| By: Kim Gulbrandson 3 Amazing Changes Teachers Are Seeing from Implementing the Second Step Middle School Curriculum Teachers in sixth-, seventh-, and eighth-grade classrooms across the country who piloted the Second Step Middle School Program are full of good thingsRead More
| By: Joan Cole Duffell Meet the Makers of Our Middle School Program One thing we can all count on where middle school kids are concerned: That which was cool yesterday is just so done today. Thus sets off the challenge of creating relevant, engaging, and effective teaching tools that focus on the thing teRead More
| By: Joan Cole Duffell Response to Charlottesville: A Call for Empathy and Inclusion from Joan Cole Duffell The terrible events in Charlottesville and the news stories and conversations of the past week are weighing on our minds here at Committee for Children. Such hatred, violence, and intolerance can only be extinguished by working together now to buiRead More
| By: Carol Wood What Federal Education Policy Means for Your School The 2017–18 school year is upon us. In this new year, there’s a lot to know about what’s happening with federal education policy and how it affects your state, your classroom, and you. The following tips and rRead More
| 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 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: 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