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Compassionate School Practices
Fostering Children's Mental Health and Well-Being
- Christine Mason - Founder and Executive Director, Center for Educational Improvement
- Dana Asby - Director of Innovation & Research Support, Center for Educational Improvement
- Meghan Wenzel - Researcher, Center for Educational Improvement
- Katherine T. Volk - Senior Advisor, C4 Innovates
- Martha Staeheli - Yale School of Medicine, Department of Psychiatry
Foreword by Larry Davidson
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January 2021 | 296 pages | Corwin
Already Ready For What Will Come - SEL For A Culture Of Care
Is your school prepared to care for all of the students, staff, and families in your community? Sadly, your school might be the only point of care for many. Be already ready--Establish a compassionate cultural foundation for strong relationships and holistic skills to weather stress, trauma, and promote well-being for your entire school population.
Help your school or district use available resources to create a compassionate culture of justice and care for all by leaning into this book’s approach to leadership and social emotional learning. Discover a collaborative visioning process to elevate compassion through dialogue, policies, and protocol. Readers will find:
Read this and usher in transformational and compassionate change that may be the difference in whatever today, tomorrow, or the next day may bring.
Is your school prepared to care for all of the students, staff, and families in your community? Sadly, your school might be the only point of care for many. Be already ready--Establish a compassionate cultural foundation for strong relationships and holistic skills to weather stress, trauma, and promote well-being for your entire school population.
Help your school or district use available resources to create a compassionate culture of justice and care for all by leaning into this book’s approach to leadership and social emotional learning. Discover a collaborative visioning process to elevate compassion through dialogue, policies, and protocol. Readers will find:
- Practical strategies for working with parents and communities
- Activities for the whole school
- An implementation framework for elementary, middle, and high school
- Deeper understanding of trauma, ACEs, and mental health concerns
- Support for teachers’ mental health
- What not to do – practices that don’t work, and why
- In-depth case studies and vignettes
Read this and usher in transformational and compassionate change that may be the difference in whatever today, tomorrow, or the next day may bring.
Online Resources
Foreword
Preface
Acknowledgments
About the Authors
Part 1: Needs and Approaches
Chapter 1. The Why? What? and How?
Chapter 2. Best Practices for a Healthy School Climate and School Culture
Chapter 3. Tiered Systems and Mental Health Screening
Chapter 4. Considerations for Staff Mental Health and Well-Being
Part 2: Leadership
Chapter 5. Adaptive Leadership Within the Childhood-Trauma Learning Collaborative
Chapter 6. Caring and Competent Leadership for Children’s Mental Health and Well-Being
Part 3: Child and Family Supports
Chapter 7. Belonging and Building Community
Chapter 8. How Schools Can Help Families
Part 4: The Future
Chapter 9. Reaching Our Destiny—Overcoming Challenges and Moving Forward
References
Index
Free resources
Podcast: As Students Return to School, So Does School Violence
Because of the lost learning time during the pandemic, many schools are putting pressure on teachers and students to quickly catch up academically. But schools would do better to address social and emotional health services first, because 'trauma presents a huge barrier to learning'.
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All educators — all school staff — need to see themselves as part of a formal or informal mental health network whose members routinely collaborate to support sound student mental health. But they need to be supported by mental health practitioners and parents to provide the widest possible safety net for students. Martha Staeheli, Ph.D., explains in this Cultivating Resilience Podcast.
This is such a relevant book as compassionate pracice is growing in education today. A lovely book that everyone working with children should read
Institute of Education, Worcester University
June 6, 2024