEL program. It’s creator, Jo Salazar, is a contributor to Global Citizenship Foundation, an organization that focuses on achieving the UN’s SDG 4.7 and Education 2030. 🧵11/

Now, if you thought that all of this socialist SEL indoctrination is reserved just to brick-and-mortar public schools, you’d be sadly mistaken.

7 MINDSETS is partnered with Stride, Inc. (formerly K12, Inc.), an alliance that began in 2014–the same year as founder Ronald Packer’s resignation. Their current CEO hails from Match.com, the CFO was the SVP at BET, and their Senior Advisor is a founding board member of the American Federation for Children.

Stride is the largest education management organization (EMO) in the nation, competing with other major nonprofits like KIPP (covered in a prior thread).

Stride/K12 run the gamut on education, offering homeschooling and cyber charter, career prep, and private school options, including Agora, Insight, and Keystone in Pennsylvania.
They pay large sums to lobbying firms and groups like PA Families for Public Cyber Schools to grow their footprint. 🧵12/

Of course, it helps to have friends in all the right places. Charles Zogby, who once served as PA’s Secretary of Education, went on to work for K12. He left that position to serve as the Commonwealth’s Secretary of the Budget. From there he went to work for a few schools before finally landing at his current position with the PA Treasury.

Sometimes choices are only the perception of choices.

Do you know if 7 MINDSETS is in your school? With many of these institutions now captured by radical socialist progressives, you better find out.

And if your electeds decry DEI/SEL but are not introducing legislation to rid your state of it or the funding that perpetuates its existence, they’re not serious. 🧵13/

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