EQ + IQ = Best Leadership Practices for Caring and Successful Schools
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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
Preface
About the Editors
About the Editors
About the Contributors
About the Contributors
Part I: Why Schools Must Address EQ and IQ to Be Successful
- Introduction: EQ, IQ, and Effective Learning and Citizenship
- 1. Transforming the Lives of Children
- 2. Educational Leadership for Academic, Social, and Emotional Learning
- 3. Social-Emotional Learning and Academic Achievement
- 4. Lessons for Life: How Smart Schools Boost Academic, Social, and Emotional Intelligence
- 5. How New Knowledge About the Brain Applies to Social and Emotional Learning
Part II: Creating Learning Communities by Enhancing Schools' SEL/EQ: Examples From Practice
- Introduction: If They Can Do It, Why Can't You?
- 6. Waging Peace in Our Schools: The Resolving Conflict Creatively Program
- 7. Building Capacity From Within: Changing the Adult Working Environment in Our Schools
- 8. Building Community In School: The Child Development Project
- 9. Educating for Social, Emotional, and Academic Development: The Comer School Development Program
- 10.The Children's Institute Model for Building the Social-Emotional Skills of Students in Special Education: A Schoolwide Approach
- 11. Social-Emotional Learning at North Country School: Resourcefulness, Ruggedness, and Resilience
- 12. Promoting Students' Social-Emotional and Intellectual Well-Being and the School as an Ecosystem: From Program to Way of Life
Part III: Making It Happen In Your School: Implementation Guidelines
- Introduction: Learning From Others, Connecting to Others
- 13. A Vision of Schools With Heart and Spirit: How to Get There
- 14. Institutionalizing Programming for Social-Emotional Learning: Lessons and Illustrations From the Field
- 15. Implementing a Social-Emotional Learning Program: Stories From Schools
- 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
Description
"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
Preface
About the Editors
About the Editors
About the Contributors
About the Contributors
Part I: Why Schools Must Address EQ and IQ to Be Successful
- Introduction: EQ, IQ, and Effective Learning and Citizenship
- 1. Transforming the Lives of Children
- 2. Educational Leadership for Academic, Social, and Emotional Learning
- 3. Social-Emotional Learning and Academic Achievement
- 4. Lessons for Life: How Smart Schools Boost Academic, Social, and Emotional Intelligence
- 5. How New Knowledge About the Brain Applies to Social and Emotional Learning
Part II: Creating Learning Communities by Enhancing Schools' SEL/EQ: Examples From Practice
- Introduction: If They Can Do It, Why Can't You?
- 6. Waging Peace in Our Schools: The Resolving Conflict Creatively Program
- 7. Building Capacity From Within: Changing the Adult Working Environment in Our Schools
- 8. Building Community In School: The Child Development Project
- 9. Educating for Social, Emotional, and Academic Development: The Comer School Development Program
- 10.The Children's Institute Model for Building the Social-Emotional Skills of Students in Special Education: A Schoolwide Approach
- 11. Social-Emotional Learning at North Country School: Resourcefulness, Ruggedness, and Resilience
- 12. Promoting Students' Social-Emotional and Intellectual Well-Being and the School as an Ecosystem: From Program to Way of Life
Part III: Making It Happen In Your School: Implementation Guidelines
- Introduction: Learning From Others, Connecting to Others
- 13. A Vision of Schools With Heart and Spirit: How to Get There
- 14. Institutionalizing Programming for Social-Emotional Learning: Lessons and Illustrations From the Field
- 15. Implementing a Social-Emotional Learning Program: Stories From Schools
- 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
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EQ + IQ = Best Leadership Practices for Caring and Successful Schools
November 2002 | 264 pages | Corwin
| Format | Published Date | ISBN | Price |
|---|---|---|---|
| Hardcover | 27/02/2023 | 9780761945208 | $78.95 |
| Paperback | 27/02/2023 | 9780761945215 | $39.95 |
| Lifetime | 27/02/2023 | 9781483360669 | $36.00 |
"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
- 1. Transforming the Lives of Children
- 2. Educational Leadership for Academic, Social, and Emotional Learning
- 3. Social-Emotional Learning and Academic Achievement
- 4. Lessons for Life: How Smart Schools Boost Academic, Social, and Emotional Intelligence
- 5. How New Knowledge About the Brain Applies to Social and Emotional Learning
- Part II: Creating Learning Communities by Enhancing Schools' SEL/EQ: Examples From Practice
- Introduction: If They Can Do It, Why Can't You?
- 6. Waging Peace in Our Schools: The Resolving Conflict Creatively Program
- 7. Building Capacity From Within: Changing the Adult Working Environment in Our Schools
- 8. Building Community In School: The Child Development Project
- 9. Educating for Social, Emotional, and Academic Development: The Comer School Development Program
- 10.The Children's Institute Model for Building the Social-Emotional Skills of Students in Special Education: A Schoolwide Approach
- 11. Social-Emotional Learning at North Country School: Resourcefulness, Ruggedness, and Resilience
- 12. Promoting Students' Social-Emotional and Intellectual Well-Being and the School as an Ecosystem: From Program to Way of Life
- Part III: Making It Happen In Your School: Implementation Guidelines
- Introduction: Learning From Others, Connecting to Others
- 13. A Vision of Schools With Heart and Spirit: How to Get There
- 14. Institutionalizing Programming for Social-Emotional Learning: Lessons and Illustrations From the Field
- 15. Implementing a Social-Emotional Learning Program: Stories From Schools
- 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