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Animal Related
Guidance: Teaching Social Skills Using Pets or Puppets, Grades 2-5.
Patty Stang-Erickson & Val Rae Boe, $28.95
Animal assisted guidance and therapy has been shown to increase empathy for others, act as a catalyst for expressing emotions, enhancing self-esteem, improving self-control, expanding social competence, decreasing feelings of stress and social isolation. With over 100 lessons, activities and worksheets, this book will help you bring an animal loving slant into your guidance coaching. |
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Becoming an Emotionally Intelligent
Teacher. William Powell & Ochan Kusuma-Powell,
$25.95
Based on Daniel Goleman’s five
components of emotional intelligence, BECOMING
AN EMOTIONALLY INTELLIGENT TEACHER shows how self-awareness, self-regulation, motivation, social
awareness, and relationship management can help teachers increase their
effectiveness in the classroom. The authors provide research, case studies, and
essential tools that help teachers to:
- Understand how their conscious and unconscious
behaviors affect the learning environment
- Refine their verbal and nonverbal communication
skills
- Manage their feelings and frustrations
- Interpret student behaviors, developing insight
into how students perceive their teaching styles
- Hone their presentation skills
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Black
Ants and Buddhists: Thinking Critically and Teaching Differently
in the Primary Grades. Mary Cowhey, $27.95
What would a classroom look like if understanding
and respecting differences in race, culture, beliefs, and opinions
were at its heart? Welcome to Mary Cowhey's Peace Class in Northampton,
MA, where first and second graders view the entire curriculum through
the framework of understanding the world, and trying to do their
part to make it a better place.
Woven through the book is Mary's unflinching
and humorous account of her own roots in a struggling large Irish
Catholic family and her early career as a community activist. Mary's
teaching is infused with lessons of her heroes: Gandhi, Eleanor
Roosevelt, Helen Keller, Martin Luther King, and others. Her students
learn to make connections between their lives, the books they read,
the community leaders they meet, and the larger world.
BLACK ANTS AND BUDDHISTS will make you think hard about how you
spend your time with students. It offers no easy answers, just wealth
of insight into the challenges of helping students think critically
about the world. |
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Building Positive Momentum for Positive Behavior in
Young Children: Strategies for Success in School and Beyond. Lisa Rogers, $39.95
Providing practical solutions to common behavioral
problems, this book shows how to use the positive momentum approach to
encourage long-term positive behaviour among children aged 3-9.
Covering issues such as what to do when a child avoids
doing work, when they engage in rough play, and when they won't stay in their
seat, this book includes targeted behavioral strategies that start with the
underlying foundations of behaviour and result in lasting positive change.
Through real life examples, the book shows how educators can be role models for
children, and how school staff can collaborate with families for success beyond
the classroom. The book also includes information specific to working with
children with special needs. Accompanying behaviour charts and goal mapping
resources are available to download to help with tracking a child's progress. |
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The Complete Guide
to Service Learning, Grades K-12. Cathryn Berger
Kaye, $57.99
Proven, practical ways to engage students in civic responsibility, academic curriculum and social action. |
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Counseling
Toward Solutions: a Practical Solution-Focused Program for Working
with Students, Teachers and Parents, 2nd Edition. Linda
Metcalf, $35.99 Grades K-12
Step by step, COUNSELING TOWARD SOLUTIONS shows how
to help individual students begin their own change process by noticing
when a problem does not occur rather than focusing on problems or
what caused them. This revised and updated second edition presents
a positive program for changing individual behavior that empowers
students of all ages to deal with their won problems and gain self-esteem
in the process.
New: The Field Guide to Counseling
Toward Solutions: the Solution-Focused School. Linda Metcalf,
$26.99 Grades K-12 |
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Creating Emotionally Literate Classrooms:
an Introduction to the RULER Approach to Social and Emotional Learning. Edited by Marc Brackett & Janet Pickard Kremenitzer, $29.50
Written by researchers and educators,
and using the RULER approach: Recognizing, Understanding, Labeling, Expressing
and Regulating, this book documents the importance of emotionally literate
teachers and provides practical advice for the implementation of a researched
emotional literacy program for upper elementary students. It reinforces the
positive relationship between emotional literacy and effective teaching,
successful academic performance and quality relationships. |
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Desperately Seeking Solutions: Helping students build problem-solving skills to meet life's many challenges. Kathy Paterson, $24.95
This practical book discusses the specific critical and creative thinking skills that go into confronting life`s inevitable dilemmas, including those frequently faced at school. Organized for easy classroom use, the book introduces a five-step plan for handling almost any situation — from defining the problem, through considering possibilities and choosing the best option, to taking action and evaluating decisions. Concrete examples throughout the book offer simple suggestions for talking with students about problem-solving, modeling strategies, and reinforcing effective problem-solving techniques. |
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The Educator’s
Guide to Emotional Intelligence and Academic Achievement: Social-Emotional
Learning in the Classroom. Maurice Elias & Harriet
Arnold, editors. $67.50
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 … this guide
creates a new gold standard for bringing social-emotional learning
into every classroom … 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
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Effective Interventions for Social-Emotional Learning.
