SEE Learning

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Designated
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

SEE Learning, offered by Emory University, provides a lesson-based and teaching practices approach to SEL and offers programming for grades Pre-K-12. A CASEL-approved evaluation demonstrates evidence of effective in grades 4-5. Key features of SEE Learning include cultivating attention skills, emphasizing compassion, and integrating trauma research for effective stress management. SEE Learning is translated into 23 languages.

Strategies supporting educational equity

SEE Learning features strategies for working with bias, youth action projects, and customizing for context. This includes strategies to increase the cultural relevance and authenticity of the curriculum for students and a capstone project that encourages students to apply their learning in real-world contexts, putting compassion into action.

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      • SEL lessons
      • Instructional practices
      • Relationship building
      • Positive classroom management
      • SEL generalization
      • Shared agreements
      • Student voice
      • Systemic support for SEL
      • Adult SEL
      • Group structures
      • Student Voice
      • Service-learning
      • 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 evaluation conducted in the 2022-23 academic year (published in 2024) supported the effectiveness of SEE Learning for public, private, and charter school students. This evaluation included 616 students in grades 4 and 5 in urban schools in the U.S. Southeast region (42.3% white, 18.4% Black/African American). The study found that students who participated in the program had significantly higher levels of perspective taking, empathic concern, student class supportiveness, and intrinsic prosocial motivation compared to students in the control group (outcomes reported 16 weeks after baseline) while controlling for outcome pretest, race, and grade.

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  • Evidence shown in grades
    4, 5
    School characteristics
      • Urban
      • Southeast
    Student characteristics
    • Black / African American
    • White
    Percentage Low Income
    • Not Specified
    Study design type
    • QE
    Greater than 350 students included in study design type
    • Yes
    Multiple school districts included at study design type
    • Yes
    • 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 SEE Learning support SEL implementation across multiple settings?

“SEE Learning is designed for integration across multiple educational settings. Our program creates meaningful school and community engagement through work in schools, aftercare, detention centers, camps, museum programming, and various contexts worldwide. Its adaptable modules support resilience, compassion, and systems thinking, promoting personal well-being and ethically grounded citizenship.”

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