Jesse Lewis Choose Love Foundation
Project Title
For support of the Choose Love Enrichment Program
Date
Sep. 07, 2017
Duration
12 months
Description
An extensive body of research shows that students’ socio-emotional skills are key to their lifelong success. Yet, there remains a dearth of program models that marry socio-emotional learning (SEL) with academic instruction. The mission of the Jesse Lewis Choose Love Movement (JLCLM) is to ensure that every child has access to SEL in their classrooms. In pursuit of this mission, JLCLM developed the open access Choose Love Enrichment Program (CLEP), a standards-aligned, pre-K-12 SEL curriculum to help students acquire and apply the knowledge, attitudes, and skills necessary to understand and manage emotions, set and achieve positive goals, feel and show empathy and compassion, establish and maintain positive relationships, and make responsible decisions. With Corporation support, JLCLM will roll out an updated and improved CLEP for the 2017-18 school year; expand outreach to and support of CLEP educators; ensure ongoing partner school data collection and evaluations; and increase national awareness of JLCLM, CLEP, and the benefits of SEL.