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

Maurice Elias; Harriett Brown Arnold; Cynthia Steiger Hussey

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0761945210 ISBN 13: 9780761945215

Publisher: Corwin, 2002

Synopsis

Today’s educational leaders offer their best ideas for combining emotional intelligence with academic rigor to create caring and successful schools. Key topics 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)

About this title

About the Authors

Maurice J. Elias, PhD, is Professor, Psychology Department, Rutgers University, Director, Social-Emotional and Character Development Lab (www.secdlab.org), Co-Director of the Rutgers-based Academy for SEL in Schools, which offers online certificates in SEL Instruction and School Leadership (SELinSchools.org), and a member of the Leadership Team for SEL4NJ and SEL4US (www.SEL4US.org). He received the Joseph E. Zins Memorial Senior Scholar Award for Social-Emotional Learning from CASEL , the Sanford McDonnell Award for Lifetime Achievement in Character Education, and the Jane Bostrum Service to School Psychology Award. Dr. Elias is a past winner of the Lela Rowland Prevention Award, the Ernest McMahon Class of 1930 Award for service to New Jersey, and the American Psychological Association/Society for Community Research and Action’s Distinguished Contribution to Practice and Ethnic Minority Mentoring awards. His books include Emotionally Intelligent Parenting, The Educator’s Guide to Emotional Intelligence and Academic Achievement: Social-Emotional Learning in the Classroom, and The Other Side of the Report Card: Assessing Students’ Social, Emotional, and Character Development (how schools and districts can integrate social-emotional and character development systematically into their ongoing student report cards). Most recently, he is the coauthor of The Joys & Oys of Parenting: Insights and Wisdom From the Jewish Tradition, Boost Emotional Intelligence in Students: 30 Flexible Research-Based Lessons to Build EQ Skills, Nurturing Students’ Character: Everyday Teaching Activities for Social-Emotional Learning, and Social-Emotional Learning Lab: A Comprehensive SEL Resource Kit (with Victoria Poedubicky).

He writes a blog on SECD for Edutopia (www.edutopia.org/profile/mauricej-elias) and can be reached at secdlab@gmail.com. His Twitter handles are @SELinSchools and @SECDLab.

Take a look at a review on The Other Side of the Report Card from the New Jersey Association of School Psychologists at https://us.corwin.com/sites/default/files/review_of_the_other_side_njasp_0.pdf.

 

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.

 

Edition details

• Publisher: Corwin
• Publication date: 2002
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0761945210
• ISBN 13: 9780761945215
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 264
• Editor: Elias Maurice J. (Jesse)