The Olweus Bullying Prevention Program (OBPP) is designed for students in grades K-12, combining in-school programming for individuals, classrooms, and schools with community engagement in order to reduce bullying and improve school climate. The qualifying study, however, involved only middle schools. OBPP focuses on the response of onlookers to bullying events, so it involves all students. OBPP schools receive consultation from Olweus-trained district trainers prior to implementation. Staff form a school coordinating committee, and receive ongoing consulting support. The program includes materials for engaging with parents and community members, including holding events to educate parents on bullying issues, updates on bullying incidents, and classroom meetings.

Open Circle, offered by the Wellesley Center for Women, provides a lesson-based approach to SEL. It includes programming for grades K-5 and demonstrates evidence of effectiveness at grade 4. The first “Home Link” letter to families and all vocabulary terms are translated into eight different languages (Chinese, Cape Verde Creole, Spanish, Haitian Creole, Somali, Portuguese, Vietnamese). All other family letters and mini skill posters are translated into Spanish.

The Parent Teacher Home Visits model was co-created by parents and educators using the community organizing principles of shared leadership. Participating teachers conduct 30-40 minute home visits in which educators listen, ask questions, and make observations that they can take back to their classrooms to improve instruction for the learner. As a two-visit model, PTHV encourages the first relationship-building visit to occur in the summer or early fall, followed by ongoing communication throughout the year and a second visit that focuses on academics or any other relevant issue to the student or family. The PTHV model has five non-negotiables: visits are voluntary and arranged in advance, teachers are trained and compensated for visits, visits focus on hopes and dreams, educators visit a cross-section of students (not a targeted intervention), educators fo in pairs and reflect

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.

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

PBLWorks, offered by The Buck Institute for Education, provides a teaching practices approach to SEL. It includes programming for grades 6-12 and demonstrates evidence of effectiveness at grade 12.

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.

Peer Group Connection – High School, offered by the Center for Supportive Schools, provides a lesson-based approach to SEL where 11th and 12th grade students facilitate sessions with 9th grade students. It includes programming for grades 9-12 and demonstrated evidence of effectiveness at grade 9. Translation of all program materials are available in Spanish.

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.

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.