| By: Kim Gulbrandson Avoid the Setback of Forgotten SEL Skills with 5 Teaching Tools Second Step involves five teaching elements that can ensure students learn social-emotional skills and use them for the long term.Read More
| By: Kim Gulbrandson Top 6 Considerations for Measuring Social-Emotional Learning New resources are available to help schools with social-emotional learning measurement and assessment.Read More
| By: Committee for Children Our Legacy, Our Future Committee for Children’s Executive Director, Joan Cole Duffell, shares the nonprofit’s grassroots beginnings, its audacious ambitions for the future, and why social-emotional learning (SEL) is more important than ever. Read More
| By: Committee for Children Teaching If–Then Plans: Accomplishing Goals for Real If—Then Plans are a key part of the Second Step middle school program. They’re the core goal-setting strategy and make regular appearances throughout the program whenever students are asked to plan ahead for difficult situations.Read More
| By: Committee for Children Record High Demand for Social-Emotional Learning in US Schools Districts across the US show record high demand for social-emotional learning curriculum and positive impacts of SEL on schools and students.Read More
| By: Kim Gulbrandson 6 Surprising Ways Students’ Voices Affect Social-Emotional Learning Adults support students in developing the social-emotional skills, but it’s ultimately up to students to use and apply SEL skills in the real world. Students give voice to social-emotional learning in schools.Read More
| By: Kim Gulbrandson 4 Key Ways to Sustain Social-Emotional Learning in Schools How many initiatives have you seen come and go during your time in education? Social-emotional learning (SEL) is trending, so you may be tempted to think of it as just another such passing fad. But SEL shouldn’t be lumped in with temporarRead More
| By: Committee for Children Second Step Social-Emotional Learning for Out-of-School Time Is Under Development Committee for Children is excited to announce that we’re developing a social-emotional learning (SEL) program for out-of-school time (OST) contexts.Read More
| By: Jordan Posamentier New Laws: Responding to Trauma with Social-Emotional Learning Trauma-informed practice has been around for decades but has taken off recently in policy areas and now permeates schools and districts, mapping closely to social-emotional learning (SEL).Read More
| By: Kim Gulbrandson How to Work with State Education Agencies to Support Social-Emotional Learning Teachers, education administrators and parents can connect with state education agencies to support social-emotional learning in schoolsRead More