This comprehensive guide looks at the strategies and successes of 25 different out-of-school programs across the country. Researchers, educators, and policy-makers alike are beset by dilemmas about what exactly is included in this broad domain. Popular press highlights skills such as grit, empathy, growth mindset, social skills, and more. While SEL programs typically target multiple skills, very few programs target all of these skills. Each program in review aproaches SEL differently with their own way of building skills through specific teaching and learning activities, and their own programmatic components that define how the program looks and feels, as well as how skills are addressed and presented through explicit messages or implicit themes.
