Dealing with the Urgent Educational Challenge: Promoting Social-Emotional Well-Being among Teachers, Students, and Families: Walter S. Polka: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers

Dealing with the Urgent Educational Challenge

Promoting Social-Emotional Well-Being among Teachers, Students, and Families

Dealing with the Urgent Educational Challenge

Promoting Social-Emotional Well-Being among Teachers, Students, and Families

Description

Dealing with the Urgent Educational Challenge: Promoting Social-Emotional Well-Being among Teachers, Students, and Families provides readers with key research-based and pragmatically tested approaches and processes to deal with the unprecedented mental health issues prevalent in today’s schools, families, and communities. Practicing educators and researchers representing various backgrounds, leadership roles, and learning contexts provide insights about appropriate and effective personal, professional, and organizational programs, projects, and activities that may be implemented to address the social-emotional learning needs of people within school communities.

Table of Contents
Foreword - Dr. Jennifer Young Wallace
Preface - Walter S. Polka, John McKenna, and Monica Jo VanHusen
Acknowledgments
Introduction - Walter S. Polka, John McKenna, and Monica Jo VanHusen
Chapter 1: Promoting Personal and Professional Well-being in Schools for Happier Teachers, Students, and Parents: Insights from Positive Psychologists - Roselle C. Aranha and Walter S. Polka
Chapter 2: Best Practices to Promote and Support Social Emotional Learning and Wellness in PreK-12 Schools - John McKenna and Lori Jonas
Chapter 3: One School District’s Upstream Approach to Creating Successful Initiatives: The Journey of a Social Emotional Learning (SEL) Program - Paul M. Fanuele
Chapter 4: The Rise in Student Behavior Referrals and the Impact on the Social Emotional Health of Teachers Post-Pandemic in Three Western New York High Schools - Salvatore Curella, Alan Ingraham, and Joshua Janese
Chapter 5: A Practicing Middle School Principal’s Approaches in Creating and Delivering a Culture for Social Emotional Learning - Pete Dobmeier
Chapter 6: Intentionally Shattering Silos: Fostering Collaboration and Belonging to Support Well-being in Schools - Monica Jo VanHusen, Daniel Reichard, and Julie Zook
Chapter 7: Providing Community Care Services to Children During Crises and Beyond - Olasumbo O. AdelakunChapter 8: Improving Socio-Emotional Experiences for Special Education Students: A Persistent Balancing Conundrum between Fidelity to Regulations and Meeting Student Needs - Lisa Condino
Chapter 9: Applications of Multi-Tiered Systems of Support to Promote Social, Behavioral, and Academic Success for Students with Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder - Jennifer Sikov, Carolina Ramirez, Sophia Frontale, Alix Printup, Melanie Rengel-Isea, Emily Sutton, and Gregory A. Fabiano
Chapter 10: Social-Emotional Intelligence: A Guide for Parents and Teachers - Sharon Singh
Chapter 11: From Overwhelmed to Resilient: The Role of Artificial Intelligence in Reducing Burnout - Caitlin Riegel and Monica Jo VanHusen
Chapter 12: The Necessity to Develop, Implement, and Navigate Proven Social Emotional Learning Practices, NOW! - John E. McKenna, Walter S. Polka, and Monica Jo VanHusen
Afterword - Michael Cornell
About the Editors
About the Authors

Product details

Published	Aug 22 2024
Format	Paperback
Edition	1st
Extent	254
ISBN	9781475870206
Imprint	Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Illustrations	16 BW Illustrations, 7 Tables
Dimensions	9 x 6 inches
Publisher	Bloomsbury Publishing

“During a crisis, leadership is everything. It shapes the everyday, tomorrow, and the future. Although the everyday trials of the pandemic are behind us, the future outcomes are now upon us. Student mental health and school staffing shortages are today’s crisis issues. Now is the time for this book – a book that explains what is at the core of students’ and teachers’ social–emotional well–being and happiness and offers leadership strategies for creating healthy educational communities for years to come.”

Michelle B. Hebert, director of communications, School Administrators Association of New York State, Latham, NY
“Dealing with the Urgent Educational Challenge: Promoting Social-Emotional Well-Being among Teachers, Students, and Families provides readers examples of lessons learned and a path forward post-COVID to offer educators strategies to deliver socio-emotional wellness for students, parents, faculty, and staff. This book is full of key illustrations from educational research and life experiences that offer valuable insights to anyone wanting to take the next steps to ensure socio-emotional well-being for members of their educational community. I commend the editors on assembling this valuable resource for leaders.”

Leslie B. Trimmer, EdD, assistant professor of practice