| By: Mylien Duong, PhD How to Make Meaning After Traumatic Events In this blog post, Dr. Mylien Duong shares tips and an exercise for slowing down, reflecting, and finding meaning after trauma.Read More
| By: Committee for Children Winter Well-Being Q&A with Dr. Mylien Duong In this Q&A, clinical psychologist, and education researcher Dr. Mylien Duong breaks down how adults can support their mental health and well-being with social-emotional learning. Read More
| 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 three 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