The Emotionally Connected Classroom
Wellness and the Learning Experience
Emotional & Behavioral Disorders | Emotional Intelligence | Teaching At-Risk Students
Engineer healthy interactions and repair dysregulation
Suicide rates, ADHD diagnoses, gaming addiction, and adolescent depression are increasing exponentially. It’s difficult to ignore the number of children burdened by stress, anxiety, and unhealthy beliefs. Students struggle to cope in ways that reinforce labels defining them as difficult to teach.
However, the brain is malleable and new experiences can rewrite the story! The Emotionally Connected Classroom helps educators create environments that promote healthy attachments and repair neural dysregulations that impair learning capacity. Readers will find
- User-friendly explanations of neuroscience and human behavior
- Strategies and assessment tools to help teachers shift from content-focused learning and assessment to learning that prioritizes wellness
- Lesson templates to help “train the brain”
- Strategies to address dysfunctional behavior
- Engaging stories and authentic case studies that bring theory to life
Written with the belief that educators play a critical role in students’ lives, this book offers a new paradigm of connectedness that allows teachers to develop social-emotional learning practices that benefit all of their students.
Free resources
Want Students to ‘Build a Better World?’ Try Culturally Responsive Social-Emotional Learning
What are the best ways you are incorporating social-emotional learning in your classroom and what are you doing to ensure that it is culturally responsive? Discover the answer in this article featuring Bill Adair, author of The Emotionally Connected Classroom.
Podcast: We Are Still Hunter—Gatherers
In this second episode of the Emotionally Connected Bookclub, Bill Adair, author of The Emotionally Connected Classroom, digs into some of the misconceptions that people tend to hold about the rise in anxiety among young people.
Podcast: I’m An Emotional Attachment Engineer!
Join Bill Adair, author of The Emotionally Connected Classroom, as he talks about his journey to becoming an Emotional Attachment Engineer for his students. A personal story, but one that will resonate with many educators and parents.
3 Strategies to Build Resilience and Counteract the Anxiety Epidemic in Students
This blog post by Bill Adair, based on the same topic of his book The Emotionally Connected Classroom, discusses the growing anxiety epidemic amongst teenagers caused by negative emotions that education must address.
The Emotionally Connected Classroom Introduction
Use this introduction from The Emotionally Connected Classroom to start your journey toward understanding education’s role in the mental health of students.
A useful addition to the reading list - the book provides practical insight in relation to classroom strategies. It has been beneficial to allow students to consider the holistic learning needs of pupils, which are often overlooked due to the constraints of the curriculum.
The book identifies strategies for specific learning difficulties as well as inclusion for all. Easy to navigate.