Grades: K-6
Contact: spsweb@umdnj.edu
University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey
University Behavioral Healthcare
Liberty Plaza
335 George St.
New Brunswick, NJ 08901
Phone: 732/235-9280, Fax: 732/235-9277
This is a program that teaches all children to "think clearly" when under stress. The program is curriculum-based and occurs in three developmental phases. The readiness phase targets self- control, group participation, and social awareness skills. The instructional phase teaches an eight-step social decision-making strategy to students. The application phase teaches children to use these skills in real life interpersonal and academic situations. In pilot tests and published evaluations that have been emerging since 1979, teachers who were trained were found to improve in their ability to facilitate children's social decision-making and problem-solving. The children who received the program improved their social decision-making and problem-solving skills relative to control groups. Students also showed high levels of positive, pro-social behavior and decreased anti-social, self-destructive and social disordered behavior when compared to controls.
CASEL,
Strength
National Diffusion Network, 1996
US DOE Expert Panel,
Promising Program