Global Game Changers Student Empowerment Program

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SELect

Indicates that a program demonstrates evidence of effectiveness at improving student outcomes at the highest level, supports students’ social and emotional growth through all five competencies, and offers multi-year programming. For a full list of SELect student outcomes see SELect designation.

Program description

Global Game Changers Student Empowerment Program, offered by Global Game Changers Children’s Education Initiative, Inc., provides a lesson-based approach supplemented by SEL teaching practices. Programming is available for Pre-K-5. A CASEL-approved evaluation demonstrates evidence of effectiveness in grades K-5.

Strategies supporting educational equity

Global Game Changers features strategies for youth action projects. Through Superpower Projects, students in grades 2–5 select causes, investigate community needs and organizations, develop and implement service responses, collaborate with others, and examine the intended impact on recipients and the broader community.

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      • SEL lessons
      • Instructional practices
      • Relationship building
      • Positive classroom management
      • SEL generalization
      • Shared agreements
      • Systemic support for SEL
      • Adult SEL
      • Student supports
      • Service-learning
      • Community partnerships
      • Community volunteer activities
      • Family Intervention Component
      • Activities and Resources for Home
    • Onsite in-person training
    • Virtual training
    • Offsite training
    • Train the trainer model
    • Administrator support
    • Coaching
    • Technical assistance
    • Professional Learning Communities (PLCs)
    • Online resource library
    • Self-report tools for monitoring implementation
    • Observational tools
    • Tools for measuring student success

Evidence of effectiveness

Results from a quasi-experimental study conducted in the 2024-2025 academic year (unpublished report written in 2026) supported the effectiveness of Global Game Changers Student Empowerment Program for public school students. This evaluation included 367 students in K-5th grade from one rural school in the U.S. Southeast region (94.7% White; 70.1% free or reduced-price lunch (FRPL)). The study found that students who participated in the program had significantly higher post-intervention leadership, emotional, and social skills scores relative to students in the comparison group while controlling for baseline pretest, gender, race, IEP, FRPL, age, absenteeism proportion.

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  • Evidence shown in grades
    K, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5
    School characteristics
      • Rural
      • Southeast
    Student characteristics
    • White
    Percentage Low Income
    • Eligible for FRPL: 70%
    Study design type
    • QE
    Greater than 350 students included in study design type
    • Yes
    Multiple school districts included at study design type
    • No
    • Improved academic performance
    • Reduced emotional distress
    • Improved identity development and agency
    • Reduced problem behaviors
    • Improved school climate
    • Improved school connectedness
    • Improved social behaviors
    • Improved teaching practices
    • Improved other SEL skills and attitudes

How does Global Game Changers Student Empowerment Program support SEL implementation across multiple settings?

“Across settings, GGC helps children move from discovering their strengths and cultivating their social-emotional skills to using them in practice. Classroom lessons build confidence and leadership; assemblies and PD extend a strengths-based culture schoolwide; family videos and activity books bring learning home; and community partnerships turn learning into meaningful action through service.”

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