High School RULER in Mexico

Funding Source: Instituto de Tecnológico de Monterrey

Team Members: Jessica Hoffmann, Jennifer Seibyl, James Floman, Marc Brackett, Ruth Castillo Gualda (Universidad Camilo José Cela), Rachel Baumsteiger, Annette Ponnock, Sean McFarland

Beginning in 2016, 37 secondary schools (“Prepas”) affiliated with the Instituto de Tecnológico de Monterrey adopted RULER for High School. Research efforts to date have included longitudinal surveys of students and staff to track emotional intelligence skills, perceptions of school climate, growth mindset, academic goals, and educator burnout and engagement. Data from the project has been used to explore the linguistic properties of effective reappraisal statements and understand the role of school climate in creating classrooms in which students feel safe to take academic and creative risks. This partnership has been foundational to several enhancements of the RULER offering, including all RULER for High School training and curricular materials in Spanish, and expansions to providing Spanish-language RULER Institute training opportunities and curricular materials to Mexico as well as Central and South America.

• Hoffmann, J. D., De France, K., Seibyl, J., Orleck-Jetter, R., Castillo Gualda, R., & Brackett, M. A. (2023). The role of originality, distancing, and tentative language in effective cognitive reappraisal among adolescents. Thinking Skills and Creativity, 49, 101377. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tsc.2023.101377
• Baumsteiger, R., Hoffmann, J. D., Castillo-Gualda, R., & Brackett, M. A. (2022). Enhancing school climate through social and emotional learning: Effects of RULER in Mexican secondary schools. Learning Environments Research, 25(2), 465-483. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10984-021-09374-x

• Hoffmann, J. D., De France, K., Seibyl, J., Orleck-Jetter, R., Castillo Gualda, R., & Brackett, M. A. (2022, August). The role of creativity in effective cognitive reappraisal among adolescents. In J. D. Hoffmann & Z. J. Ng (chairs), Assessing emotion regulation in schools: Tools for supporting the emotional health of adolescents [Symposium]. American Psychological Association Annual Convention, Minneapolis, MN.
• Hoffmann, J. D. (2020, August). Students’ emotions and their attitudes towards creativity: The role of positive school climate. In Z. Ivcevic (Chair). Creativity and emotions: From the decision to be creative to reactions to creative products [Symposium]. American Psychological Association Annual Convention.
• Hills, E., & Hoffmann, J. D. (2019, August). Creativity in emotion regulation: A creative reappraisal task for adolescents [Poster presentation]. American Psychological Association Annual Convention, Chicago, IL.
• Hoffmann, J. D., Gualda, R. C., & Brackett, M. A. (2017, August). School climate and teachers’ perceptions of work: Emotions as mediators [Poster presentation]. American Psychological Association Annual Convention, Washington, DC.
• Miller, R., Hoffmann, J. D., Gualda, R. C., & Brackett, M. A. (2017, August). Adolescent emotion: A mediator between school climate and academic mindset. [Poster presentation]. American Psychological Association Annual Convention, Washington, DC.

Connection to Research Agenda: Emotion Science, Intervention Evaluation