Students at RES have SEL (Social Emotional Learning) lessons. The main curriculum used for SEL is called Second Step. Additional SEL lessons will be provided to meet the ASCA Mindsets & Behaviors Standards.

Second Step® Elementary, is a research-based social-emotional learning program designed to improve children’s social-emotional skills. Second Step skills and concepts are designed to help children both in and out of school.

Four units will cover the following:

* Growth Mindset & Goal-Setting: Children learn how to pay attention and manage distractions, develop a growth mindset, and apply goal-setting strategies to their social and academic lives.

* Emotion Management: Children learn how to identify and label emotions and use emotion management strategies—including stress management for older students—to calm strong feelings.

* Empathy & Kindness: Children learn how to recognize kindness and act kindly, have empathy for others and take others’ perspectives, and recognize kind acts and empathy as important elements of building and maintaining relationships.

* Problem-Solving: Children learn how to identify and state a problem, recognize if a problem is an accident, and use the STEP problem-solving process: S: Say the problem T: Think of solutions E: Explore the outcomes P: Pick a solution

In addition to Second Step, FCS has adopted the Overcoming Obstacles curriculum for teachers to integrate into the classroom to address social-emotional learning (SEL) of students. Through this research-based curriculum, students will learn important life skills including how to communicate effectively, how to make informed decisions, how to set and achieve goals, resolve conflicts, solve problems, respect one another, and more.