Frank Gresham, $39.95
This book reviews evidence-based, multi-tiered practices
for promoting social-emotional learning (SEL) with typically developing
students as well as those with special needs. Leading authority Frank M.
Gresham, co-developer of the Social Skills Improvement System-Rating Scales,
describes how to systematically assess K-12 students' social skills and plan
and implement universal, selected, and intensive interventions. His approach is
grounded in cutting-edge research on social-emotional competencies and their
role in adjustment and academic achievement. Emphasizing what works, the book
showcases programs and strategies that are sequenced, active, focused, and
explicit. Detailed case examples and lesson plans illustrate different levels
and types of SEL intervention. |
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Everyone's Talking: Stories to Engage Middle Schoolers
in Social Conversation, Grades 6-9. Cindi Dodd, $31.95
Revitalize class meetings or advisement periods with
read-aloud short stories about teens with social dilemmas to solve. Each story
has discussion questions to encourage teens to talk it out and offer
problem-solving ideas for their fictional counterparts. Topics are varied and
include relating with peers, interacting with adults and authority figures,
using social media or recognizing bullying.
Stories were created by a middle school counselor based on true scenarios.
Teens will gain skills they need to make best decisions in future similar
interactions. Educators will build positive relationships, engaging teens in
topics they easily relate to while guiding their conversations. The activities
are appropriate for use in the classroom, during homeroom advisement period, in
detention programs or for positive behavior support interventions. Tips
for conducting positive and respectful class meetings are included. A CD
provides printable worksheets, discussion questions and social skills posters. |
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Feelings In a Jar® - A Fun Game for All Ages for
Endless Play & Interaction. Deborah Jiang Stein, $14.99 (ages 8
& up)
More Feelings In a Jar®. Deborah Jiang Stein, $14.99
(ages 8 & up)
Everyone needs to know how to name and express feelings.
Each jar holds 101 little cards printed with “feelings words” — gleeful,
insecure, grateful, angry, cranky, courageous, hopeful, and many more. Explore
expressing feelings by discussing what it means to be defiant,
compassionate, glum, bold, jovial, and many more usual and unusual feelings.. Pull out a slip and act out the feeling, or invite
someone else to act it out. Use as discussion starters, journaling prompts, or
icebreakers for groups. |
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First Steps to Social Success: Teaching Children
Critical Social Skills, Grades K-6. Diane Senn, $57.95
It is critically important that children learn
fundamental social skills during their elementary school years. This book and
CD provides a unique set of lessons for helping children learn skills and
insights they need for creating and maintaining positive relationships with
others. Direct teaching and reinforcement of these lessons helps provide
children with information and practice that will help bolster their positive
social-emotional development. This resource is targeted toward elementary
school ages. However, the basic information provided can be used for younger
and older students too. Featured topics include Knowing Myself First,
Initiating with Others, Learning Conversation Skills, and Reading Social Cues.
- 25 Lesson Plans with Reproducible Handouts
- Pre and Post Social Skills Assessment
- Graphic Cue Cards (summarizing each lesson)
- CD with Digital Interactive Activities and Printable Handouts
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Helping Kids Help: Organizing Successful Charitable
Projects. Renée Heiss, $25.99
When children’s enthusiasm for helping others surpasses
their knowledge of how to help, parents, teachers, camp counselors, and group
leaders are often called on to give direction. Helping Kids Help provides adult mentors with answers to questions they face.
- How can kids evaluate and select the best charity for their
contributions?
- Should children perform a team-building exercise before they
begin a project?
- What parental permission issues are involved?
- For ongoing service projects, should the group write a mission
statement? Open a savings account?
Helping Kids Help contains dozens of real-life
examples of adults and children involved in service projects — the struggles they
overcame, the lessons they learned, and the benefits they enjoyed. It also
includes specific project ideas, Web sites, and additional resources to
explore. This valuable handbook will help you develop projects that benefit not
only those being served, but the children doing the service, developing life
skills such as commitment, sacrifice, cooperation, tolerance, and even valuable
career skills. Everyone wins! |
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Helping Preschool-Age Children Learn Self-Regulation:
Lessons, Activities, Songs, and Games Designed To Give Children the Skills They
Need to Succeed for the Rest of Their Lives.Brad Chapin, $57.95 (includes
a CD-ROM of reproducible material)
This highly anticipated resource focuses on
skill-training for preschool-age children. Self-regulation is a universal skill
necessary for academic success, emotional control and healthy social
interaction. With this one resource, you will be able to address School
Readiness, Anger Problems, Anxiety, School Safety, Self-esteem, Social Skills
and much more. The authors have developed this guide with a focus on how to
help you "Do More with Less." The strategies are creative and
designed to engage young children in the process to create change quickly.
