| By: Kelly Doscher The Power to Create a Positive School Climate Research shows that feeling unsafe at school affects students’ ability to learn, focus, and take academic risks. Our research-based bullying prevention curriculum reflects our nearly forty-year commitment to fostering the safety and well-being of children.Read More
| By: Kelly Doscher Summer Reading List: SEL In and Out of The School Year Social-emotional learning is important year-round. Get some good summer reading in, either together or on your own, with these titles for families, students, and educators that we’ve curated from our Second Step Suite. Read More
| By: Kelly Doscher The Hot Chocolate Talk: The Discussion Every Parent Needs to Have Child sexual abuse thrives on silence—but we can help to keep kids safe by talking openly and often to children about abuse. The Hot Chocolate Talk is our new initiative that, with multiple resources, helps parents and caretakers know what to say and do to protect kids from predators, starting now. Read More
| By: Kelly Doscher FREE Classroom Challenge—“Can’t Stop the Feeling” Video Treasure Hunt In this classroom challenge, students can look up, down, and all around for their favorite Second Step characters in our 360º New Year’s video! This musical classroom challenge celebrates educators and the kids who work year-round to learn SEL skills. Read More
| By: Kelly Doscher Advancing Child Well-Being: Introducing Jordan Posamentier, Senior Manager of Policy & Advocacy Introducing our new senior manager of Policy & Advocacy, Jordan Posamentier, who will lead the charge in developing policies that support the whole child—from social-emotional learning (SEL) to child protection and bullying prevention.Read More
| By: Kelly Doscher Streaming Lesson Media Now Included in the Second Step K–5 Suite Second Step educators can now access Second Step SEL, Child Protection Unit, and Bullying Prevention Unit lesson media online as part of their program.Read More
| By: Kelly Doscher Funding Sources for SEL: Federal and State Opportunities In August 2017, Committee for Children and Jennifer House, President of RedRock Reports, hosted an in-depth webinarRead More
| By: Kelly Doscher Cross the Room—Activity Grades K-5—This early elementary activity is from our Second Step Program and is a fun and easy way to help students get to know each other better and find out what they have in common.Read More
| By: Kelly Doscher We’ve Consolidated Your Online Second Step Experience Second Step is instrumental in strengthening the social-emotional skills of over 10.6 million students every year in the US, and we extended our reach in 2017 with our digital Read More
| By: Kelly Doscher Announcing the New and Improved Committee for Children Website! Why Redesign? You may have been using the Committee for Children website as your go-to place for Second Step Program information and product purchases. As more and more classrooms and districts have implemented our programsRead More