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National Day of Action against Bullying and Violence - ‘Growing Connections’

The National Day of Action against Bullying and Violence (NDA) will be recognised by many school communities across Australia this Friday...

Trauma-informed Social & Emotional Learning

Trauma-informed SEL aims to create stable learning environments where students who have experienced trauma can develop positive relationship

SEL Day 2023 - Uplifting Hearts, Connecting Minds

Did you know that schools and communities around the globe come together each year on the 2nd Friday in March to celebrate the importance...

Student Wellbeing a key recommendation in Review of National School Reform Agreement report

The Review of the National School Reform Agreement (NSRA) report was released on 20 January 2023. It examines how well national policy...

Second Step and the Australian Curriculum

In the last blog we looked at a recent report to come out of the Grattan Institute, an independent think tank that aims to improve...

Teacher Workload and Second Step

Teacher workload is gaining increasing significance as education systems around the world struggle to recruit and retain adequate numbers...

Integrating Social Emotional Learning & Positive Behaviour for Learning - Part 2

Research shows that prosocial and problem behaviours are mediated by social, emotional and cognitive processes.

Resilience Activities for all Students

Resilience Activities for all Students - Second Step have put together a free resource to help students build resilience.

Managing emotions during extended lockdown periods

As lockdowns continue across many states and the uncertainty of this pandemic persists for all of us, let's remember the importance of...

How to engage your Emotional Intelligence to Support your Student’s Social-emotional Learning

There are many reasons to enhance your own emotional intelligence, one important factor is that emotions are contagious