Roger
P. Weissberg
Department
of Psychology (MC 285)
Ph:
312-355-0640 / Fax: 312-355-4480
Email:
rpw@uic.edu
Roger P. Weissberg is an LAS Distinguished Professor, and a Professor of Psychology and Education at the University of Illinois at Chicago (UIC). Professor Weissberg directs the Social and Emotional Learning (SEL) Research Group at UIC. He is also President of the Collaborative for Academic, Social, and Emotional Learning (CASEL), an international organization committed to making evidence-based social, emotional, and academic learning an essential part of preschool through high school education (www.casel.org). For the past three decades, Professor Weissberg has trained scholars and practitioners about innovative ways to design, implement, and evaluate family, school, and community interventions.
Professor Weissberg has authored about 200 publications focusing on preventive interventions with children and adolescents and has written curricula on school-based programs to promote social competence and prevent problem behaviors including drug use, high-risk sexual behaviors, and aggression. His Social Competence Promotion Program
for Young Adolescents received a model program designation from the Center for Substance Abuse Prevention and
from the Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention. Some of his major published volumes include:
Promoting Social and Emotional Learning: Guidelines for Educators (1997), Enhancing Children's Wellness (1997),
Establishing Preventive Services (1997), Children and Youth: Interdisciplinary Perspectives (1997), Promoting
Positive Outcomes (1999), The Promotion of Wellness in Children and Adolescents (2000), Long-term Trends in
the Well-being of Children and Youth (2003), a Special Issue of the American Psychologist on "Prevention for
Children and Youth that Works" (2003), Safe and Sound: An Educational Leader's Guide to Evidence-based Social
and Emotional Learning Programs (2003), Building Academic Success on Social and Emotional Learning: What Does
the Research Say? (2004), School-Family Partnerships for Children's Success (2005), and Sustainable Schoolwide
Social and Emotional Learning (2006).
Professor Weissberg has been the President of the American Psychological Association's Society for Community Research and Action. He co-chaired an American Psychological Association Task Force on "Prevention: Promoting Strength, Resilience, and Health in Young People." He is a recipient of the William T. Grant Foundation's five-year Faculty Scholars Award in Children's Mental Health, the Connecticut Psychological Association's Award for Distinguished Psychological Contribution in the Public Interest, and the National Mental Health Association's Lela Rowland Prevention Award. He was named a 1997-2000 University Scholar at the University of Illinois and also was a 2004-2005 UIC Great Cities Institute Scholar. Professor Weissberg received the 2000 American Psychological Association's Distinguished Contribution Award for Applications of Psychology to Education and Training, and the Society for Community Research and Action 2004 Distinguished Contribution to Theory and Research Award. He also received the 2008 "Daring Dozen" award from the George Lucas Educational Foundation for being 1 of 12 people who are reshaping the future of education. He was named LAS Distinguished Professor in 2009.
Born in Newark, New Jersey, Professor Weissberg graduated Summa Cum Laude and Phi Beta Kappa with a BA in Psychology from Brandeis University in 1974. He received his PhD from the University of Rochester in 1980. He was the Research Director for the Primary Mental Health Project from 1980 to 1982. He was a professor in the Psychology Department at Yale University between 1982 and 1992 where he collaborated with the New Haven Public School System to establish New Haven's kindergarten through grade 12 Social Development Project. Dr. Weissberg lives in Wilmette Illinois. He and his wife, Stephanie Wright (who is a clinical psychologist), have two wonderful children: Elizabeth (age 23) and Ted (age 19).
Professor Weissberg collaborates with talented members of the SEL Research Group including:
Mary Utne O'Brien (muobrien@uic.edu), Research Professor, Psychology & Education
Cynthia R. Coleman (colemanc@uic.edu), Director of Operations
Claire Christensen (cchris25@uic.edu), Graduate Assistant
Allison Dymnicki (adymni2@uic.edu), Graduate Assistant
Peter Ji (petji@uic.edu), Research Assistant Professor, Director of Assessment
John Payton (jpayto1@uic.edu), Senior Research Scientist, Co Director SEL Program Review
Kay Ragozzino (krago@uic.edu), Co Director SEL Program Review
Cassandra Struble (strublec@uic.edu), Operations Coordinator
Rebecca Taylor (rtaylo2@uic.edu), Graduate Assistant
Keith Zander (keithzander@uic.edu), Graduate Assistant.
Publications
Walberg, H. J., Reyes, O., & Weissberg, R. P.
(Eds.). (1997). Children and youth: Interdisciplinary perspectives.
Weissberg, R. P., Gullotta, T. P., Hampton, R. L.,
Ryan, R. A., & Adams, G. R. (Eds.). (1997). Healthy children 2010:
Enhancing children's wellness.
