Helpful Tools
- Devereux Student Strengths Assessment (DESSA)
- Character Growth Card
- "From Soft Skills to Hard Data: Measuring Youth Program Outcomes" a
(compendium of tools) - “Social and Emotional Learning: A Resource Guide and New Approach to Measurement in ExpandED Schools (A Resource Guide by TASC)”
Featured Organizations
- Austin Independent School District: Department of Social and Emotional Learning
- Citizen Schools
- University of Chicago: Consortium on Chicago School Research
- Character Lab
- Mindset Works
- New Teacher Center
- ExpandED Schools (formerly The After-School Corporation (TASC))
- Wings For Kids
Other Relevant Websites
- CASEL: Collaborative for Academic, Social, and Emotional Learning
- Character.org
- Center for Youth Program Quality
- Edutopia
Suggested reading
Social and emotional learning
- "Academic learning + social-emotional learning = national priority" (Weissberg and Cascarino)
- "The Missing Piece: A National Teacher Survey on How Social and Emotional Learning Can Empower Children and Transform Schools" (Civic Enterprises report for CASEL)
- "The Positive Impact of Social and Emotional Learning for Kindergarten to Eighth-Grade Students: Findings from Three Scientific Reviews" (CASEL)
- "Social and Emotional Learning in Schools: From Programs to Strategies" (Stephanie Jones and Suzanne Boufford)
Academic mindsets
- "Teaching Adolescents to Become Learners: The Role of Noncognitive Factors in Shaping School Performance" (CCSR)
- Mindset: The New Psychology of Success (Carol Dweck)
