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The Educator's Guide to Emotional Intelligence and Academic Achievement

Social-Emotional Learning in the Classroom

By: Maurice J. Elias, Harriett Arnold

Tap the power of emotional intelligence and watch schoolwide achievement soar!

This comprehensive guide to emotional intelligence (EI) presents proven best practices from more than 25 experts, creating a new gold standard for bringing social-emotional learning into every classroom. Find chapters by Daniel Goleman, Rachel Kessler, Marty Sleeper and Margot Strom, Janet Patti, Eliot Rosenbloom, Pam Robbins, Mark Greenberg, Sheldon Berman, and others. Key features cover:

Theory and context for EI
Teacher preparation and professional development
17 PreK-12 best-practice programs
A guide for contacts, follow-up, and implementation

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Grade Level: PreK-12
ISBN: 9781412914819
Published By: Corwin
Year: 2006
Page Count: 296
Publication date: January 13, 2006

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Tap the power of emotional intelligence and watch school-wide achievement soar!

"Bringing all this information together in one spot is quite a contribution. There isn't too much research or theory here, but lots of emphasis on 'What can I do on Monday?'"
-David A. Squires, Associate Professor, Southern Connecticut State University

"I highlighted at least two dozen specific ideas that I will implement in my classroom next year."
-Steve Reifman, Teacher, Santa Monica-Malibu Unified School District, CA

"Relevant and meaningful for today's educators."
-Beverly Eidmann, Principal, Arvada Middle School, CO

"Useful, unique (not a crowded field at all!), practical, clearly written."
-Robert DiGiulio, Professor of Education, Johnson State College

This comprehensive guide to emotional intelligence (EI) is a state-of-the-art collection of proven best practices from the field's best and brightest minds. Edited by educational leaders Maurice Elias and Harriett Arnold, this guide creates a new gold standard for bringing social-emotional learning into every classroom, with chapters by Daniel Goleman, Rachel Kessler, Marty Sleeper and Margot Strom, Janet Patti, Eliot Rosenbloom, Pam Robbins, Mark Greenberg, Sheldon Berman, Susan Wooley, Rose Reissman, Carol Cummings, and many others.

Key features cover:

Theory and context for EI, including brain development, multiple intelligences, service and citizenship, school-to-work, and health
Teacher preparation and professional development
17 best-practice programs in action, relevant to grades PreK-12
An Application/Reflection Guide for note-taking, follow-up, contacts, and ideas for immediate implementation

This book is sure to be an essential resource for all teachers, counselors, and school administrators who want their school communities to educate healthier, more responsible, and more successful students.

Key features

Appropriate for teachers, counselors, and all school administrators.
Covers EI theory and practice in relation to brain development, multiple intelligences, service and citizenship, school-to-work, health, teacher preparation, and teacher professional development.
Offers case examples and tools from 17 best-practice programs for grades preK-12 along with an Application/Reflection Guide for note-taking, follow-up, contacts, and ideas that can be implemented "Monday morning."
Contributing authors include Daniel Goleman, Rachel Kessler, Marty Sleeper and Margot Strom, Janet Patti, Eliot Rosenbloom, Pam Robbins, Carol A. Kusche, Mark Greenberg, Sheldon Berman, Susan Wooley, Rose Reissman, Carol Cummings, and many others.

Author(s)

Maurice J. Elias

Maurice J. Elias, PhD, is Professor, Psychology Department, Rutgers University, Director, Social-Emotional and Character Development Lab (www.secdlab.org), Co-Director of the Rutgers-based Academy for SEL in Schools, which offers online certificates in SEL Instruction and School Leadership (SELinSchools.org), and a member of the Leadership Team for SEL4NJ and SEL4US (www.SEL4US.org). He received the Joseph E. Zins Memorial Senior Scholar Award for Social-Emotional Learning from CASEL , the Sanford McDonnell Award for Lifetime Achievement in Character Education, and the Jane Bostrum Service to School Psychology Award. Dr. Elias is a past winner of the Lela Rowland Prevention Award, the Ernest McMahon Class of 1930 Award for service to New Jersey, and the American Psychological Association/Society for Community Research and Action’s Distinguished Contribution to Practice and Ethnic Minority Mentoring awards. His books include Emotionally Intelligent Parenting, The Educator’s Guide to Emotional Intelligence and Academic Achievement: Social-Emotional Learning in the Classroom, and The Other Side of the Report Card: Assessing Students’ Social, Emotional, and Character Development (how schools and districts can integrate social-emotional and character development systematically into their ongoing student report cards). Most recently, he is the coauthor of The Joys & Oys of Parenting: Insights and Wisdom From the Jewish Tradition, Boost Emotional Intelligence in Students: 30 Flexible Research-Based Lessons to Build EQ Skills, Nurturing Students’ Character: Everyday Teaching Activities for Social-Emotional Learning, and Social-Emotional Learning Lab: A Comprehensive SEL Resource Kit (with Victoria Poedubicky).

