Committee for Children Blog

Teaching Kids About Sexual Assault

http://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2014/05/teaching-sexual-assault-prevention-in-kindergarten/360485/Read More


Responding to Situations That Could Involve Bullying

A few days ago, I was walking into an elementary school building as students were preparing to start the day by lining up on the playground with their classrooms. Immediately after getting out of my car, I noticed a little girl sitting on the ground, crying hysterically. She was sitting next to another student, and her head was lying on this student’s shoulder. There were at least 10 other students standing there, watching the crying girl. Two of the boys who were watching kept pointing their fingers at each other, saying “He did it!”Read More


Top 10 Testing Tips

The testing era is upon us whether we like it or not. It is our job as teachers to make this experience as less stressful as possible. Here are a few tips.Read More


Book Review: Sitting Still Like a Frog: Mindfulness Exercises for Kids (and Their Parents)

by Eline Snel. Includes a 60-minute audio CD of guided exercises read by Myla Kabat-Zinn.

Reading level: adult (audio CD with guided meditations for kindergarten and older)

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The Good Kind of Student Assessment

Research is showing more and more positive effects of social-emotional learning (SEL), making it an essential part of school curriculum. But just as with math and reading programs, it’s important to assess whether students are truly learning what they’re being taught. That’s why we’ve teamed up with two great…Read More


Pencils Down: Helping Kids Overcome Test Anxiety

by Emilie Coulter

Stomachaches, headaches, reluctance to go to school, outbursts of tears or anger, sweaty palms…

Big worries, little people

Children, some as young as kindergarten-age, suffer from a particular kind of anxiety, the source of which is not going away any time soon. According to Teachers College at Columbia University, American kids take more than 100 million…Read More


Character Matters . . .

My first year of teaching my goal was to have a well managed classroom because I had heard so many of those stories about “the first year teacher” who couldn't control her kids! I was determined that wasn't going to be me, my first year… or ever. I read all the books about classroom management and implemented many strategies, but after a few months, even though my classroom was “managed” pretty well, I still felt there was something lacking in my classroom environment. Even though I was following all the standards and doing a pretty darn good job as a first year teacher designing individualized education for each of my students, there was still some element missing, for me and for them.Read More