Getting Along Together, offered by the Success for All Foundation, provides lesson-based and teaching practices approaches to SEL. It includes programming for grades K-5 and demonstrates evidence of effectiveness at grades K and 3.

Getting Along Together, or GAT, is a schoolwide intervention for grades K-3, designed to enhance students’ social, emotional, and self-regulation skills. Getting Along Together was originally designed as a component of the Success for All whole-school reform model, but it is now also disseminated as a stand-alone program. Enhancements to GAT were researched and evaluated by Jacob, Jones, & Morrison (2013) under the name SECURe, for Social, Emotional, and Cognitive Understanding and Regulation in education. GAT provides weekly lessons that focus on skills such as feeling identification and communication, cooperative learning, win-win conflict resolution, self-regulation of attention to enhance learning, and frustration management. Strategies for effective social relationships and coping skills are presented using characters, stories, and videos to provide engaging and memorable models of desired skills for students. For example, a penguin, Chilly, has serious problems controlling his anger when things go wrong, and learns how to give himself a “Chilly Hug” and count to five when he is about to lose his composure. The children then learn how to recognize when they are frustrated and angry, and learn to give themselves “Chilly Hugs.” Animal characters learn to solve interpersonal problems, and lessons for students are built around discussions about how the animals can learn to manage their own behavior. GAT also has a strong emphasis on cooperative learning, and develops schoolwide structures such as a “Peace Path” to set expectation for a positive school climate and conflict resolution. Teachers receive 1 ½ days of training each year and are visited by coaches who give them feedback and new ideas.

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

Growing Early Mindsets (GEM), offered by Mindset Works, provides a lesson-based approach to SEL with academic integration with literacy and science. GEM includes explicit instruction and embedded learning routines and practices across learning environments; home/school connections via family newsletters (available in Spanish) that introduce families to the learning routines practiced at school; and community problem-solving via service learning projects.

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.

Harmony supports SEL through implementation of the daily practices, as well as strategies that promote classroom and school-wide agreements, foster intentional relationships, and inclusive community. Lessons and activities include Home School Connections and Activities for families, while Harmony at Home, and the Harmony Game Room App support families.

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.

I Can Problem Solve provides a lesson-based approach to SEL. It includes programming for grades Pre-K-5 and demonstrates evidence of effectiveness at grade 1. Translated materials for the preschool and kindergarten levels as well as the parent program are available in Spanish.

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.

Incredible Years: Teacher Classroom Management (IY TCM) provides teaching practices and lesson-based approaches to SEL. It includes programming for grades Pre-K-3 and demonstrates evidence of effectiveness at grades Pre-K-3. It is recommended that the Teacher Classroom Management program be implemented in conjunction with Incredible Year’s lesson-based curriculum, Dinosaur School; however, this is not a requirement. Translated materials are available in Norwegian, Danish, Finnish, and Portuguese.

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 Child Dinosaur Curriculum is designed for children ages 4-8 years and focuses on teaching children emotional literacy and self-regulation, problem solving, anger management and social skills. 60 classroom lessons are delivered 2-3 times a week by teachers for 3 school levels including a curriculum for preschool, kindergarten and grades 1 and 2. Circle time lessons are generally 20-30 minutes and are followed by small group activities designed to practice the skills being taught. Teachers are encouraged to enhance this learning by reinforcing use of social and emotional skills taught throughout the school day and during recess and meal times.

Note: There is also a treatment version of this program where students meet in small groups of no more than 6 children, weekly for 2 hours for a minimum of 18 weeks, ideally while their parents are in the parent 2-hour groups. A model exists for offering this small group treatment approach in schools twice weekly for 1 hour.