| By: Committee for Children The Role of Parents in SEL Assessment: Supporting Your Child’s Social and Emotional Growth By creating SEL consistencies between school and home, parents can cultivate well-rounded children who feel stable across all environments. Here we share ways you can nurture and expand your child’s social and emotional competencies at home.Read More
| By: Committee for Children Using SEL Assessments to Foster Inclusive Education Assessments can incorporate multiple perspectives, including teachers and parents and self-reporting from students themselves. Together, they provide data-driven insights on each student’s skills across the five core competencies of SEL: self-awareness, self-management, social awareness, relationship skills, and responsible decision-making. Read More
| By: Committee for Children The Future of SEL: Navigating Success Through Assessment Partnerships How do you ensure that your social-emotional learning (SEL) curriculum is not only engaging, but also effective? Reimagine assessment as an integral part of the learning journey.Read More
| By: Committee for Children Make SEL Day More than Just One Day CEO Andrea Lovanhill shares her insights on where we are today in bringing critical life skills to students in the classroom and what the future holds for the collective impact we can make on children and communities through social-emotional learning. Read More
| By: Committee for Children 4 Strategies for Effective SEL Implementation Starting a new learning paradigm or program can be daunting, but when it comes to social-emotional learning, it doesn’t have to be. Here are four takeaway strategies you can use to effectively implement an SEL program in your learning community. Read More
| By: Committee for Children New Directions for Second Step® Programs in 2023–2024: A Back-to-School Update with Liliana Suero Second Step® Elementary and Second Step® Middle School digital programs are reset and updated every summer in preparation for the coming school year. With this year’s reset complete and updates underway, we sat down with Director of Product Management Liliana Suero to learn more about what this year’s changes are all about.Read More
| By: Committee for Children How Can Mindfulness Benefit Students? This fall, the Second Step® Elementary digital program will be updated to include optional access to a library of mindfulness sessions. We sat down with Dr. Cailin Currie, a developmental psychologist and senior research scientist at Committee for Children, to talk about this new resource and its potential classroom benefits.Read More
| 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