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

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

by Maurice Elias (Author), Cynthia Steiger Hussey (Series Editor), Maurice J. (Jesse) Elias (Editor), Harriett Brown Arnold (Author), Harriett A. Arnold (Series Editor), Maurice Elias (Author)

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    Paperback 2003

    $34.24
Synopsis

`Particularly interesting is the section on Making It Happen in Your School , in which the editors make a powerful case for specifically addressing emotional learning as a skill area. They tell of the Massachusetts school superintendent who found that parents and community members were at least as interested in having children living in the community who were kind, caring, and non-violent as they were in having kids who were smart . Every UK headteacher will nod agreement. There's enormous interest in emotional intelligence and brain-friendly learning, and this book is an excellent contribution to the debate' - Gerald Haigh, Times Educational Supplement

`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

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. In some situations, however, these skills are not being taught at home, and the crucial connection that enables students to retain what they learn for life, while creating a classroom atmosphere filled with proficient, civic-minded students of sound judgment is never fully developed.

In this dynamic new book, today's educational leaders offer their best ideas for building school communities that are safe, smart, caring, successful, and emotionally intelligent.

Some key topics discussed 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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More Information

Format: Paperback
 Pages: 264
 Publisher: Corwin Press
Published: 14 Jan 2003
ISBN 10: 0761945210
ISBN 13: 9780761945215

Media 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

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
Author Bio
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, here. Take a look at a review on The Other Side of the Report Card, published by the New Jersey Association of School Psychologists here. 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.