EQ + IQ Best Leadership Practices for Caring and Successful Schools [Paperback]

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

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.

There's enormous interest in emotional intelligence and brain-friendly learning, and this book is an excellent contribution to the debate.

Preface
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 Elias, Harriet Arnold, 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, 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/EQ: Examples From Practice
Introduction: If They Can Do It, Why Can't You? - Maurice Elias, Harriett Arnold, 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 l#¯