| By: Committee for Children Week 1: Thursday’s Summer Camp Activities Fun social-emotional learning activities to help kids stay engaged during summer 2020.… Read More
| By: Committee for Children Week 1: Friday’s Summer Camp Activities Fun social-emotional learning activities to help kids stay engaged during summer 2020.… Read More
| By: Committee for Children Enhanced Online Experience for Second Step Programs Starting in August 2020, Second Step educators will see something new when they log on to their Dashboard. Based on user feedback, we’re creating a streamlined, more cohesive way for program teachers, administrators, and families to access our web-based content. … Read More
| By: Committee for Children Making School Feel Safe for Kids Learn how Orland School District 135 used Second Step to make its schools feel safer for students.… 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 Confronting Youth Suicide Learn how the Hamilton Township School District went from having a startling uptick in student suicides to having stronger student-teacher relationships in just one year.… 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: Andrea Lovanhill Build Good Habits and Routines with Your Family This Summer “Make a schedule,” they all said. And I, being the type-A person I am, took great delight in making my schedule on day one on the stay-at-home order, complete with a plan to iterate on that schedule and adapt it collaboratively with my kids as we tried to find our new normal. That was then.… Read More
| By: Andrea Lovanhill How to Access Your SEL Superpower and Avoid Pandemic Panic Social-emotional learning (SEL) is a lifelong process. Adults need to nurture their social-emotional skills and competencies in order to effectively model these skills for kids and assist children in their own growth and development. In times of … Read More