| By: Kim Gulbrandson Fostering Prosocial Skills Through Music Music can be powerful in many ways. Humans are hard-wired to respond to music. The sound has an impact on our bodies.Read More
| By: Committee for Children Let Me Count the Ways: Confessions of a Technophile My name is Andrea and I am a technophile. I love technology and I’m not ashamed to admit it. Don’t get me wrong, Short Circuit isn’t exactly my idea of a romantic movie—though I did have a little crush on Johnny-Five when IRead More
| By: Kim Gulbrandson Telling Is Not Teaching When I first began working with the Second Step program 15 years ago, my colleagues and I were so focused on completing the lessons that we completely overlooked the extension activities (these are now called daily practice activities in Second Step 4th edition).Read More
| By: Kim Gulbrandson Fostering Social and Emotional Learning One Day at a Time The Violence Prevention Program (VPP) was started in 1990. At the time, the program supported district-wide implementation of the Second Step program.Read More
| By: Committee for Children Put an End to Name-Calling in 2012 The Mayan calendar ends in 2012, and some interpret this as heralding the end of the world. Let’s hope not! But there is one thing we can and should put an end to in 2012: name-calling. And you can help make that happen by participating in this year’s No Name-Calling…Read More
| 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: Committee for Children Book Review: Ink About It Art with Heart publication by Steffanie Lorig; Annie McCall, MA, LMHC; and Kate Gardener, CCLS Reading level: Grade 6 and older Everyone needs a safe place to process stress and change in their lives. Tweens and teens in particular can flounder as they move from childhood into adulthood. Add a family crisis or health…Read More
| By: Committee for Children Book Review: Magnificent Marvelous Me By Art with Heart, a nonprofit organization Reading level: Kindergarten to Grade 6 Read More
| By: Committee for Children Magnificent Marvelous Teamwork Judging by name alone, nonprofits Committee for Children and Art with Heart (AwH) appear to have little in common.Read More