| By: Joan Cole Duffell 2018 Midterm Election Lesson: Adults Should Model Social-Emotional Skills Adults can help foster a more peaceful society using social-emotional skills like empathy, and by supporting children. Over the past couple of years, America’s children have seen adults doing things that social-emotional programs specifically teach them NOT to do: bullying, ridiculing, and threatening. Committee for Children’s executive director suggests how adults should practice social-emotional skills.Read More
| By: Joan Cole Duffell Forging the Connection Between Social-Emotional Learning and Education Equity When schools commit to promoting SEL, they’re positioned to engage education stakeholders and to create a safe, equitable, engaging school climate. Read how.Read More
| By: Joan Cole Duffell Meet the Makers of Our Middle School Program One thing we can all count on where middle school kids are concerned: That which was cool yesterday is just so done today. Thus sets off the challenge of creating relevant, engaging, and effective teaching tools that focus on the thing teRead More
| By: Joan Cole Duffell Response to Charlottesville: A Call for Empathy and Inclusion from Joan Cole Duffell The terrible events in Charlottesville and the news stories and conversations of the past week are weighing on our minds here at Committee for Children. Such hatred, violence, and intolerance can only be extinguished by working together now to buiRead More
| By: Joan Cole Duffell Harvard’s Global Education Innovation Initiative Conference Recap Subtitle test As leader of Committee for Children, a global nonprofit that strives to help the world’s children develop vital social-emotional skills through Second Step SEL, our evidence-based social-emotional learning (SEL) curriculum, I was excited to be invited to Harvard’s Global Education Innovation Initiative Conference (GEII) this past May.Read More
| By: Joan Cole Duffell Building on Martin Luther King’s Powerful and Profound Empathy What role do educators play in creating a more empathetic world? ? In honor of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. day, Committee for Children’s executive director Joan Cole Duffell and Dr. Calvin Watts, superintendent of the Kent School District have written a gripping op-ed in an effort to urge school systems and the country at large to do the work that’s needed to build on Dr. King’s profound and powerful level of empathy. Read More
| By: Joan Cole Duffell Social-Emotional Learning After Our Election A post-election note from our executive director Joan Cole Duffell. Read More