2021 Sponsors
We are grateful to the many foundations and organizations that support this effort to advance the SEL movement and improve outcomes for all children.
Presenter Sponsors
Harmony SEL is a social and emotional learning (SEL) program for pre-K-6 grade students designed to foster communication, connection, and community both in and outside the classroom. An affiliate program of the National University System, Harmony provides educators, students, and families with no-cost SEL support to help children grow up to be compassionate and caring adults. As a CASELect program, Harmony promotes inclusive relationships and grows with the evolving needs of today’s learning communities. Learn more about the complete online curriculum and teaching tools at harmonysel.org.
Advocate Sponsors
Leader in Me is a CASEL SELect program, and a comprehensive evidence-based school improvement model. Leader in Me grows personal leadership in students, educators, and families, and equips them with the life skills and resilience needed to thrive, adapt, and contribute in a dynamic world. The model is built on two world-renowned leadership frameworks in the 7 Habits of Highly Effective People and the 4 Disciplines of Execution.
Supporter Sponsors
QuaverEd, a world leader in online curriculum development, is a Nashville-based provider of innovative education resources, including Social Emotional Learning, General Music, Full-Day Pre-K, Health, and more! Quaver’s comprehensive curricula uses the power of interactivity, humor, and music to engage today’s students. Professional Development and College programs are also available.
Abre makes it easy to deliver lessons focused on mental wellness to students, teachers, families, and seamlessly connects K-12 students to community partners that support mental health.
Edmentum’s powerful learning solutions blend technology with individual teaching approaches. We are committed to making it easier for educators to individualize learning for every student through simple technology, actionable data, quality content, and a passion for customer success.
Illuminate Education provides a streamlined solution to accelerate learning with each and every student. By combining comprehensive assessment, MTSS management, and real-time dashboards, the Illuminate Solution equips educators to prevent learning loss and make expedited, data-informed decisions around whole child needs—whether in a remote, onsite, or blended learning environment.
Illuminate’s comprehensive assessment tools combine standards-based assessment creation and administration with screening and progress monitoring for academics and social-emotional behavior, bringing clarity to student learning, needs, and progress. MTSS management and collaboration tools connect assessment to the rest of the whole child data picture with interactive data visualizations, intervention tracking, and effectiveness reporting. With real-time dashboards, leaders can monitor the impact of district-wide efforts and take action to adjust programming and resources throughout the year. The Illuminate Solution takes the guesswork out of data so educators can focus on what’s most important: students.
Moshi is an evidence-backed and award-winning sleep and mindfulness app for children. Moshi for Schools is free for educators and includes all of the calming Moshi content and accompanying SEL lessons for PreK – 5. Moshi teaches strategies such as breathing, emotion awareness and regulation, and visualization.
Reading Plus is an adaptive literacy solution that improves silent reading fluency, comprehension, vocabulary, and motivation. Reading Plus supports educators by providing differentiated literacy instruction for diverse learners, including multilingual learners, students who qualify for special education services, and RTI/MTSS Tiers 1, 2, and 3, as well as advanced readers. Based on years of research and more than a decade of proven classroom success, Reading Plus produces 2.5 years of growth in reading in just 60 hours of personalized instruction.
Studies Weekly is a standards-based, engaging core curriculum focused on student well-being.
Contributor Sponsors
The Mendez Foundation’s evidence-based Too Good curricula equip children and adolescents to build healthy friendships, resolve conflict peacefully, and manage and respond to bully situations. Developmentally appropriate and interactive social activities and games create an experiential learning environment that reinforces the learning through role-play, skits, games, and other cooperative learning strategies.
As with academic learning, evaluating student progress in building social emotional (SE) skills promotes a culture of growth and learning for everyone in your education ecosystem. Mosaic™ by ACT® Social Emotional Learning offers a complete evidence-based PreK-12 assessment, screener, curriculum (with ELL supports), and professional development solution that is fully aligned and recognized by CASEL. Mosaic by ACT SEL teaches and integrates evidence based SEL concepts, focusing on growth and improvement, and then assesses the outcomes. The blended delivery system meets all situations – in person, entirely virtual, or a combination of both. Launched in 2022 were the visual dashboards at the student, classroom, school, and district data level as well as the Mosaic Readiness Index. Visit us at www.act.org/sel to learn more.
xSEL Labs supports teacher success and student social-emotional development by providing quick, reliable, and easy-to-use SEL assessments. xSEL Labs’ core assessment, SELweb, is a web-based system designed to directly assess critical social-emotional skills associated with success in school and life and the targets of evidence-based social-emotional learning programs.
PATHS Program LLC provides SEL curricula for every age. Led Anna-Lisa Mackey, M.Ed., who is an educator with more than 20 years of experience in SEL training, student behavior, and academic performance. Anna-Lisa is the creator of Emozi® curriculum, co-author of The Social Emotional Classroom: A New Way to Nurture Students and Understand the Brain (Wiley, 2022), and host of the Social Emotional Us podcast.
