| By: Carol Wood CASEL and Committee for Children Sponsor Briefing on Improving Outcomes Through SEL On October 25, the Collaborative for Academic, Social, and Emotional Learning (CASEL), the Learning Policy Institute (LPI), and Committee for Children (CFC) held a briefing to discuss the valuRead More
| By: Joan Cole Duffell Meet the Makers of Our Middle School Program One thing we can all count on where middle school kids are concerned: That which was cool yesterday is just so done today. Thus sets off the challenge of creating relevant, engaging, and effective teaching tools that focus on the thing teRead More
| By: Kelly Doscher We’ve Consolidated Your Online Second Step Experience Second Step is instrumental in strengthening the social-emotional skills of over 10.6 million students every year in the US, and we extended our reach in 2017 with our digital Read More
| By: Kelly Doscher Announcing the New and Improved Committee for Children Website! Why Redesign? You may have been using the Committee for Children website as your go-to place for Second Step Program information and product purchases. As more and more classrooms and districts have implemented our programsRead More
| By: Matt Pearsall Meet the Makers of Our Middle School Program—Part 2 of 2 Part 2: Flexible Implementation In our last blog post, we talked about how we designed the lessons in the Second Step Middle School Program to be flexible enough to work in a wide variety of classrooms and with a wide varieRead More
| By: Matt Pearsall Meet the Makers of Our Middle School Program—Part 1 of 2 Part 1: Flexible Lessons An exciting part of the early design work we did on our Second Step Middle School Program was traveling around the country speaking to educators about what they needed from us. One thing we learned Read More
| By: Carol Wood Teacher Health and Wellness On June 14, 2017, Committee for Children and the Collaborative for Academic, Social, and Emotional Learning (CASEL) held a congressional briefing on “Teacher Health and Wellness: Fostering Student Achievement by Supporting Teachers’ Mental andRead More
| By: Rachel Kamb ISTE 2017 Conference & Expo Recap A few members of the Committee for Children team had the privilege of attending the International Society for Technology in Education (ISTE) Conference and Expo in San Antonio, Texas June 25–28. Rachel Kamb, a product maRead More
| By: Tia Kim Meet the Makers of Our Middle School Program Committee for Children takes great pride in how we develop our Second Step program. We not only take the most current research in the field and translate it into lessons that use best practices in pedagogy, but we take pains in designing those lesRead More
| By: Rachel Kamb Meet the Makers of Our Middle School Program Curious. Active. Egocentric. Argumentative. Inconsistent. Restless. Moody. Optimistic. Rebellious. Hopeful. Introspective. At-risk. Idealistic. Sound like someone you know? If you’ve ever been in a middle school classroom, or have spent aRead More