Includes a CD with reproducibles worksheets. |
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Helping
Students Fix Problems and Avoid Crises: an Easy-to-Use Intervention
Resource for Grades 1-4. Lawrence J. Greene, $49.95
For every teacher who has been at a loss to help
the student who seemed helpless, this is a resource that cannot
be missed. In HELPING STUDENTS FIX PROBLEMS AND AVOID CRISES, Lawrence
Greene details instructional principles to help educators model
and mentor effective life skills behaviors for their students. For
the child who doesn’t have friends, does poorly in sports, has difficulty
learning, or who steals, lies, or bullies, Greene provides solid,
proven methods to help these learners discover and practice better
life skills. |
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Helping Teens Learn Self-Regulation: Lessons, Activities
& Worksheets for Teaching the Essentials of Responsible Decision-Making
& Self-Control. Brad Chapin, $57.95 (includes a CD-ROM of reproducible
material) Grades 7-12
Self-regulation includes a universal set of skills
necessary for academic success, emotional control, and healthy social
interaction. With these resources you will be able to address anger problems,
academic performance challenges, anxieties, school safety issues, self-esteem,
social skills, and much more. The books provide a solid yet flexible foundation
for intervention. The individual strategies are presented in a simple
step-by-step process using lessons activities and reproducible worksheets.
These strategies can be used individually for a quick intervention, or they can
be used to create dozens of unique curricula — tailor made to target specific
problem areas for small groups or classrooms.
The authors have split the self-regulation training
process into three functional areas: physical, emotional, and cognitive. Using
strategies based soundly upon the evidence base of cognitive-behavioral
psychology this resource will help you move children and teens progressively
through skill areas in each of these three domains. The strategies are
creative, fresh, and engaging in order to effect change quickly and increase
the long-term impact. |
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Helping Young People
Learn Self-Regulation: Lessons, Activities & Worksheets for
Teaching the Essentials of Responsible Decision-Making & Self-Control.
Brad Chapin & Matthew Penner, $57.95 (includes a CD-ROM
of reproducible material) Grades K-8
Self-regulation includes a universal set
of skills necessary for academic success emotional control and healthy social
interaction. With this single resource you will be able to address children's
anger problems, academic performance challenges, anxieties, school safety
issues, self-esteem, social skills, and much more. This resource provides a
solid yet flexible foundation for intervention. The individual strategies are
presented in a simple step-by-step process using lessons activities and
reproducible worksheets. These strategies can be used individually for a quick
intervention with children, or they can be used to create dozens of unique
curricula – tailor made to target specific problem areas for small groups or
classrooms.
The authors have split the self-regulation training process into three
functional areas: physical, emotional, and cognitive. Using strategies based
soundly upon the evidence base of cognitive-behavioral psychology this resource
will help you move children progressively through skill areas in each of these
three domains. The strategies are creative, fresh, and engaging in order to effect
change quickly and increase the long-term impact on children. |
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Icebreakers In a Jar®. Free Spirit Publishing,
$14.99 (ages 8-12)
101 cards, each with three engaging questions, help kids
break the ice in new situations and develop social skills as they learn more
about their peers. Perfect for use in classrooms, advisory groups, after-school
programs, teams, and youth groups. |
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Inspiring and Creative Ideas for Working with
Children: How to Build Relationships and Enable Change. Deborah Plummer, $27.95
Employing a range of innovative and creative ideas, this
book is full of tips to engage children and promote their wellbeing.
Children are vulnerable to low self-esteem, stress and
anxiety because they are still growing and learning. This book looks at what we
can do to minimise children's vulnerability to issues such as these, help them
to build emotional resilience and teach them effective strategies for dealing
with life's ups and downs. The book offers a host of different approaches that
adults can use with children, including image-making, storytelling and
puppetry. Chapters are brought to life with the voices of parents and
professionals describing how these techniques worked for them. They also
include guidance on how the principles can be used by professionals in the
home, in schools or in therapeutic settings. |
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Let's Make Friends Card Game. Max Nass &
Marcia Nass, $26.50 (Grades K-6)
Friendship making skills will resonate throughout a
child's lifetime as a basic human need. Let's Make Friends teaches children how
to develop relationships with peers in which they feel liked respected and
valued. The main categories of this fun-filled card game contain the most important
skills to making and keeping friends. |
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Next Steps to Social Success: Teaching Children More
Advanced Skills to Help Them Deal with Social Challenges, Grades K-6. Diane
Senn & Kathy McElvenny, $57.95
This companion resource builds upon the critical social
skills taught in First Steps to Social Success and provides skill
information for continuing, enhancing and dealing with challenges for social
success. Featured Topics include Building Friendships, Managing Friendships,
Handling Friendship Problems, and Social Skills in the Classroom.