Weissberg, R. P., Gullotta, T. P., Hampton, R. L.,
Ryan, B. A., & Adams, G. R (Eds.). (1997). Healthy children 2010:
Establishing preventive services.
Elias, M. J., Zins, J. E., Weissberg, R. P., Frey,
K. S., Greenberg, M. T., Haynes, N. M., Kessler, R., Schwab-Stone, M. E., &
Shriver, T. P. (1997). Promoting social and emotional learning: Guidelines
for educators.
Reynolds, A. J., Walberg, H. J., & Weissberg, R.
P., & (Eds.). (1999). Promoting
positive outcomes.
Gullotta, T. P., Hampton, R. L., Adams, G. R.,
Ryan, B. A., & Weissberg, R. P. (Eds.). (1999). Children’s health care:
Issues for the year 2000 and beyond.
Cicchetti, D., Rappaport, J., Sandler,
Weissberg, R. P., Walberg, H. J., O’Brien, M. U.,
& Kuster, C. B. (Eds.). (2003). Long-term
trends in the well-being of children and youth.
Zins, J. E., Weissberg, R. P., Wang, M. C.,
& Walberg. H. J. (Eds.). (2004). Building academic success on social and
emotional learning: What does the research say?
Collaborative for Academic, Social, and
Emotional Learning. (2005). The
Patrikakou, E. N., Weissberg, R. P., Redding,
S., & Walberg, H. J. (Eds.). (2005).
School-family partnerships for children’s success.
Collaborative for Academic, Social, and
Emotional Learning. (2005). The
Devaney, E., O’Brien, M. U., Resnik, H., Keister, S., & Weissberg, R. P. (2006). Sustainable schoolwide social and emotional learning: Implementation guide and toolkit.
Weissberg, R. P., Caplan, M. Z., & Sivo,
P. J. (1989). A new conceptual framework for establishing school-based social
competence promotion programs. In L. A. Bond, & B. E. Compas (Eds.), Primary
prevention and promotion in the schools (pp. 255-296).
Weissberg, R. P., Caplan, M., & Harwood, R. L. (1991). Promoting competent young people in competence-enhancing environments: A systems-based perspective on primary prevention. Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology, 59, 830-841.
Reprinted in: (1993). M. E. Hertzig & E. A. Farber (Eds.). Annual
progress in child psychiatry
and child development: 1992 (pp.256-281).
Weissberg, R. P., & Elias, M. J. (1993). Enhancing young people's social competence and health behavior: An important challenge for educators, scientists, policy makers, and funders. Applied and preventive psychology: Current scientific perspectives, 2 (4), 179-190.
The Consortium on the School-based Promotion of
Social Competence. [Elias, M. J., Weissberg, R. P., Hawkins, J. D., Perry, C.
L., Zins, J. E., Dodge, K. A., Kendall, P. C., Gottfredson, D., Rotheram-Borus,
M. J., Jason, L. A., & Wilson-Brewer, R.]. (1994). The school-based
promotion of social competence: Theory, research, practice, and policy. In R. J.
Haggerty,
Weissberg, R. P., Barton, H. A., & Shriver, T.
P. (1997). The Social-Competence Promotion Program for Young Adolescents. In G.
W. Albee & T. P. Gullotta (Eds.), Primary prevention exemplars: The Lela
Rowland Awards (pp. 268-290).
Weissberg, R. P., Shriver, T. P., Bose, S., & DeFalco, K. (May, 1997). Creating a districtwide social development project. Educational Leadership, 54, 37-39.
Weissberg, R. P., & Greenberg, M. T.
(1998). School and community competence-enhancement and prevention programs. In
W. Damon (Series Ed.) &
Elias, M.
J., & Weissberg, R. P. (2000). Wellness
in schools: The grandfather of
primary prevention tells a story. In
D. Cicchetti, J. Rappaport, I. N. Sandler, & R. P. Weissberg (Eds.), The
promotion of wellness in children and adolescents (pp. 243-269).
Payton, J. W., Graczyk, P. A., Wardlaw, D. M., Bloodworth, M., Tompsett, C. J., & Weissberg, R. P. (2000). Social and emotional learning: A framework for promoting mental health and reducing risk behavior in children and youth. Journal of School Health, 70, 179-185.
Zins, J. E., Elias, M. J., Greenberg, M. T.,
& Weissberg, R. P. (2000). Promoting
social and emotional competence in children.
In K. M. Minke & G. C. Bear (Eds.), Preventing school problems -
promoting school success: Strategies
and programs that work (pp. 71-99).
Weissberg,
R. P. (2002). Collaborating to support the implementation of
coordinated school-based prevention programming: Action steps and challenges. In
P.J. Mrazek & C.M.H. Hosman (Eds.), Toward a strategy for worldwide
action to promote mental health and prevent mental and behavioral disorders
(pp. 46-48).
