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EQ + IQ = Best Leadership Practices for Caring and Successful Schools

By: Maurice J. Elias, Harriett Arnold, Cynthia Steiger Hussey, Corwin Press, Inc.

Today's educational leaders offer their best ideas for combining emotional intelligence with academic rigor to create caring and successful schools.

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)

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Grade Level: PreK-12
ISBN: 9780761945215
Published By: Corwin
Year: 2002
Page Count: 264
Publication date: May 15, 2014

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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)

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.

Cynthia Steiger Hussey

Corwin Press, Inc.

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

Reviews

"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."

James P. Comer, Maurice Falk Professor of Child Psychiatry
Yale Child Study Center

"There's enormous interest in emotional intelligence and brain-friendly learning, and this book is an excellent contribution to the debate."

The Times Educational Supplement, UK Editorial, 2003

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