Second Step

Updated 8/4/22.

Kyffin uses the new digital based Second Step Program (k-5). This research-based program is designed to improve children's social emotional skills in and out of school. The four units are:

• 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 manage 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.

Friendship skills are integrated throughout the learning in these 4 areas.

Kyffin's preschool also uses a non-digital Second Step curriculum.