| By: Committee for Children Academic, Social, and Emotional Learning Act of 2013 Working with CASEL, Committee for Children will be supporting the Academic, Social, and Emotional Learning AcRead More
| By: Committee for Children Support for Implementing Social, Emotional Learning http://www.edutopia.org/blog/social-emotional-learning-second-step-maurice-eliasRead More
| By: Committee for Children Forging a Relationship Between School Counseling Students and Inner-City Schools: Part 2 Here’s a story of a remarkable relationship between a university and a local inner-city school and how a school counseling professor has used the Second Step program as a tool to simultaneously promote children’s social-emotional development while providing her graduate students with the opportunity for hands-on practice.Read More
| By: Committee for Children Forging a Relationship Between School Counseling Students and Inner-City Schools: Part 1 Here’s a story of a remarkable relationship between a university and a local inner-city school and how a school counseling professor has used the Second Step program as a tool to simultaneously promote children’s social-emotional development while providing her graduate students with the opportunity for hands-on practice.Read More
| By: Committee for Children Book Review: Your Body Belongs to You by Cornelia Spelman, illustrated by Teri Weidner Reading level: Preschool to Grade 1 Messages to young children about personal safety should be…Read More
| By: Committee for Children KCSARC: Giving Voice, Creating Change, Instilling Courage King County Sexual Assault Resource Center (KCSARC) has been a longtime friend of Committee for Children. This was a natural development, since both organizations are in Seattle and both aim to keep children safe from sexual abuse. And KCSARC does such valuable work here in King County that we wanted to share it with others around the country in the hopes that their… Read More
| By: Committee for Children Conversation Starters http://www.brainchildmag.com/2013/03/conversation-starters/Read More
| By: Committee for Children How to Change a Culture of Hazing in Schools http://www.dailyherald.com/article/20130304/news/703049923/Read More
| By: Committee for Children SEL Goes to Washington (D.C.) On Thursday, February 7, 2013, Committee for Children hosted a congressional briefing in our nation’s capital to educate lawmakers about the importance of social-emotional learning (SEL) and its relevance to school safety and academic success. The interest in this briefing was high: There were 77 attendees, most of whom were House and Senate staff (very solid representation from both sides of the aisle). There were also a fair number of national…Read More
| By: Committee for Children Book Review: Sticks and Stones by Emily Bazelon Reading Level: Adult Over the last couple of decades, the issue of bullying has become a tangled ball of many threads, including history, culture, trend, media buzz, technology, semantics, tragedy, heroism, and even solutions. In Read More