| By: Committee for Children 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: Committee for Children 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: Committee for Children 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: Committee for Children 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: Committee for Children 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: Committee for Children 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
| By: Jordan Posamentier Limited SEL Funds: 3 Ways to Get Funding for Your Students Part of our job at Committee for Children is to lobby for federal funding that supports social-emotional learning (SEL). We’ve identified three major sources of financial support available to you.Read More
| By: Jordan Posamentier Committee for Children Before the Pandemic and Now We can now divide Committee for Children’s advocacy efforts into a before-and-now: before the pandemic, and now that it’s upon us. Read More
| By: Jordan Posamentier Talking SEL Is Hard—We’re Making It Easier Talking SEL Is Hard—We’re Making It Easier Evidence-Based Takeaways for Lawmakers and Decisionmakers Read More
| By: Committee for Children Our Policy and Advocacy Year in Review | We’ve Been Busy We’ve been advocating as experts in our field for over 40 years. In 2019, we worked with Congress and played a pivotal role in passing several laws in several states.Read More