What Is Second Step®?

All Second Step^® programs include supports for families, from weekly letters and book lists to free resources like The Imagine Neighborhood^™ podcast series and ParenTeen Connect. Families can also bring social-emotional learning home through our Captain Compassion^® comics, which give kids and adults the power to prevent bullying, as well as our Hot Chocolate Talk^® resource, which helps families talk about child safety.

Social-emotional learning classroom kits and online resources to help your littlest learners harness their energy and potential.

A stand-alone unit with staff training, student lessons, and family materials to help prevent child abuse and neglect.

Universal, classroom-based, social-emotional learning curriculum for Kindergarten–Grade 5 that nurtures children’s social-emotional competence and foundational learning skills.

Lessons, activities, and take-home materials to help educators prevent bullying throughout the school.

A stand-alone unit with staff training, student lessons, and family materials to help prevent child abuse and neglect.

Web-based, teacher-facilitated lessons and advisory activities, along with program training and resources to help middle schoolers build social-emotional skills for life.

In 2021, our adult professional learning program will be available to support the social-emotional development of K–12 educators. Second Step SEL for Adults is a stand-alone program, so even if your high school doesn’t have a student-facing social-emotional learning (SEL) curriculum, the program will help build a stronger school community around SEL—starting with the adults.

A stand-alone professional learning program for schools and districts to inspire and strengthen the school community by supporting K–12 educators’ social-emotional development.
Coming in 2021

A research-based program for after-school and other out-of-school time settings that helps support youth development and build more positive communities through social-emotional learning. The program includes age-appropriate activities for children in Grades K–5 as well as online training and embedded supports for adult facilitators.