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Second Step

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Braelinn students in grades K –2 will participate in the Second Step program.

Overview of the Second Step program

Second Step is a curriculum designed to reduce impulsive and aggressive behavior in children and to increase their level of social competence. It does this by teaching skills in empathy, impulse control and anger management.

Why use Second Step?

  • It has been given an A rating by the American Medical Association
  • Research over the past 20 years on the early indicators of violent adolescent and adult behavior has shown that deficits in the areas of empathy skills, impulse control, problem-solving skills, and anger management consistently appear in those who show violent behaviors. Second Step covers those skills for students in grades K-2.
  • Second Step has been piloted in several schools around the country and has proven to significantly reduce aggressive and impulsive acts among those children who have been taught the program.
  • Second Step is a violence-prevention curriculum that is designed to help children learn prosocial skills and reduce impulsive-aggressive behavior. To reach this end, the curriculum is built upon the following goals:
    1. To increase children's ability to:
      • identify others' feelings
      • take others' perspectives, and
      • respond empathically to others
    2. To decrease impulsive and aggressive behavior in children through:
      • applying a problem-solving strategy to social situations, and
      • practicing behavioral social skills.
    3. To decrease angry behavior in children through:
      • recognizing angry feelings, and
      • using anger-reduction techniques.