Overview

Despite growing attention to the importance of grit and other character traits for achievement, developing them in students rarely finds its way into secondary school curricula. Authors Barbara Cervone and Kathleen Cushman investigate the exceptions, telling the stories of five high schools with a national reputation for infusing rigorous academics with social and emotional learning, which results in demonstrable benefits for students. Based on extensive interviews and on-site visits, the book identifies six elements that all of these schools have in common, including advisories and other structural supports for students and teachers; rituals and other means for establishing an intentional, reflective, and respectful community as well as a firm commitment to restorative justice; and a broad and engaging curriculum that includes service learning. Featuring the voices of educators and students alike, Belonging and Becoming not only shows how these schools stand out for their high degree of caring and success, but makes a strong case for why other schools should be inspired to take up the challenge and replicate their efforts.

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Key to the success of this text is the constructivist approach utilized in the research compiled for the book... The practical applications the authors present provide evidence of the continuing need for social and emotional learning at the secondary level. --H. B. Arnold, CHOICE Connect

The book provides educators with pertinent examples of ways to effectively and seamlessly incorporate components of social-emotional learning into their school curricula. --<b>Rachel M. Undercoffer</b>, Communique of the National Association of School Psychology

-The book provides educators with pertinent examples of ways to effectively and seamlessly incorporate components of social-emotional learning into their school curricula.- --Rachel M. Undercoffer, Communique of the National Association of School Psychology

Author Information

Barbara Cervone is the founder and president of What Kids Can Do, Inc. and its nonprofit publishing arm, Next Generation Press. Kathleen Cushman is a writer who has specialized in education for more than two decades. Her work has appeared in Phi Delta Kappan, the Atlantic, the New Yorker, and many other national magazines.

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