| 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
| By: Juliet Kandel K–5 Back-to-School Quick Tools Need some quick tools to energize your staff for SEL and the Second Step Program? Generate discussions and get everyone on the same page using these short videos in your back-to-school meetings: 1 ½ minute video: Read More
| By: Matt Pearsall Meet the Makers of Our Middle School Program—Part 2 of 2 Part 2: Flexible Implementation In our last blog post, we talked about how we designed the lessons in the Second Step Middle School Program to be flexible enough to work in a wide variety of classrooms and with a wide varieRead More
| By: Juliet Kandel Early Learning Back-to-School Quick Tools Need some quick back-to-school tools to energize your staff for SEL and the Second Step Early Learning Program?Read More
| By: Kim Gulbrandson 8 Amazing SEL Resources and Happenings to Get Excited About! When I first started in education more than 20 years ago, the resources on social-emotional learning (SEL) were sparse. Over the past 10 years, research, knowledge, and resources on SEL have increased dramatically, much to our benefit. These are sRead More
| By: Matt Pearsall Meet the Makers of Our Middle School Program—Part 1 of 2 Part 1: Flexible Lessons An exciting part of the early design work we did on our Second Step Middle School Program was traveling around the country speaking to educators about what they needed from us. One thing we learned Read More