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This week's blog post comes to us from Program Developer Mia Doces.
In our Second Step middle school program , practicing the skills taught in the lessons is a key component to the program. The best way for students to effectively use the skills in their daily lives is...
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This week's blog post comes from Teryl Hughes, our Research Associate.
My niece, Haedin, is a hoot. She is the only grandchild in my family, and we have a lot of fun interacting with her and enjoying her “firsts.” Because she lives in New Mexico, I only see her once or...
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This week's blog post is Committee for Children's response to the New York Times Op-Ed “There’s Only One Way to Stop a Bully."
In their op-ed about preventing bullying in schools, Susan Engel and Marlene Sandstrom successfully make the important point...
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This week's blog post is a reprint of a New York Times Op-Ed by Susan Engel and Marlene Sandstrom. In a few days we'll post a response to this op-ed.
July 22, 2010
There’s Only One Way to Stop a Bully
By SUSAN ENGEL and MARLENE SANDSTROM...
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This week's blog post comes from Juliet Kandel Kristjanson, our Client Implementation Specialist.
Would it surprise you if I said that one of the most frequently asked questions our client support staff receives is, “When are you going to make a Second Step...
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This week's blog post comes from Exececutive Director Joan Duffell.
These words from A. J. Muste have stayed with me since I first heard them in the mid-1960s. At the time, his statement was meant to dispel the giant myth that the Cold War buildup of nuclear weapons served as an...
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This week's blog entry comes to us from Senior Program Developer Bridgid Normand.
I recently attended a conference called Learning and the Brain. It was subtitled Focused Minds: Enhancing Student Attention, Memory, and Motivation. It was quite a treat, because I am...
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This week's blog is written by Client Outreach Representative Amy Walker.
In my work as a client outreach rep, I can tell that teachers are super stressed out right now and classroom time is tight. I spend a lot of my time talking with educators about the importance of...
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This week's blog comes to us from Program Developer Tonje Molyneux , who is, at the time of this posting, still pregnant.
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...
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This week's blog entry is by Committee for Children Executive Director Joan Duffell.
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...
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