| By: Jordan Posamentier Upstander Advocacy In this blog, learn how you can help prevent bullying by promoting cultural responsive pedagogy.Read More
| By: Jordan Posamentier Advocating for Child Protection Our policy and advocacy team has stepped up our efforts to elevate the voices of those who share our commitment to protecting kids. See what they’ve been up to.Read More
| By: Jordan Posamentier Identity and Belonging: Anti-Racist Curriculum and Black Studies in Schools Each month, our policy experts will answer questions relating to these priority areas and racial equity. Our final blog in this series will discuss anti-racist curricula and Black studies, and how SEL can help promote and be strengthened by research-based practices that advance racial equity in education.Read More
| By: Jordan Posamentier Protecting Children from Sex Trafficking: A Conversation with Kelly Mangiaracina, JD This blog post discusses sensitive topics, including child sexual abuse and child sex trafficking January is National Slavery and Human Trafficking Prevention Month. Committee for Children was founded to help the victiRead More
| By: Jordan Posamentier Advocating SEL in a Tumultuous Year: Our 2020 Highlights Throughout the turmoil and unrest of 2020, Committee for Children’s Policy and Advocacy Team has advocated at the state and federal levels to promote the well-being of young people across our country. Here are some highlights from our advocacy work this year.Read More
| By: Jordan Posamentier Why Does SEL Matter in Promoting Educator Diversity? In this blog, our policy experts answer questions about the importance of teacher diversity and the role SEL has to play in promoting it.Read More
| By: Jordan Posamentier The Role Policy Plays in Understanding Race-Based Bullying In support of National Bullying Prevention Month and this year’s Captain Compassion® campaign to prevent racially motivated bullying, our policy experts look at how we can improve the framework to address, understand, and prevent racially motivated bullying.Read More
| By: Jordan Posamentier Supporting Racial Equity with Culturally Responsive Pedagogy and SEL Throughout history, race equity has been an issue intertwined in our education system in a multitude of ways. In this blog, our policy experts answer questions relating to culturally responsive teaching and racial equity. Read More
| By: Jordan Posamentier Why Trauma-Informed Approaches Help Advance Racial Equity Each month, our policy experts will answer questions relating social-emotional learning (SEL), child protection, and bullying prevention to racial equity. Our series has covered exclusionary discipline reform and will now discuss trauma-informed approaches to education.Read More
| By: Jordan Posamentier Addressing Exclusionary Discipline Reform We’re committed to improving specific issues related to our priority areas (social-emotional learning (SEL), child protection, and bullying prevention) that disproportionately impact the Black community and communities of color. Each month, our policy experts will answer questions relating to these priority areas and racial equity, starting with exclusionary discipline reform. Read More