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.

Through a series of brief, easy-to-follow sessions, complete with skills-building activities, the evidence-based COPE Programs convey that there is hope for change, and that both depression and anxiety are treatable.

COPE recognizes that we can’t control trigger events, but we can control how we think about them and our our responses to them. The COPE Programs teach children, teens, young adults and adults how to recognize and stop automatic negative or unhelpful thoughts and replace them with positive thoughts. The result is feeling emotionally better and behaving in healthier ways.

The Creative Coping Toolkit (CCT) is a year-long film-based program that educates students on complex topics and includes empowering strategies and practical tips on supporting positive behavioral health by addressing anxiety, online safety, bullying, loneliness, addiction, help-seeking behavior, resilience, connection, and belonging. CCT is designed to be highly adaptable, with a modular structure that allows educators to customize lessons based on their classroom needs. The core program includes 6-10 flexible lessons per theme, depending on the selected film (Angst, LIKE, The Upstanders, or Race to Be Human), along with a range of supplemental materials such as quick-start guides, discussion prompts, mindfulness activities, and reflection exercises. Additional resources can be layered in or adjusted to meet the specific social-emotional and mental health goals of a school or district.

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.

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.

Additional outcomes:

Decreased anxiety

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).

Level I: We All Have Mental Health provides an introduction to mental health for grade 4-6 students with a strong focus on help-seeking and good mental health. The full program has four lessons. The fourth lesson is a skills check as the program meets National Health Education Standards. A one-day lesson is also available.

Level II: Depression Awareness provides an introduction to depression for grade 5-9 students with a strong focus on help-seeking and good mental health. The full program has four lessons. The fourth lesson is a skills check as the program meets National Health Education Standards. A condensed one-day lesson is also available.