| By: Committee for Children What Are You Doing to Reduce Teacher Turnover? Unprecedented numbers of teachers are leaving the profession. A solution is right in your building. Unprecedented numbers of teachers are leaving the profession. A solution is right in your building.Read More
| By: Committee for Children First Steps to Intentional SEL in Out-of-School Time Settings It can be difficult to know where to start when implementing SEL, and how the tools and initiatives can fit together to support youth social-emotional development.Read More
| By: Committee for Children Our Policy and Advocacy Year in Review | We’ve Been Busy We’ve been advocating as experts in our field for over 40 years. In 2019, we worked with Congress and played a pivotal role in passing several laws in several states.Read More
| By: Committee for Children Then & Now: A Career in Kindness When I started at CFC as an accounting assistant in 1998, I wasn’t sure how long I’d want to stay. But I quickly realized this wasn’t like any job I’d had before. Read More
| By: Committee for Children SEL Needs Principals Principals demonstrably have an impact on student achievement and school climate, and are key to the success of social-emotional learning (SEL) within their schools.Read More
| By: Committee for Children Then & Now: Tech Evolution in the Education Space Khan Klatt, Committee for Children’s vice president of technology, talks about his path to educational technology (edtech), how edtech has evolved over the past four decades, and why social-emotional skills are integral to software development. Read More
| By: Committee for Children 12 Recommended Books About Empathy and Kindness Each grade level of Second Step has a curated list of recommended books that help reinforce the social-emotional skills taught in our classroom curricula. Here’s our list of the books in our Early Learning through Grade 2 lists that focus on kindness and empathy.Read More
| By: Committee for Children Social-Emotional Learning: It Starts with Adults We’re creating SEL for Adults, a program to help schools and districts empower school leadership and staff to deepen their own social-emotional competence, develop trusting relationships between their peers and students.Read More
| By: Kim Gulbrandson 10+ Ways to Inspire and Cultivate Kindness Updated January 2022 On February 17, nations across the world will celebrate Random Acts of Kindness Day. Introduced by the Random Acts of KRead More
| By: Matt Pearsall 2019 Social-Emotional Learning Exchange 5 highlights from the 2019 Social-Emotional Learning Exchange, hosted by CASEL, in Chicago.Read More