RULER Tools
The Charter
The Charter builds and sustains positive emotional climates by creating agreed-upon norms for how people want to feel, as well as how they can help each other to experience those feelings.
The sample charter you see here is the product of students discussing how they want to feel at school, collaborating on how they can work together to create an environment conducive to these feelings, and committing to themselves and one another to do their best in supporting this goal.
Learn more about the process in this guide to building a charter.
Mood Meter
The Mood Meter enhances self and social awareness. This tool supports the development of a nuanced emotion vocabulary and a range of strategies for regulating emotion.
Overview of Mood Meter
Mood-Meter-Strategies.pdfRecognize how you feel and plot yourself on this graph according to your energy and pleasantness levels.
Mood_Meter_Advanced.pdfConnect specific emotion vocabulary to your feelings to help you better understand them.
Mood Meter with Vocabulary (website)The Meta-Moment
The Meta-Moment teaches us how to extend the time between experiencing strong emotions and our reaction. Instead of being reactive, this tool helps us pause, think of our best selves, and choose helpful ways to respond.
How to Practice the Meta-Moment
The Meta-Moment Process.pdfThe Blueprint
The Blueprint provides a series of questions as a guide for reflecting on our thoughts and emotions before, during, and after a conflict. By practicing perspective-taking and empathy, we can have a compassionate conversation and work to restore the relationship.
Learn more about the process in this blueprint conference guide.
Blueprint Conference Guide
Blueprint Questions for Past and Future Conflicts
English (click embedded images)
Blueprint for Negative Self-Talk (sample handout from student lessons)
BlueprintQuestions_PastConflicts.pdfBlueprintQuestions_FutureConflicts.pdf