Publications & Presentations

• The Positive Impact of SEL for Kindergarten to Eighth-Grade Students: Findings from Three Scientific Reviews (2008)
  Executive Summary (pdf) | Full report (pdf)
• The Impact of After-School Programs That Promote Personal and Social Skills (2007)
  Executive Summary (pdf) | Full report (pdf)
• Social and Emotional Learning and Bullying Prevention
  Full report (pdf)

• Albright, M. I., & Weissberg, R. P.(2010).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 (pp. 246-265). New York: Routledge/Taylor and Francis Group.
• 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). New York: Kluwer Academic/ Plenum Publishers.
• Durlak, J. A., & Weissberg, R. P. (2012). After school programs that follow evidence-based practices to promote social and emotional development are effective. Retrieved from http://www.expandinglearning.org/.
• Durlak, J. A., Weissberg, R. P., Dymnicki, A. B., Taylor, R. D., & Schellinger, K. (2011). The impact of enhancing students' social and emotional learning: A meta-analysis of school-based universal interventions. Child Development , 82, 405-432.
• Gordon, R., Ji, P. Mulhall, P., Shaw, B., & Weissberg, R. P. (2011). Social and emotional learning for Illinois students: Policy, practice, and progress. The Illinois Report 2011 (pp. 68-83). Institute of Government and Public Affairs, University of Illinois.
• 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.
• O 'Brien, M.U. & Resnik, H. (2009, April) The Illinois social and emotional learning (SEL) standards: Leading the way for school and student success. IPA Building Leadership, 16(7), 1-5.
• 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.
• 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.
• Shriver, T. P., & Weissberg, R. P. (August 16, 2005). No emotion left behind. New York Times OP-ED, A15.
• Shriver, T. P., & Weissberg, R. P. (1996, May 15) No new wars! Education Week. Volume XV, Number 34, 33, 37.
• Weissberg, R. P. (2000). Improving the lives of millions of school children. American Psychologist , 55, 1360-1373.
• 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.
• Weissberg, R. P., & Greenberg, M. T. (1998). Prevention science and collaborative community action research: Combining the best from both perspectives. Journal of Mental Health , 7(5), 479-492.
• Weissberg, R. P., & Greenberg, M. T. (1998). School and community competence-enhancement and prevention programs. In W. Damon (Series Ed.) & I. E. Sigel & K. A. Renninger (Vol. Eds.) . Handbook of child psychology: Vol 4. Child psychology in practice (5th ed., pp. 877-954). New York: John Wiley & Sons.
• 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). Newbury Park, CA: Sage.
• Weissberg, R. P., Kumpfer, K., Seligman, M. E. P. (Eds.). (2003). Prevention for children and youth that works: An introduction. American Psychologist , 58, 425-432.
• 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.
• Weissberg, R. P., Resnik, H., Payton, J., & O 'Brien, M. U. (2003). Evaluating social and emotional learning programs. Educational Leadership, 60 (6), 46-50.
• Zins, J. E., & Elias, M. J. (2006). Social and emotional learning. In G. G. Bear & K. M. Minke (Eds.) , Children's needs III: Development, prevention, and intervention (pp. 1-3). Bethesda, MD: National Association of School Psychologists.
• 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). New York, NY: Teachers College Press.
• 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: Known's and unknowns (pp. 376-395). New York: Oxford University Press.

See the CASEL website for more publications about SEL. A list of additional publications by Roger Weissberg can be found on his UIC web.