Social and Emotional Learning

Social and Emotional Learning Articles and Books

Bear, G.G., Whitcomb, S.A., Elias, M.J., & Blank, J. (2015). SEL and schoolwide positive behavioral interventions and supports. In (eds.) J.A. Durlak, C.E. Domitrovich, R.P. Weissberg, & T.P. Gullotta. Handbook of Social and Emotional Learning: Research and Practice. New York, NY: Guilford Press.


Bridgeland, J., Bruce, M., & Hariharan, A. (2013). The missing piece: A national survey on how social and emotional learning can empower children and transform schools. Washington, DC: Civic Enterprises. Retrieved from https://files.eric.ed.gov/fulltext/ED558068.pdf


Collaborative for Academic, Social, and Emotional Learning. (2005). Safe and sound: An educational leader’s guide to evidence-based social and emotional learning programs. Chicago, IL Collaborative for Academic, Social, and Emotional Learning. Retrieved from https://casel.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/06/safe-and-sound.pdf


Collaborative for Academic, Social, and Emotional Learning (2010). Social and Emotional Learning and Positive Behavioral Interventions and Supports. Chicago, IL: Collaborative for Academic, Social, and Emotional Learning. Retrieved from http://www.casel.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/08/PDF-10-social-and-emotional-learning-and-positive-behavioral-interventions-and-supports.pdf


Collaborative for Academic, Social, and Emotional Learning. (2014). What is SEL? Skills and competencies. Chicago, IL: Author. Retrieved from http://www.casel.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/08/PDF-10-social-and-emotional-learning-and-positive-behavioral-interventions-and-supports.pdf


Collaborative for Academic, Social, and Emotional Learning (CASEL). (2017). Key insights from the collaborating districts initiative. Chicago, Illinois: CASEL. Retrieved from https://www.casel.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/03/Final-CDI-Report-3-17-17.pdf


Denham, S. A., & Brown, C. (2010). "Plays nice with others": Social-emotional learning and academic success. Early Education and Development, 21(5), 651-680. doi: 10.1080/10409289.2010.497450.


Devaney, E., O'Brien, M.U., Resnik, H., Keister, S., & Weissberg, R.P. (2006). Sustainable schoolwide social and emotional learning: Implementation guide and toolkit. Chicago, IL: Collaborative for Academic, Social, and Emotional Learning.


Durlak, J. A., Domitrovich, C. E., Weissberg, R. P., & T.P. Gullotta, T. P. (2015). Handbook of Social and Emotional Learning: Research and Practice. New York, NY: Guilford Press.


Durlak, J. A., & DuPre, E. P. (2008). Implementation matters: A review of research on the influence of implementation on program outcomes and the factors affecting implementation. American Journal of Community Psychology, 41(3-4), 327-350. doi 10.1007/s10464-008-9165-0


Durlak, J.A., Dymnicki, A.B., Taylor, R.D., Weissberg, R.P., & Schellinger, K.B. (2011). The impact of enhancing students' social and emotional learning: A meta-analysis of school-based universal interventions. Child Development, 82, 405–432. doi:10.1111/j.1467-8624.2010.01564.x.


Durlak, J.A., & Wells, A.M. (1997). Primary prevention mental health programs for children and adolescents: A meta-analytic review. American Journal of Community Psychology, 25, 115–152. doi: 10.1023/A:1024654026646


Durlak, J. A., Weissberg, R. P., Dymnicki, A. B., Taylor, R. D. & Schellinger, K. B. (2011). The Impact of Enhancing Students' Social and Emotional Learning: A Meta-Analysis of School-Based Universal Interventions. Child Development, 82: 405–432. doi: 10.1111/j.1467-8624.2010.01564.x.


Elias, M. J., Zins, J.E., Weissberg, R.P., Frey, K.S., Greenberg, M.T., Haynes, N.M., Kessler, R., Schwab-Stone, M.E., & Shriver, T.P. (1997). Promoting social and emotional learning: Guidelines for educators. ASCD.


