| By: Committee for Children Navigating 2020 with the Help of Social-Emotional Learning Despite the shifting landscape of the COVID-19 pandemic and the sociopolitical turmoil of 2020, Committee for Children’s Second Step® teams rose to support district administrators, school leaders, educators, and students when they needed it most. Here are five highlights from 2020.Read More
| By: Committee for Children How Do We Set Collective Teacher Efficacy in Motion? Collective teacher efficacy is a hot topic. Evidence of impact and productive relationships are the key ingredients. Read More
| By: Committee for Children Putting an Emphasis on Educator Self-Care How site and district leaders can support teachers during this uncertain time. Read More
| 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 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 Jump-Start Your School Year by Making These 5 Academic–SEL Connections Jump-start your school year by making the connections between social-emotional skills and academics and the benefits of those connections.Read More
| By: Committee for Children 3 Self-Care Tips for Teachers and Educators Educators, here are a few research-based self-care tips to sustain your social-emotional well-being all school year.Read More
| By: Committee for Children Teaching If–Then Plans: Accomplishing Goals for Real If—Then Plans are a key part of the Second Step middle school program. They’re the core goal-setting strategy and make regular appearances throughout the program whenever students are asked to plan ahead for difficult situations.Read More
| 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