| By: Committee for Children Kindergarten Teachers ROCK! I called her by her pet name, Baby Girl, and was reprimanded: “Auntie Teryl, I am not a baby. I’m going into kindergarten!” Wait, what?!Read More
| By: Committee for Children Response to NYT Op-Ed “There’s Only One Way to Stop a Bully” In their op-ed about preventing bullying in schools, Susan Engel and Marlene Sandstrom successfully make the important point that schools need to take a comprehensive approach to bullying prevention and student safety.Read More
| By: Committee for Children There’s Only One Way to Stop a Bully This week's blog post is a reprint of a New York Times Op-Ed by Susan Engel and Marlene Sandstrom.Read More
| By: Committee for Children What’s On My Face? What about power differences among adults? What about adult bullying?Read More
| By: Committee for Children “There Is No Way To Peace; Peace Is The Way.” These words from A. J. Muste have stayed with me since I first heard them in the mid-1960s.Read More
| By: Committee for Children Movement to Learn These technologies allow researchers to peer into the brain in action and understand what is going on during learning tasks. And although their findings are exciting, they can be disconcerting, too.Read More
| By: Committee for Children The Socially-Emotionally Savvy Newborn By the time you read this, the child I’ve been playing host to for the past forty weeks and four days will have hopefully chosen to make her glorious debut Earthside.Read More
| By: Committee for Children Safer, Saner Summer The warm days of June bring me back to my summers of parenting four children, each of whom awaited the end of school with excited anticipation. I, on the other hand, cast more of a gimlet eye on the season.Read More
| By: Committee for Children Taming the Buy-In Monster This year, make the buy-in monster a little less scary: focus on your allies, find your innovators, and build some enthusiasm!Read More
| By: Committee for Children Book Review: Challenging Behavior in Elementary and Middle School by Barbara Kaiser and Judy Sklar Rasminsky Reading Level: Adult In the introduction to their award-winning Challenging Behavior in Elementary and Middle School, authors Barbara Kaiser and Judy Sklar Rasminsky write: “As a teacher or future teacher, you have two choices. Either you can create an environment that welcomes [students] and teaches them how to become the best…Read More