| By: Committee for Children Education Emotions 101: Why Hawaii Schools Are Focusing On Feelings Hawaii schools have joined a growing educational movement that emphasizes “whole child” development, not just academics.… Read More Read More at Honolulu Civil Beat
| By: Committee for Children New Social-Emotional Learning Curriculum Helps Students Find Lifelong Success St. Mary of Gostyn School is introducing a new program called “Second Step”, which helps students learn to express themselves appropriately, accept others’ differences, and detect social cues. “While we do a great job with academics and incorporating faith into our curriculum, we feel we need to cover the social and emotional needs of our students,” said Chris Kalal, Assistant Principal at SMG.… Read More Read More at mysuburbanlife.com
| By: Committee for Children What’s a Day in a Typical Minnesota Preschool Like? Follow Along with Us. …This is part of the district’s “Second Step” curriculum, which helps students improve their social-emotional skills. Heather Sanders, the district’s early learning coordinator, says this helps students understand and talk about their feelings with staff and other students.… Read More Read More at TwinCities.com
| By: Committee for Children How Waddell Elementary dramatically improved its academic performance Last school year, 77 percent of Waddell’s 462 students logged in to Achieve3000 after school, on weekends or during holidays, totaling 3,491 log-ins. On one of the walls in the school, Waddell displays for each grade level each month the average reading level attained and the number of articles the students read and correctly answered at least 75 percent of the comprehension questions.… Read More Read More at Ledger-Enquirer
| By: Committee for Children Greenbrier Elementary Piloting Social-Emotional Learning Program Joan Cole Duffell, executive director of Committee for Children, in August issued a statement in response to the Unite the Right rally. She said fostering the social-emotional development of children could help extinguish hatred, violence, and intolerance in future generations. “It is of paramount importance to build children’s social-emotional competencies — so that they might grow up to be adults who start from a place of empathy and kindness, not fear and hate,” Duffell wrote.… Read More Read More at Charlottesville Tomorrow
| By: Committee for Children October is Bullying Prevention Month: Stop Bullying on the Spot We use this bulletin board every other October because all our students know the story of Spookley the square pumpkin who was bullied by the round pumpkins. It helps reinforce the Second Step Bullying Unit lessons I teach and the literature based lessons led by our classroom teachers, administrators, and librarian. Read More Read More at Elementary Counseling
| By: Committee for Children Reasons to Parent Mindfully Our heads are full, our days are short (or long if you have a new infant), and we have no idea if all the little things we do for our kids is actually sticking. Doing everything on the “I am a good mother if I…make sure they brush their teeth… oversee homework… make sure they get a good breakfast… read a book before bed”…the list goes on and on. Just fill in the blanks.… Read More Read More at Parenting Bookmark
| By: Committee for Children Teaching Students How to Cope Socially, Emotionally Eighth-grader Morgan Fritzler is working to improve her self-awareness. “Sometimes, I have anxiety and perfectionist issues and I expect myself to get everything on the first try,” Fritzler, 12, said. “It makes me feel frustrated.”… Read More Read More at Golden Transcript
| By: Ryan Anderson Watertown Schools Hope for Better Academics from Teaching Social-Emotional Skills When a student enters a Watertown classroom, they bring with them much more than their ability to learn–they also bring the effects of their home environment and their varying emotional states. Schools across Massachusetts, including those in Watertown, are recognizing those factors formally in a statewide program.… Read More Read More at Wicked Local Watertown
| By: Ryan Anderson Poway Unified’s Parenting Classes Begin Next Week Poway Unified School District’s parent classes are resuming next week, with many offerings to help those with children of all ages. Some workshops have one session offerings while others have their material divided over several weeks and are tailored to parents of elementary, middle and high school students.… Read More Read More at San Diego Union Tribune