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.

Our mission is to work with school communities to help children become ethical people, contributing citizens and successful learners. By helping schools implement Open Circle, we foster the development of relationships that support safe, caring and respectful learning communities of children and adults.

Recognized as a leader in addressing the need for social and emotional learning in schools, Open Circle is listed in the U.S. Department of Education Expert Panel guidebook of Exemplary and Promising Safe, Disciplined, and Drug-Free Schools Programs and has been designed as a “Select” program by the Collaborative for Academic, Social, and Emotional Learning.

Open Circle has trained more than 7,000 teachers and reached over 400,000 students in public, independent, parochial, urban, suburban, and rural schools in New England, New York and New Jersey. Open Circle is a program of the Wellesley Centers for Women at Wellesley College.