Second Step® Program Awards

Award-winning impact

Award Highlights

  • 2026 CODiE Award for Best Student Wellbeing & SEL Solution, Education Technology
  • Tech & Learning Awards of Excellence: Best of 2025
  • Tech & Learning Awards of Excellence: Back to School 2025

Recognized for impact

Second Step programs recently earned three prestigious awards, validating their role as a proven, evidence-based digital solution that helps schools strengthen students’ essential human skills, improve school climate, and support measurable outcomes on a districtwide scale. In recognizing the very best in education products, these awards reinforce the trust districts have in Second Step programs to deliver on our promise of transforming school communities for the better and helping students everywhere thrive in learning and life.

2026 CODiE Award for Best Student Wellbeing & SEL Solution, Education Technology

This award recognizes excellence in education technology, honoring products that demonstrate innovation, measurable impact, and real-world value. In a category with hundreds of great education tech tools, this award shines a light on Second Step K–12 programs as the trusted leader in the field.

Tech & Learning Awards of Excellence: Best of 2025

Tech & Learning Awards of Excellence: Best of 2025

The most significant edtech recognition of Second Step K–12 digital programs to date, this award recognizes products that demonstrate exceptional educator support and student impact throughout the entire year. Judges celebrated several key Second Step features, including the comprehensive Leader Dashboard, engaging and flexible digital lessons, embedded educator supports, and more.

Tech & Learning Awards of Excellence: Back to School 2025

Description

This award recognizes products offering real solutions to challenges for educators, and our K–8 digital programs stood out for their versatility, impact, and innovation.