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Social Emotional Learning Curriculum
New Boston Central School utilizes Second Step: A Violence Prevention Curriculum as a universal prevention program. The program is taught to every student in the classroom and is designed to promote social competence. The curriculum teaches students several skills central to healthy social and emotional development, including: empathy, impulse control, and problem solving. This research based program helps increase children's safety and well-being by teaching them skills that promote peaceful approaches to problem solving and increase their social competence.
The developers of the Second Step Curriculum (Committe for Children) found research that indicates that social and emotional skills are important for the successful development of thinking and learning activites that are traditionally considered cognitive. Relationships affect many elements of cognitive learning . For example, under conditions of real or imagined threat or high anxiety, there is a loss of focus on the learning process, on the task itself, and on the use of flexible problem-solving processes. If students are distracted by social conflicts they have difficulty focusing on class discussions and tasks as well. The program developers also found that two of the reasons children usually fail to act prosocially are lack of knowledge as to what the appropriate behavior is and/or lack of opportunities to practice the behavioral skills. The Second Step curriculum strives to provide children with the information and practice they need to develop and practice behavioral skills so that they will be able to use those skills across a wide variety of settings (home, school, and community). Increasing children's competence in these areas frees up teaching time in the classroom and the ability for children to focus on and work cooperatively to complete academic tasks. These skills are also key to the future success of children since the ability to work cooperatively with others, to problem solve peacefully, and to regulate emotions are key qualities sought by potential employers in the world of work.
The school counselor co-facilitates these lessons with classroom teachers. Supplementary activities in the areas of conflict resolution, stress management, bullying prevention, and cyberbullying are provided by the school counselor as appropriate. The Second Step problem solving and anger management steps are incorporated by the school counselor into small group counseling sessions and used when students need assistance with resolving peer conflicts. For more information regarding the content of the program, the research basis for the program, or ways to supplement skill development at home please visit the Committee for Children website at www.secondstep.org or contact
Ms. Brown at 487-2211 ext. 5736.
The Second Step program has a wealth of on-line resources available to NBCS parents as well. These can be accessed by going to www.secondstep.org and using the access code for your child's grade level as follows:
1st Grade: SSP1 FAMI LY71
2nd Grade: SSP2 FAMI LY72
3rd Grade: SSP3 FAMI LY73
4th Grade: SSP4 FAMI LY74
5th Grade: SSP5 FAMI LY 75
The Committee for Children has now made a wealth of Second Step material available for use during remote learning periods at the following web address:
https://www.secondstep.org/covid19support
New Boston Central School utilizes Second Step: A Violence Prevention Curriculum as a universal prevention program. The program is taught to every student in the classroom and is designed to promote social competence. The curriculum teaches students several skills central to healthy social and emotional development, including: empathy, impulse control, and problem solving. This research based program helps increase children's safety and well-being by teaching them skills that promote peaceful approaches to problem solving and increase their social competence.
The developers of the Second Step Curriculum (Committe for Children) found research that indicates that social and emotional skills are important for the successful development of thinking and learning activites that are traditionally considered cognitive. Relationships affect many elements of cognitive learning . For example, under conditions of real or imagined threat or high anxiety, there is a loss of focus on the learning process, on the task itself, and on the use of flexible problem-solving processes. If students are distracted by social conflicts they have difficulty focusing on class discussions and tasks as well. The program developers also found that two of the reasons children usually fail to act prosocially are lack of knowledge as to what the appropriate behavior is and/or lack of opportunities to practice the behavioral skills. The Second Step curriculum strives to provide children with the information and practice they need to develop and practice behavioral skills so that they will be able to use those skills across a wide variety of settings (home, school, and community). Increasing children's competence in these areas frees up teaching time in the classroom and the ability for children to focus on and work cooperatively to complete academic tasks. These skills are also key to the future success of children since the ability to work cooperatively with others, to problem solve peacefully, and to regulate emotions are key qualities sought by potential employers in the world of work.
The school counselor co-facilitates these lessons with classroom teachers. Supplementary activities in the areas of conflict resolution, stress management, bullying prevention, and cyberbullying are provided by the school counselor as appropriate. The Second Step problem solving and anger management steps are incorporated by the school counselor into small group counseling sessions and used when students need assistance with resolving peer conflicts. For more information regarding the content of the program, the research basis for the program, or ways to supplement skill development at home please visit the Committee for Children website at www.secondstep.org or contact
Ms. Brown at 487-2211 ext. 5736.
The Second Step program has a wealth of on-line resources available to NBCS parents as well. These can be accessed by going to www.secondstep.org and using the access code for your child's grade level as follows:
1st Grade: SSP1 FAMI LY71
2nd Grade: SSP2 FAMI LY72
3rd Grade: SSP3 FAMI LY73
4th Grade: SSP4 FAMI LY74
5th Grade: SSP5 FAMI LY 75
The Committee for Children has now made a wealth of Second Step material available for use during remote learning periods at the following web address:
https://www.secondstep.org/covid19support