What is Second Step?
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Dunlap School District has launched a K-12 social, emotional, and behavioral learning program called “Second Step”. This program is designed to increase students’ school success and decrease problem behaviors by promoting social-emotional competence and self-regulation.
The program contains approximately twenty-two lessons which will be taught throughout the year in your child’s classroom. These lessons will strengthen abilities in:
· Skills for Learning
· Empathy
· Emotion Management
· Problem-Solving
Second Step lessons provide children with the information and practice they need to develop and strengthen positive behavioral skills. These lessons include weekly theme activities, brain builder games, reinforcing activities, and home links. Second Step skills helps create a safer, more respectful learning environment that promotes school success for all. Ridgeview Elementary School is eager to begin this program and looks forward to the positive impact it will offer.
For more information regarding the content of the program, please contact your child’s school counselor Mrs. Dando, classroom teacher, or visit the Committee for Children website at www.cfchildren.org.
Second Step: Skills for Social and Academic Success (2011). Review and Research: Second Step Program. Committee for Children. Retrieved July 30, 2013 from //www.cfchildren.org/Portals/0/SS_K5/K-5_DOC/K-5_Review_Research_SS.pdf
The program contains approximately twenty-two lessons which will be taught throughout the year in your child’s classroom. These lessons will strengthen abilities in:
· Skills for Learning
· Empathy
· Emotion Management
· Problem-Solving
Second Step lessons provide children with the information and practice they need to develop and strengthen positive behavioral skills. These lessons include weekly theme activities, brain builder games, reinforcing activities, and home links. Second Step skills helps create a safer, more respectful learning environment that promotes school success for all. Ridgeview Elementary School is eager to begin this program and looks forward to the positive impact it will offer.
For more information regarding the content of the program, please contact your child’s school counselor Mrs. Dando, classroom teacher, or visit the Committee for Children website at www.cfchildren.org.
Second Step: Skills for Social and Academic Success (2011). Review and Research: Second Step Program. Committee for Children. Retrieved July 30, 2013 from //www.cfchildren.org/Portals/0/SS_K5/K-5_DOC/K-5_Review_Research_SS.pdf