| By: Committee for Children Book Review: Your Body Belongs to You by Cornelia Spelman, illustrated by Teri Weidner Reading level: Preschool to Grade 1 Messages to young children about personal safety should be…Read More
| By: Committee for Children KCSARC: Giving Voice, Creating Change, Instilling Courage King County Sexual Assault Resource Center (KCSARC) has been a longtime friend of Committee for Children. This was a natural development, since both organizations are in Seattle and both aim to keep children safe from sexual abuse. And KCSARC does such valuable work here in King County that we wanted to share it with others around the country in the hopes that their… Read More
| By: Committee for Children Conversation Starters http://www.brainchildmag.com/2013/03/conversation-starters/Read More
| By: Committee for Children How to Change a Culture of Hazing in Schools http://www.dailyherald.com/article/20130304/news/703049923/Read More
| By: Kim Gulbrandson Lighting the Fire for SEL You know those weeks that are so packed with exciting events, they leave you breathless at the end? Last week was one of those for us here at Committee for Children.Read More
| By: Committee for Children SEL Goes to Washington (D.C.) On Thursday, February 7, 2013, Committee for Children hosted a congressional briefing in our nation’s capital to educate lawmakers about the importance of social-emotional learning (SEL) and its relevance to school safety and academic success. The interest in this briefing was high: There were 77 attendees, most of whom were House and Senate staff (very solid representation from both sides of the aisle). There were also a fair number of national…Read More
| By: Committee for Children Book Review: Sticks and Stones by Emily Bazelon Reading Level: Adult Over the last couple of decades, the issue of bullying has become a tangled ball of many threads, including history, culture, trend, media buzz, technology, semantics, tragedy, heroism, and even solutions. In Read More
| By: Kim Gulbrandson Incorporating Social-Emotional Learning into Academics Here are some time-saving ideas for teaching both academic subjects and social skills in the same lesson!Read More