| By: Committee for Children Taming the Buy-In Monster This year, make the buy-in monster a little less scary: focus on your allies, find your innovators, and build some enthusiasm!Read More
| By: Andrea Lovanhill How to Save the World: Step One It was my work with children that could make a difference. By talking with those tiny humans, I began to understand that humanity’s abuses of the environment, animals, and each other are all connected.Read More
| By: Allison Schumacher The Tiny Teacher In the past week alone, I have been a ghost, a cowgirl, a dragon, a monkey, an Olympic figure skater, and a monster.Read More
| By: Committee for Children Book Review: Challenging Behavior in Elementary and Middle School by Barbara Kaiser and Judy Sklar Rasminsky Reading Level: Adult In the introduction to their award-winning Challenging Behavior in Elementary and Middle School, authors Barbara Kaiser and Judy Sklar Rasminsky write: “As a teacher or future teacher, you have two choices. Either you can create an environment that welcomes [students] and teaches them how to become the best…Read More
| By: Committee for Children Sexting: The Anonymity Irony As parents, teachers, and children navigate our quickly evolving cyberscape, with its continents and oceans of Internet, texting, blogs, instant messaging, and social networking sites, not to mention whole new dialects and norms, we find both limitless possibility and opportunity for trouble. Although in many ways it is the young people who are leading this expedition, it is up to the adults to balance sharing our wisdom and experience with allowing our progeny to find their own…Read More
| By: Committee for Children A Perspective from Dachau I love my job for many reasons. I get to travel the country and meet with schools that use Committee for Children programs or want to know more about social-emotional learning.Read More
| By: Andrea Lovanhill In Praise of an Excellent Teacher Last week was Teacher Appreciation Week, and I have to admit it made me quite nostalgic for one or two educators who made a difference in my life.Read More
| By: Committee for Children Beloit Schools Aim to Tackle Bullies http://www.beloitdailynews.com/news/local_news/schools-aim-to-tackle-bullies/article_01b692db-d259-561a-8c35-55847bf87a30.htmlRead More
| By: Andrea Lovanhill The New Dairy Council Committee for Children offers a wonderful array of evidence-based social-emotional learning curricula, but we certainly are not alone as providers of quality SEL programs.Read More
| By: Committee for Children In My Father’s Shoes While I was growing up, I frequently clashed with my dad, a Greek immigrant, who had different ideas about the how I should live my life.Read More