{"id":66919,"date":"2021-09-02T21:34:00","date_gmt":"2021-09-02T21:34:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/casel.dev\/?page_id=66919"},"modified":"2025-02-28T21:07:55","modified_gmt":"2025-03-01T03:07:55","slug":"remembering-roger-weissberg","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/casel.org\/remembering-roger-weissberg\/","title":{"rendered":"In Loving Memory of Dr. Roger P. Weissberg"},"content":{"rendered":"  <div class=\"columns video-spotlight-wrap\">\n        <div class=\"container\">\n          <div class=\"column-wrap\">\n                                        <div class=\"column column-half video-spotlight-content\">\n                                                              <span class=\"h3 hide-on-desk\">Roger discusses how schools, families, and communities can work together for kids.<\/span>\n                <button class=\"js-video-modal video-spotlight-video video-spotlight-video-short\" title=\"Roger discusses how schools, families, and communities can work together for kids.\" data-source=\"SwmFp3Y8_pg\">\n                  <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/img.youtube.com\/vi\/SwmFp3Y8_pg\/sddefault.jpg\" alt=\"\">\n                  <div class=\"video-spotlight-video-copy short\">\n                    <span class=\"h3\">Roger discusses how schools, families, and communities can work together for kids.<\/span>\n                    <span>Watch Video<\/span>\n                  <\/div>\n                <\/button>\n                          <\/div>\n                  \n                                        <div class=\"column-half\">\n                              <div class=\"columns-heading columns-heading-short green-brow green-brow-wide\">\n                  <h2>Fulfilling A Lifelong Mission: Making Children&#8217;s Lives Better<\/h2>\n                <\/div>\n                            <p>It is with deep sadness that we share the passing of our much loved and admired friend and colleague \u2013 <a href=\"https:\/\/casel.org\/about-us\/staff-consultants\/#weissberg\">Dr. Roger P. Weissberg<\/a>. For more than 25 years, he served as a leader, mentor, and collaborator to education leaders and advocates across the country.<\/p>\n<p><!-- \/wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph --><\/p>\n<p>As one of the earliest supporters and leading voices for social and emotional learning (SEL), Dr. Weissberg dedicated his career to improving the lives of children. He was CASEL\u2019s chief knowledge officer, board vice chair, and co-founder, as well as Distinguished Emeritus Professor of Psychology at the University of Illinois at Chicago. For the past four decades, he inspired scholars and practitioners to innovate, design, implement, and evaluate strategies for working with families, schools, and communities to promote SEL.<\/p>\n<p><!-- \/wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph --><\/p>\n<p>Even during his remarkable health challenges, <a href=\"https:\/\/mariashriver.com\/the-healing-power-of-social-and-emotional-learning\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">he celebrated the power of SEL<\/a> to support others in their health journeys.<\/p>\n\n                          <\/div>\n                  \n      <\/div>\n        <\/div>\n      <\/div>\n      <!-- Video Modal -->\n    <div id=\"js-modal\" class=\"modal\" role=\"dialog\" aria-modal=\"true\">\n      <!-- Modal content -->\n      <div id=\"js-content\" class=\"modal-content\">\n        <button id=\"js-close-modal\" class=\"close-modal\">\n          <span>Close<\/span>\n          <i class=\"fas fa-times\"><\/i>\n        <\/button>\n        <div id=\"js-add-video\" class=\"vid-wrap\"><\/div>\n        <button id=\"js-trap-focus\" class=\"close-modal\">\n          <span>Close<\/span>\n          <i class=\"fas fa-times\"><\/i>\n        <\/button>\n      <\/div>\n    <\/div>\n  \n\n\n<section class=\"columns\">\n  <div class=\"container container-lt-padding\">\n              <div class=\"wheel-spotlight\">\n        <div class=\"wheel-spotlight-copy\">\n          <h4 class=\"rich-text block-editor-rich-text__editable\" role=\"textbox\" contenteditable=\"true\" aria-multiline=\"true\" aria-label=\"Write heading\u2026\">&#8220;<em>When one is diagnosed with a terminal illness, a key decision involves how to spend your final phase of life. I will finish my life as I have lived it for 69 years \u2013 helping to make the world a better place by sharing scholarship and love.\u201d<\/em><\/h4>\n\n                  <\/div>\n                  <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/casel.s3.us-east-2.amazonaws.com\/roger-guide.png\" alt=\"\">\n              <\/div>\n      <\/div>\n<\/section>\n\n\n\n        <div class=\"column-wrap\">\n                                        <div class=\"column column-flex column-half no-padding\">\n              <div class=\"card\">\n                <div class=\"card-body \">\n                                      <a href=\"https:\/\/casel.org\/about-us\/our-mission-work\/casel-weissberg-scholars\/\">\n                                        <span class=\"h2\">Celebrating a Lasting Legacy<\/span>\n                                      <\/a>\n                                    <p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-67057\" src=\"https:\/\/casel.s3.us-east-2.amazonaws.com\/roger-group.png?auto=compress&amp;fit=scale&amp;fm=png&amp;h=422&amp;w=640\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"422\" srcset=\"https:\/\/casel.s3.us-east-2.amazonaws.com\/sites\/1\/.