Committee for Children Blog

Creating Sticky Songs

How do you get concepts to “stick?” It’s one of the most important questions we program developers wrestle with when developing new materials.Read More


Playing Games, Building Brains!

The game rules are simple. So are the steps. But what Brain Builder games can do for students is quite complex! And since the games are active and fun, students won’t even realize how hard their brains are working.Read More


Part of the Solution

One day a fourth-grade teacher pulled me aside and told me that she was very concerned about a boy—we’ll call him Johnny—in her classroom.Read More


Then, Now, and Later

There has been a lot in the news lately about bullying, especially as it relates to GLBTQ kids, and it makes me think of my own past and how I related to those same kids.Read More


Let’s Make Sure It Gets Better

I have been glued to the recent media attention about bullying and the lives that have been heartbreakingly lost. It is about time we focused some real attention on this issue.Read More


How I Stopped Bullying (Part 2 of 2)

John must have believed that I could choose to stop—and he was right. A kid who is bullying can learn to make better choices.Read More


How I Started Bullying (Part 1 of 2)

My experiences with bullying as a child make it meaningful to work for Committee for Children.Read More


Siblings Say the Darndest Things

What's wrong with the world today? Bullying has become such an epidemic lately.Read More


Lucky

I was one of the bigger kids until sixth grade, and bullying wasn’t much of an issue for me back then. Still, I’d be lying if I pretended that my bully-free existence continued through middle and high school.Read More