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Erika’s lighthouse: Depression Awareness

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Elementary (K-5) Middle (6-8)
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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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Get Real: Comprehensive Sex Education that Works

Get Real: Comprehensive Sex Education that Works, offered by Planned Parenthood of Massachusetts, provides a lesson-based approach to SEL with academic integration for health/sex education. It includes programming for grades 6-8 and demonstrates evidence of effectiveness at grades 6-8. Translated materials for Get Real are available in Spanish.

Grades
Middle (6-8)
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Classroom Home Community
Program Outcomes
  • Reduced Problem Behavior

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Give Thx

GiveThx provides a lesson-based approach to SEL. It includes programming for grades 3-12 and demonstrated evidence of effectiveness at grades 9-12.

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

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Hallway Heroes

Hallway Heroes, offered by Chicken Soup for the Soul, provides a lesson-based approach to SEL with academic integration for english/language arts. Hallway Heroes is designed to be used either in the classroom or in a counselor setting. It has also been used effectively in after-school and summer school. The stories on which each lesson is based are also designed to be sent home with students so that their parents/guardians can participate. The student journals encourage open-ended writing and provide opportunities for project based learning in the classroom and community.

Grades
Elementary (K-5) Middle (6-8)
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Classroom Schoolwide Home Community
Program Outcomes
  • Improved Prosocial Behavior

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Heartfulness Program for Schools

Heartfulness Program for Schools, offered by the Heartfulness Institute, provides a lesson-based approach to SEL. It includes programming for grades K-12 and demonstrates evidence of effectiveness at grades 7 and 8. Translated materials for Heartfulness Program for Schools are available in Spanish, Hindi, Tamil, and Telugu.

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

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Incredible Years (IY): Classroom Curriculum + Parent Training Program

The Incredible Years (IY) is a set of teacher, child and parent programs designed to promote children’s social, emotional and academic competence including prevention and reduction of behavior problems in children ages 3-12. The IY Classroom Curriculum + Parent Training Program, as represented in the accepted research, combined a classroom child training curriculum (the Dinosaur Social Skills Program) with a parent program for students targeted due to conduct problems. The Dinosaur Social Skills classroom program focused on classroom management strategies, pro-social behavior, and reducing conduct disorders, presented in 60 class lessons over 2 years (K-1). The parent program provided weekly sessions for parents focused on ways they could improve their children’s social behavior and academic competence.

The current Basic Parent Curriculum, available in different versions based on age of child, consists of weekly 2-hour parent groups covering topics such as social, emotional, academic and persistence coaching, child-directed play, praise and incentives, effective limit setting, proactive discipline and problem solving. Themes throughout the parent program include building supportive social networks, emotional regulation and working collaboratively with teachers. Teaching methods for parents include goal setting and using video vignettes to trigger problem solving and practices. Parents are given home activities to read and practice weekly and set short term goals. The treatment version of the program is a minimum of 18-20 weeks and the prevention version is minimum of 14 weeks.

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Elementary (K-5) Middle (6-8) High School (9-12)
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Classroom Home

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Inner Explorer

Inner Explorer provides lesson-based and teaching practices approaches to SEL. Inner Explorer offers programming for Pre-K-12. A CASEL-approved evaluation demonstrates evidence of effectiveness at grade 3. Inner Explorer is delivered via an online platform that teachers can log into to play daily mindfulness-focused video lessons for students. Materials are offered in Spanish and Ukrainian.

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

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Keepin it REAL

Keepin’ it REAL, offered by REAL Prevention, provides a lesson-based approach to SEL. It includes programming for grades 6-8 and demonstrates evidence of effectiveness at grades 7-8. Translated materials for Keepin’ it REAL are available in Spanish and French.

Grades
Middle (6-8)
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Classroom Home
Program Outcomes
  • Reduced Problem Behavior

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Kindness in the Classroom

Kindness in the Classroom, offered by the Random Acts of Kindness Foundation, provides a lesson-based approach to SEL. It includes programming for grades K-8 and demonstrates evidence of effectiveness at grades 4-5. Translated materials for Kindness in the Classroom are available in 100+ languages, including Spanish, French, Mandarin, and Arabic.

Grades
Elementary (K-5) Middle (6-8)
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Classroom Schoolwide Home Community
Program Outcomes
  • Improved SEL skills and attitudes
  • Reduced Problem Behavior
  • Improved Prosocial Behavior

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Leader in Me

Leader in Me, offered by Franklin Covey Education, provides lesson-based, teaching practices, and organizational strategies approaches to SEL. Leader in Me offers programming for grades K-12. A CASEL-approved evaluation demonstrates evidence of effectiveness at grades K-5. Resources are accessed via an online portal that offers structured lessons, extension activities, and professional development modules.

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

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