| 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 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: 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
| By: Kim Gulbrandson How SEL Supports Your MTSS Efforts (Part 2) As we dig deeper into how to implement both social-emotional learning (SEL) and MTSS, both of which are about explicit teaching, learn how students benefit from explicit instruction in social skills and behavioral development. Read More
| By: Committee for Children Implementing Responsive Classroom and Second Step in an Elementary School This Virginia school district implements and integrates these programs to help students develop important social-emotional skills. Responsive Classroom (RC) and Second Step are both evidence-based programs that focus on the strong relationship between academic success and social-emotional learning (SEL). Together, they provide tools for a safe and welcoming learning community, and for important academic, social, and emotional skills. Read More
| By: Kim Gulbrandson Implement SEL Within Multi-Tiered Systems of Support (Part 1) Part One of our series to help you navigate and harness the strengths of both Multi-Tiered Systems of Support (MTSS) and SEL to meet the needs of all your students. Read More