CSEE works with school personnel and parents to accomplish two primary goals: (1) help children to develop the social-emotional skills, knowledge, and beliefs to make healthy decisions and thereby enhance their resiliency; and (2) develop coordinated systemic interventions that promote safe, caring, and responsive schools, homes, and communities to increase their capacity to support children. This site has grade level developmental SEL behavior expectations.”

Second Step
This website describes the Second Step prevention program in detail. Here is a brief description from the website. “The award-winning Second Step program teaches social and emotional skills for violence prevention. The program includes research-based, teacher-friendly curricula, training for educators, and parent-education components.”

Self-Science
This website describes the Self-Science curriculum in detail. Here is a brief description from the website. “Self-Science is a curriculum and teaching process for building emotional intelligence. A proven, developmental, comprehensive approach to building EQ and social skills, Self-Science is an effective approach to a positive, inclusive, and caring schools.”

The Consortium for Research on Social Emotional Intelligence in the Workplace
Daniel Goleman’s website. Although not directed at education specifically, worth visiting because of Goleman’s popular book Emotional Intelligence that is a review of literature and the backbone of much work that is being done.

The Consortium’s mission as stated on their website:
“The mission of the Consortium is to aid the advancement of research and practice related to emotional intelligence in organizations. The Consortium for Research on Emotional Intelligence in Organizations is currently made up of eight founding members and 17 additional members who are individuals with a strong record of accomplishment as applied researchers in the field. There also are six organizational and corporate members. The Consortium was founded in the spring of 1996 with the support of the Fetzer Institute. Its initial mandate was to study all that is known about emotional intelligence in the workplace.”

Collaborative for Academic, Social and Emotional Learning (CASEL)
CASEL’s vision and mission as stated on their website
“Our vision : We will have a world where schools, families, and communities work together to nurture the social and emotional development and academic performance of all children. All children will become knowledgeable and engaged life-long learners who are self-aware, socially aware, caring and connected to others, and responsible decision-makers. All children will achieve to their fullest potential, participating fully, productively, and constructively in a democratic society.

CASEL’s mission: CASEL will enhance children’s success in school and life by promoting coordinated, evidence-based social, emotional, and academic learning as an essential part of education from preschool though high school.”

Six Seconds
“Six Seconds EQ Network teaches emotional intelligence skills to create positive and productive relationships in schools, homes, and organizations around the world. At 6seconds.org you will find an extensive collection of EQ articles, emotional intelligence resources, and connections to the worldwide network: There are over 175 articles on this site, the first online EQ store, plus free calendar, ecards, a download library, and more!”

The George Lucas Educational Foundation
This is an excellent site for teachers with hundreds for examples of SEBL in action.“The George Lucas Educational Foundation (GLEF)
is a nonprofit operating foundation that documents and disseminates models of the most innovative practices in our nation’s K-12 schools. We serve this mission through the creation of media -- from films, books, and newsletters, to CD-ROMs and DVDs. Our Web site contains all of our multimedia content published since 1997.”

Steve Hein
“This site is owned by Steve Hein, author of EQ For Everybody. The site is completely independent and is based on my belief that one of the keys to improving society is improving the way we meet each other’s emotional needs. My goal is to keep this site one of the most comprehensive and practical sites on the web in the area of emotions, emotional needs and emotional intelligence.”

The Seven C’s of Thinking Clearly
This website describes “The Seven C’s of Thinking Clearly”, character based learning activities for developing emotional, social, and thinking skills.

Character Education Partnership
“The Character Education Partnership (CEP) is a nonpartisan coalition of organizations and individuals dedicated to developing moral character and civic virtue in our nation’s youth as one means of creating a more compassionate and responsible society. “ Includes the 11 Principles and many valuable resources and links.

Character Counts
This website includes the history of Character Counts through Josephson Institute and the Aspen Conference. “The purpose of the CHARACTER COUNTS! Coalition is to fortify the lives of America’s young people with consensus ethical values called the “Six Pillars of Character.” These values, which transcend divisions of race, creed, politics, gender and wealth, are: trustworthiness, respect, responsibility, fairness, caring and citizenship.”

The Jefferson Center for Character Education
“The Jefferson Center for Character Education is a national, non-profit, non-sectarian organization founded in 1963, which addresses the need to teach character education in both public and private schools. Our mission is to produce and promote programs to teach children in grades K through 12 concepts, skills and behavior of good character, common core values, personal and civic responsibility. We develop and provide curricula and training for teachers and parents. We have worked with schools in virtually every state and in most major cities. Our programs have been used in over 6,000 schools, approximately 60,000 classrooms reaching and impacting the lives of over 3,000,000 students. We focus on systematic teaching of common values that cut across ethnic, cultural, and religious lines. These values include honesty, respect, responsibility, integrity, courage, caring, justice and politeness.”

Community of Caring
“Community of Caring is made up of a network of over 1,000 schools committed to character education across the United States and Canada. Community of Caring schools are urban, suburban and rural, large and small, public and private. The Community of Caring national office staff provides staff development and technical support and services and resources to our network of fantastic schools to support their efforts and facilitate the dissemination of best practices.

The Iris Center
The IRIS Center for Faculty Enhancement was designed in response to a request from the U.S. Department of Education’s Office of Special Education Programs. This national effort, serving college faculty working in pre-service preparation programs, aims to ensure that general education teachers, school administrators, school nurses, and school counselors are well prepared to work with students who have disabilities and with their families. IRIS is the nation’s only faculty enhancement center established for this purpose. This site has extensive Classroom Management material.

