| By: Committee for Children What’s New and Coming Soon with Second Step® Programs: An Update from Director of Programs Rachel Kamb At Committee for Children, educators are trusted partners in growing and improving our Second Step family of social-emotional learning (SEL) programs. We sat down with Director of Programs Rachel Kamb, whose role focuses on how our programs can help meet educators’ needs, to talk about this year’s updates and coming changes.Read More
| By: Committee for Children Product and Innovation: 2021 Year in Review By Mia Doces and Polly Stansell This year emphasized how important it is to be innovative when responding to the evolving needs of students and educators. As the COVID-19 pandemic persisted, we continued to provide our trusted family ofRead More
| By: Committee for Children Family Engagement Resources for Building Stronger Communications at Your School Family engagement is an integral part of Second Step® social-emotional learning (SEL) programs. Each program contains a variety of resources and communications to help you connect with families, share social-emotional learning goals, and provide insight into how parents can support and reinforce social-emotional skills and concepts at home.Read More
| By: Committee for Children Fortify Youth Mental Health with Social-Emotional Learning Educators and caregivers have tremendous influence on the mental health of children and youth. We’ve handpicked some research-based resources that provide more mental health information as well as tips shown to boost positive outcomes. Read More
| By: Committee for Children Back-to-School Basics for Second Step® Programs It’s not just students who need help transitioning from summer to the new school year. We’ve summed up years of aggregated wisdom into three bits of advice.Read More
| By: Polly Stansell SEL for Today: A New Second Step® Elementary Digital Program Is Coming Spring 2021 Our long-standing commitment to listening to these leaders’ voices has helped us continuously improve our research- and evidence-based social-emotional learning (SEL) programs. Today, that commitment brings us to an exciting announcement: the release of our new, fully web-based Second Step® Elementary digital program this spring. Read More
| By: Mylien Duong, PhD How to Make Meaning After Traumatic Events In this blog post, Dr. Mylien Duong shares tips and an exercise for slowing down, reflecting, and finding meaning after trauma.Read More
| By: Committee for Children Navigating 2020 with the Help of Social-Emotional Learning Despite the shifting landscape of the COVID-19 pandemic and the sociopolitical turmoil of 2020, Committee for Children’s Second Step® teams rose to support district administrators, school leaders, educators, and students when they needed it most. Here are three highlights from 2020.Read More
| By: Committee for Children Building Student Engagement Through SEL Social-emotional competencies are vital to kids’ short- and long-term success—not just during the pandemic, but after it, too. Educators can nurture these skills by providing children explicit opportunities for social-emotional learning (SEL).Read More
| By: Committee for Children Getting Children Ready to Learn: Tips for Educators and Families We asked our experts Bridgid Normand, special advisor for learning and impact, and Jasmine Williams, senior research scientist, to provide some insight on the effects of the pandemic on children—and what you as an educator can do to help.Read More