Second Step

What is Second Step? https://www.secondstep.org/middle-school-curriculum

Middle school is a time of change. Second Step helps you teach powerful skills and competencies—like handling strong emotions, setting and meeting goals, making good decisions, and forging positive relationships—while building the safe, supported learning environment middle schoolers need to succeed.

The Second Step Middle School Program is a first-of-its-kind SEL curriculum that’s modern, web-based, and responsive to the needs of today’s students and educators. It’s underpinned by the latest research in adolescent brain development and social psychology, and it’s been refined through multiple pilot programs in classrooms across the country. The result is a program that doesn’t just help kids do better in school. It helps them do better in life.

ParenTeen Connect

https://www.parenteenconnect.org/

Included in the program, both in advisory materials for students and as an at-home family engagement resource, is this online experience featuring candid videos and the guidance of parenting expert Dr. Laura Kastner. Designed by social-emotional learning experts, it helps teens and the adults in their lives communicate, connect, and break through on hot-button topics like communication, independence, responsibility, and screen time.