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                             Best Practices to 
Promote Social-Emotional and Character Development andSafe and Drug-Free Schools




Best Practices consist of approaches/tools, programs, and resources, that have been reviewed as effective ways to promote Social, Emotional, and Character Development (SECD) and to support Alcohol, Tobacco, and Other Drug (ATOD) and violence prevention activities in schools and communities. These best practices have been consolidated by the Rutgers Center for Social and Character Development (www.rucharacter.org), The Rutgers Developing Safe and Civil Schools (DSACS ) Project (www.teachsecd.com), and the Rutgers Safe and Drug-Free Schools and Communities (SDFSC) Project (http://sdfsc.rutgers.edu) at the Center for Applied Psychology at Rutgers.


Each Best Practice is listed with a description, the source where the practice has been evaluated or reviewed, and the direct web link to the practice.




Approaches/Tools


Best Practice
Description
Source
Web Link
Character Education/Citizenship
best practice awards winning New
Jersey Schools
Lesson plans and project activities
from New Jersey schools recognized by the New Jersey Department of Education
New Jersey Department of
Education
ctices/
National Schools of Character
Program: Promising Practices
Lesson plans and project activities
from National Schools of Character winners and from Promising Practices winners. New Jersey school Promising
Practice award winners can also be found at http://www.rucharacter.org/BestPr actices/
Character Education Partnership
(CEP)
ces
Character Education
English-Language Arts Project
The Character Education English-
Language Arts Project is a set of sample classroom lesson plans that infuse character education and social-emotional learning into the English-Language Arts
curriculum.
Character Education and Civic
Engagement Technical Assistance
Center
ons/index.asp
Reporting the Results of Your
Study: A User-Friendly Guide for Evaluators of Educational Programs and Practices
To provide clear, practical advice
on reporting the results of an evaluation of an educational program or practice(“intervention”).
Character Education and Civic
Engagement Technical Assistance
Center




Best Practice
Description
Source
Web Link
Identifying and Implementing
Educational Practices Supported by Rigorous Evidence:
A User Friendly Guide
This Guide seeks to provide
educational practitioners with user-friendly tools to distinguish practices supported by rigorous evidence from those that are not.
Character Education and Civic
Engagement Technical Assistance
Center
Helping Your Child Become a
Responsible Citizen
(Available in both English and
Spanish versions)
This booklet provides information
about the values and skills that make
up character and good citizenship and what you can do to help your child develop strong character.
Character Education and Civic
Engagement Technical Assistance
Center
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SEL School
Self-Assessment Guide
The intent of this guide is to
encourage you to think
about what you are doing with respect to SEL, and to help you see how broad the scope of these activities is.
Collaborative for Academic Social
Emotional Learning (CASEL)
und.php
SECD Coordinators Tool Kit
Contains a series of worksheets
and guidelines for school personnel  and Leadership Teams attempting to coordinate SECD efforts within their schools
Developing Safe and Civil Schools
Project, Collaborative for Academic, Social and Emotional Learning




Programs


Best Practice
Description
Source
Web Link
Searchable Database of the
Colorado Blueprints Matrix of
Effective Programs
This consolidated list (~300
programs) of evidence-based practices includes all programs that may be supported with Title IV-A funds in NJ, without the use of a waiver.  A searchable database of these programs is available on the Rutgers SDFSC Project website.
Blueprints for Violence Prevention
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Programs to Help Youth
The Program Tool provides you
with information about program designs that successfully deal with at-risk behaviors. You can
replicate these strategies to meet your local needs. The Program Tool database contains risk factors, protective factors, and
programs that have been evaluated and found to work.
FindYouthInfo.gov
rogramtool.cfm
What Works Clearinghouse
The WWC identified programs
that deliberately attempt to develop students' character by teaching core values and that had most if not all of their lesson plans or prescribed activities directly related to instilling those values.
Character Education and Civic
Engagement Technical Assistance
Center
haracter%5Feducation/topic/




Best Practice
Description
Source
Web Link
Safe and Sound
An Educational Leaders Guide to Evidence-Based Social and Emotional Learning (SEL) Programs
Safe and Sound: An Educational
Leader’s Guide to Evidence-Based Social and Emotional Learning (SEL) Programs is an informative new tool for helping educators achieve this vision for schools. Based on a detailed, comprehensive, and timely
analysis of programs that teach core social and emotional competencies, the guide was funded by the U.S. Department of Educations Institute of Education Sciences (IES) and Office of Safe and Drug-Free Schools (OSDFS).
Collaborative for Academic Social
Emotional Learning (CASEL)
und.php
National Registry of Evidence-
based Programs and Practices
NREPP is a searchable database of
interventions for the prevention and treatment of mental and substance use disorders.
Substance Abuse and Mental
Health Services Association
(SAMHSA)
_programs/campaigns_alpha.aspx
OJJDP Model Programs Guide
The OJJDP Model Programs
Guide is a user-friendly, online portal to scientifically tested and proven programs that address a range of issues across the juvenile justice spectrum
Office of Juvenile Justice and
Delinquency Prevention, U.S. Department of Justice
s/index.html
Exemplary & Promising
Safe, Disciplined and
Drug-Free Schools
2001 programs
This publication provides
descriptions of the 9 exemplary and 33 promising programs selected by the Expert
Panel in 2001.
United States Department of
Education
emplary01/exemplary01.pdf




