A heart-centered approach to meeting students’ social-emotional needs and fostering academic success
Build a thriving school community that creates healthy, resilient, and successful students. A companion to Mindfulness Practices, this research-backed guide outlines how to teach self-regulation by fostering the five Cs of social-emotional learning and mindfulness: consciousness, compassion, confidence, courage, and community. The authors provide a wealth of practical exercises, strategies, and tools to bring this scientifically proven approach to life across grade levels and subject areas.
- Benefit from exercises that infuse social-emotional concepts and 21st century skills into academic curriculum across subjects and grade levels.
- Discover ideas for incorporating historical examples of consciousness, compassion, confidence, courage, and community into classwork.
- Learn ways to assess the five Cs elements, including the research-based S-CCATE tool, to provide evidence for what might seem unquantifiable.
- Become familiar with different ways educators have implemented Heart Centered Learning™ in the real world.
- Work with numerous activities and mindsets that foster a mixture of vulnerability and strength and ameliorate trauma.