Project Wayfinder Project Wayfinder is a culturally responsive, comprehensive mental health + SEL curriculum for middle and high school students. Originally developed through the d.School at Stanford, Project Wayfinder's curriculum is designed to help students feel a strong sense of belonging, and to cultivate a clear sense of purpose.
CASEL The Collaborative for Academic, Social, and Emotional Learning (CASEL) is the world’s leading organization advancing one of the most important fields in education in decades: the practice of promoting integrated academic, social, and emotional learning for all children in preschool through high school. Click here to learn more about the CASEL framework.
California Department of Education: Social-Emotional Learning This webpage offers the most up-to-date information about California's initiative for incorporating SEL into classrooms across the state, and California's participation in the Collaborating States' Initiative regarding SEL.
Sources of Strength Providing the highest quality evidence-based prevention for suicide, violence, bullying and substance abuse by training, supporting, and empowering both peer leaders and caring adults to impact their world through the power of connection, hope, help and strength.
Robert Wood Johnson Foundation A non-profit foundation devoted to issues of health and wellness, the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation has supported and published a wide variety of research on the benefits of social-emotional learning and, particularly, its connection to physical well-being.
Greater Good Based out of UC Berkeley's Greater Good Science Center, "Greater Good" is an online magazine that publishes articles about the many different approaches to studying, designing and evaluating the impact of SEL instruction in schools.
Aspen Institute The Aspen Institute's education research focuses on the whole child (considering academic, social and emotional aspects of a student's education), and sponsored the work of the National Commission on Social, Emotional and Academic Development.
Yale Center for Emotional Intelligence This organization applies its own research to the development of instructional practices that help students of all ages develop social and emotional skills that will allow them to become happy, satisfied individuals who contribute positively to society.