| By: Kim Gulbrandson How Environment Can Foster Social-Emotional Well-Being Environment can be just as important as skill development in fostering social-emotional well-being. Blogger Kim Gulbrandson provides real-life tips to connect the natural world to teaching skills such as empathy, emotion management, and executive function. Read More
| By: Kim Gulbrandson Expand Your Bullying Prevention Toolkit with Social-Emotional Learning Every year schools and communities across the country unite in their bullying prevention efforts during the month of October for National Bullying Prevention Month. Does this mean that if you focus on bullying prevention for one month you’re done? Not at all! This month is meant to jump-start continued efforts to prevent bullying. And social-emotional learning can make a great addition to the toolkit that helps you do this.Read More
| By: Kim Gulbrandson Time to Get Excited about Social-Emotional Learning! As we gear up for the upcoming school year and continue planning to lay the foundation for children to become knowledgeable, responsible, and caring adults, I wanted to share a few SEL highlights to energize you as you begin 2015–2016: Read More
| By: Kim Gulbrandson Set Yourself Up for Implementation Success By Kim Gulbrandson When essential elements of effective implementation are in place, the results can be powerful. Social-emotional learning (SEL) can thrive in environments where stakeholders are committed to sharing responsibility for supporting implementation and where there is shared vision and leadership around social-emotional and academic success for all students. But successful and sustained implementation of any curriculum can be challenging at times…Read More
| By: Kim Gulbrandson A Teacher’s Perspective Second-grade teacher Jennifer Krutina, who has been teaching the Second Step program for seven years, talks about “on the spot” practice, modeling skills, and more. Read More
| By: Kim Gulbrandson Gratitude in the Classroom Gratitude can be contagious. But what does research have to say about it? And how can you bring more of it into your classroom?Read More
| By: Kim Gulbrandson Enhancing Social and Emotional Learning through Art Need some inspiration to get creative with social and emotional learning in your classroom? It’s a great way to extend the learning and add some spark to your curriculum.Read More
| By: Kim Gulbrandson Lighting the Fire for SEL You know those weeks that are so packed with exciting events, they leave you breathless at the end? Last week was one of those for us here at Committee for Children.Read More
| By: Kim Gulbrandson Incorporating Social-Emotional Learning into Academics Here are some time-saving ideas for teaching both academic subjects and social skills in the same lesson!Read More
| By: Kim Gulbrandson District Data on the New Second Step Program for K-5 See how fourth- and fifth-grade students name “feeling” words before and after Second Step lessons.Read More