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The Full Value School provides a clear roadmap for dramatically changing the culture and climate of your classroom and school. Using highly engaging activity-based strategies, students learn the skills necessary to regulate their own behavior. With less fruitless energy devoted to the disciplinary hamster wheel, there is more time to teach; more time to authentically engage with students; more time to strengthen the essential twenty-first century skills of collaboration and abstract reasoning skills. The Full Value School is not a standalone program. Teaching Full Value can be directly integrated into all academic content areas. The tools provided to students are simple: Learning the Six Full Value Behavioral Norms: Be Here, Be Safe, Be Honest, Set Goals, Let Go & Move On, Care For Self & Others: These norms provide the foundation for building the capacity to self-regulate; to develop empathy and compassion, to listen without defensiveness, to self-reflect, to show courage when in situations that require it, to become inoculated against the bullying behaviors of others. Our book contains a series of desirable outcomes that are set in motion through the implementation of these norms. The Full Value Commitment: Students co-create a dynamic commitment to each other that defines how the Full Value Behavioral Norms will be used in the classroom when interacting with each other. The Commitment provides a physical representation of the norms. For example, Be Here might include, ""showing up to class on time prepared to work, listening when spoken to, doing your share in a group project."" These are student generated behaviors, not prescribed by the teacher. Distractors to practicing these positive behaviors are also identified by students and added to the Commitment. Distractors become opportunities for growth instead of negatives. They are considered a process for ""failing forward."" Calling Group: This is a formal meeting process that provides students the opportunities to work through violations of the classroom Full Value Commitment or to celebrate group and individual successes. Initially called and facilitated by the teacher, students learn to gradually take full control of this process via modeling, imitation, and practice. Goal Setting: Empowering students to make intelligent choices is very much a goal setting process. Oddly, very few students are exposed to goal setting strategies as part of their formal education. The Full Value School offers a well-defined process for goal setting including helpful templates. The Full Value School model does not rely on videos, hypotheticals, or paper and pencil tasks. Hundreds of engaging activities are offered in the book to teach each Full Value. They require minimal materials, and most can be completed within a single classroom period. With each activity is a materials list, and suggestion for introducing and reflecting on the experience. A full chapter of the book is devoted to integration into content areas with a lesson planning sheet provided. The Full Value School is a highly effective research-based model that fully aligns with the social emotional standards established by the Collaborative for Academic, Social and Emotional Learning. Everything you need to begin exploring Full Value with your students can be found in this book.

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"Full Value empowers students to create a classroom environment where they can learn, thrive, and gain skills to become a valuable community member inside and outside of the classroom. Terry Lummer, 5th Grade Teacher, Kinnelon Borough Public Schools As each new school year approaches, educators bring bright hopes of creating a classroom climate & culture that offer an engaging & emotionally safe environment for learning. Teachers & administrators seek meaningful connections between the integration of curriculum & character education. They are keenly aware of the need to find a balance between the two. Our district's solution was Full Value. Beginning with one school, some curious teachers attended a training & discovered how enthusiastic students became when taught content based lessons using Full Value activities. The message traveled K-12 to all eight schools. The momentum grew, creating Full Value classrooms in every school & finding the balance that educators sought. With Full Value, the balance you seek is well within your grasp. This book will serve as an invaluable resource for character education & academic integration. Iris Wechling, Director of Education, West Milford Township Schools I have found Full Value to be essential in establishing a sense of community in our school. The Full Value behaviors are concise and easy to understand, while at the same time having a scope wide enough to have a positive impact on all of our daily interactions. This is supported by a common language that enables all of us to communicate about what really matters as we collaborate, problem solve, or resolve conflicts. Full Value is integral to the character of our school. Mark Mongon, Principal, Pearl R. Miller School Cultivating an educational environment that incorporates social emotional learning starts with building trust between students and teachers. As the faculty applied Full Value training to establish behavioral awareness and accountability during classroom interactions, the opportunity for integration within lesson delivery proved to be a logical and powerful extension. Overall, the depth of student growth was quite impressive. Richard Maizell, Jim Schoel, John Grund have provided the blueprint for Full Value implementation that can enrich academic integrity, while emphasizing important life skills. John P. Hynes, Superintendent of Schools When Dr. Maizell first shared the Full Value norms with me, it became crystal clear that our planet would be a better place if we could all live by these simple, yet so powerful tenets. I am proud to have been part of the initial ""Full Value Cadre"" in my school district. Dr. Maizell provided mentoring and support that empowered teachers and students to engage in social-emotional learning that led to student empowerment and greater self-regulation. Leading a school community dedicated to developing kind, empathetic, caring humans will remain a career highlight. Jodi Mulholland, Principal, Stonybrook Elementary School"

