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PeerLearning.net

PeerLearning.net provides a teaching practices approach to SEL and offers programming for grades 4-12. Two CASEL-approved evaluations demonstrate evidence of effectiveness in grades 6, 9-10 and 6, 8, 9, respectively. PeerLearning.net is a piece of software designed to support teachers with integrating principles of cooperative learning into their lessons. A student-facing interface guides groups of learners through lessons via a series of task, discussion, and reflection prompts. The online interface can be presented in English, Spanish, and Italian.

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

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Positive Action

Positive Action is a whole-school reform strategy designed to improve social-emotional and achievement outcomes by building school climate, self-control, goal-setting, problem-solving, persistence, and other skills. Students learn these skills through structured discussions and activities, games, and role plays. Teachers receive detailed manuals and materials to support 140 15-20 minute lessons per year (4 days per week). Parents also receive handbooks that parallel the school lessons.

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

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Pure Power

Pure Power, offered by Pure Edge Inc., provides a lesson-based approach to SEL. It includes programming for grades K-12 and demonstrates evidence of effectiveness in grades 9-11. Translated materials for Pure Power are available in Spanish and American Sign Language.

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

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Ripple Effects for Teens

Ripple Effects for Teens, offered by Ripple Effects Inc., provides a lesson-based approach to SEL. It includes programming for grades 6-12 and demonstrated evidence of effectiveness in grade 6.

Grades
Middle (6-8) High School (9-12)
Settings
Classroom Schoolwide Home
Program Outcomes
  • Improved SEL skills and attitudes
  • Improved Identity Development/ Agency

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RULER

The RULER Approach, offered by the Yale Center for Emotional Intelligence, provides an organizational approach to SEL. It includes programming for grades K-8 and demonstrates evidence of effectiveness in Pre-K and grades 5 and 6. Staff development resources, RULER tools, and high school curricular content is available in Spanish. All early childhood training, staff development, and classroom instruction content is available in Mandarin.

Grades
Pre-K Elementary (K-5) Middle (6-8) High School (9-12)
Settings
Classroom Schoolwide Home
Program Outcomes
  • Improved Academic Performance
  • Reduced Problem Behavior
  • Improved School Climate
  • Improved Prosocial Behavior
  • Improved Teaching Practices

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School-Connect

School-Connect provides a lesson-based approach to SEL. It includes programming for grades 6-12 and demonstrates evidence of effectiveness in grade 9. Translated materials for School-Connect are available in Spanish. School-Connect is used in dedicated SEL classes, school-wide advisory, special education, alternative education, and vocational ed. School-Connect’s SEL Integration Guide includes “SEL Essentials” for school administrators, counselors, teachers, coaches, community members, and parents.

Grades
Middle (6-8) High School (9-12)
Settings
Classroom Schoolwide Home Community
Program Outcomes
  • Improved Academic Performance
  • Reduced Problem Behavior

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SEE Learning

SEE Learning, offered by Emory University, provides a lesson-based and teaching practices approach to SEL and offers programming for grades Pre-K-12. A CASEL-approved evaluation demonstrates evidence of effective in grades 4-5. Key features of SEE Learning include cultivating attention skills, emphasizing compassion, and integrating trauma research for effective stress management. SEE Learning is translated into 23 languages.

Grades
Pre-K Elementary (K-5) Middle (6-8) High School (9-12)
Settings
Classroom Schoolwide Home Community
Program Outcomes
  • Improved SEL skills and attitudes
  • Improved Identity Development/ Agency
  • Improved School Connectedness
  • Improved Prosocial Behavior

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Sharpen Minds

The Sharpen Mental Health Literacy program is an evidence-based, 5-hour training program for high school students. The course enables students to engage with over 75 peer based documentary films incorporated into comprehensive, strength-based modules covering a range of topics including: humanistic mental health literacy, stigma reduction, suicide prevention, disordered eating prevention, strategies for finding support, and “5 minute mindfulness” techniques for improving personal resilience. The asynchronous program was created by Resiliency Technologies, a public health prevention company whose founder worked for nearly 20 years leading mental health literacy and resiliency trainings in schools. The content assembled into SMHL was built in collaboration with over 25 researchers and has been created utilizing best practices (Semchuck et al, 2023) requiring assessment, community listening and stakeholder input (Gruber et al, 2023).

Resource materials include: Full program guide, manual and resource book, self-report checklist, pre/post knowledge assessments and youth-focused videos.

Grades
High School (9-12)
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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
Program Outcomes
  • Advocate for reducing stigma associated with emotional and mental and behavioral health
  • Compare & contrast emotional, mental-behavioral illness, mental well-being and concurrent disorders
  • Describe how self-harm or suicide impacts other people
  • Explain how to help someone who is thinking about attempting suicide
  • Identify school and community resources that can help a person with emotional, mental and behavioral health concerns

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Sky Schools

Sky Schools, offered by the International Association for Human Values, provides a lesson-based approach to SEL, with a focus on mindfulness. It includes programming for grades 6-12 and demonstrates evidence of effectiveness in grades 7-10. Translated materials for Sky Schools are available in Spanish and Portuguese

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

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Smart Brain Wise Heart

Smart Brain Wise Heart, offered by the Heart Math Institute, provides a lesson-based approach to SEL. It includes programming for grades 4-10 and demonstrates evidence of effectiveness in grade 10. Translated materials for Smart Brain Wise Heart are available in Spanish and Mandarin, with resources for parents available in Spanish, German, Indonesian, Chinese, Hebrew, Portuguese, and Dutch, among others.

Grades
Elementary (K-5) Middle (6-8) High School (9-12)
Settings
Classroom Home
Program Outcomes
  • Reduced Emotional Distress

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