Selected organizations and programs whose work supports, complements, or is related to the Responsive Classroom approach.

ASCD: The Whole Child Project supports comprehensive approaches to learning that promote the development of children who are “healthy, safe, engaged, supported, and challenged.”

Character Education Partnership is a coalition of organizations and individuals committed to fostering effective character education in K–12 schools.

Collaborative for Social and Emotional Learning (CASEL), a non-profit organization that works to advance the science and evidence-based practice of social and emotional learning (SEL).

Committee for Children develops and publishes programs, notably SECOND STEP, and curricula for children from preschool through middle school about social skills, bullying, and sexual abuse.

Courage & Renewal Northeast, a regional affiliate of The Center for Courage & Renewal, facilitates and promotes events that serve K–12 educators, college and university faculty, and other serving professions.

Developmental Studies Center (Caring School Community Program) promotes children’s academic, ethical, and social development by creating research-based curricula and providing professional development services to schools.

Educate the Whole Child provides resources for those seeking alternatives to the accountability-and-testing mindset. It stresses engaging the whole child, place-based and project-based learning, and developing an appetite for learning and growth that will last a lifetime.

Educators for Social Responsibility, a national non-profit organization, offers comprehensive programs, staff development, consultation, and resources for adults who teach children and young people preschool through high school.

HighScope Educational Research Foundation is an independent non-profit research, development, training, and public outreach organization. HighScope's preschool education approach is used throughout the world.

Morningside Center for Teaching Social Responsibility works in public schools and community organizations to help teachers, young people, and parents build skills, knowledge, and community. Through its programs, people learn how to solve conflicts nonviolently, challenge bias, communicate better, think critically, and work together to build a more just, peaceful, and democratic society.

National School Climate Center (formerly The Center for Social and Emotional Education) helps schools integrate crucial social and emotional learning with academic instruction.

National Technical Assistance Center on Positive Behavior and Intervention Supports was established to address the behavioral and discipline systems needed for successful learning and social development of students. The Center provides capacity-building information and technical support to schools.

New Jersey Alliance for Social- Emotional, and Character Development is a volunteer organization that was formed to assume many of the responsibilities of the Center for Social and Character Development (CSCD) at Rutgers University when CSCD dissolved. NJASECD maintains the resources developed by CSCD and acts as a conduit for that information to flow to educators, schools and individuals.

OCM BOCES (Onondaga-Cortland-Madison Board of Cooperative Educational Services), located in Syracuse, New York, is licensed through Northeast Foundation for Children to provide Responsive Classroom workshops for schools and districts in central New York state.

Open Circle is a comprehensive, grade-differentiated social and emotional learning program for grades K–5 children, their teachers, administrators, other school staff, parents and other caregivers.

Origins, the Midwest Regional Center for the Responsive Classroom approach, provides training and consulting services in the Responsive Classroom approach in Minnesota, Wisconsin, North Dakota, South Dakota, Iowa, and Oklahoma, and is the developer of the Developmental Designs for Middle School program.

Stenhouse publishes books and videos that help K–12 teachers deepen their professional knowledge and build their students' skills as readers, writers, and thinkers.

Teaching Tolerance, a project of the Southern Poverty Law Center, is dedicated to reducing prejudice, improving intergroup relations, and supporting equitable school experiences for all children. Provides free educational materials to educators in the U.S. and abroad.

Wings for Kids instills life lessons—how to behave well, make good decisions, and build healthy relationships—by weaving a comprehensive social and emotional intelligence education into a fresh and fun afterschool program.