Fredericks, L., Weissberg, R.P., Resnik, H., Patrikakou, E., & O'Brien, M.U. (2005) Schools, families, and social and emotional learning: Ideas and tools for working with parents and families. Chicago and Philadelphia: Collaborative for Academic, Social, and Emotional Learning and Mid-Atlantic Regional Educational Laboratory for Student Success. Retrieved from https://casel.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/06/schools-families-and-social-and-emotional-learning.pdf


Garner, P. W., Duhita, M., Brown, E. L., & Vesely, Colleen K. (2014). Promoting Desirable Outcomes Among Culturally and Ethnically Diverse Children in Social Emotional Learning Programs: a Multilevel Heuristic Model. Educational Psychology Review, 26(1), 165-189. doi: 10.1007/s10648-014-9253-7.


Gayl, C. L. (2017). How state planning for the every student succeeds act (ESSA) can promote student academic, social, and emotional learning: An examination of five key strategies. A Brief from the Collaborative for Academic, Social, and Emotional Learning (CASEL). Retrieved from http://www.casel.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/04/ESSA-and-SEL-Five-Strategies-April-2017-041717.pdf


Greenberg, M.T., Weissberg, R.P., O'Brien, M.U., Zins, J.E., Fredericks, L., Resnick, H., et al. (2003). Enhancing school-based prevention and youth development through coordinated social, emotional, and academic learning. American Psychologist, 58, 466–474. doi:10.1037/0003-066X.58.6-7.466


Hoglund, W. L., Klingle, K. E., & Hosan, N. E. (2015). Classroom risks and resources: Teacher burnout, classroom quality and children's adjustment in high needs elementary schools. Journal of School Psychology, 53(5), 337-357. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jsp.2015.06.002


Illinois Children's Mental Health Partnership, University of Illinois Extension, Collaborative for Academic, Social, and Emotional Learning (CASEL), & Illinois State Board of Education. (2009). Raising caring, confident, capable children: What parents and caregivers need to know about social and emotional learning (SEL) and why it deserves your support in school and at home. Chicago, Springfield, IL: Authors. Retrieved from https://casel.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/08/PDF-22-raising-caring-confident-capable-children.pdf


Jennings, P. A., Frank, J. L., Snowberg, K. E., Coccia, M. A., & Greenberg, M. T. (2013). Improving classroom learning environments by cultivating awareness and resilience in education. School Psychology Quarterly, 28(4), 374. http://dx.doi.org/10.1037/spq0000035


Jennings, P. A., & Greenberg, M. T. (2009). The prosocial classroom: Teacher social and emotional competence in relation to student and classroom outcomes. Review of Educational Research, 79(1), 491-525. https://doi.org/10.3102/0034654308325693


Jones, S.M., Bouffard, S.M., & Weissbourd, R. (2013). Educators’ social and emotional skills vital to learning. Phi Delta Kappan, 94, 62-65. https://doi.org/10.1177/003172171309400815


Jones, S., Brush, K., Bailey, R., Brion-Meisels, G., McIntyre, J., Kahn, J. et al. (2017). Navigating social and emotional learning from the inside out: Looking inside and across 25 leading SEL programs: A practical resource for schools and OST Providers (Elementary school focus). Harvard Graduate School of Education. Retrieved from http://www.wallacefoundation.org/knowledge-center/Documents/Navigating-Social-and-Emotional-Learning-from-the-Inside-Out.pdf


McKevitt, B. C. (2012). School psychologists' knowledge and use of evidence-based, social-emotional learning interventions. Contemporary School Psychology 16, 33-45. https://doi.org/10.1007/BF03340974


Merrell, K. W., & Gueldner, B. A. (2010). Social and emotional learning in the classroom: Promoting mental health and academic success. New York, NY: Guilford Press.