\/roger-group.png 768w, https:\/\/casel.s3.us-east-2.amazonaws.com\/sites\/1\/.\/roger-group.png 1536w, https:\/\/casel.s3.us-east-2.amazonaws.com\/sites\/1\/.\/roger-group.png 2048w, https:\/\/casel.s3.us-east-2.amazonaws.com\/sites\/1\/.\/roger-group.png 1100w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Social and emotional learning was Roger&#8217;s passion, focus, and joy. We will continue to honor and celebrate him and his commitment to SEL throughout all of our work.<\/p>\n<p>Roger shared that the greatest recognition of his professional career was the CASEL Weissberg Scholars Program for Innovators of Social, Emotional, and Academic Learning,\u00a0launching this fall.<\/p>\n<p>This professional learning community of early career scholars is one of many lasting legacies that will continue to advance Roger\u2019s approach to research and collaboration.<\/p>\n<p>At Roger\u2019s request, his family is requesting any donations to please go to the CASEL Weissberg Scholars program.<\/p>\n\n                                      <div class=\"btn-wrap\">\n                      <a href=\"https:\/\/casel.org\/about-us\/our-mission-work\/casel-weissberg-scholars\/\" class=\"btn btn-blue btn-long\">About the program<\/a>\n                                              <a href=\"https:\/\/www.paypal.com\/donate?hosted_button_id=CK2SVW3YUC9BE\" class=\"btn btn-blue-clear btn-long\">Support the Weissberg Scholars<\/a>\n                                          <\/div>\n                                  <\/div>\n              <\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                  \n                                                  <div class=\"column column-flex column-half no-padding\">\n              <div class=\"card\">\n                <div class=\"card-body \">\n                                        <span class=\"h2\">Roger&#8217;s SEL Reading List<\/span>\n                                    <p>2021: Roger&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/mariashriver.com\/the-healing-power-of-social-and-emotional-learning\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">personal SEL story<\/a> during his medical journey<\/p>\n<p>2020: <a href=\"https:\/\/casel.s3.us-east-2.amazonaws.com\/Design-Systemic-SEL.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Systemic social and emotional learning:<\/a> Promoting educational success for all preschool to high school students.<\/p>\n<p>2019: Roger&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/casel.s3.us-east-2.amazonaws.com\/Weissberg-Promoting-All-Children-APS.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">central research question<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>2018: <a href=\"https:\/\/kappanonline.org\/social-emotional-learning-outcome-research-mahoney-durlak-weissberg\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">An update on social and emotional learning outcome research.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>2017: <a href=\"https:\/\/srcd.onlinelibrary.wiley.com\/doi\/full\/10.1111\/cdev.12864\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Promoting positive youth development through school-based social and emotional learning interventions:<\/a> A meta-analysis of follow-up effects.<\/p>\n<p>2015: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Handbook-Social-Emotional-Learning-Research\/dp\/1462527914\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Handbook of social and emotional learning:<\/a> Research and practice<em>.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>2011: <a href=\"https:\/\/casel.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/meta-analysis-child-development-1.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">The impact of enhancing students\u2019 social and emotional learning:<\/a> A meta-analysis of school-based universal interventions.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-67056\" src=\"https:\/\/casel.s3.us-east-2.amazonaws.com\/roger-group-2.jpg?auto=compress&amp;fit=scale&amp;fm=pjpg&amp;h=426&amp;w=640\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"426\" srcset=\"https:\/\/casel.s3.us-east-2.amazonaws.com\/sites\/1\/.\/roger-group-2.jpg 768w, https:\/\/casel.s3.us-east-2.amazonaws.com\/sites\/1\/.\/roger-group-2.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/casel.s3.us-east-2.amazonaws.com\/sites\/1\/.\/roger-group-2.jpg 2048w, https:\/\/casel.s3.us-east-2.amazonaws.com\/sites\/1\/.\/roger-group-2.jpg 1100w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/p>\n\n                                  <\/div>\n              <\/div>\n            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