Weissberg,
R. P., & Weissberg, E. W. (2003). Foreword.
In N. Haynes, M. Ben-Avi, & J. Ensign (Eds.).
How social and emotional development add up: Getting results in math
and science education (pp. ix-xii).
Elias, M. J., Bryan, K., Patrikakou, E. N., & Weissberg, R. P. (2003). Challenges in creating effective home-school partnerships in adolescence: Promising pathways for collaboration. The School-Community Journal, 133-153.
O'Brien, M. U., Weissberg, R. P., Walberg, H. J.,
& Kuster, C. B. (2003). The
contributions and complexities of studying trends in the well being of children
and youth. In R. P. Weissberg, H. J.
Walberg, M. U. O'Brien, & C. B. Kuster (Eds.), Long-term trends in the
well-being of children and youth (pp. 3-25)..
O’Brien, M. U., Weissberg, R. P., & Shriver,
T. P. (2003). Educational leadership
for academic, social, and emotional learning.
In M. J. Elias, H. Arnold, & C. Steiger (Eds.), EQ+IQ:
Best leadership practices for caring and successful schools
(pp. 23-35). Corwin Press:
Weissberg, R. P., Resnik, H., Payton, J., & O’Brien, M. U. (2003). Evaluating social and emotional learning programs. Educational Leadership, 60 (6), 46-50.
Weissberg, R. P., & Kumpfer, K. (Eds.). (2003). Special Issue: Prevention that works for children and youth. American Psychologist, 58, 425-490.
Weissberg, R. P., Kumpfer, K., Seligman, M. E. P. (Eds.). (2003). Prevention that works for children and youth: An introduction. American Psychologist, 58, 425-432.
Greenberg, M. T., Weissberg, R. P., O’Brien, M. U., Zins, J. E., Fredericks, L., Resnik, H., & Elias, M. J. (2003). Enhancing school-based prevention and youth development through coordinated social, emotional, and academic learning. American Psychologist, 58, 466-474.
Elias, M. J., Zins, J. E., Graczyk, P. A., & Weissberg, R. P. (2003). Implementation, sustainability, and scaling of social-emotional and academic innovations in public schools. School Psychology Quarterly, 32, 303-319.
Zins, J. E.,
Bloodworth, M. R., Weissberg, R. P., & Walberg, H. J. (2004). The
scientific base linking emotional learning to student success and academic
outcomes. In J. E. Zins, R. P. Weissberg, M. C. Wang, & H. J. Walberg
(Eds.), Building academic success on social and emotional learning: What does
the research say? (pp. 3-22).
Walberg, H. J.,
Zins, J. E., & Weissberg, R. P. (2004). Recommendations and conclusions:
Implications for practice, training, research, and policy. In J. E. Zins,
R. P. Weissberg, M. C. Wang, & H. J. Walberg (Eds.), Building academic
success on social and emotional learning: What does the research say? (pp.
209-217).
Durlak, J. A.,
Weissberg, R. P., Quintana, E., & Perez, F. (2004).
Primary prevention: Involving schools and communities in youth health
promotion. In L. A. Jason, C. B. Keys, Y. Suarez-Balcazar, R. R. Taylor, &
M. I. Davis, J. Durlak, & D. Isenberg (Eds.), Participatory community
research: Theories and methods in action (pp. 73-86).
Weissberg, R. P., & O’Brien, M. U. (2004).
What works in school-based social and emotional learning programs for positive
youth development. The Annals of the
Denham, S. A., & Weissberg, R. P. (2004).
Social-emotional learning in early childhood: What we know and where to go from
here. In E. Chesebrough, P. King, T.
P. Gullotta, & M. Bloom (Eds.), A blueprint for the promotion of
prosocial behavior in early childhood (pp. 13-50).
Axelrod, J., O’Brien, M. U., & Weissberg, R. P. (2004). Social and emotional learning as a framework for school improvement and student success. The Community Psychologist, 37 (2), 8-10.
Seligman,
M. E. P., Berkowitz, M. W., Catalano, R. F., Damon, W., Eccles, J. S., Gilham,
J. E., Moore, K. A., Nicholson, H. J., Park, N., Penn, D. L., Peterson, C.,
Shih, M., Steen, T. A., Sternberg, R. J., Tierney, J. P., Weissberg, R. P.,
& Zaff, J. F. (2005). The positive perspective on youth development.
In D. L. Evans, E. Foa, R. Gur, H. Hendrin, C. O'Brien,M. E. P. Seligman,
& B. T. Walsh (Eds), Treating and preventing adolescent mental health
disorders: What we know and what we don’t know ((pp. 499-529).
Patrikakou,
E. N., Weissberg, R. P.,
Shriver, T. P., & Weissberg, R. P. (August 16, 2005). No emotion left behind. New York Times OP-ED, A15.
