What is Second Step Curriculum:

A holistic approach to building supportive communities for every child through social-emotional learning. Second Step is research-based, teacher-informed, and classroom-tested to promote the social-emotional development, safety, and well-being of children from Early Learning through Grade 8.

The Second Step curriculum is used for monthly classroom lessons. After explaining what a counselor is and how a counselor can help a student in the month of August, we begin utilizing the Second Step curriculum which covers topics including learning to listen, focus attention and follow directions, understanding empathy and feelings, managing emotions, as well as solving problems.