Building Academic Success on Social and Emotional Learning

by Zins, Joseph E.; Weissberg, Roger P.; Wang, Margaret C.; Walberg, Herbert J.; Goleman, Daniel

• ISBN13: 9780807744390
• ISBN10: 0807744395
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2004-04-01
• Publisher: Teachers College Pr

Summary

In this groundbreaking book, nationally recognized leaders in education and psychology examine the relationships between social-emotional education and school success—specifically focusing on interventions that enhance student learning. Offering scientific evidence and practical examples, this volume points out the many benefits of social emotional learning programs, including: building skills linked to cognitive development, encouraging student focus and motivation, improving relationships between students and teachers, creating school-family partnerships to help students achieve, and increasing student confidence and success.

Table of Contents

Foreword, by Daniel Goleman	vii
Acknowledgments	ix
PART I The Foundations of Social and Emotional Learning
1 The Scientific Base Linking Social and Emotional Learning to School Success	3	(20)
Joseph E. Zins, Michelle R. Bloodworth, Roger P. Weissberg, and Herbert J. Walberg
2 The Learner-Centered Psychological Principles: A Framework for Balancing Academic Achievement and Social-Emotional Learning Outcomes	23	(17)
Barbara L. McCombs
3 The Three Cs of Promoting Social and Emotional Learning	40	(19)
David W. Johnson and Roger T. Johnson
4 Family-School-Peer Relationships: Significance for Social, Emotional, and Academic Learning	59	(17)
Sandra L. Christenson and Lynne H. Havsy
5 Toward a Broader Education: Social, Emotional, and Practical Skills	76	(18)
Paulo N. Lopes and Peter Salovey
6 Social and Emotional Learning in Teacher Preparation Standards	94	(19)
Jane E. Fleming and Mary Bay
PART II Effective Strategies for Enhancing Academic, Social, and Emotional Outcomes
7 Strategies to Infuse Social and Emotional Learning into Academics	113	(22)
Maurice J. Elias
8 Social Development and Social and Emotional Learning	135	(16)
J. David Hawkins, Brian H. Smith, and Richard F. Catalano
9 The Resolving Conflict Creatively Program: A School-Based Social and Emotional Learning Program	151	(19)
Joshua L. Brown, Tom Roderick, Linda Lantieri, and J. Lawrence Aber
10 The PATHS Curriculum: Theory and Research on Neurocognitive Development and School Success	170	(19)
Mark T. Greenberg, Carol A. Kusche, and Nathaniel Riggs
11 Community in School as Key to Student Growth: Findings from the Child Development Project	189	(20)
Eric Schaps, Victor Battistich, and Daniel Solomon
PART III Recommendations
12 Recommendations and Conclusions: Implications for Practice, Training, Research, and Policy	209	(10)
Herbert J. Walberg, Joseph E. Zins, and Roger P. Weissberg
About the Editors and the Contributors	219	(8)
Index	227