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"Schools cannot teach character . . . School have to create an environment that models and promotes character development, and then they have to allow the children to 'catch' character from the behavior of the adults and students around them."
—From Chapter 1 by James P. Comer
Let today's educational leaders show you how to create a safe, healthy, and successful classroom community!
Combining emotional intelligence (EQ) with academic intelligence (IQ) is the essential key to developing knowledgeable, caring, healthy, and successful students in today's troubled world. Social-emotional skills often are not taught at home, but they are in fact the crucial connection that enables students to master and retain content knowledge while also creating a classroom atmosphere filled with proficient, civic-minded students with sound judgment and problem-solving skills that will last a lifetime.
In this dynamic book, today's educational leaders offer their best ideas for building school communities that are safe, smart, caring, successful, and emotionally intelligent.
Key topics include:
Transforming the Lives of Children (James P. Comer)
Leadership for Academic, Social, and Emotional Learning (Mary Utne O'Brien, Roger P. Weissberg, Timothy P. Shriver)
How New Knowledge About the Brain Applies to Social and Emotional Learning (Ronald S. Brandt)
A Vision of Schools with Heart and Spirit (Linda Lantieri)
Institutionalizing Programming for Social and Emotional Learning (Linda Bruene Butler, Jeffrey S. Kress, Jacqueline A. Norris)
Implementing a Social and Emotional Learning Program (Carol Apacki)
Contents
Preface
About the Editors
About the Contributors
Part I: Why Schools Must Address EQ and IQ to Be Successful
Introduction: EQ, IQ, and Effective Learning and Citizenship - Maurice Elias, Harriet Arnold, Cynthia Steiger Hussey
1. Transforming the Lives of Children - James P. Comer
2. Educational Leadership for Academic, Social, and Emotional Learning - Mary Utne O'Brien, Roger P. Weissberg, Timothy P. Shriver
3. Social-Emotional Learning and Academic Achievement - Marcia Knoll and Janet Patti
4. Lessons for Life: How Smart Schools Boost Academic, Social, and Emotional Intelligence - Alan M. Blankstein
5. How New Knowledge About the Brain Applies to Social and Emotional Learning - Ronald S. Brandt
Part II: Creating Learning Communities by Enhancing Schools' SEL/EQ: Examples From Practice
Introduction: If They Can Do It, Why Can't You? - Maurice Elias, Harriett Arnold, Cynthia Steiger Hussey
6. Waging Peace in Our Schools: The Resolving Conflict Creatively Program - Linda Lantieri
7. Building Capacity From Within: Changing the Adult Working Environment in Our Schools - Sharon Rose Powell, Margo Ross
8. Building Community In School: The Child Development Project - Catherine Lewis, Marilyn Watson, Eric Schaps
9. Educating for Social, Emotional, and Academic Development: The Comer School Development Program - Norris M. Haynes
10.The Children's Institute Model for Building the Social-Emotional Skills of Students in Special Education: A Schoolwide Approach - Mindy Cohen, Bruce Ettinger, Terry O'Donnell
11. Social-Emotional Learning at North Country School: Resourcefulness, Ruggedness, and Resilience - Frank Wallace
12. Promoting Students' Social-Emotional and Intellectual Well-Being and the School as an Ecosystem: From Program to Way of Life - Chana Shadmi and Bilha Noy
Part III: Making It Happen In Your School: Implementation Guidelines
Introduction: Learning From Others, Connecting to Others - Maurice Elias, Harriett Arnold, Cynthia Steiger Hussy
13. A Vision of Schools With Heart and Spirit: How to Get There - Linda Lantieri
14. Institutionalizing Programming for Social-Emotional Learning: Lessons and Illustrations From the Field - Linda Bruene Butler, Jeffrey S. Kress, Jacqueline A. Norris
15. Implementing a Social-Emotional Learning Program: Stories From Schools - Carol Apacki
Resource A: Assessment Tools for Applying Social-Emotional Learning and Emotional Intelligence to Oneself and One's Students
Resource B: Resources for Building Learning Communities Through Social-Emotional Learning and Emotional Intelligence
Index
