What is RULER?
What is RULER?
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RULER is an evidence-based approach to social and emotional learning (SEL) developed at the Yale Center for Emotional Intelligence. RULER supports the entire school community in:
Understanding the value of emotions
Building the skills of emotional intelligence
Creating and maintaining a positive school climate
RULER is a CASEL Select Program
RULER is a CASEL Select Program
This designation indicates that RULER is an evidence-based, well-designed, and classroom-based program that systematically promotes students’ social and emotional competence, provides opportunities for practice, offers multiyear programming, and delivers high-quality training and other implementation supports
The Mood Meter
The Charter
The Charter allows everyone in a school community the chance to articulate how they want to feel at school, then work together to agree upon behaviors that support those feelings. The Charter focuses on enhancing a school’s emotional climate. There can be building and classroom charters.
The Charter is developed around two questions:
How would we like to feel in school?
How will we help each other and ourselves to experience these feelings?
The Meta Moment
“The Meta-Moment is a tool for building the space between stimulus and response—from when we experience an emotion to how we respond to that emotion so that we make better choices when we express and manage our emotions.”
Step 1: Sense
Step 2: Pause
Step 3: See your "best self"
Step 4: Strategize and act
The Blueprint
The RULER Blueprint encourages both children and adults to understand and consider one another's thoughts and feelings when resolving conflicts or differences and to identify constructive solutions. The Blueprint can also be a self-reflection tool.
How We Feel App
How We Feel App
A Way To Check-In and Connect With You and Your Child's Emotions
A Message From Mark Brackett, Ph.D.
Co-Creator, How We Feel App
"In my book, Permission To Feel, I describe the Mood Meter, a tool to build greater emotional awareness that was built based on decades of research on the circumplex model of emotion. My colleague's David Caruso and Peter Salovey first used the tool to help people recognize and label emotions in their book The Emotionally Intelligent Manager. In the early 2000s, David and I reworked the Mood Meter which became the signature tool of RULER, the evidence-based approach to social and emotional learning that has now been adopted by over 5000 schools across the globe.
Soon after, people started asking for a way to track their feelings and moods over time so they could gain greater insight about their emotional lives. That’s when Robin Stern and I worked in collaboration with hopeLab to create the first Mood Meter App, which was released in 2013.
Six years later, I had the pleasure to collaborate with Ben Silbermann, co-founder and president of Pinterest on a new version of the app. Together, Ben with volunteers from Pinterest, and I with a team at Yale, including Robin Stern and Zorana Pringle decided to build How We Feel. This app includes an updated Mood Meter (now with 144 words!) and was designed to help you gain greater insight around the causes and consequences of your feelings and learn research-based strategies to help you regulate your feelings to achieve greater well-being. Two other cool features include a mini course on emotions and a reporting feature to help you understand your emotional patterns over time. Thanks to generous donations, it’s available for free on iOS and Android. I hope you enjoy the app and share it with your friends, family, and colleagues."
Go to https://howwefeel.org/ to sign up and download the app.
To learn more, visit https://www.rulerapproach.org/
Reach out to your child's building principal for more information about what RULER looks like in their building!
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