- 25 Lesson Plans with Reproducible Handouts
- Pre and Post Social Skills Assessment
- Graphic Cue Cards (summarizing each lesson)
- CD with Digital Interactive Activities and Printable Handouts
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Nurturing Emotional Resilience in Vulnerable Children
and Young People: a Practical Guide. Juliette Ttofa, $62.90
Nurturing Emotional Resilience in Vulnerable Children
and Young People is a guidebook that provides a framework and practical
strategies to support children’s emotional resilience at a whole-school and
more targeted level. Underpinned by research into the concept of resilience,
the book centers around the ‘Resiliency Rainbow Toolkit’; a ready-to-use
theoretical model that draws upon a range of ideas and approaches that act as a
resiliency building programme.
This practical and interactive programme can be used by
educators and counsellors alike and offers creative and engaging ideas for
building emotional resilience in children. Each section of the toolkit provides
learning objectives, facilitator notes, discussion questions and student
activities and is designed to:
- support students in identifying their own resiliency levels and
support network
- enable students to recognise and increase their existing
strengths and values
- encourage students to examine their talents, interests, dreams
and aspirations
- introduce strategies for boosting less strong areas such as
supportive friendships
- teach students ways to cope with stress and difficult situations
This guidebook can be used alongside seven fully
illustrated storybooks that each focus on a different aspect of emotional
resilience. It outlines ways to use these beautifully told and visually
appealing stories to nurture emotional resilience with children, and discusses
some of the key metaphors in the main story How Monsters Wish to Feel.
The guidebook and storybooks will be invaluable tools for anyone working to
build emotional resilience with children and young people.
Storybooks that accompany this guide are:
The Boat Star. Juliette Ttofa, illustrated by
Julia Gallego, $20.90
The Boat Star is a therapeutic story about dealing
with a painful loss and taking comfort in good memories. It can be used by
practitioners and educators as a tool to discuss bereavement and coming to
terms with feelings of loss with children.
The Boy Who Longed to Look at the Sun. Juliette
Ttofa, illustrated by Julia Gallego, $20.90
The Boy who Longed to Look at the Sun is a
therapeutic story about self-care. The story teaches children the importance of
looking after yourself and understanding what is or is not healthy.
The Day the Sky Fell In. Juliette Ttofa,
illustrated by Julia Gallego, $20.90
The Day the Sky Fell In is a therapeutic story
about letting go of worries and emotional baggage. To be
used as a tool to discuss with children what we value as
important in life and how we can let go of things we don’t need, such as
unhealthy or unhelpful feelings, thoughts or behaviours.
The Girl Who Collected Her Own Echo. Juliette
Ttofa, illustrated by Julia Gallego, $20.90
The Girl who Collected Her Own Echo is a
therapeutic story about finding friendship.
The Hot and Bothered Air Balloon. Juliette Ttofa,
illustrated by Julia Gallego, $20.90
The Hot and Bothered Air Balloon is a therapeutic
story about feeling stressed. The story teaches children about how we can use
relaxation and mindfulness techniques when we are feeling stressed, and the
benefits of finding an outlet for our emotional distress.
How Monsters Wish to Feel. Juliette Ttofa,
illustrated by Julia Gallego, $20.90
How Monsters Wish to Feel is a therapeutic story
about a journey to develop emotional resilience. Through the analogy of monsters,
it depicts a tale of how a child’s needs can sometimes become distorted, so
that the needs we see expressed through outward behaviour (the monster) mask
the true, hidden emotional needs that go unmet. The story also alludes to the
importance of focusing on the strengths and protective factors in a child’s
life, rather than the problems and risks, in order to promote emotional
resilience.
The Tale of Two Fishes. Juliette Ttofa,
illustrated by Julia Gallego, $20.90
The Tale of Two Fishes is a therapeutic story
about developing resilient thinking. This beautifully illustrated storybook can
be used by practitioners, educators and parents as a tool to discuss the
importance of resilient thinking and the control we have over our own thoughts
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Positive Discipline in the Classroom:
Developing Mutual Respect, Cooperation, and Responsibility in Your Classroom, 4th Edition. Jane Nelsen, Lyn Lott & Stephen Glenn,
$19.00
In today's classroom, where teachers
must compete with digital distractions for their students' attention while
trying to satisfy increasingly demanding academic standards, it is more
important than ever that educators be able to combat apathy, instill vital
problem-solving skills, and create a climate that maximizes
learning. Positive Discipline strategies are an effective foundation for
fostering cooperation, problem-solving skills, and mutual respect in children.
