Christina Cipriano

The promotion of social and behavioral outcomes alongside academic development is a primary goal of education in the U.S. Yet, in the absence of a high-quality measure of teachers' SEL pedagogy, little is known about how SEL practices promote student development. The purpose of this project is to support educators in improving student social, behavioral, and academic success, as well as educators' own professional growth through the development and validation of the Social and Emotional Lear...

In this project, the researchers will conduct a living systematic review (LSR) of evidence to transform the availability of, and access to, contemporary research evidence for universal school-based (USB) social-emotional learning (SEL) programs in the United States. An LSR is a continuously cumulative evidence synthesis that allows for up-to-date findings that change over time with the corpus of studies available. There is an urgent need to restore public confidence in the evidence to addres...