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Patti, Janet A.; Stern, Robin S. – Harvard Education Press, 2023
A handbook that helps educational leaders hone the social and emotional skills essential to promoting positive school culture and navigating their complex jobs. In this profoundly useful work, Janet Patti and Robin Stern make the case for social-emotional learning (SEL) as part of a critical skill set for K-12 school leaders, and they offer…
Descriptors: Emotional Intelligence, Social Emotional Learning, Elementary Secondary Education, Leadership Styles
Cervone, Barbara; Cushman, Kathleen – Harvard Education Press, 2015
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…
Descriptors: Personality Traits, Persistence, High Schools, Social Development
Bahena, Sofía, Ed.; Cooc, North, Ed.; Currie-Rubin, Rachel, Ed.; Kuttner, Paul, Ed.; Ng, Monica, Ed. – Harvard Education Press, 2012
A trenchant and wide-ranging look at this alarming national trend, "Disrupting the School-to-Prison Pipeline" is unsparing in its account of the problem while pointing in the direction of meaningful and much-needed reforms. The "school-to-prison pipeline" has received much attention in the education world over the past few…
Descriptors: Correctional Institutions, At Risk Students, Environmental Influences, Public Schools