This new edition of POSITIVE DISCIPLINE IN THE CLASSROOM is updated
with essential tools for the modern teacher.
- Create a classroom climate that enhances
academic learning
- Use encouragement rather than praise and
rewards
- Instill valuable social skills and positive
behavior through the use of class meetings
- Learn why involving students in solving problems
is much more effective than punishment
- Understand the motivation behind students'
behavior instead of looking for causes
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Positive Psychology in the Elementary School
Classroom. Patty O’Grady, $31.50
POSITIVE PSYCHOLOGY IN THE ELEMENTARY
SCHOOL CLASSROOM presents the basics of positive psychology to educators and
provides interactive resources to enrich teachers’ proficiency when using
positive psychology in the classroom. Patty O’Grady underlines the importance
of teaching the whole child: encouraging social awareness and positive
relationships, fostering self-motivation, and emphasizing social and emotional
learning. Through the use of positive psychology in the classroom, children can
learn to be more emotionally aware of their own and others’ feelings, use their
strengths to engage academically and socially, pursue meaningful lives, and
accomplish their personal goals.
The book begins with Martin Seligman’s positive psychology principles, and
continues into an overview of affective learning, including its philosophical
and psychological roots, from finding the “golden mean” of emotional regulation
to finding a child’s potencies and “golden self.” O’Grady connects the core
concepts of educational neuroscience to the principles of positive psychology,
explaining how feelings permeate the brain, affecting children’s thoughts and
actions; how insular neurons make us feel empathy and help us learn by
observation; and how the frontal cortex is the hall monitor of the brain. The book
is full of practical examples and interactive resources that invite every
educator to create a positive psychology classroom, where children can flourish
and reach their full potential. |
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Promoting Emotional Education: Engaging Children and Young People with Social, Emotional and Behavioural Difficulties. Edited by Carmel Cafai & Paul Cooper, $41.95
PROMOTING EMOTIONAL EDUCATION connects with the contemporary
shift from an exclusively academic focus towards a more balanced
and broader approach to education, with an emphasis on both academic
and emotional literacy.
The book suggests adopting educational practices which encourage feelings of emotional security, promote trusting and supportive relationships and reflect students' views and feelings. The contributors emphasize evidence-based practice, proposing various strategies which have proven to be effective in improving the social and academic behaviour of children and young people with social, emotional and behavioural difficulties. |
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Promoting Resilience in the Classroom: a Guide to Developing Pupils’ Emotional and Cognitive Skills. Carmel Cefai, $35.95
Resilience is a set of qualities that enable children to adapt and transform, to overcome risk and adversity, and to develop social competence, problem-solving skills, autonomy and a sense of purpose. For children and young people it is as vital to possess these qualities in school environments as in the family and the community at large. This handbook for teachers and educators explores ways of nurturing resilience in vulnerable students. It proposes a new, positive way of thinking about schools as institutions that can foster cognitive and socio-emotional competence in all students. |
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Raising Peacemakers. Esther Sokolov Fine, $23.95
Raising Peacemakers tells a 22-year story of
kids growing up with peacemaking as their foundation. At Downtown Alternative
School (DAS), a small public elementary school in Toronto, child-to-child
conflicts were understood as opportunities. Children and adults worked hard to
create a warm inclusive community where differing viewpoints and disagreements
could be handled fairly and safely.
While the book includes documentation and transcripts,
it’s a narrative rather than an academic text. It’s a trail of re-thinking,
negotiating and re-negotiating, solving and re-solving (occasionally resolving)
teaching and learning dilemmas. It’s a tale of one school’s brave and
optimistic effort to create and sustain healthy, safe, equitable, and
academically relevant conditions for and with people whose lives were and are
at stake in public education. It’s about children and adults growing together
as they discover more about what it means (and what it takes) to become
responsible citizens who care about each other, about their community, and
about the world.
The DAS community was dedicated to the serious work, and
to the joy, of respectful relationships and power sharing. This book invites
you to step back more than twenty years to learn about how this began and what
keeps it alive to this day. |
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Reaching All by Creating Tribes
Learning Communities: a New Way of Learning and Being Together. Jeanne Gibbs, $57.95
REACHING ALL BY CREATING TRIBES LEARNING
COMMUNITIES blends the fields of group process and cooperative learning;
prevention and resiliency; learning theory and school change into a
comprehensive, meaningful whole. This readable, useable, wonderful book is not
just a set of activities to build community.
Jeanne Gibbs and her colleagues
incorporate the latest research on teaching and learning. They illustrate
specifically how the Tribes process applies to a variety of school and
organizational needs. Most importantly, they help the reader to feel hopeful
and proud to be working and learning together with children and with each
other. |
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Roots of Empathy: Changing the World
Child by Child. Mary Gordon, $19.95 
Mary Gordon, an educator who has worked
for more than two decades with children from all kinds of backgrounds, believes
that the solution to bullying and other anti-social behaviour lies within each
child's innate sense of caring and compassion. She believes that infusing
children with empathy constitutes nothing less than a new paradigm in our approach
to child-raising.
