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Second Step® High School helps school leaders and classroom educators work with students to co-develop learning conditions that provide students with a positive school climate, adaptive experiences and mindsets, and skills and knowledge for navigating adolescence. It uses research-based approaches that support adolescents’ social-emotional development. Research indicates that for social-emotional learning programs for older students, strategies aimed at changing school climate and adolescents’ perceptions of themselves and their world via new experiences are generally more effective than direct skill instruction (Yeager, 2017). So Second Step High School combines all three of the following to promote effective adolescent social-emotional development.