Skills Training for Emotional Problem Solving for Adolescents (DBT STEPS-A). Dialectical behavior therapy (DBT) skills have been demonstrated to be effective in helping adolescents manage difficult emotional situations, cope with stress, and make better decisions. From leading experts in DBT and school-based interventions, this unique manual offers the first nonclinical application of DBT skills. The book presents an innovative social-emotional learning curriculum designed to be taught by general education teachers or other school personnel in grades 6-12. Explicit instructions for teaching the skills—mindfulness, distress tolerance, emotion regulation, and interpersonal effectiveness—are provided in 30 lesson plans, complete with numerous reproducibles: 99 handouts, a diary card, and three student tests.

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.

EL Education provides lesson-based and organizational approaches to SEL. It includes programming for grades K-8 and demonstrates evidence of effectiveness at grades 6-8. Spanish translations for some materials are available.

Emotional ABCs Premium Schools, offered by Emotional ABCs Inc., provides a lesson-based approach to SEL. It includes programming for grades 1-3 and demonstrated evidence of effectiveness at grades 1-2.

The Emotional ABCs Program is a sequential, skill-building educational curriculum for children ages 4 -11 developed in collaboration with psychologists, therapists, and educators. The curriculum, which does not require teacher training, includes a set of 20 classroom workshops consisting of short modules for flexible teacher use. Each workshop uses interactive online activities, videos, printables, as well as in-classroom teacher modeling, teacher-student interactions, and student-student interactions. The curriculum is divided into four units, and each workshop builds on skills introduced in previous workshops. All resources needed per workshop are provided by Emotional ABCs either as online content or as downloadable printables, and each workshop includes a clear SEL Teaching Goal, a Teaching Point with suggested modeling ideas, relevant Group Discussion and Group Activities, plus Individual Self-Reflection sections. A main feature of the curriculum is the Emotional ABCs Toolbar, which shows children how to quickly figure out what they are feeling (Pause), why they are having that emotion (Rewind), and how to make a good choice (Play).

Facing History and Ourselves (FHAO) provides a lesson-based approach to SEL with academic integration with social studies. It includes programming for grades 6-12 and demonstrates evidence of effectiveness at grades 7-10. Several of FHAO’s major resources are translated into Spanish, with some materials also available in Czech, French, and Hungarian.

Flourish, offered by the University of Virginia Compassionate Schools Project, provides lesson-based and teaching practices approaches to SEL. Flourish offers programming for grades K-5 and a CASEL-approved evaluation demonstrates effectiveness across the same grade span. The program incorporates mindfulness and physical activity into competency-focused SEL lessons. Student-facing curriculum materials are available in Spanish.

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.