Online Class: Social and Emotinal Learning
Use this form to join this online class. Social Emotional and Behavioral Learning (SEBL) has become an essential component of school. This course helps to understand how emotions affect learning and why SEL must be included in the curriculum. Defining emotions is difficult. However, it is necessary to have some understanding of what the term means. This class will provide a summary of how some experts define emotions and feelings. The process of learning- i.e how the information is taken in, transported to the brain, and processed in the brain is explained in easy-to-understand terms. How the emotions affect this process is discussed. The course then discusses the skills that must be included in any SEBL program and provides sample activities included in SEBL programs.

The course is divided into the following 5 topics:
1) Introduction to Social and Emotional Learning - This lesson introduces the topic of SEL. It explains how emotions affect learning and why including SEL in the curriculum is important for both the teacher and the student. 2) Understanding Emotions - Defining emotions is difficult. However it is necessary to have some understanding of what the term means in order to include it in SEL programs. This lesson presents a compilation of how some of the experts define emotions and feelings. 3) The Process of Learning - This lesson describes how the body takes in information, transports it to the brain and processes it there. It also describes how emotions affect this process. 4) Emotionally Intelligent Teaching - The role of the teacher is divided into three parts. To fulfill all these three parts, the teacher’s emotional health is important. How does the teacher ensure that he/she is in good emotional and mental state in the classroom? 5) Social and emotional learning and parenting - What it means and how to be an emotionally intelligent parent.

Rhode Island Technical Assistance Project
(RITAP) at Rhode Island College
The Rhode Island Technical Assistance Project (RITAP) is a statewide resource center for technical assistance and support, professional development and training, and policy analysis and interpretation. The resources of the RITAP are organized to assist state and local agencies, institutions of higher learning and families in the delivery of quality education and support services for all children including those with disabilities. RITAP is a collaborative effort of the Rhode Island Department of Education, Office of Special Needs and Rhode Island College. It provides practitioners, parents, and policymakers the knowledge and resources necessary to increase their capacity to provide comprehensive and coordinated services to all children including those with disabilities that result in improved educational performance and enhanced life-long outcomes. RITAP and the Rhode Island Department of Education have invested in a Social and Emotional Learning initiative seeking to promote the power of “Positive Behavioral Supports” through structures and practices that create “Safe, Healthy, Nurturing Schools” which enable all children to become “Fit For Achievement.” Information on professional development, workshops and conference events and resources materials is available. A downloadable pdf version of The Rhode Island Healthy Schools! Healthy Kids! Social & Emotional Learning Resource Handbook for Teachers can also be obtained.

The Center for the 4th and 5th Rs State University of New York College at Cortland
This Center “serves as a regional, state, and national resource in character education. A growing national movement, character education is essential to the task of building a moral society and developing schools which are civil and caring communities.

The Center disseminates articles on character education, sponsors an annual summer institute in character education, publishes a Fourth and Fifth Rs newsletter, and is building a network of “Fourth and Fifth Rs Schools” committed to teaching respect, responsibility and other core ethical values as the basis of good character. Character Education holds that there are universally important ethical values such as respect, responsibility, trustworthiness, fairness, caring, courage, self-control, and diligence. Character means living by these core values -- understanding them, caring about them, and acting upon them.”

Journal of Research in Character Education
“Sponsored by the Character Education Partnership, the Journal of Research in Character Education serves an audience of researchers, policy makers, teacher educators, and school practitioners concerned with the development of positive character in young people. The Character Education Partnership (CEP) defines character education as efforts to help young people develop good character, which includes knowing about, caring about, and acting upon core ethical values such as fairness, honesty, compassion, responsibility, and respect for self and others. The editors and the CEP view character education as a comprehensive and interdisciplinary term that reflects CEP’s Eleven Principles of Effective Character Education. These principles call upon schools to address character education in their overall school climate, academic curriculum, extra-curricular activities, inter-personal relationships, and school governance. These efforts are school-wide and should touch every student and all school personnel. They can include both comprehensive school reform and more specific school-based efforts such as service learning, life skills education, conflict resolution and violence prevention, social and emotional learning, education for the prevention of drug/alcohol abuse, sex education, education for civic virtue and social responsibility, and the development of moral reasoning. Of clear relevance also are multicultural education, social justice education, the ethics of environmental or technology education, religious education, and the like. The Journal will publish articles that report the results of research relevant to character education, as well as conceptual articles that provide theoretical, historical, and philosophical perspectives on the field of character education as it is broadly defined above. “ Editors: Andrew J. Milson, Baylor University and Marvin W. Berkowitz, University of Missouri-St. Louis.

Center for the Advancement of Ethics and
Character at Boston University (CAEC)
This Center describes its mission as: “To serve as a resource for administrators, teachers and parents as they seek to fulfill their responsibilities as moral educators. To foster more research initiatives and publications on moral and character education, not only by Boston University’s faculty and students but by scholars and researchers from around the world. To educate teachers who can provide students with an intellectual framework for discussing, understanding and practicing core virtues. To stimulate a national dialogue on issues of moral education, thus helping scholars to become more competent in the study of ethics and character in our nation’s schools.” The website has excellent links, publications, resources, and information about professional development institutes and training workshops. They also provide an extensive reading list.