| By: Carol Wood How States Are Ensuring That Every Student Succeeds (ESSA) Every state and school district will be required to implement the new federal education law, the Every Student Succeeds Act, or ESSA, beginning in federal FY 2018. This law has opportunities for states to set their own accountability standardsRead More
| By: Juliet Kandel K–5 Back-to-School Quick Tools Need some quick tools to energize your staff for SEL and the Second Step Program? Generate discussions and get everyone on the same page using these short videos in your back-to-school meetings: 1 ½ minute video: Read 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: 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: Kim Gulbrandson 8 Amazing SEL Resources and Happenings to Get Excited About! When I first started in education more than 20 years ago, the resources on social-emotional learning (SEL) were sparse. Over the past 10 years, research, knowledge, and resources on SEL have increased dramatically, much to our benefit. These are sRead 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: Kim Gulbrandson Middle School Students and Teachers Reveal How the Second Step Middle School Program Fosters Academic Success “One day I got like a bad grade on one of my tests and in my notebook was my If–Then Plan and I saw it . . . and it was like if I get a bad grade on my test then I will talk to my teacher and figure out what to do about it. And so 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: Carol Wood The Bully Pulpit Introduction Fifteen years ago, few states had explicit legislation aimed to reduce bullying. Today every state in the country has adopted policies to minimize bullying. Overall, 28 percent of students reported being victimRead 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