Through Roots of Empathy, her
highly successful organization, Mary Gordon creates a rich, rewarding classroom
experience that fosters empathy within children. The program brings babies and
students together in a symbiotic loving environment that has been proven to
reduce aggression and increase tolerance and emotional understanding in
children. Roots of Empathy has reached over 500,000 children worldwide. Founder Mary Gordon’s contribution has been recognized
with the Order of Canada, the David E. Mitchell Award of Distinction, and has
given her the opportunity to dialogue with His Holiness the Dalai Lama on three
separate occasions.
In ROOTS OF EMPATHY: CHANGING THE WORLD
CHILD BY CHILD the innovative and inspired book based on her groundbreaking
research and successful classroom program, Mary Gordon shares her vision of a
nation of compassionate and caring children who will pass on their legacy of
empathy to their own children. |
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The School of Wellbeing: 12 Extraordinary Projects
Promoting Children and Young People's Mental Health and Happiness. Jenny
Hulme, $27.95
As rates of depression, anxiety, self-harm and eating
disorders are on the up among young people, how can schools provide appropriate
information and support for the young people in their classrooms? How can they
bridge the gap between what they know matters — the impact of these issues on
learning and life-long health — and the mounting day-to-day priorities and
pressures of school life?
This book provides unique insight into 12 projects that
are helping to answer these questions and supporting teachers to make mental
health and emotional wellbeing a key player in the school day. With a mix of
longer-term initiatives and simple strategies that schools can put in place
immediately, it explores mentoring and mindfulness, social action and sport,
Lego play and poetry, the power of parents and the role of PSHE. It describes
how these projects work practically and shares the impact they are having,
increasing resilience and raising the aspirations and emotional wellbeing of
the whole school community. This book is a source of inspiration for teachers,
leadership teams, pastoral care teams, school counsellors and psychologists. |
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Seven
Skills for School Success: Activities to Develop Social & Emotional
Intelligence in Young Children. Pam
Schiller, $21.95
Before learning their ABCs or their numbers, children need
to develop their social intelligence and emotional intelligence
as the essential building blocks for all future learning.
Pam Schiller provides information, activities, and experiences
that develop the seven skills children need in order to become
successful learners. These include the ability to relate to
and play with others, express feelings, and understand how
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Sharing the Blue Crayon: How to Integrate Social,
Emotional, and Literacy Learning. Mary Anne Buckley, $27.95
Social-emotional learning is at the heart of good
teaching, but as curriculum and testing requirements consume more and more
classroom time, these critical skills often get sidelined. This straightforward
book shows busy teachers ways to incorporate social-emotional learning into
everyday literacy lessons. Through simple activities such as read-alouds,
sing-alongs, murals, and performances, students will learn how to get along in
a group, empathize with others, develop self-control, and give and receive
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Social Skills Matter! Betty Ashbaker & Jill
Morgan, $37.95 (grades PK-2)
Help your students learn how to communicate effectively,
make good choices, and practice appropriate behavior with Social Skills
Matter! This book includes over 80 reproducible mini-books for children to
assemble, color, read, and make their own. Each mini-book focuses on a
different facet of important social skills including cooperative play, learning
about feelings, communication, school-day behavior, manners, and behavior
management. Mastery of these essential social skills can be a factor in
determining a child’s future success, social acceptance, and happiness.
Features:
- Developmental tasks for communication, emotions, manners, relationships,
and daily living skills
- Multisensory activities that shape behavior through auditory,
visual, and tactile senses
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Tackling Controversial Issues in the Primary School: Facing Life’s Challenges with Your Learners. Richard Woolley, $55.95
Talking effectively about controversial issues with
young children is a challenge facing every primary school teacher.
TACKLING CONTROVERSIAL ISSUES provides teachers with support and
guidance as you engage with the more tricky questions and topics
you and your pupils encounter.
