About the Book
"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)
Table of 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
About the Author :
Maurice J. Elias, Ph.D. is Professor, Psychology Department, Rutgers University, Director of the Rutgers Social-Emotional Learning Lab, and Academic Director of The Collaborative Center for Community-Based Research and Service at Rutgers. He is Past President of the Society for Community Research and Action/Division of Community Psychology (27) of APA and has received the SCRA Distinguished Contribution to Practice and Ethnic Minority Mentoring Awards, as well the Joseph E. Zins Memorial Senior Scholar Award for Social-Emotional Learning from the Collaborative for Academic, Social, and Emotional Learning (CASEL), the John P. McGovern Medal from the American School Health Association, and the Sanford McDonnell Award for Lifetime Achievement in Character Education. Prof. Elias lectures nationally and internationally to educators and parents about students' emotional intelligence, school success, and social-emotional and character development. Among Dr. Elias' numerous books are ASCD's Promoting Social and Emotional Learning: Guidelines for Educators, the Social Decision Making/Social Problem Solving curricula for grades k-8, the new e-book, Emotionally Intelligent Parenting, and a book for young children: Talking Treasure: Stories to Help Build Emotional Intelligence and Resilience in Young Children (www.researchpress.com, 2012). He also writes a blog for on SEL-related topics for the George Lucas Educational Foundation at www.edutopia.org. With colleagues at the College of St. Elizabeth, he has developed an online credentialing program for Direct Instruction of Social-Emotional and Character Development (SECD) programs in classroom, small group, and after school settings (sel.rutgers.edu), and for School-Focused Leadership and Coordination of SECD and School Culture and Climate (SELinSchools.org). Professor Elias interviewed with Rae Pica on Bam! Radio's Studentcentricity. You can find the interview, Classroom Management: Redirecting Misbehavior, Dr. Harriet Brown Arnold is a veteran educator who has served as elementary school teacher, middle school administrator, elementary school principal, director of personnel and staff development, and international consultant to schools. A graduate of San Francisco State University with a B.A. in Social Welfare, she received her Masters in Education at California State University, San Jose and her Doctorate with an emphasis in Curriculum and Instruction from the University of San Francisco. Her professional development projects have included training for the Ministry of Education in the Bahamas and coordinating the Sequoia Beginning Teacher Program.
Review :
"Schools cannot teach character . . . Schools 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."
"There′s enormous interest in emotional intelligence and brain-friendly learning, and this book is an excellent contribution to the debate."
