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The only student resilience system proven to drive academic success.

The DESSA System is the only student resilience system proven to drive student success in school and beyond. The DESSA gives schools clear, actionable insight to guide student support.

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DESSA + Move This World

A Connected System for Student Behavioral Health

Turn insight into daily student support within a proactive MTSS framework. By combining the DESSA's evidence-based screening, assessment, and progress monitoring with Move This World's engaging and easy-to-use PreK-12 instruction, districts can create a truly connected system for supporting student behavioral health.

 

From Insight to Action.

The DESSA identifies each student’s strengths and needs. Paired with Move This World, those insights unlock daily skill building.

 

Enhance Student Success and Resilience

The DESSA is one of the most trusted research-based systems for understanding student behavioral development. It enables schools to:

  • Screen students universally at scale with the DESSA-Mini
  • Conduct deep competency-level assessment with the Full DESSA
  • Identify students at elevated behavioral risk earlier
  • Pinpoint specific competency gaps guiding intervention
  • Monitor student growth across the year

The DESSA gives schools clear, actionable insight to guide student support.

DESSA Solutions

Measure, understand, and strengthen students’ essential life skills. Enhance student success and resilience with the DESSA, a research-backed assessment that provides actionable insights and targeted support strategies. With the DESSA System, professionals can:

  • Complete their MTSS framework
  • Support student mental wellbeing
  • Reduce chronic absenteeism by promoting student engagement
  • Reinforce real-world skills to help students be future-ready
  • Use resilience data to support their PBIS framework

Explore all behavioral and life skill solutions provided by Riverside Insights.

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A connected system that helps schools understand student strengths, reinforce critical skills in the classroom, and monitor progress over time.

The DESSA System provides clear insights into students' behavioral strengths and needs. Move This World extends into this system into everyday classroom routines. Together, DESSA and Move This World create a continuous cycle that helps schools respond to student needs and refine support over time. 

Build Student Resilience for Learning and for Life with the DESSA System

Understand each student deeply with The DESSA System. Identify their strengths and the behaviors that may hold them back. Uncover the social, emotional, and behavioral skills they need to thrive, and build lasting resilience through targeted, data-driven instruction.

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Screeners and Assessments

The only life skill and behavioral screener with post-pandemic norms

Universally screen students in 1 minute with 95% accuracy to gauge their social and behavioral competence. With post-pandemic norms and nearly two decades of backing research, the DESSA ensures student results are reliable and relevant to the challenges students face today.

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Strategies and Interventions

Data-Driven Instructional Strategies Build Student Resilience

With over 650 data-driven instructional lessons and data-driven tiered instructional recommendations offer universal strategies to cultivate resilience in all students, and tiered interventions to address student life skill needs.

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Implementation Support

Cultivate Strength in Educators and Communities

Our team of experts will guide you through implementation. With Professional Learning, Rostering Services, and a dedicated Implementation Success Team, we’ll help you make your DESSA System implementation a success.

Research, Case Studies, and Webinars

Riverside Insights and DESSA are committed to evidence-based practices, advancing the state of knowledge in our field, and providing information that will contribute to advocacy efforts for students’ social and emotional health.

EdSERT: Comprehensive Professional Development for Educators 

Give your team the tools they need for personal wellbeing and effective social, emotional, and behavioral instruction. Successful student outcomes start with educators that have the capacity to understand, model, and teach positive behavioral skills.

Explore DESSAs EdSERT Certification Program:

K-12 Assessments
CLINICAL Assessments
COMMUNITY

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