| By: Kim Gulbrandson Begin Your School Year by Maximizing Students’ Social Brain Power “Being socially connected is a lifelong passion.” I read this quote from neuropsychologist Matthew Lieberman in a UCLA Newsroom Read More
| By: Committee for Children Where the Wild Things Are Reading Guide—Activity Ages 3–6—This reading guide, which aligns with the Second Step curriculum, can help young children recognize and understand their own difficult feelings and how they can feel better.Read More
| By: Joan Cole Duffell Response to Charlottesville: A Call for Empathy and Inclusion from Joan Cole Duffell The terrible events in Charlottesville and the news stories and conversations of the past week are weighing on our minds here at Committee for Children. Such hatred, violence, and intolerance can only be extinguished by working together now to buiRead More
| By: Bridgid Normand Teaching Touching Safety Rules: Safe and Unsafe Touching—Activity Grades K–5—Knowing what to say can be hard when teaching your kids about their personal space and how to protect themselves. This quick-guide is here to help.Read More
| By: Carol Wood What Federal Education Policy Means for Your School The 2017–18 school year is upon us. In this new year, there’s a lot to know about what’s happening with federal education policy and how it affects your state, your classroom, and you. The following tips and rRead More
| By: Tia Kim Take Action with SEL Data—Second Step Program Partners with Panorama Each year, over 10.6 million students learn social-emotional skills with the Second Step Program. To ensure that educators, schools, and districts can effectively track and measure Second Step competencies, we’ve partnered with Read More
| By: Juliet Kandel Early Learning Back-to-School Quick Tools Need some quick back-to-school tools to energize your staff for SEL and the Second Step Early Learning Program?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: Kim Gulbrandson 13 Reasons Why Teachers Are Appreciated May 9th is National Teacher Appreciation Day, a time to show our thanks to teachers for all they do. In honor of this day and of teachers in general, I asked others about why they value teachers. I interviewed children, parents and grandparents, including Joan Duffell, Executive Director of Committee for Children, a non-profit organization dedicated to fostering the safety and well-being of children through social-emotional learning and development. Of course, I added in my thoughts too. In total, 13 of us share why we appreciate teachers, and we mean every last word!Read More
| By: Shauna McBride Social-Emotional Learning The field of social-emotional learning (SEL) has made many exciting strides since Committee for Children introduced its first curriculum in 1989. During April 2017, in particular, a number of reports were published intended to advance the field of SEL.Read More