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.b, offered by the Mindfulness in Schools Project, provides a lesson-based approach to SEL. It provides programming for grades 6-12 and demonstrates evidence of effectiveness at grades 7-11. Translated materials for .b are available in Chinese, Danish, Dutch, Finnish, French, German, Icelandic, Italian, Polish, Spanish, and Welsh.

Grades
Middle (6-8) High School (9-12)
Settings
Classroom Schoolwide
Program Outcomes
  • Improved SEL skills and attitudes
  • Reduced Emotional Distress
  • Improved Prosocial Behavior

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Adventures Aboard the S.S. Grin

Adventures Aboard the S.S. Grin, offered by Centervention, provides a lesson-based approach to SEL. It includes programming intended for grade 3-5 and demonstrated evidence of effectiveness at grade 3. Students engage with the program online with little teacher involvement.

Adventures Aboard the S.S. GRIN is an online SEL curriculum that is student led and designed to assist students in grades 3-5, regardless of their social emotional competence. Built around an engaging narrative, Adventures Aboard the S.S. GRIN includes a series of scenes focusing on Respect, Thinking Ahead, Responsibility, Communication, Check it Out, Friendships, and Cooperation. If played once or twice per week, the program can be completed during a semester or a full year.

Grades
Elementary (K-5)
Settings
Classroom Schoolwide Home Clinical Community
Program Outcomes
  • Improved SEL skills and attitudes
  • Improved Prosocial Behavior

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Al’s Pals

Al’s Pals, offered by Wingspan Works, provides a lesson-based approach to SEL. It includes programming for grades Pre-K-3 and demonstrates evidence of effectiveness in Pre-K.

Grades
Pre-K Elementary (K-5)
Settings
Classroom Schoolwide
Program Outcomes
  • Reduced Emotional Distress
  • Reduced Problem Behavior
  • Improved Prosocial Behavior

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American Indian Life Skills Development

A school-based, culturally sensitive, suicide-prevention program for American Indian adolescents, also known as Zuni Life Skills Development. Themes this program covers 1) building self-esteem, 2) identifying emotions and stress, 3) increasing communication and problem-solving skills, 4) recognizing and eliminating self-destructive behavior, 5) information on suicide, 6) suicide intervention training, and 7) setting personal and community goals. The curriculum also incorporates three domains of well-being that are specific to tribal groups: 1) helping one another, 2) group belonging, and 3) spiritual belief systems and practices. Lessons are interactive and incorporate situations and experiences relevant to AI/AN adolescent life such as friendship issues, rejection, divorce, separation, unemployment, and problems with health and the law.

Grades
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
Program Outcomes
  • Advocate for reducing stigma associated with emotional and mental and behavioral health
  • 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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BASE Education

BASE Education provides a lesson-based approach to SEL. It includes programming for K-12 and demonstrates evidence of effectiveness at grades 6-8. Additionally, BASE Education is facilitated largely online with guidance for bringings topics from lessons into classroom discussion. Translated materials for BASE Education are available in 53 languages, including Spanish, Hindi, Indonesian, Arabic, Chinese, Mandarin, Korean, French, Russian, Portuguese, Croatian, Czech, Danish, Dutch, Finnish, German, Greek, Italian, Japanese, Malay, Norwegian, Persian, Pashto, Polish, Somali, Swedish, Tagalog, Tamil, Thai, Turkish, Ukrainian, Vietnamese, Bengali, Amharic, Afrikaans, Albanian, Azerbaijani, Bosnian, Bulgarian, Estonian, Georgian, Hausa, Hebrew, Hungarian, Latvian, Romanian, Serbian, Slovak, Slovenian, Swahili, Urdu, Dari.

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

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Better Together Cubed

Better Together Cubed provides lesson-based and organizational strategies SEL approaches. Better Together Cubed offers programming for Kindergarten through grade 12. A CASEL-approved evaluation demonstrated evidence of effectiveness for grades 6-8. Better Together Cubed utilizes an online platform with teacher-facing and parent/caregiver-facing interfaces, each with audience-specific content and resources that relate to the student-facing lessons in the curriculum. Program materials are available in English and Spanish.

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

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Building Assets, Reducing Risk (BARR)

Building Assets, Reducing Risks (BARR), offered by the BARR Center, provides an organizational approach to SEL. It includes programming for K-12 and demonstrates evidence of effectiveness at grade 9. Translated materials for BARR are available in Spanish.

Building Assets, Reducing Risks (BARR) is a whole-school, strengths-based model that provides schools with a comprehensive approach to meet the academic, social, and emotional needs of all students. BARR uses block scheduling, in which a group of core subject teachers works as a team with a group of students, similar to a school-within-a-school. Team members get to know students as individuals. BARR’s SEL curriculum, “I-Time,” is a 30-minute weekly lesson facilitated by core subject teachers in which students learning more about themselves, discover their strengths, and build relationships between staff and students, and among students themselves. Members of the teacher teams meet regularly to discuss each student’s strengths and progress and identify obstacles to learning. Staff participate in risk-review meetings to design and implement comprehensive strategies to address the needs of the students who are most at risk. Parents are involved in BARR, participating in an orientation and a parent advisory council. Extensive professional development and coaching are provided to teachers, counselors, and administrators.

Settings
Classroom Schoolwide Home Clinical
Program Outcomes
  • Improved SEL skills and attitudes
  • Improved Academic Performance
  • Improved School Connectedness

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Captain McFinn

Captain McFinn: Explore Kindness provides a lesson-based approach to SEL. It includes programming for grades Pre-K-1 and demonstrates evidence of effectiveness at grades K-1.

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

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Caring School Commuity

Caring School Community, offered by Collaborative Classroom, provides a teaching practices approach to SEL. It includes programming for K-8 and demonstrates evidence of effectiveness at grades 3-6. Translated materials for Caring School Communities are available in Spanish.

Grades
Elementary (K-5) Middle (6-8)
Settings
Classroom Schoolwide Home Community
Program Outcomes
  • Improved SEL skills and attitudes
  • Improved Academic Performance
  • Reduced Problem Behavior
  • Improved School Climate
  • Improved School Connectedness
  • Improved Teaching Practices

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Changemakers: A Social Emotional Learning Curriculum

Changemakers: A Social Emotional Learning Curriculum, offered by The Momentous Institute, provides a lesson-based approach to SEL. It includes programming for grades Pre-K-5 and demonstrates evidence of effectiveness at grades K-2. Translated materials for Changemakers are available in Spanish.

Grades
Pre-K Elementary (K-5)
Settings
Classroom Schoolwide Home Community
Program Outcomes
  • Improved SEL skills and attitudes
  • Improved Prosocial Behavior

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