| By: Kim Gulbrandson Is Gratitude Lacking in Your Life? Try These Ideas for Bringing It Back Gratitude is simple in that it involves being thankful and showing appreciation. November is National Gratitude Month, so it’s a perfect time to think about how to foster gratitude personally and professionally, for yourself and for others. Read More
| By: Committee for Children Unity Day Poster-Making—Activity Grades K-5—In this activity, students help define what unity is, then collaborate on creating posters that can be hung throughout the school to show that uniting and working together can help stop bullying.Read More
| By: Committee for Children Blocking Rumors to Help Stop Bullying—Activity Level: Upper Elementary | Help students create a positive classroom climate! In this activity, upper elementary students will create posters showing ways they can be kind. Grades 3-5—Spreading rumors can be hurtful. Here, upper elementary students learn to identify misleading information, check their facts, and block rumors.Read More
| By: Committee for Children Class Meeting: Empathy Helps Stop Bullying—Activity Grades 3-5—Bullying affects more people than many realize. This activity prompts early elementary students to discuss how empathy can help them to stop bullying.Read More
| By: Committee for Children Help Stop Bullying with Kindness and Respect—Activity Grades 3-5—Help students create a positive classroom climate! In this activity, upper elementary students will create posters showing ways they can be kind.Read More
| By: Committee for Children Bystander Skills to Prevent Bullying—Activity Grades 3–8—Bystanders to bullying are adversely affected. These five activities for upper elementary and middle school students help develop Bystander Skills.Read More
| By: Juliet Kandel 3 Simple Leadership Steps to Motivate and Support Your Teachers (K–5) Content provided by Committee for Children’s Tonje Molyneux, MEd, Senior Program Developer, and Anne Shrauner, Senior UX Designer. You got teachers Read More
| By: Committee for Children Bullying or Joking?—Activity Grades 6–8—In this activity, middle school students come up with bullying situations between friends, then come up with actions they can take to help stop bullying.Read More
| By: Juliet Kandel 3 Simple Leadership Steps to Motivate and Support Your Teachers (Early Learning) Content provided by: Angela Fountas and Juliet Kandel Early learning directors and supervisors, classes are underway, and it’s the perfect time to let everyone know that Second Step implementation is a priority this year. Take thesRead More
| By: Kim Gulbrandson Begin Your School Year by Maximizing Students’ Social Brain Power “Being socially connected is a lifelong passion.” I read this quote from neuropsychologist Matthew Lieberman in a UCLA Newsroom Read More