| By: Kim Gulbrandson No Name-Calling Week Every year since 2004, during the fourth week of January, schools across the country have participated in No Name-Calling Week with educational activities aimed at ending name-calling and verbal bullying.Read More
| By: Kim Gulbrandson SEL Book Club I recently learned about a neat idea for working with Tier 2 or 3 students from mycolleague, Teri. She used this idea with her fourth and fifth graders.Read More
| By: Kim Gulbrandson Winter Break: Keeping Youth Safe Online and Off Youth are often left with a lot of unstructured time on holiday breaks. During these times, they may be more at risk for engaging in unsafe behaviors because they may be bored, unsupervised, and looking for things to do.Read More
| By: Kim Gulbrandson Ten Compelling Reasons to Choose the Second Step Program Our district has been using the Second Step program for more than 15 years.Read More
| By: Kim Gulbrandson Things to Consider in Bullying Prevention For the past 14 years, I have been fortunate to work with a team of five to seven people to support schools in implementing and sustaining social and emotional learning programs.Read More
| By: Andrea Lovanhill Lucky I was one of the bigger kids until sixth grade, and bullying wasn’t much of an issue for me back then. Still, I’d be lying if I pretended that my bully-free existence continued through middle and high school.Read More
| By: Andrea Lovanhill How to Save the World: Step One It was my work with children that could make a difference. By talking with those tiny humans, I began to understand that humanity’s abuses of the environment, animals, and each other are all connected.Read More
| By: Allison Schumacher The Tiny Teacher In the past week alone, I have been a ghost, a cowgirl, a dragon, a monkey, an Olympic figure skater, and a monster.Read More
| By: Andrea Lovanhill In Praise of an Excellent Teacher Last week was Teacher Appreciation Week, and I have to admit it made me quite nostalgic for one or two educators who made a difference in my life.Read More
| By: Andrea Lovanhill The New Dairy Council Committee for Children offers a wonderful array of evidence-based social-emotional learning curricula, but we certainly are not alone as providers of quality SEL programs.Read More