Best Practice
Description
Source
Web Link
Data Base of Effective Social-
Emotional Learning Programs
84 programs are evaluated using a
Consumer Reports format, including detailed information about populations and impact on behavior and academics
Collaborative for Academic,
Social, and Emotional Learning
Program Provider Directory
Information on more than 125
programs, publishers, presenters, consultants and evaluation resources are listed (including self- reported evaluations) in a common format, but without quality review.
Center for Social and Character
Development @ Rutgers
University
oviders.php




Resources


Best Practice
Description
Source
Web Link
Mobilizing for Evidence-
Based Character
Education
This evaluation guide is
presented as a resource primarily for project directors who are federal grantees embarking on an evaluation of a character education intervention, although it contains
useful information that can benefit other education administrators who also are providing these interventions. It offers strategies for working with external evaluators and key stakeholders in planning and implementing a scientifically sound evaluation.
Character Education and
Civic Engagement Technical Assistance Center




Best Practice
Description
Source
Web Link
The Positive Impact of
SEL for K-8th Grade
Students
The purpose of this report
is to summarize the primary findings and implications of
three large-scale reviews of research evaluating the impact of SEL programs for school
children in kindergarten through eighth grade.
Collaborative for
Academic Social Emotional Learning (CASEL)
Social and Emotional
Learning (SEL) and Student Benefits: Implications for the Safe Schools/Healthy Students
Core Elements
This brief shares the
latest research on the effects of social and emotional learning (SEL) on students and includes strategies for implementing SEL. It explains how SEL
works, elaborates on how SEL can be an integrative prevention framework
that
addresses the Safe Schools/Healthy Students (SS/HS) core elements, and spells out
implications of the research for SS/HS grantees.
Collaborative for
Academic Social Emotional Learning (CASEL)




Best Practice
Description
Source
Web Link
Partnerships in Character
Education State Pilot
Projects, l995-2001
Lessons Learned
This report summarizes
the results of the projects as reported to the U.S. Department of Education by the grantees through a variety of sources.
United States
Department of
Education
Resource Manual for
Intervention and Referral
Services (I & RS)
The Department of
Education has a broad- based, statewide initiative to address the problem of violence and disruption in New Jerseys public schools.       The initiative is geared toward assisting local school district officials and parents deal with a range of issues, such as bullying and drugs.
New Jersey Department
of Education




Best Practice
Description
Source
Web Link
Model Policy and
Guidance for Prohibiting Harassment, Intimidation and Bullying on School Property, at School- Sponsored Functions and on School Buses
This model and guidance
are designed to assist school districts in developing the required policies and procedures (pursuant to N.J.S.A.
18A:37-13 et seq. and N.J.A.C. 6A:16-7.9, Intimidation, harassment, and bullying) prohibiting harassment, intimidation and bullying on school property, at school- sponsored functions and on school buses for
grades kindergarten through 12.
New Jersey Department
of Education




Best Practice
Description
Source
Web Link
Commissioner’s Annual
Report to the Education Committees of the Senate and General Assembly
On Violence, Vandalism and Substance Abuse
The Commissioner of
Educations Report on Violence, Vandalism and Substance Abuse in New Jersey Public Schools, submitted annually to the education committees of the Senate and Assembly, provides the Legislature with data in four broad incident categories: violence, vandalism, weapons, and substance abuse. The report also summarizes initiatives implemented by the New Jersey Department of Education to assist
schools in addressing problems of school violence, safety and climate, student conduct, and the use of substances.
New Jersey Department
of Education





Best Practice
Description
Source
Web Link
National Schools of
Character Award Books
Describes the SECD
efforts of schools who were winners or semifinalists of the National Schools of Character Awards and Promising Practices Awards
Character Education
Partnership
Journal of Research in
Character Education
Leading peer-reviewed
journal with research and descriptive studies of SECD efforts
Center for Character and
Citizenship, University of Missouri




The following sources (sorted alphabetically) have been utilized in building this best practice list:

 Blueprints for Violence Prevention (University of
Colorado)
 Character Education and Civic Engagement Technical
Assistance Center (CETAC)


 Character Education Partnership (CEP)                            www.character.org

 Collaborative for Academic Social Emotional Learning
(CASEL)
 FindYouthInfo.gov





 NJ Department of Education (NJDOE)                               www.state.nj.us/education
 NJ Department of State (NJDOS)                                       www.state.nj.us/state

   Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention, U.S. Department of Justice
 Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services
Association (SAMHSA)


 United States Department of Education (USDE)                www.ed.gov