| By: Committee for Children Movement to Learn These technologies allow researchers to peer into the brain in action and understand what is going on during learning tasks. And although their findings are exciting, they can be disconcerting, too.Read More
| By: Committee for Children The Socially-Emotionally Savvy Newborn By the time you read this, the child I’ve been playing host to for the past forty weeks and four days will have hopefully chosen to make her glorious debut Earthside.Read More
| By: Committee for Children Safer, Saner Summer The warm days of June bring me back to my summers of parenting four children, each of whom awaited the end of school with excited anticipation. I, on the other hand, cast more of a gimlet eye on the season.Read More
| By: Committee for Children Taming the Buy-In Monster This year, make the buy-in monster a little less scary: focus on your allies, find your innovators, and build some enthusiasm!Read More
| By: Andrea Lovanhill How to Save the World: Step One It was my work with children that could make a difference. By talking with those tiny humans, I began to understand that humanity’s abuses of the environment, animals, and each other are all connected.Read More
| By: Allison Schumacher The Tiny Teacher In the past week alone, I have been a ghost, a cowgirl, a dragon, a monkey, an Olympic figure skater, and a monster.Read More
| By: Committee for Children Book Review: Challenging Behavior in Elementary and Middle School by Barbara Kaiser and Judy Sklar Rasminsky Reading Level: Adult In the introduction to their award-winning Challenging Behavior in Elementary and Middle School, authors Barbara Kaiser and Judy Sklar Rasminsky write: “As a teacher or future teacher, you have two choices. Either you can create an environment that welcomes [students] and teaches them how to become the best…Read More
| By: Committee for Children Sexting: The Anonymity Irony As parents, teachers, and children navigate our quickly evolving cyberscape, with its continents and oceans of Internet, texting, blogs, instant messaging, and social networking sites, not to mention whole new dialects and norms, we find both limitless possibility and opportunity for trouble. Although in many ways it is the young people who are leading this expedition, it is up to the adults to balance sharing our wisdom and experience with allowing our progeny to find their own…Read More
| By: Committee for Children A Perspective from Dachau I love my job for many reasons. I get to travel the country and meet with schools that use Committee for Children programs or want to know more about social-emotional learning.Read More
| By: Andrea Lovanhill In Praise of an Excellent Teacher Last week was Teacher Appreciation Week, and I have to admit it made me quite nostalgic for one or two educators who made a difference in my life.Read More