| By: Bridgid Normand Teaching Touching Safety Rules: Safe and Unsafe Touching—Activity Grades K–5—Knowing what to say can be hard when teaching your kids about their personal space and how to protect themselves. This quick-guide is here to help.Read 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: Kelly Doscher We’ve Consolidated Your Online Second Step Experience Second Step is instrumental in strengthening the social-emotional skills of over 10.6 million students every year in the US, and we extended our reach in 2017 with our digital 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: Kelly Doscher Announcing the New and Improved Committee for Children Website! Why Redesign? You may have been using the Committee for Children website as your go-to place for Second Step Program information and product purchases. As more and more classrooms and districts have implemented our programsRead 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: Kelly Doscher Committee for Children and UW Sponsor 7th Annual Bullying Research Network Think Tank On July 27–28, 2017, Committee for Children and the University of Washington co-hosted the seventh annual Bullying Research Network Think Tank in Seattle, WA. The topic of discussion was “Translational Research in Cyberbullying: What We Know aRead 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