Based on over 20 years of research and classroom application, the SECOND   STEP   program integrates academics with social and emotional learning.

Children learn and practice important skills, such as anger management, cooperation, respectful behavior, and problem solving. These skills help decrease students' negative and violent behaviors - fighting, name-calling, and stereotyping - helping to return the focus of classroom time to where it belings: learning.

Children also learn to recognize and respect people with different backgrounds, perspectives, and ethnicities. These essential life skills will help students in the classroom, on the playground and at home.

The SECOND   STEP program teaches Empathy, Impulse Control, Problem Solving, and Anger Management. It is taught in Kindergarten through Fourth Grade.