| By: Kim Gulbrandson Teachers Reveal 4 Cool Features of the Second Step Middle School Program “If I was to talk to another teacher to share about the Second Step program, I would tell them it’s awesome. I would tell them I love it.” —TeacherRead More
| By: Committee for Children Inclusive Communities—Activity Grades K-5—This activity helps students learn to be inclusive during group play, what it feels like to be left out, and how to invite others to join in. Read More
| By: Kim Gulbrandson 3 Amazing Changes Teachers Are Seeing from Implementing the Second Step Middle School Curriculum Teachers in sixth-, seventh-, and eighth-grade classrooms across the country who piloted the Second Step Middle School Program are full of good thingsRead More
| By: Joan Cole Duffell Meet the Makers of Our Middle School Program One thing we can all count on where middle school kids are concerned: That which was cool yesterday is just so done today. Thus sets off the challenge of creating relevant, engaging, and effective teaching tools that focus on the thing teRead More
| By: Joan Cole Duffell Response to Charlottesville: A Call for Empathy and Inclusion from Joan Cole Duffell The terrible events in Charlottesville and the news stories and conversations of the past week are weighing on our minds here at Committee for Children. Such hatred, violence, and intolerance can only be extinguished by working together now to buiRead More
| By: Kim Gulbrandson 3 Things Students Like About the Second Step Middle School Curriculum “This is good for kids to be able to learn about these types of things. I mean, you don’t get that at a lot of schools, and I think it’s really awesome that we’re able to do it here.” —StudentRead More
| By: Rachel Kamb Class Meeting: Different from You—Activity Grades 6-8—This exercise helps middle school students talk about what may be challenging about understanding other people’s differences and how to accept and celebrate them.Read More
| By: Juliet Kandel Quick Tools for Middle School Program Back-to-School Success Are you leading implementation of our new Second Step Middle School Program? (If not, you should be! Read More
| By: Kim Gulbrandson 4 Smart Strategies for Implementing the Second Step Middle School Program Effectively Teachers and administrators throughout the country piloted the Second Step Middle School Program and were interviewed after teaching the lessons. DuriRead More
| By: Tia Kim, PhD Take Action with SEL Data—Second Step Program Partners with Panorama Each year, over 10.6 million students learn social-emotional skills with the Second Step Program. To ensure that educators, schools, and districts can effectively track and measure Second Step competencies, we’ve partnered with Read More