| By: Polly Stansell SEL for Today: A New Second Step® Elementary Digital Program Is Coming Spring 2021 Our long-standing commitment to listening to these leaders’ voices has helped us continuously improve our research- and evidence-based social-emotional learning (SEL) programs. Today, that commitment brings us to an exciting announcement: the release of our new, fully web-based Second Step® Elementary digital program this spring. Read More
| 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: Jordan Posamentier Protecting Children from Sex Trafficking: A Conversation with Kelly Mangiaracina, JD This blog post discusses sensitive topics, including child sexual abuse and child sex trafficking January is National Slavery and Human Trafficking Prevention Month. Committee for Children was founded to help the victiRead 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: Jordan Posamentier 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 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 When Bullying Is Racially Motivated: Recognizing It for What It Is and Supporting Kids to Be Anti-Racist Upstanders All forms of bullying harm kids, but biased-based harassment—when the underlying cause or motivation is prejudice—causes specific, increased harm. University of Michigan’s Dr. Deborah Rivas-Drake provides recommendations for how adults can recognize racially motivated bullying and support kids to be upstanders.Read More
| By: Casey Escola For Educators Aspiring Toward Allyship: Making an Impact at School In the last blog of this series, Implementation Specialist Casey Escola provides insights on how white educators can collaborate with colleagues in their work toward allyship within schools and offers some grace for occasional missteps along the way.Read More
| By: Jordan Posamentier 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 Building Student Engagement Through SEL Social-emotional competencies are vital to kids’ short- and long-term success—not just during the pandemic, but after it, too. Educators can nurture these skills by providing children explicit opportunities for social-emotional learning (SEL).Read More