| By: Committee for Children Book Review: Trouble Talk by Trudy Ludwig Reading Level: Grades 1–4 New student Bailey bursts onto the scene at Hoover Elementary. She’s fun and lively, and at first Maya enjoys her friendship with her. But after a while, Maya becomes uncomfortable with Bailey’s insensitive ways. At a slumber party, Bailey prefaces an insult to another friend with “No offense, but…” Later, she embarrasses…Read More
| By: Committee for Children Not Your Father’s Brain Research Thirty-three years ago, about all that was known about the brain was its basic anatomy, but I still found it intriguing to learn about this amazingly complex organ.Read More
| By: Allison Schumacher Stranger Danger: A Parent’s Perspective Like most parents, my mind runs away like a frightened animal at the idea of my child being sexually abused.Read More
| By: Committee for Children Build, Seek, Learn: A Student’s Connection to School My first teaching assignment was at a small school in a very poor neighborhood of London where the boys played soccer incessantly out on the paved yard with the high wire fence and the girls hung around the edges talking and watching the boys.Read More
| By: Committee for Children The Roots of My Advocacy, Part 2 In the mid-1980s, while remaining deeply committed to the Talking About Touching program, Committee for Children began looking into other areas of prevention.Read More
| By: Committee for Children The Roots of My Advocacy, Part 1 In the mid 1970s, I taught kindergarten to children in a clinical treatment program. These kids had been chronically abused for most of their young lives.Read More
| By: Committee for Children Book Review: My Secret Bully by Trudy Ludwig Reading Level: Grades 1–4 The narrator of My Secret Bully, Monica, doesn’t waste any time. On the very first page, she reveals that she has a secret bully named Katie. And the next sentence sums up the crux of relational aggression, or emotional bullying: “A lot of people would be surprised to know this because they think she’s my…Read More
| By: Committee for Children Book Review: Howard B. Wigglebottom Learns to Listen and Howard B. Wigglebottom Listens to His Heart by Howard Binkow Reading level: Preschool–Grade 2 Howard B. Wigglebottom is aptly named, in more ways than one. Not only is he too wiggly to listen to friends and teachers, he is also an awesome dancer. Over the course of two picture books by Howard Binkow, readers learn how this spirited bunny learns to be a good listener and to follow his heart and be proud of who he…Read More
| By: Committee for Children Violence Prevention Activities Upper elementary and middle school violence-prevention activities (adapted from the Second Step and Steps to Respect programs) Read More
| By: Emilie Coulter Book Review: Flying Solo by Ralph Fletcher Reading level: Grades 5–8 What happens in a sixth-grade classroom when kids rule? When the regular, beloved teacher is absent, and the sub doesn’t show up? The students have several choices. They could go straight to the principal’s office to report the situation. They could take the Lord of the Flies route and go wild until they are caught. As one of the…Read More