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Inner Explorer

Inner Explorer provides lesson-based and teaching practices approaches to SEL. Inner Explorer offers programming for Pre-K-12. A CASEL-approved evaluation demonstrates evidence of effectiveness at grade 3. Inner Explorer is delivered via an online platform that teachers can log into to play daily mindfulness-focused video lessons for students. Materials are offered in Spanish and Ukrainian.

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

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Keepin it REAL

Keepin’ it REAL, offered by REAL Prevention, provides a lesson-based approach to SEL. It includes programming for grades 6-8 and demonstrates evidence of effectiveness at grades 7-8. Translated materials for Keepin’ it REAL are available in Spanish and French.

Grades
Middle (6-8)
Settings
Classroom Home
Program Outcomes
  • Reduced Problem Behavior

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Kindness in the Classroom

Kindness in the Classroom, offered by the Random Acts of Kindness Foundation, provides a lesson-based approach to SEL. It includes programming for grades K-8 and demonstrates evidence of effectiveness at grades 4-5. Translated materials for Kindness in the Classroom are available in 100+ languages, including Spanish, French, Mandarin, and Arabic.

Grades
Elementary (K-5) Middle (6-8)
Settings
Classroom Schoolwide Home Community
Program Outcomes
  • Improved SEL skills and attitudes
  • Reduced Problem Behavior
  • Improved Prosocial Behavior

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Leader in Me

Leader in Me, offered by Franklin Covey Education, provides lesson-based, teaching practices, and organizational strategies approaches to SEL. Leader in Me offers programming for grades K-12. A CASEL-approved evaluation demonstrates evidence of effectiveness at grades K-5. Resources are accessed via an online portal that offers structured lessons, extension activities, and professional development modules.

Grades
Elementary (K-5) Middle (6-8) High School (9-12)
Settings
Classroom Schoolwide Home Community
Program Outcomes
  • Reduced Problem Behavior

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Learning to Breathe

Learning to Breathe provides a lesson-based approach to SEL with a focus on intrapersonal competence through mindfulness. It includes programming at grades 9-12 and demonstrates evidence of effectiveness at grades 10-12. Translated materials for Learning to Breathe are available in Chinese.

Grades
High School (9-12)
Settings
Classroom Schoolwide
Program Outcomes
  • Improved SEL skills and attitudes

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Lions Quest: Skills for Adolescence

Lions Quest: Skills for Adolescence, offered by Lions Club International, provides a lesson-based approach to SEL. It includes programming for grades 5-8 and demonstrates evidence of effectiveness at grades 5-7. Programming for grades K-4 are available in the companion program, Lions Quest: Skills for Growing. Translated materials for Lions Quest: Skills for Adolescence are available in 46 languages, including Spanish, French, Mandarin, and Arabic.

Grades
Middle (6-8)
Settings
Classroom Schoolwide Home Community
Program Outcomes
  • Improved SEL skills and attitudes
  • Improved Identity Development/ Agency
  • Reduced Problem Behavior
  • Improved School Connectedness

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Lions Quest: Skills for Growing

Lions Quest: Skills for Growing, offered by Lions Club International, provides a lesson-based approach to SEL. It includes programming for grades K-4 and demonstrates evidence of effectiveness at grades 1-4. Programming for grades 5-8 are available in the companion program, Lions Quest: Skills for Adolescence. Translated materials for Lions Quest: Skills for Growing are available in 46 languages, including Spanish, French, Mandarin, and Arabic.

Grades
Elementary (K-5)
Settings
Classroom Schoolwide Home Community
Program Outcomes
  • Reduced Problem Behavior
  • Improved Prosocial Behavior

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Manners of the Heart

Manners of the Heart provides a lesson-based approach to SEL. It includes programming for grades K-5 and demonstrates evidence of effectiveness at grades K-5. Family/Home connection letters are available in Spanish.

Grades
Elementary (K-5)
Settings
Classroom Schoolwide Home Community
Program Outcomes
  • Improved Academic Performance

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Mental Health Essentials Student Curriculum

This course has been designed for educators working with students in grades 7 to 12.

This is a non-credit, online curriculum that consists of 6 modules designed to be taught sequentially in 6-12 hours of classroom time. Modules include all course materials including learning objectives, lesson plans and all materials needed to deliver the curriculum in perpetuity. All student-facing materials are also translated into Spanish and Portuguese. Also includes one year of data collection and analysis via Osprey Research Group (pre/post surveys). After analysis, lifetime access to curriculum updates and quarterly Community of Practice Meeting access.

Learn more about this course, including program background and learning objectives, at Mental Health Collaborative.

Mental health literacy is the foundation for mental health promotion, prevention, and care and can be developed through classroom based curriculum implementation that has been scientifically shown to improve mental health related outcomes for students and also for their teachers. Curriculum aligns with National Health Education Standards and CASEL competencies.

In this course, educators will learn how to apply this classroom-ready, web-based, modular mental health curriculum resource as well as develop their own mental health literacy. Educators can then use this resource designed to be delivered to regular classrooms to successfully address mental health-related curriculum outcomes designed to be delivered by classroom teachers to students in grades 7 to 12.

Grades
Middle (6-8) High School (9-12)
Settings
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
  • 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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Merrells’s Strong Kids

Merrell’s Strong Kids provides a lesson-based approach to SEL. It includes programming for grades K-12 and demonstrates evidence of effectiveness in grades 1-6. Translated materials for Merrell’s Strong Kids are available in Korean.

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

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