| By: Kim Gulbrandson The Place of Explicit Social-Emotional Skills Instruction The decisions on how to support the development of social-emotional attitudes, skills, and behaviors reside with those who make the determinations about which SEL practices to adopt.Read More
| By: Kim Gulbrandson Four Tips for Aligning and Integrating Social-Emotional Learning Calling all teachers, administrators, school social workers, school psychologists, guidance counselors, specialists, and assistants! Are you functioning in burnout mode? Do you feel like you’re working too hard and doing too many things tRead More
| By: Barry Landry Introducing Polly Stansell as VP of Product The newest member of our leadership team, Polly handles strategic product vision and guides product delivery and execution through its full delivery cycle.Read More
| By: Committee for Children Back-to-School Resources for Parents (Plus a Reminder) As kids head back to school, Second Step resources for both schools and families make it easier for all the adults in a community to help our children be happy, healthy, and productive.Read More
| By: Committee for Children Teaching the Second Step Middle School Program? Check Out These New Features for Fall We’re happy to share that updates and improvements have been made to the Second Step Middle School Program. If you currently teach the program, here are some of the changes you can look forward to in the fall.Read More
| By: Committee for Children Back-to-School Basics for Second Step® 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: Kim Gulbrandson What’s New with Social-Emotional Learning (SEL) in 2018 Not long ago, SEL was widely unfamiliar and people would ask what it is and how to focus on it. Now, people are asking how to integrate it. Learn more.Read More
| By: Committee for Children New Look, Same Mission For 40 years, our nonprofit has been a trailblazer in the field of social-emotional learning (SEL), remaining faithful to our mission. See what’s new!Read More
| By: Carolyn Hubbard Second Step and SEL’s Strong Presence in Northern European Education Prososial, started by a child psychologist and a principal in Norway, is one of CFC’s long-standing partners and has adapted and produced Second Step SEL programs for implementation in Norwegian preschools and primary schools. Read More
| By: Kim Gulbrandson Character Education and SEL: What You Should Know Are you wondering whether character education and social-emotional learning (SEL) are the same? You’re not the only one. Learn their differences and how to tell them apart. Read More