Impact Evaluation of TRAILS Social and Emotional Learning Curriculum in Michigan
Transforming Research Into Action to Improve the Lives of Students (TRAILS) is a school-based program designed to help improve social and emotional learning (SEL) skills, student well-being, and mental health. The TRAILS program intends to empower the whole school community (e.g., teachers, student support staff, and administrators) by connecting them with professional development opportunities, programming, and specialized mental health and social and emotional learning resources.
Despite the low levels of implementation and the prevalence of SEL programming in the control schools, we saw positive trends in student outcomes for students in schools implementing the TRAILS Tier 1 curriculum, suggesting the potential for the program to have positive impacts on students when implemented widely.
