Integrating Social and Emotional Learning Across a School District - Knowing Our Students, Knowing Ourselves

This text provides a wealth of practical strategies and inspirational guidance on incorporating social-emotional and ethical learning across a district and educational community.

List of contents

Series Preface: Dominic P. Scibilia
Foreword: Raymond Kiem
Introduction: Brian Gatens and Dominic Scibilia
Section I: The District Vision and Administrative Praxis
Chapter 1: The social emotional life of a school system
The district superintendent as mentor
Brian P. Gatens, EdD
Chapter 2: Social-Emotional Journey
The Life and Practice of the Teacher
Alice Opperman
Section II: The Memorial School (K-3)
Chapter 3: Journey to Support the Whole Individual Child
Kristin Gagliano, Principal
Chapter 4: Learning to Write Realistic Fiction
Self-Awareness and the Beginning of Moral Mindfulness
Nicole Masucci, Teacher - First Grade
Section III: The Villano School (Grades 4-6)
Chapter 5: Making SEL a Way of Being
Jessica Espinoza, Principal
Chapter 6: The Three Dimensions of Social Emotional Learning in School
from the Lens of the School Social Worker
Devan Chiusano
Section IV: The Junior - Senior High (Grades 7-12)
Chapter 7: Using Socratic Seminar to Engage Students in Social-Emotional Learning
Jennifer Norato and Jessica Polizzi, Social Studies Teachers
Epilogue: Dominic P. Scibilia
About the Authors

About the author

Brian Gatens, EdD, superintendent of the Emerson Schools District and serving on the Emerson Board of Education since 2013. He has also served in school leadership (superintendent or principal) in the Norwood, Harrington Park, and Hawthorne Public Schools Systems.

Summary

This text provides a wealth of practical strategies and inspirational guidance on incorporating social-emotional and ethical learning across a district and educational community.

Product details

• Authors: Brian Gatens
• Assisted by: Brian Gatens (Editor), Dominic P. Scibilia (Editor), Dominic P. Scibilia (Editor of the series)
• Publisher: Rowman and Littlefield
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 31.07.2021
• EAN: 9781475850628
• ISBN: 978-1-4758-5062-8
• No. of pages: 168
• Series: Teaching Ethics Across the Ame; Teaching Ethics across the American Educational Experience
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Education > Education system; EDUCATION / Philosophy, Theory & Social Aspects, Philosophy & theory of education, Teaching skills & techniques, Primary & middle schools, EDUCATION / Schools / Levels / Elementary, EDUCATION / Teaching / General