SECD Lab Initiatives
The SECD lab has multiple ongoing initiatives to promote positive development in schools. These projects range from school-wide universal interventions, to SECD integration into academic classes, to teacher and administrator trainings.
Active Initiatives
Academy for Social-Emotional Learning (SEL) in Schools
The Academy for SEL in Schools is a continuing education certificate program for school educators, staff, and administrators to develop the skills to foster social-emotional learning, character development, and positive school culture.
STAT
Students Taking Action Together (STAT) is a set of instructional strategies that can be integrated into existing social studies/history/civics/current events curricula, designed to help students get along better and improve civic engagement, civility, and respectful discourse, through building key SEL competencies
SEL4US
The Social Emotional Learning Alliance for The United States (SEL4US) works at the state and community levels to raise awareness of the benefits of SEL, promote and support effective SEL implementation, and advance policies and funding to sustain and spread the use of high-quality SEL.
Digital Communications and Social Media
The SECD Lab’s digital communications and social media project aims to highlight current work in our lab and the education, community psychology, and social-emotional and character development fields.
Past Initiatives
Youth Nation
A space created for youth to exercise political expression and hear from other youth around the country. Learn how to get involved in your political environment.
MOSAIC
MOSAIC (Mastering Our Skills and Inspiring Character), a collaboration between the Rutgers Social-Emotional and Character Development Lab and the Jersey City Public Schools, is a middle school curriculum structure for advisories or other classes to build students’ SEL skills and character.