The RULER Approach
Initiative Description: an SEL program designed to modify the quality of classroom social interactions to be more supportive, empowering, and engaging, that incorporates skill-building lessons/tools so that teachers and students develop emotional literacy.
Study Results:Resulted in classrooms with higher degrees of warmth and connectedness between teachers and students, more autonomy and leadership among students, and teachers who focused more on students’ interests and motivations.
Reference: Rivers, S., Brackett, M., Reyes, M., Elbertson, N., & Salovey, P. (2013). Improving the social and emotional climate of classrooms: a clustered randomized controlled trial testing the RULER approach. Prevention Science, 14(1), 77 87. doi:10.1007/s11121-012-0305-2
Level of Evidence: 
Very Good