This model athlete had his eye on the prize since day one! Our new Superstar Christian Taylor, 2011 World Champion and 2012 Olympic Champion, was featured in our Scholastic materials with his fellow Classroom Champions Athlete Mentors April Holmes and Taylor Ritzel! Born in Florida but having traveled the world...
With April being Alcohol Responsibility Month, what better way to have a conversation about alcohol responsibility than with a live Q & A Google Hangout hosted by Kids In the House? Moderated by their CEO Leana Greene, the half-hour lightning round featured our President and CEO Ralph Blackman, National Advisory...
This girl’s got skills and smarts! Taylor Ritzel, one of the women’s eights team gold medalist at the 2012 Summer Olympics, is one of the Classroom Champions Athlete Mentors on our 2015 Scholastic materials. We’re now excited to announce that this Yale grad is not only an Olympic Gold Medalist...
Responsibility means something different to each person, down to the very reason they are inspired to get up in the morning. The person to your right needs to get their kids up for school, the person to your left has a boss to report to, and the person behind you...
March brings with it a few welcome rituals; the first day of spring, college basketball, spring-cleaning and even tax preparation. Why not add a new rite to the mix—take stock of your “energy balance.” Balancing calories you consume with calories burned is something you can begin to do by making...
We’re gearing up for April, Alcohol Responsibility Month, with the launch of our new educational materials with Scholastic magazine! We’re sending materials from our Ask, Listen, Learn program featuring our partner, Classroom Champions, to over 25,000 classrooms around the country to help kids say NO to underage drinking through fun activities...
When planning to do something new—tackling a project at work, trying a new recipe for the family, getting into a regular fitness routine—sometimes just committing to getting started helps you on your way to a routine and finishing the task. That great big goal comes down to size when you...
If you didn’t know, we have a Classroom Champions classroom in our own backyard of Washington, DC! Mr. Clemons‘ class at Imagine Hope Community Charter School has had such a successful year with their Athlete Mentor April Holmes and we love giving you updates! Here’s a blog from Mr. Clemons on...
Jennifer Diaz, Ed.S., LPC is a School Counselor at White Oak Elementary School in Buford, Georgia and a finalist for the American School Counseling Association’s 2015 School Counselor of the Year. With all the focus on college and career readiness that our educational world is feeling, I consider myself lucky. ...
In honor of National School Counseling Week (#NSCW15) we’re spending the week honoring the school counselor’s impact on our nation’s youth to become smart decision makers later in life. For our first blog installment, one of Responsibility.org’s education experts responds to an article in the Washington Post: “Parents: About THAT kid.”...