Lynbrook Elementary Schools are using the Second Step: A Violence Prevention Curriculum to help us think about, develop, and practice positive social skills. Second Step is a program that is based on social emotional learning which has been proven to have a direct impact on bully awareness and prevention. Incorporating photographs and videos of children in everyday situations, Second Step lessons introduce and teach these skills. All students are given the chance to practice the skills they’re learning through role-playing, an important part of Second Step lessons.
Families play a crucial role in the success of the Second Step program!
The Second Step program is divided into three units:
Unit I: Empathy
Empathy means identifying and understanding your own and others’ feelings in order to get along better.
Unit II: Impulse Control
This unit focused on impulse control and problem solving. Impulse control means slowing down and thinking rather than doing the first thing that pops into your head. Problem solving is a strategy for dealing with problems we face with other people and as individuals. Calming-down techniques were introduced to give your child the skills to compose him- or herself so that a given problem can be solved more effectively.
Click here to review our Impulse Control Summary Letter for Parents
Click here to review our Problem Solving Poster for Family Members and Students
Unit III: Anger Management
This unit focused on anger management. The lessons did not teach that feeling angry is bad. However, they did teach that how one acts when angry is critical. The anger-management steps and the calming-down techniques the children learned and practiced were designed to help them recognize, understand, and manage their anger.
Click here to review our Anger Management Summary Letter for Parents
Click here to review our Anger Management Poster for Family Members and Students
Lynbrook Elementary Schools are using the Second Step: A Violence Prevention Curriculum to help us think about, develop, and practice positive social skills. Second Step is a program that is based on social emotional learning which has been proven to have a direct impact on bully awareness and prevention. Incorporating photographs and videos of children in everyday situations, Second Step lessons introduce and teach these skills. All students are given the chance to practice the skills they’re learning through role-playing, an important part of Second Step lessons.
Families play a crucial role in the success of the Second Step program!
The Second Step program is divided into three units:"Committee For Children" is the company that has created this program...
A nonprofit working globallyto prevent bullying,
violence, and child abuseSecond Step: A Violence Prevention Curriculum
Second Step: A Violence Prevention Curriculum is a research-based curriculum that teaches social and emotional skills for violence prevention. The program is user-friendly and contains parent education components. It aims to reduce impulsive and aggressive behaviors and increase protective factors and social competence in children from preschool through junior high. Children learn how to respond empathically to others and practice skill steps for calming down, reducing anger, and solving problems. The classroom-based curriculum, organized by grade level, teaches children to practice empathy, problem-solving skills, risk assessment, decision-making, and goal-setting.
Evaluation Results:
A number of evaluations of the Second Step program have been conducted. A one-year evaluation of grades 2–3 in twelve schools examined the impact of Second Step on aggression and positive social behavior. Randomly assigned pairs were matched on socioeconomic and ethnic makeup, one to a control group and the other to Second Step. Behavioral observations indicated that physical aggression and hostile and aggressive comments decreased from autumn to spring among students who were in the Second Step classrooms and increased among students in the control classrooms. Friendly behavior (including pro-social and neutral interactions) increased from autumn to spring in Second Step classrooms, but did not change in control classrooms. At a six-month follow-up, it was found that students in the Second Step classes maintained the higher levels of positive interaction and lower levels of aggression.
An evaluation of the middle school/junior high curriculum that compared students receiving the curriculum with those not receiving the intervention, on pre- and post-measures found less approval of aggression and exclusion among students receiving the intervention than for those not receiving the intervention.
The following is a summary of Second Step evaluation outcomes by grade level:
Elementary school level:
- Decreased aggression on the playground and in conflict situations
- Decreased need for adult intervention
- More pro-social goal-setting
- Increased social competence and positive social behavior
- Higher levels of empathic behavior in conflict situations (girls)
Middle and junior high school level:
- Less approval for physical, verbal and relational aggression
- Increased confidence in their ability to regulate emotions and problem-solve
- Improved ability to perform social-emotional skills
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