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Passport Skills for Life

Passport Skills for Life, offered by Partnership for Children, provides a lesson-based approach to SEL. It includes programming for grades 3-6 and demonstrated evidence of effectiveness at grades 3-6. Translated materials are available in French (original language), Norwegian, Arabic, Brazilian, and Lithuanian.

Grades
Elementary (K-5)
Settings
Classroom Schoolwide Home
Program Outcomes
  • Improved School Connectedness
  • Improved SEL Skills and Attitudes

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Pathways to Empower; Brain-Based Mental Health Literacy

Pathways to Empower offers comprehensive brain-based mental health literacy resources for elementary, middle school, high school, and college communities. Includes:

Elementary School Teacher Grade-Level Sequential Lesson Plans and Student Workbooks.

Middle School, High School, and College-level student workbooks that include four core modules.

Educator Professional Learning Fostering Wellness in Children & Teens (family learning)

COMING SOON: A Pathways to Empower YouTube channel with animated musical content for preschool-aged children and their families

Grades
Elementary (K-5) Middle (6-8) High School (9-12)
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
  • Describe how self-harm or suicide impacts other people
  • Describe laws related to minors accessing mental health care
  • 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
  • Improved SEL Skills and Attitudes

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Peace Learning Circles

Peace Learning Circles, offered by the Peace Learning Center, provides a teaching practices approach to SEL. It includes programming for grades K-12 and demonstrates evidence of effectiveness at grades 3 and 4. Translated materials for Peace Learning Circles are available in Spanish and French.

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

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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)
Settings
Classroom Schoolwide
Program Outcomes
  • Improved School Climate
  • Improved SEL Skills and Attitudes
  • Reduced Emotional Distress

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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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Promoting Alternative Thinking Pathways: PATHS

Promoting Alternative THinking Strategies (PATHS) provides a lesson-based approach to SEL. It includes programming for grades Pre-K-6 and demonstrates evidence of effectiveness in Pre-K and grade 1-3 students. Translated materials for PATHS are available in French and Spanish. Demonstrated evidence of effectiveness utilized the training and implementation support model offered by SEL Worldwide.

Grades
Pre-K Elementary (K-5)
Settings
Classroom Schoolwide Home Community
Program Outcomes
  • Improved Prosocial Behavior
  • Improved School Climate
  • Improved School Connectedness
  • Improved SEL Skills and Attitudes
  • Reduced Emotional Distress
  • Reduced Problem Behavior

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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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Ready to Learn

Ready to Learn provides a lesson-based approach to SEL. It includes programming for grades Pre-K-1 and demonstrates evidence of effectiveness in Kindergarten. The Ready to Learn model is designed to be a school-wide SEL program by providing classroom lessons for each grade level. The model also features a parent education component.

Grades
Pre-K Elementary (K-5)
Settings
Classroom Home
Program Outcomes
  • Improved Academic Performance
  • Improved Prosocial Behavior
  • Reduced Problem Behavior

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Resolving Conflict Creatively

The Resolving Conflict Creatively Program (RCCP), offered by the Morningside Center for Teaching Social Responsibility, provides a lesson-based approach to SEL. It includes programming for grades Pre-K-8 and demonstrates evidence of effectiveness in grades 1-6.

Grades
Pre-K Elementary (K-5) Middle (6-8)
Settings
Classroom Schoolwide Home
Program Outcomes
  • Improved Prosocial Behavior
  • Improved SEL Skills and Attitudes
  • Reduced Emotional Distress
  • Reduced Problem Behavior

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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
  • Improved Prosocial Behavior
  • Improved School Climate
  • Improved Teaching Practices
  • Reduced Problem Behavior

The Mental Health Instruction library has recently added 100 new programs! As more come available, we will continue to grow.