Level III: Depression Education & Suicide Awareness provides a deeper discussion about depression and suicide for grade 8-12 students along with a 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.

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.

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.