He writes a blog on SECD for Edutopia (www.edutopia.org/profile/mauricej-elias) and can be reached at secdlab@gmail.com. His Twitter handles are @SELinSchools and @SECDLab.

Take a look at a review on The Other Side of the Report Card from the New Jersey Association of School Psychologists at https://us.corwin.com/sites/default/files/review_of_the_other_side_njasp_0.pdf.

Harriett Arnold

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.

Table of Contents

Preface

Acknowledgments

About the Editors

About the Contributors

Introduction: About This Book

Part I: THE FUNDAMENTAL CONNECTION OF SOCIAL-EMOTIONAL LEARNING/EMOTIONAL INTELLIGENCE, ACADEMIC PERFORMANCE, AND THE PROCESS OF LEARNING

1. The Connection Between Academic and Social-Emotional Learning

2. Brain Development and Social-Emotional Learning: An Introduction for Educators

3. Multiple Intelligences and Emotional Intelligence: Finding Common Ground in the Classroom

Part II: HOW SEL/EI CREATES SYNERGY IN KEY CONTEXTS IN EDUCATION: SERVICE AND CITIZENSHIP, SCHOOL-TO-WORK, HEALTH, TEACHER PREPARATION, AND PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT

4. The Connection Between Character, Service, and Social-Emotional Learning:

5. From School to Work: Social and Emotional Learning as the Vital Connection

6. Physical Health, Social-Emotional Skills, and Academic Success are Inseparable

7. Addressing Social-Emotional Education in Teacher Education

8. Raising Your New Teacher's Emotional Intelligence: How Using Social-Emotional Competencies Can Make Your First Year of Teaching Less Stressful and More Successful

9.The Professional Inquiry Kit: One Avenue for Exploring, Enhancing, and Applying Emotional Intelligence in Schools

Part III: EDUCATORS TELL THEIR STORIES: HOW TO BRING SEL/EI INTO CLASSROOMS

10. I Can Problem Solve: An Interpersonal Cognitive Problem-Solving Approach for Children

11. Teaching Preschool Children Coping Skills for Stress Management

12. Morning Meeting: Teaching the Art of Caring Conversation

13. Raising Healthy Children: School Intervention Strategies to Develop Prosocial Behaviors

14. Social Decision Making/Social Problem Solving: A Theoretically Sound, Evidence-Based Framework for SEL in the Classroom

15. Inside Open Circle

16. Teaching Emotional Literacy in Elementary School Classrooms: The PATHS Curriculum

17. The Second-Step Program: Social-Emotional Skills for Violence Prevention

18. Fostering Caring, Character, and Responsibility in Schools

19. Teaching Life Skills in the Schools

20. Read and Serve: Student-Centered Service Learning and Literacy

21. Heroes to the Rescue: Reaching the Roots of Learning

22. The “Best Practices in Prevention” Curriculum: Foundational Life Skills for General and Special Education

23. Teenage Health Teaching Modules: Social-Emotional Learning in the Context of Health Education

24. Facing History and Ourselves

25. The “Senior Passage” Course

Epilogue

Index

Reviews

"A valuable book that gathers and presents to teachers a variety of strategies, prosocial and pro-academic, that involve emotional intelligence....Useful, unique (not a crowded field at all!), practical, clearly written."

Robert DiGiulio
Professor of Education, Johnson State College, VT

"This book is the most thorough I’ve ever read on emotional intelligence....I found it to be an extremely helpful handbook in helping me to understand the importance of SEL and in considering programs for my school...The content is relevant and meaningful for today's educators."

Beverly Eidmann
Arvada Middle School, Arvada, CO

"Makes an important contribution to the field of social-emotional learning....I highlighted at least two dozen specific ideas that I will implement in my classroom next year....Practitioners will readily grasp the implications and applications of this material. The topic is an especially relevant one for today's educators."

Steve Reifman
Teacher, Santa Monica-Malibu Unified School District, Santa Monica, CA

"Bringing all this information together in one spot is quite a contribution... the book is written so as to be very well understood by teachers. There isn't too much research or theory here, but lots of emphasis on 'What can I do on Monday?'"

David Squires
Associate Professor, Southern Connecticut State University, CT

"This is an essential resource for all teachers, counselors, and school administrators who want their school communities to educate healthier, more resposible, and more successful students."

SirReadalot.org, March Issue

"The authors present a well-articulated approach to planning and conducting evaluations."

psycCRITIQUES, March 1, 2006

"Offers a comprehensive overview of social-emotional learning and its impact on student achievement. Takes a more qualitative perspective, exploring the intangibles of classroom instruction with the underlying premise that students cannot learn best if social and emotional aspects of their thinking are ignored."

The School Administrator, December 2006
American Association of School Administrators

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