Contents

    Preface

    Acknowledgments

    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

        Maurice J. Elias, Harriett Arnold, and Cynthia Steiger Hussey

  1.  Transforming the Lives of Children

        James P. Comer

  2.  Educational Leadership for Academic, Social, and Emotional Learning

        Mary Utne O’Brien, Roger P. Weissberg, and Timothy P. Shriver

  3.  Social–Emotional Learning and Academic Achievement

        Marcia Knoll and Janet Patti

  4.  Lessons for Life: How Smart Schools Boost Academic, Social, and Emotional Intelligence

        Alan M. Blankstein

  5.  How New Knowledge About the Brain Applies to Social and Emotional Learning

        Ronald S. Brandt

PART II. CREATING LEARNING COMMUNITIES BY ENHANCING SCHOOLS’ SEL AND EQ: EXAMPLES FROM PRACTICE

    Introduction: If They Can Do It, Why Can’t You?

        Maurice J. Elias, Harriett Arnold, and Cynthia Steiger Hussey

  6.  Waging Peace in Our Schools: The Resolving Conflict Creatively Program

        Linda Lantieri

  7.  Building Capacity From Within: Changing the Adult Working Environment in Our Schools

        Sharon Rose Powell and Margo R. Ross

  8.  Building Community in School: The Child Development Project

        Catherine Lewis, Marilyn Watson, and Eric Schaps

  9.  Educating for Social, Emotional, and Academic Development: The Comer School Development Program

        Norris M. Haynes

10.  The Children’s Institute Model for Building the Social–Emotional Skills of Students in Special Education: A Schoolwide Approach

        Mindy Cohen, Bruce Ettinger, and Therese O’Donnell

11.  Social–Emotional Learning at North Country School: Resourcefulness, Ruggedness, and Resilience

        Frank Wallace

12.  Promoting Students’ Social–Emotional and Intellectual Well-Being and the School as an Ecosystem: From Program to Way of Life

        Chana Shadmi and Bilha Noy

PART III. MAKING IT HAPPEN IN YOUR SCHOOL: IMPLEMENTATION GUIDELINES

    Introduction: Learning From Others, Connecting to Others

        Maurice J. Elias, Harriett Arnold, and Cynthia Steiger Hussey

13.  A Vision of Schools With Heart and Spirit: How to Get There

        Linda Lantieri

14.  Institutionalizing Programming for Social–Emotional Learning: Lessons and Illustrations From the Field

        Linda Bruene Butler, Jeffrey S. Kress, and Jacqueline A. Norris

15.  Implementing a Social–Emotional Learning Program: Stories From Schools

        Carol Apacki

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