The Collaborative for Academic, Social, and Emotional Learning (CASEL) has released the 2013 CASEL Guide: Effective Social and Emotional Learning Programs – Preschool and Elementary School Edition. The Guide identifies 23 school-based programs that promote students’ self-control, relationship-building and problem-solving, among other competencies. Emotional Intelligence education has been linked to academic success and many other important social and emotional outcomes for students.
 
The Guide, released on 20 September 2012 in Washington is the first comprehensive national review of SEL programs since 2003, when CASEL published Safe and Sound: An Educational Leader’s Guide to Evidence-Based Social and Emotional Learning (SEL) Programs.

The following programs have been evaluated:

Preschool

• Al’s Pals www.wingspanworks.com
• HighScope Educational Approach for Preschool www.highscope.org
• I Can Problem Solve www.researchpress.com/product/item/4628
• The Incredible Years Series www.incredibleyears.com
• PATHS www.channing-bete.com/prevention-programs/paths/paths.html
• Peaceworks: Peacemaking Skills for Little Kids www.peaceeducation.org
• Tools of the Mind www.toolsofthemind.org

Elementary (Primary) School

• 4Rs www.morningsidecenter.org
• Caring School Community www.devstu.org
• Competent Kids, Caring Communities www.ackerman.org
• I Can Problem Solve www.researchpress.com/product/item/4628
• The Incredible Years Series www.incredibleyears.com
• Michigan Model for Health www.emc.cmich.edu/mm/default.htm
• MindUP www.thehawnfoundation.org/mindup
• Open Circle www.open-circle.org
• PATHS www.channing-bete.com/prevention-programs/paths/paths.html
• Positive Action www.positiveaction.net
• Raising Healthy Children www.sdrg.org
• Resolving Conflict Creatively Program www.morningsidecenter.org | www.esrnational.org
• Responsive Classroom www.responsiveclassroom.org
• RULER Approach www.therulerapproach.org
• Second Step www.secondstep.org
• Social Decision Making/Problem Solving Program www.ubhcisweb.org/sdm
• Steps to Respect www.cfchildren.org/steps-to-respect.aspx
• Too Good for Violence www.mendezfoundation.org/toogood
• Tribes Learning Communities www.tribes.com

The 2013 CASEL Guide can be downloaded on their website here.

Yvette Vignando, publisher of this website, conducts workshops for teachers on social and emotional learning in schools, and has been working in this area in Australia since 2000. Options include keynote presentations, full day workshops or short professional development seminars. Contact us to make an enquiry about the workshops.