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SSIS Social Emotional Health Classwide Intervention Program

SAIL CoLab, INC

The Social Emotional Health Classwide Intervention Program (SSIS SEH CIP) expands the scope of social emotional intervensions beyond key SEL life skills to include lessons on Healthy Foundation Behaviours.

  • Online

Pricing: Paid

Origin: Developed elsewhere and adapted for Australian schools, Developed elsewhere but applicable for Australian schools

Affiliations: CASEL SELect Program, USDE What Works Clearinghouse Tier 1 Strong; Approved elsewhere: Be You

Product type: Program; Online resources (e.g. videos, games, tools, readings); Activity sheets; Student activities; Professional learning; Wellbeing monitoring service, platform or tool; Learning modules; Class lesson plans

Contact details

SAIL CoLab, INC

https://ssiscolab.com/

steve@ssiscolab.com

Focus areas

  • Positive relationships

  • Belonging and inclusion

  • Mental health literacy and life skills

  • Self-regulation and engagement

  • Resilience and optimism

Curriculum alignment

  • Health and PE

Prospective users

Audience: Whole class universal (Tier 1), Targeted small group early intervention (Tier 2)

Context: School or centre-based, Outside School Hours Care (OSHC)

Main beneficiaries: Year 1, Year 2, Year 3, Year 4, Year 5, Year 6, Year 7, Year 8, Year 9

Delivery style: Classroom teacher is trained; Delivered by program staff

Aims & approach

A program for Grade 1-12 students to explicitly teach 4 Healthy Behaviour Routines and 30 Key Social Emotional Skills for use in 300+ role-play applications that vary developmentally. Content is aligned with the CASEL competency framework, and includes stress management, social support recruitment and personal goal setting skills.

Each skill unit has 3 lessons so there is substantial practice that focuses on both skills and emotionals. PowerPoint style slides are core to each lesson, which are each 20-25 minutes. Most teachers select 10 to 12 SEL Skills + the Healthy Behaviour Foundation lessons to teach in a 15 to 20 week period.

Materials are 100% digital, all of which except the lesson slides can be downloaded and copied.

Implementation support

  • Access to professional facilitator, instructor or mentor
  • Implementation training webinars or modules

Evidence

The theoretical models - the CASEL SEL Competency Framework and the Harvard Healthy Children - of students' social emotional health have substantially shaped our Healthy Student Model of Social and Academic Success.

Strong evidence base exists, e.g. Hart, S. C. et al. (2023). Social Validity and Cultural Relevance of the SSIS SEL Classwide Intervention Program in Context: Insights From First-and Second-Grade Teachers. School Psychology Review. https://doi.org/10.1080/2372966X.2023.2243239