Engaging Districts to Inform High-Quality Implementation of a Game-Based Social Skills Training Program

• In Event: Marriott Roundtable Session 27
  In Roundtable Session: Social and Emotional Learning Programs and Practices: Quality Implementation and Outcomes

Abstract

This study focuses on a game-based online social skills training program designed to improve social and academic outcomes for elementary school students. Two of the participating schools implemented the PROGRAM in a pull-out model with an on-site interventionist monitoring the usage of students with low social and emotional skills. At two other schools, teachers implemented the PROGRAM with the entire class. The preliminary results indicate that the PROGRAM could be feasibly implemented in both a pull-out model or with the entire class. The use of the PROGRAM led to increases in teachers’ support of their students’ social and emotional skills. Students with and without social and emotional challenges all showed significant and positive change on their social and emotional skills.

Authors

• Linlin Li, WestEd

• Kylie Flynn, WestEd