| 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: Committee for Children When Worlds Collide, We Can All Worry Less I’m a relatively new parent of a remarkable 15-month-old girl. Like most parents, I worry. A lot.Read More
| By: Committee for Children Book Review: Mind in the Making: The Seven Essential Life Skills Every Child Needs By Ellen Galinsky Reading level: Adult Seven easy things you can do right now to…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: Committee for Children Book Review: Molly’s Pilgrim By Barbara Cohen Illustrated by Michael J. Deraney Teasing others for their differences is not a 21st century phenomenon. Children have always found reasons to make fun of others. Fortunately, there have also always been compassionate people alongside the tormenters. The turn-of-the-20th-century protagonist of Read More
| By: Committee for Children How the Second Step Program Has Changed Me Last year, I started by piloting the new edition of the Second Step program in kindergarten classrooms, and ended the school year teaching some fourth- and fifth-grade lessons under the watchful eye of some video cameras.Read More
| By: Committee for Children A Change for the Better: Developing the Second Step Early Learning Program When Committee for Children approached me to join their early learning advisory group, I didn’t hesitate to say “Yes!Read More
| By: Committee for Children Another Lost Childhood There’s never a good time to tell your loved ones you were a victim of childhood sexual abuse.Read More
| By: Committee for Children Kinder Kids Do Better in School April 21, 2011 SEATTLE—Committee for Children is releasing a completely new edition of their Second Step social-skills program, based in part on research that shows that children with better social-emotional skills do better academically. The release includes a specially designed curriculum for early childhood, a brand-new but much anticipated addition to the critically acclaimed program. Recent…Read More