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.b, offered by the Mindfulness in Schools Project, provides a lesson-based approach to SEL. It provides programming for grades 6-12 and demonstrates evidence of effectiveness at grades 7-11. Translated materials for .b are available in Chinese, Danish, Dutch, Finnish, French, German, Icelandic, Italian, Polish, Spanish, and Welsh.

Grades
Middle (6-8) High School (9-12)
Settings
Classroom Schoolwide
Program Outcomes
  • Improved SEL skills and attitudes
  • Reduced Emotional Distress
  • Improved Prosocial Behavior

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American Indian Life Skills Development

A school-based, culturally sensitive, suicide-prevention program for American Indian adolescents, also known as Zuni Life Skills Development. Themes this program covers 1) building self-esteem, 2) identifying emotions and stress, 3) increasing communication and problem-solving skills, 4) recognizing and eliminating self-destructive behavior, 5) information on suicide, 6) suicide intervention training, and 7) setting personal and community goals. The curriculum also incorporates three domains of well-being that are specific to tribal groups: 1) helping one another, 2) group belonging, and 3) spiritual belief systems and practices. Lessons are interactive and incorporate situations and experiences relevant to AI/AN adolescent life such as friendship issues, rejection, divorce, separation, unemployment, and problems with health and the law.

Grades
High School (9-12)
Program Components
  • Understanding stigma and strategies for stigma reduction
  • Understanding how to foster & maintain positive mental health
  • Understanding how to seek help effectively
Program Outcomes
  • Advocate for reducing stigma associated with emotional and mental and behavioral health
  • Describe how self-harm or suicide impacts other people
  • Explain how to help someone who is thinking about attempting suicide
  • Identify school and community resources that can help a person with emotional, mental and behavioral health concerns

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BASE Education

BASE Education provides a lesson-based approach to SEL. It includes programming for K-12 and demonstrates evidence of effectiveness at grades 6-8. Additionally, BASE Education is facilitated largely online with guidance for bringings topics from lessons into classroom discussion. Translated materials for BASE Education are available in 53 languages, including Spanish, Hindi, Indonesian, Arabic, Chinese, Mandarin, Korean, French, Russian, Portuguese, Croatian, Czech, Danish, Dutch, Finnish, German, Greek, Italian, Japanese, Malay, Norwegian, Persian, Pashto, Polish, Somali, Swedish, Tagalog, Tamil, Thai, Turkish, Ukrainian, Vietnamese, Bengali, Amharic, Afrikaans, Albanian, Azerbaijani, Bosnian, Bulgarian, Estonian, Georgian, Hausa, Hebrew, Hungarian, Latvian, Romanian, Serbian, Slovak, Slovenian, Swahili, Urdu, Dari.

Grades
Pre-K Elementary (K-5) Middle (6-8) High School (9-12)
Settings
Classroom Schoolwide Home
Program Outcomes
  • Improved School Connectedness

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Better Together Cubed

Better Together Cubed provides lesson-based and organizational strategies SEL approaches. Better Together Cubed offers programming for Kindergarten through grade 12. A CASEL-approved evaluation demonstrated evidence of effectiveness for grades 6-8. Better Together Cubed utilizes an online platform with teacher-facing and parent/caregiver-facing interfaces, each with audience-specific content and resources that relate to the student-facing lessons in the curriculum. Program materials are available in English and Spanish.

Grades
Pre-K Elementary (K-5) Middle (6-8) High School (9-12)
Settings
Classroom Schoolwide Home
Program Outcomes
  • Improved SEL skills and attitudes
  • Improved School Connectedness

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CHARACTERplus Way

CHARACTERplus Way provides an organizational approach to SEL. It includes programming for grades 6-12 and demonstrates evidence of effectiveness at grades 8 and 11.

Grades
Middle (6-8) High School (9-12)
Settings
Classroom Schoolwide Home Community
Program Outcomes
  • Reduced Problem Behavior
  • Improved School Climate

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CharacterStrong’s Secondary Curriculum

CharacterStrong’s Secondary Curriculum, offered by CharacterStrong, provides a lesson-based approach to SEL for grades 6-12. A CASEL-approved evaluation demonstrates evidence of effectiveness in grades 6-8. The program uses an online platform with an extensive teacher-facing activity library and focuses on building SEL competencies through lessons, projects, generalization, and educator modeling. Student- and family-facing content is available in Spanish.

Grades
Middle (6-8) High School (9-12)
Settings
Classroom Schoolwide Home
Program Outcomes
  • Reduced Problem Behavior

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City Year’s Whole Child Whole School Model

City Year’s Whole Child Whole School Model provides an organizational approach to SEL. It offers programming for grades K-12 and demonstrates evidence of effectiveness at grades 3-9. This program is facilitated through AmeriCorps members.

Grades
Elementary (K-5) Middle (6-8) High School (9-12)
Settings
Classroom
Program Outcomes
  • Improved Academic Performance

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Consistency Management & Cooperative Discipline

Consistency Management & Cooperative Discipline (CMCD), offered by the University of Houston College of Education, provides a teaching practices approach to SEL. It includes programs for grades Pre-K-12 and demonstrates evidence of effectiveness at grade 9.

Grades
Elementary (K-5) Middle (6-8) High School (9-12)
Settings
Classroom Schoolwide Home
Program Outcomes
  • Improved Academic Performance

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EduGuide

EduGuide provides lesson-based and organizational approaches to SEL. It includes programming for grades 4-12 and demonstrates evidence of effectiveness at grades 5-7. Additionally, the lesson-based portion of EduGuide is facilitated largely online with guidance for bringings topics from lessons into classroom discussion. Translated materials are available in Arabic, Burmese, Chinese, French, German, Nepali, Russian, Spanish, Vietnamese.

Grades
Elementary (K-5) Middle (6-8) High School (9-12)
Settings
Classroom Schoolwide Home Community
Program Outcomes
  • Improved Academic Performance
  • Reduced Problem Behavior

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Erika’s lighthouse: Depression Education & Suicide Awareness

Grades
High School (9-12)
Settings
Classroom
Program Components
  • Understanding stigma and strategies for stigma reduction
  • Understanding how to foster & maintain positive mental health
  • Understanding how to seek help effectively
  • Understanding common mental health disorders, signs and symptoms, and treatments

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