O’Brien, M. U., Weissberg, R. P., & Munro, S. B. (Winter 2005/06). Reimagining education: In our dream, social and emotional learning – or “SEL” is a household term. Green Money Journal, XIV(2) No. 57.
Cherniss, C., Extein, M., Goleman, D., & Weissberg, R. P. (2006) Emotional intelligence: What does the research really indicate? Educational Psychologist, 41(4), 239-245.
Payton, J. W., Munro, S., O’Brien, M. U., & Weissberg, R. P. (2006, September). Common ground: Cooperative learning helps create the essential skill of working (and compromising) within a group. Edutopia, 2(6), 53-55.
Elias, M. J., O’Brien, M. U., & Weissberg, R. P. (2006). Transformative leadership for social- emotional learning. Principal Leadership, 7(4), 10-13.
Patrikakou, E. N., & Weissberg, R. P. (2007). School-family partnerships and children’s social, emotional, and academic learning. In R. Bar-on, J. G. Maree, & M. J. Elias (Eds). Educating people to be emotionally intelligent (pp. 49-61). Heinemann Educational Publishers: Rondebosch.
Zins, J., Payton, J. W., Weissberg R. P., & O’Brien, M. U. (2007). Social and emotional learning and successful school performance. In G. Matthews, M. Zeidner, & R. D. Roberts (Eds.), Emotional intelligence: Knowns and unknowns (pp. 376-395). New York: Oxford University Press.
Durlak, J. A., Taylor, R. D., Kawashima, K, Pachan, M. K., DuPre, E. P., Celio, C. I., Berger, S. R., Dymnicki, A. B., & Weissberg, R. P. (2007). Effects of positive youth development programs on school, family, and community systems. American Journal of Community Psychology, 39, 269-286.
Elias, M. J., Weissberg, R. P., & Patrikakou, E. N. (2007). A competence-based framework for parent-school-community partnerships in secondary schools. School Psychology International, 58, 540-554.
Durlak, J. A., & Weissberg, R. P. (2007). The impact of after-school programs that promote personal and social skills. Chicago, IL: Collaborative for Academic, Social, and Emotional Learning.
Weissberg, R. P., Payton, J. W., O’Brien, M. U., & Munro, S. (2007). Social and emotional learning. In F. C. Power, R. J. Nuzzi, D. Narvaez, D. K. Lapsley, & T. C. Hunt (Eds.), Moral education: A handbook, Volume 2: M-Z (pp. 417-418). Greenwood Press: Westport, CT.
Ji, P., Axelrod, J., Foster, C., Keister, S., O’Brien, M. U., Ogren, K., & Weissberg, R. P. (2008). A model for implementing and sustaining schoolwide social and emotional learning. The Community Psychologist, 41(2), 40-43.
Osher, D., Sprague, R., Weissberg, R. P., Axelrod, J., Keenan, S., & Kendziora, K. (2008). A comprehensive approach to promoting social, emotional,and academic growth in contemporary schools. In A. Thomas & J. Grimes (Eds.), Best practices in school psychology V (Volume 4, pp. 1263-1278) Bethesda, MD: National Association of School Psychologists.
Elias, M. J., Parker, S. J., Kash, V. M., Weissberg, R. P., & O’Brien, M. U. (2008). Social and emotional learning, moral education, and character education: A comparative analysis and a view toward convergence. L. P. Nucci & D. Narvaez (Eds.) (2008). Handbook of moral and character education (248-266). New York: Routledge
Katulak, N. A., Brackett, M. A., & Weissberg, R. P. (2009). School-based social and emotional learning (SEL) programming: Current perspectives. In A. Lieberman, M. Fullan, A. Hargreaves, & D. Hopkins (Eds.), International handbook of educational change (2nd ed.). New York: Springer.
Albright, M. I., & Weissberg, R. P. (2009). School-family partnerships to promote social and emotional learning. In S. L. Christenson & A. L. Reschley (Eds.), The handbook of school-family partnerships for promoting student competence. New York: Routledge/Taylor and Francis Group.
Payton, J., Weissberg, R. P., Durlak, J. A., Dymnicki, A. B., Taylor, R. D., Schellinger, K. B., & Pachan, M. (2008). The positive impact of social and emotional learning for kindergarten to eighth-grade students: Findings from three scientific reviews. Chicago, IL: Collaborative for Academic, Social, and Emotional Learning.
Deerin, J., & Weissberg, R. P. (2009). Navigating financial storms with emotional intelligence. Op-Ed published in three newspapers: The State (South Carolina); Post and Courier (South Carolina); and Atlanta Journal-Constitution (Georgia).
Christenson, S. L., Weissberg, R. P., & Klein, J. A. (2009). Establishing school-family partnerships. In J. E. Zins & M. J. Elias (Eds.), Social and emotional learning 101: A sampler.