Consistency Management & Cooperative Discipline® (CMCD), led by Curriculum & Instruction (CUIN) professor Jerome Freiberg, has been included in the Collaborative for Academic, Social, and Emotional Learning (CASEL) Secondary Guide, a special list of evaluated high school programs using research data.  CASEL is recognized nationally for its efforts to review programs that work and disseminate those programs to a national audience of educators.

Freiberg notes that dissemination is a key component of the research for CMCD. “We are pleased to be part of a highly select group of programs that can make a difference in the lives of children and youth,” said Freiberg.  “The inclusion of CMCD in CASEL’s national Secondary Guide is a credit to the efforts of my team, who has worked diligently over the years to bring us to this point.”

CASEL’s process of determining which programs will make the cut was very stringent. The review took two and a half years but from this point forward it will be updated on a regular basis as new programs become eligible or as CMCD has new research available.  

The vetting process included reviews of CMCD’s research conducted on the academic impact of the CMCD program with repeater 9^th graders compared to a randomized group of 9^th graders in four other high schools.  CASEL created three tiers of effectiveness, and CMCD is in the top tier among high school programs.

Freiberg and the CMCD team have provided researched-based strategies that assist learners from around the globe with academic achievement growth.  “It is a professional privilege CMCD is selected and highlighted in the CASEL Secondary Guide,” said Laveria Hutchison CUIN department chair.  “This recognition certainly contributes to a positive profile for the department and for the College of Education.”

Writing about the new guide in the June 3 edition of Education Week, Evie Blad noted that, “For schools, the decision to focus on the social and emotional learning of their students is just the first step. The real work kicks in when leaders try to navigate a confusing and still-developing field to select an evidence-based program that will translate the findings of researchers into actual results in the classroom.”

Please check out the just-released 2015 CASEL Guide: Effective Social and Emotional Learning Programs—Middle and High School Edition. The user-friendly, Consumer-Reports-style review rates well-designed, evidence-based social and emotional learning programs used in middle and high schools. CMCD appears on p.38-39 and p.41.