| By: Committee for Children Two Myths About Child Sexual Abuse There’s a lot we can do to help keep our children safe from abuse when we know the facts. Learn about what you should know, and what you can do.Read More
| By: Committee for Children Solutions to Community Problems—Activity Grades K-5—Working together to understand and solve problems is a skill set students will use throughout their education and take into adulthood.Read More
| By: Kim Gulbrandson Tap Into Empathy and Respect and You Can Connect Communication is the key to many aspects of life. By teaching important social skills like listening and empathy, educators give students the tools to respectfully interact with their peers and the adults in their lives. Read More
| By: Kim Gulbrandson Preparing Students for Tough Conversations From childhood to adulthood, conversations have an impact on daily life. We communicate every day, many times a day, and the skills we use to talk with others determine whether the outcomes of these interactions are good or bad.Read More
| By: Committee for Children Second Step Child Protection Unit: Working Together to Keep Kids Safe Learn how policies and procedures, staff training, student lessons, and family materials in the Child Protection Unit for Early Learning through Grade 5 help keep children safe from child abuse and neglect.Read More
| By: Committee for Children The Second Step K-5 Suite: Improve Academics, Support Students, and Create a Positive School Climate Join us to learn how our evidence-based social-emotional learning (SEL) curriculum integrates with our Bullying Prevention and Child Protection Units to create the Second Step K-5 Suite. These programs work seamlessly together to improve academics, support students, and create a positive school climate.Read More
| By: Kim Gulbrandson Grit, Growth Mindset, Mindfulness: Are These Trending Topics of SEL? Social emotional learning (SEL) is trending in education. The last 15 years of research has shown the many benefits to teaching SEL, such as reductions in violence and truancy and gains in academic test scores. Read More
| By: Kim Gulbrandson Everyone Has a Role to Play in Preventing Bullying: Part 2 of 2 Bullying has always existed, although it has not always been consistently and actively addressed in the school setting. Recent research has shown that bullying prevention efforts that build a positive school climate and invite disapproval of bullying can result in many positive outcomes, such as increased positive bystander behavior, decreased support for bullying, increased willingness to intervene in bullying, increased willingness to support bullied students, and increased reporting of bullying.Read More
| By: Kim Gulbrandson Everyone Has a Role to Play in Preventing Bullying: Part 1 of 2 Bullying does not occur in isolation. Social ecological and systems models of bullying indicate that it occurs within a dynamic, complex framework of interrelationships between people and their environment, including individuals, peers, family, community, and school. They emphasize that we all need to partner in the effort to prevent bullying.Read More
| By: Committee for Children Why Don’t Kids Report Bullying? There’s good evidence that young people often don’t report bullying to adults. Children are adept at hiding bullying-related behaviors and the unequal “shadow” power dynamics that can exist among them. Because of this secrecy, adults underestimate the seriousness and extent of bullying at their schools. Read More