| By: Committee for Children How the Second Step Program Has Changed Me Last year, I started by piloting the new edition of the Second Step program in kindergarten classrooms, and ended the school year teaching some fourth- and fifth-grade lessons under the watchful eye of some video cameras.Read More
| By: Committee for Children A Change for the Better: Developing the Second Step Early Learning Program When Committee for Children approached me to join their early learning advisory group, I didn’t hesitate to say “Yes!Read More
| By: Committee for Children Another Lost Childhood There’s never a good time to tell your loved ones you were a victim of childhood sexual abuse.Read More
| By: Committee for Children Kinder Kids Do Better in School April 21, 2011 SEATTLE—Committee for Children is releasing a completely new edition of their Second Step social-skills program, based in part on research that shows that children with better social-emotional skills do better academically. The release includes a specially designed curriculum for early childhood, a brand-new but much anticipated addition to the critically acclaimed program. Recent…Read More
| By: Committee for Children Creating Sticky Songs How do you get concepts to “stick?” It’s one of the most important questions we program developers wrestle with when developing new materials.Read More
| By: Committee for Children Playing Games, Building Brains! The game rules are simple. So are the steps. But what Brain Builder games can do for students is quite complex! And since the games are active and fun, students won’t even realize how hard their brains are working.Read More
| By: Committee for Children The Second Step Program, Now with Skills for Learning It’s done! We at Committee for Children are thrilled to announce a new edition of our Second Step elementary school program for K–5.Read More
| By: Committee for Children Part of the Solution One day a fourth-grade teacher pulled me aside and told me that she was very concerned about a boy—we’ll call him Johnny—in her classroom.Read More
| By: Committee for Children Then, Now, and Later There has been a lot in the news lately about bullying, especially as it relates to GLBTQ kids, and it makes me think of my own past and how I related to those same kids.Read More
| By: Committee for Children Let’s Make Sure It Gets Better I have been glued to the recent media attention about bullying and the lives that have been heartbreakingly lost. It is about time we focused some real attention on this issue.Read More