Illuminated with case studies and examples of how
teachers and children have confronted issues together, this book
helps you understand your own perspectives and provides fresh approaches
for the primary classroom. It considers how best to work with parents,
whole-school policies for tackling issues, and ideas for circle
time, setting up international links, school councils and buddy
systems. TACKLING CONTROVERSIAL ISSUES provides much needed support
as you help your learners face complicated ideas, find their voice
and get involved in the issues that they feel make a difference. |
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Teaching Emotional
Intelligence: Strategies and Activities for Helping Students Make Effective
Choices. Adina Bloom Lewkowicz, $30.99
A teacher's guide that provides educators with fresh and
engaging techniques to help children increase self-awareness, manage emotions,
build self-control, and develop positive relationships. |
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Teaching Self-Regulation to Children through
Interactive Lessons. Will Moody & Brad Chapman, $79.95 (grades K-6)
Unique interactive lessons designed for use on Windows
and MAC-based workstations and digital whiteboards such as SMART Boards and
Promethean Boards. These highly interactive lessons are designed to teach
students the skills, strategies, and behaviors they need to regulate their own
physical, emotional, and cognitive processes. Some of the strategies taught
through these lessons include:
• Melting Freeze (Regulate BODY)
• Animal Movements (Regulate BODY)
• Cooling the Flame (Regulate BODY)
• Name Your Emotions (Regulate EMOTIONS)
• Emotional Rain Gauge (Regulate EMOTIONS)
• Emotional Knot (Regulate EMOTIONS)
• Don’t Take the Bait (Regulate THOUGHTS)
• Defiance Trap (Regulate THOUGHTS)
• Domino Effect (Regulate THOUGHTS)
• Magnetic Thoughts (Regulate THOUGHTS) |
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Teaching the 3 Cs: Creativity, Curiosity
and Courtesy. Patricia Dischler, $39.95
The development of affective skills can make a critical difference
in a child’s future yet the emphasis for many parents and
educators is on early exposure to academic content. TEACHING THE
THREE Cs bridges this gap and demonstrates how incorporating
creativity, curiosity and courtesy into classroom instruction can
support the development of lifelong learning. |
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Using Picture Books to Enhance Children's Social and
Emotional Literacy: Creative Activities and Programs for Parents and
Professionals. Susan Elswick, $33.95
Children can struggle to engage with and articulate
certain emotions, which can have a profound impact on their behaviour,
confidence and ability to form relationships, follow instructions and perform
tasks. This resource for teachers, therapists, counsellors and parents uses
children's literature and some of its well-known characters, such as the
Rainbow Fish and Stanley Yelnats IV from Holes, as a basis for practical
activities that enable children to express and manage these emotions.
Social-emotional literacy training assists students in
developing important life skills such as the ability to develop good
relationships and empathy skills, as well as being able to understand, manage
and communicate their own emotions. This book offers an introduction to social-emotional
literacy, followed by activities related to emotions such as empathy,
friendship, grief and self-esteem, aiming to embed this literacy training into
daily school and home activities to increase children's chances of future
success. |
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What to Do with
the Kid Who... Developing Cooperation, Self Discipline and Responsibility
in the Classroom, 3rd Edition. Kay Burke, $53.95
Kay Burke offers proven disciplinary
ideas and strategies for the diverse classroom. This revised edition
provides the foundation teachers need to help students take responsibility
for their own behavior, resolve their own conflicts and celebrate
their own learning. |
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Whole Child Education.
John Miller, $25.95 
Public education is often viewed as dominated by
an emphasis on test scores and narrowly defined parameters of performance
and achievement. By contrast, John Miller's WHOLE CHILD EDUCATION
fosters relationships between various forms of thinking, links body
and mind, and recognizes the inner life of the child.
Addressing issues of teaching, curriculum, the school,
and teacher wellness, Miller presents three basic approaches (transmission,
transaction, and transformation) that facilitate a connection with
the whole student. Practical examples from teachers who have incorporated
Miller's ideas into their own classrooms and descriptions of Toronto's
Whole Child School (founded in 2009) illustrate how the 'Whole Curriculum'
can be implemented on both the small and large scale. Inspired by
the powerful vision of Martin Luther King and his concept of the
Beloved Community, WHOLE CHILD EDUCATION is a vehicle for building
community through holistic education.
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Complete Booklist
Animal Related Guidance: Teaching Social Skills Using
Pets or Puppets, Grades 2-5. Patty Stang-Erickson & Val Rae Boe, $28.95
Becoming an Emotionally Intelligent Teacher. William
Powell & Ochan Kusuma-Powell, $25.95
Black Ants and Buddhists: Thinking Critically and
Teaching Differently in the Primary Grades. Mary Cowhey, $27.95
Building Positive Momentum for Positive Behavior in
Young Children: Strategies for Success in School and Beyond. Lisa Rogers, $39.95
The Complete Guide to Service Learning, Grades K-12.
Cathryn Berger Kaye, $57.99
Counseling Toward Solutions: a Practical Solution-Focused
Program for Working with Students, Teachers and Parents, 2nd Edition. Linda
Metcalf, $35.99 Grades K-12
Creating Emotionally Literate Classrooms: an Introduction
to the RULER Approach to Social and Emotional Learning. Edited by Marcia
Brackett & Janet Pickard Kremenitzer, $29.50
Desperately Seeking Solutions: Helping students build
problem-solving skills to meet life's many challenges. Kathy Paterson, $24.95
The Educator's Guide to Emotional Intelligence and
Academic Achievement: Social-Emotional Learning in the Classroom. Maurice Elias
& Harriet Arnold, editors. $67.50
Effective Interventions for Social-Emotional Learning.