Full Value empowers students to create a classroom environment where they can learn, thrive, and gain skills to become a valuable community member inside and outside of the classroom. Terry Lummer, 5th Grade Teacher, Kinnelon Borough Public Schools As each new school year approaches, educators bring bright hopes of creating a classroom climate & culture that offer an engaging & emotionally safe environment for learning. Teachers & administrators seek meaningful connections between the integration of curriculum & character education. They are keenly aware of the need to find a balance between the two. Our district's solution was Full Value. Beginning with one school, some curious teachers attended a training & discovered how enthusiastic students became when taught content based lessons using Full Value activities. The message traveled K-12 to all eight schools. The momentum grew, creating Full Value classrooms in every school & finding the balance that educators sought. With Full Value, the balance you seek is well within your grasp. This book will serve as an invaluable resource for character education & academic integration. Iris Wechling, Director of Education, West Milford Township Schools I have found Full Value to be essential in establishing a sense of community in our school. The Full Value behaviors are concise and easy to understand, while at the same time having a scope wide enough to have a positive impact on all of our daily interactions. This is supported by a common language that enables all of us to communicate about what really matters as we collaborate, problem solve, or resolve conflicts. Full Value is integral to the character of our school. Mark Mongon, Principal, Pearl R. Miller School Cultivating an educational environment that incorporates social emotional learning starts with building trust between students and teachers. As the faculty applied Full Value training to establish behavioral awareness and accountability during classroom interactions, the opportunity for integration within lesson delivery proved to be a logical and powerful extension. Overall, the depth of student growth was quite impressive. Richard Maizell, Jim Schoel, John Grund have provided the blueprint for Full Value implementation that can enrich academic integrity, while emphasizing important life skills. John P. Hynes, Superintendent of Schools When Dr. Maizell first shared the Full Value norms with me, it became crystal clear that our planet would be a better place if we could all live by these simple, yet so powerful tenets. I am proud to have been part of the initial Full Value Cadre in my school district. Dr. Maizell provided mentoring and support that empowered teachers and students to engage in social-emotional learning that led to student empowerment and greater self-regulation. Leading a school community dedicated to developing kind, empathetic, caring humans will remain a career highlight. Jodi Mulholland, Principal, Stonybrook Elementary School

Full Value empowers students to create a classroom environment where they can learn, thrive, and gain skills to become a valuable community member inside and outside of the classroom. Terry Lummer, 5th Grade Teacher, Kinnelon Borough Public Schools I have found Full Value to be essential in establishing a sense of community in our school. The Full Value behaviors are concise and easy to understand, while at the same time having a scope wide enough to have a positive impact on all of our daily interactions. This is supported by a common language that enables all of us to communicate about what really matters as we collaborate, problem solve, or resolve conflicts. Full Value is integral to the character of our school. Mark Mongon, Principal, Pearl R. Miller School One of my favorite things about being part of a full value community is that as I worked alongside the students and my colleagues there was always this common understanding and shared value system that never failed. Even in the most tense or difficult situations, it is what invariably brought us together. It is and was a great feeling! Lisa Nafash, High School Counselor, Kinnelon Borough Public Schools Cultivating an educational environment that incorporates social emotional learning starts with building trust between students and teachers. As the faculty applied Full Value training to establish behavioral awareness and accountability during classroom interactions, the opportunity for integration within lesson delivery proved to be a logical and powerful extension. Overall, the depth of student growth was quite impressive. Richard Maizell, Jim Schoel, John Grund have provided the blueprint for Full Value implementation that can enrich academic integrity, while emphasizing important life skills. John P. Hynes, Superintendent of Schools When Dr. Maizell first shared the Full Value norms with me, it became crystal clear that our planet would be a better place if we could all live by these simple, yet so powerful tenets. I am proud to have been part of the initial Full Value Cadre in my school district. Dr. Maizell provided mentoring and support that empowered teachers and students to engage in social-emotional learning that led to student empowerment and greater self-regulation. Leading a school community dedicated to developing kind, empathetic, caring humans will remain a career highlight. Jodi Mulholland, Principal, Stonybrook Elementary School

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