Yale University

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...

Researchers in this project are developing and validating a classroom-based, bilingual (Spanish/English) adaptive assessment of children's readiness for knowledge and skills aligned to Early Learning and Development Standards. Due to varying experiences with how children learn a second language in and outside of the home, English learners often present a range of linguistic profiles. These children's academic achievement may be slowed as they are simultaneously developing language and skills...

The goal of this project is to create a developmentally appropriate intervention to promote emotional literacy for preschool-aged children. Emotional literacy refers to the knowledge and skills related to handling emotions that are related to children's school readiness and academic success. By teaching young children to recognize, understand, label, express, and regulate emotion, the intervention is expected to support the development of strong self-regulatory and social skills in preschool...

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...

In this project, researchers will test the initial efficacy of High School RULER (HS RULER), a systemic, whole-school approach to social and emotional learning (SEL) for adolescents in grades 9 to 12. HS RULER provides schools with concrete tools and lesson plans to integrate into existing programming to help create safe, supportive school climates, and provide classroom instruction to build students' emotion skills. HS RULER was developed as an extension of the well-established K-8 RULER ap...

Promoting School Readiness Through Emotional Intelligence: An Efficacy Trial of Preschool RULER