Promoting Student Performance and Well-being: An Efficacy Trial of High School RULER

Participating schools will implement RULER and participate in data collection. Schools will be randomized to receive RULER immediately or on a two-year delay. Over two years,

• RULER schools will participate in data collection (3 survey time points for students and staff, collection of administrative data) and send a RULER implementation team to a summer or fall training to begin implementing RULER. Schools will receive monthly coaching, quarterly networking sessions, and $1,000 per year for participating.
• Control schools will participate in data collection (3 survey time points for students and staff, collection of administrative data) and receive $2,000 per year for participating. Following the two-year waiting period, they will receive the same RULER training and support package as above.

The study’s data evaluators are researchers at the American Institutes for Research (AIR). Data collected through the study is protected by Yale’s and AIR’s institutional review boards (IRBs), and all data are securely collected and stored.

The study will comprise two cohorts, one enrolling for the beginning of the 2024-2025 school year and one enrolling for the beginning of the 2025-2026 school year.

All schools will receive a robust RULER training and support package, either right away or on a two-year delay. RULER schools receive $1,000 per year for participating, and control schools receive $2,000 per year. Participation in this study contributes to the scientific advancement of understanding social and emotional learning at the high school level.

Schools receive a robust RULER training and support package and $1,000 (RULER schools) or $2,000 (control schools) annually for two years.

Yes. We welcome comprehensive, English-speaking, U.S. high schools serving grades 9012 to participate.

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