Frank Gresham, $39.95
Everyone's Talking: Stories to Engage Middle Schoolers in
Social Conversation, Grades 6-9. Cindi Dodd, $31.95
Feelings In a Jar® - A Fun Game for All Ages for Endless
Play & Interaction. Deborah Jiang Stein, $14.99 (ages 8 & up)
Helping Kids Help: Organizing Successful Charitable
Projects. Renée Heiss, $25.99
More Feelings In a Jar®. Deborah Jiang Stein, $14.99
(ages 8 & up)
First Steps to Social Success: Teaching Children Critical
Social Skills, Grades K-6. Diane Senn, $57.95
Helping Preschool-Age Children Learn Self-Regulation:
Lessons, Activities, Songs, and Games Designed To Give Children the Skills They
Need to Succeed for the Rest of Their Lives.Brad Chapin, $57.95 (includes a
CD-ROM of reproducible material)
Helping Students Fix Problems and Avoid Crises: an
Easy-to-Use Intervention Resource for Grades 1-4. Lawrence J. Greene, $49.95
Helping Teens Learn Self-Regulation: Lessons, Activities
& Worksheets for Teaching the Essentials of Responsible Decision-Making
& Self-Control. Brad Chapin, $57.95 (includes a CD-ROM of reproducible
material) Grades 7-12
Helping Young People Learn Self-Regulation: Lessons,
Activities & Worksheets for Teaching the Essentials of Responsible
Decision-Making & Self-Control. Brad Chapin & Matthew Penner, $57.95
(includes a CD-ROM of reproducible material) Grades K-8
Icebreakers In a Jar®. Free Spirit Publishing, $14.99
(ages 8-12)
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Inspiring and Creative Ideas for Working with Children:
How to Build Relationships and Enable Change. Deborah Plummer, $27.95
Let's Make Friends Card Game. Max Nass & Marcia Nass,
$26.50 (Grades K-6)
Next Steps to Social Success: Teaching Children More
Advanced Skills to Help Them Deal with Social Challenges, Grades K-6. Diane
Senn & Kathy McElvenny, $57.95
Nurturing Emotional Resilience in Vulnerable Children
and Young People: a Practical Guide. Juliette Ttofa, $62.90
Positive Discipline in the Classroom: Developing Mutual
Respect, Cooperation, and Responsibility in Your Classroom, 4th Edition. Jane
Nelsen, Lyn Lott & Stephen Glenn, $19.00
Positive Psychology in the Elementary School Classroom.
Patty O’Grady, $31.50
Promoting Emotional Education: Engaging Children and
Young People with Social, Emotional and Behavioural Difficulties. Edited by
Carmel Cafai & Paul Cooper, $41.95
Promoting Resilience in the Classroom: a Guide to
Developing Pupils' Emotional and Cognitive Skills. Carmel Cefai, $35.95
Raising Peacemakers. Esther Sokolov Fine, $23.95
Reaching All by Creating Tribes Learning Communities: a
New Way of Learning and Being Together. Jeanne Gibbs, $57.95
Roots of Empathy: Changing the World Child by Child. Mary
Gordon, $19.95
The School of Wellbeing: 12 Extraordinary Projects
Promoting Children and Young People's Mental Health and Happiness. Jenny Hulme,
$27.95
Seven Skills for School Success: Activities to Develop
Social & Emotional Intelligence in Young Children. Pam Schiller, $21.95
Sharing the Blue Crayon: How to Integrate Social,
Emotional, and Literacy Learning. Mary Anne Buckley, $27.95
Social Skills Matter! Betty Ashbaker & Jill Morgan, $37.95
(grades PK-2)
Tackling Controversial Issues in the Primary School:
Facing Life's Challenges with Your Learners. Richard Woolley, $55.95
Teaching Emotional Intelligence: Strategies and
Activities for Helping Students Make Effective Choices. Adina Bloom Lewkowicz,
$30.99
Teaching Self-Regulation to Children through Interactive
Lessons. Will Moody & Brad Chapman, $79.95 (grades K-6)
Teaching the 3 Cs: Creativity, Curiosity and Courtesy.
Patricia Dischler, $39.95
Using Picture Books to Enhance Children's Social and
Emotional Literacy: Creative Activities and Programs for Parents and
Professionals. Susan Elswick, $33.95
What to Do with the Kid Who ... Developing Cooperation,
Self Discipline and Responsibility in the Classroom, 3rd Edition. Kay Burke, $53.95
Whole Child Education. John Miller, $25.95
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For related titles please
see the following booklists: Life
Skills for Kids, Life
Skills for Teens, Self Esteem & Children,
Positive Parenting, Anxiety, Anger & Stress, Children’s
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