PATHS Program LLC publishes and distributes curricula for:
- Preschool-Grade 5: The award-winning, researched-based PATHS® curriculum used in classrooms around the world.
- Middle and High School: The Emozi® program, a researched-informed, culturally relevant, and flexible SEL curriculum.
Common Sense Education supports K–12 schools with everything educators need to empower the next generation of digital citizens. Our innovative, award-winning Digital Citizenship Curriculum prepares students with lifelong habits and skills, supports teachers with training and recognition, and engages families and communities with helpful tips and tools. Schools everywhere rely on our free curriculum, expert advice, and edtech ratings to help kids thrive. Our vision: Students thriving as learners, leaders, and citizens in the digital age.
ei Pulse is a Wellbeing platform that provides actionable insights on individual student wellbeing and overall school culture through short, 60 second student check ins. While ei Pulse is easy to use, its impact on your school and individual students is immeasurable. ei Pulse makes it safe and easy for students to ask for help. Teachers get a clearer understanding of how individual students are feeling so they know who needs their help most. ei Pulse provides administrators with deep actionable insight into wellbeing to inform individual or whole-school interventions and improve the whole school experience.
A leading provider of SEL and Leadership evidence-based curriculum, Global Game Changers Student Empowerment Program uses service-learning as a vehicle to build students core competencies and promote deeper learning experiences. Students are transformed as they discover their unique superpower to Ignite Good!® and make the world a better place using our proprietary framework: MY TALENT + MY HEART = MY SUPERPOWER!® GGC’s interactive online portal provides curriculum, tools, and digital resources, designed to be easily and effectively facilitated in Pre-K-5th grade virtual or in-person classrooms. FREE to educators and parents nationwide, GGC is privately funded by the Novak Family Foundation.
Our mission is what drives us to do everything possible to shift mindsets from what’s wrong to what’s strong. We do that by creating groundbreaking SEL innovations, by making our resources strength-based, by using human-centered design thinking principles, by utilizing principles grounded in the field of positive psychology, and by making a positive impact across communities where we live and work. Our unique program includes 6-Minute SEL lessons, SELTV™ (our commercial-free SEL video streaming service), SEL Video Lesson of the Week, Safe Circles and Circle Talk (SEL + Restorative Practices) and much more.
Ntiva is a leading managed IT services company that provides businesses across the U.S. with advanced technology expertise and support, including managed IT services, strategic consulting, cloud services, cyber-security and telecom solutions. Their team of world-class talent genuinely cares about the relationships they build and understands that response and precision are fundamental keys to a successful partnership. Ntiva’s ultimate objective is to help clients leverage their technology investments to improve business performance.
Rhithm is a K12 student and staff wellness check-in tool. The platform selects an ideal 1-3 minute SEL activity/intervention video to regulate well-being based on user given data from a simple emoji assessment. This data is available on dashboards to reflect and connect with as desired at the campus, district/network and state levels.
Tools of the Mind provides a teaching practices approach to SEL. It includes programming for grades preK-K and demonstrates evidence of effectiveness in preK-k. Translated materials for Tools of the Mind are available in Spanish.
SEL Friend
For more than three decades, Boys Town has partnered with educators to transform school culture; creating safer, more effective learning environments. The Boys Town Education Model® puts research-proven methods to work in a variety of educational settings. Providing classroom teachers, administrators, and support staff the tools to implement a comprehensive multi-tiered system approach to creating and encouraging respectful staff-student relationships by changing the way schools address student behavior. Empowering educators with tools and strategies to ensure students are safe and successful behaviorally and academically. Educators from every corner of the country use The Boys Town Education Model® to meet the social, behavioral and emotional needs of their students.
Based on over 30 years of research, practice, and classroom experience, Housman Institute’s educator training programs, classroom tools, and experiences lay the foundation of Emotional Intelligence from birth to age 8. At the heart of all we do is our groundbreaking begin to ECSEL (Emotional Cognitive and Social Early Learning) approach, informed by neuroscience and child development, harnessing the knowledge that children are born ready to learn with 90% of their brain development occurring before kindergarten. Through a prevention and intervention model we reach children, and their key socializers, in these critical years.
The Robert R. McCormick Foundation works with communities in Chicagoland and across Illinois to develop educated, informed, and engaged citizens. Our aim is to assist communities, to strengthen democracy, and help ensure that all families and children have the opportunities they need to flourish.
Sami’s Circuit On Demand is the K-6 program that brings Social-Emotional Learning to life! Through a series of weekly, 20-minute videos and quarterly virtual livestreaming Family Nights that increase parent involvement, Sami shows students how to use their “Circuit of Powers” in any situation – increasing resiliency, strengthening self-management, building relationships, and setting achievable goals. Sami’s relatable childhood story creates a unique, personal connection with students and parents through these videos and live streaming family events. There are no binders to keep track of, no big trainings to take, no prep time – all this program needs is your passion!