Merritt, E.G., Wanless, S. B., Rimm-Kaufman, S. E., Cameron, C., & Peugh, J.L. (2012). The contribution of teachers’ emotional support to children’s social behaviors and self-regulatory skills in first grade. School Psychology Review, 41, 141-159. http://naspjournals.org/loi/spsr?code=naps-site


Meyers, D. C., Gil, L., Cross, R., Keister, S., Domitrovich, C. E., & Weissberg, R. P. (2015). CASEL guide for schoolwide social and emotional learning. Chicago, IL: CASEL.


National Research Council. (2012). Education for life and work: Developing transferable knowledge and skills in the 21st century (Committee on Defining Deeper Learning and 21st Century Skills, J. W. Pellegrino & M. L. Hilton, Editors, Board on Testing and Assessment and Board on Science Education, Division of Behavioral and Social Sciences and Education). Washington, DC: National Academies Press.


Oberle, E., Domitrovich, C. E., Meyers, D. C., & Weissberg, R. P. (2016). Establishing systemic social and emotional learning approaches in schools: a framework for schoolwide implementation, Cambridge Journal of Education, 46(3), 277-297, doi:10.1080/0305764X.2015.1125450


Payton, J., Weissberg, R.P., Durlak, J.A., Dymnicki, A.B., Taylor, R.D., Schellinger, K.B., & Pachan, M. (2008). The positive impact of social and emotional learning for kindergarten to eighth-grade students: Findings from three scientific reviews (Technical report). Chicago, IL: Collaborative for Academic, Social, and Emotional Learning. Retrieved from http://files.eric.ed.gov/fulltext/ED505370.pdf


Pellegrino, J.W., & Hilton, M.L. (Eds.). (2013). Education for life and work: Developing transferable knowledge and skills in the 21st century. Washington, DC: National Academies Press.


Prilleltensky, I., Neff, M., & Bessell, A. (2016). Teacher stress: What it is, why it's important, how it can be alleviated. Theory into Practice, 1-14. https://doi.org/10.1080/00405841.2016.1148986


Roeser, R.W., Skinner, E., Beers, J., & Jennings, P.A. (2012). Mindfulness training and teachers’ professional development: An emerging area of research and practice. Child Development Perspectives, 6(2), 167-173. doi: 10.1111/j.1750-8606.2012.00238.x


Schonfeld, D. J., Adams, R. E., Fredstrom, B. K., Weissberg, R. P., Gilman, R., Voyce, C., ... & Speese-Linehan, D. (2014). Cluster-randomized trial demonstrating impact on academic achievement of elementary social-emotional learning. School Psychology Quarterly, 30(3), 406-420. http://dx.doi.org/10.1037/spq0000099


Sklad, M., Diekstra, R., De Ritter, M., Ben, J., & Gravesteijn, C. (2012). Effectiveness of school‐based universal social, emotional, and behavioral programs: Do they enhance students' development in the area of skill, behavior, and adjustment? Psychology in the Schools, 49(9), 892–909. doi:10.1002/pits.21641


Smith, B. H., & Low, S. (2013). The role of social-emotional learning in bullying prevention efforts. Theory Into Practice, 52, 280-287. doi: 10.1080/00405841.2013.829731


Sprague, J.R., & Whitcomb, S.A., & Bear, G.G.,  (2017). Promoting school-wide systems and mechanisms for change. In M. Mayer, & S. Jimerson (Eds.), School Safety and Violence Prevention: Science, Practice, and Policy Driving Change. Washington, DC: APA.


Taylor, R. D., Durlak, J. A., Oberle, E., & Weissberg, R. P. (2017). Promoting positive youth development through school-based social and emotional learning interventions: A meta-analysis of follow-up effects. Child Development, 88(4), 1156-1171. doi: 10.1111/cdev.12864


Weissberg, R. P. & Cascarino, J (2013). Academic learning + social-emotional learning = national priority. Phi Delta Kappan, 95(2): 8-13. Retrieved from https://casel.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/06/weissberg-cascarino-phi-delta-kappan.pdf


Weissberg, R. P., Wang, M. C., & Walberg. H. J. (Eds.). (2004). Building academic success on social and emotional learning: What does the research say? New York, NY: Teachers College Press.



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