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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 Prosocial Behavior
  • Improved SEL Skills and Attitudes
  • Reduced Emotional Distress

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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 School Connectedness
  • Improved SEL Skills and Attitudes

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Bring Change 2 Mind

Through weekly meetings, direct support from BC2M staff, and school-wide events and presentations, BC2M’s student-led programs increase awareness and education while empowering youth to be leaders of the movement to end stigma around mental illness.

Grades
Elementary (K-5) Middle (6-8) High School (9-12)
Settings
Classroom Schoolwide
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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Caring School Commuity

Caring School Community, offered by Collaborative Classroom, provides a teaching practices approach to SEL. It includes programming for K-8 and demonstrates evidence of effectiveness at grades 3-6. Translated materials for Caring School Communities are available in Spanish.

Grades
Elementary (K-5) Middle (6-8)
Settings
Classroom Schoolwide Home Community
Program Outcomes
  • Improved Academic Performance
  • Improved School Climate
  • Improved School Connectedness
  • Improved SEL Skills and Attitudes
  • Improved Teaching Practices
  • Reduced Problem Behavior

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Catch My Breath

CATCH My Breath is an evidence-based youth vaping prevention program for grades 5-12 that has been proven to substantially reduce students’ likelihood of vaping. The vape education program’s effectiveness was published in a peer-reviewed journal and the program is listed in SAMHSA’s Evidence-Based Resource Guide Series.

Program-specific outcomes:

  • Decreased substance use (e-cigarettes)
  • Increased student knowledge of health and risk (e-cig)
  • Improved perception of substance free lifestyle (e-cig)
Grades
Elementary (K-5) Middle (6-8) High School (9-12)
Settings
Classroom Home

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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
  • Improved School Climate
  • Reduced Problem Behavior

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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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