Teaching Kids to Thrive: Essential Skills for Success

By Debbie Thompson Silver, Dedra Stafford, Dedra A. Stafford

Book Overview

There's more to student success than standards and test scores... Integrating Social and Emotional Learning into a curriculum has been shown to increase personal and school-wide growth. With lifelong success the goal over simply meeting academic thresholds, Teaching Kids to Thrive presents strategies, activities, and stories in an approachable way to develop responsible, self-motivated learners. Uniting social, academic, and self-skills this instrumental resource offers benefits to students such as: Using mindfulness strategies to help students tap their inner strengths
Learning to self-regulate and control other executive brain functions
Developing growth mindsets along with perseverance and resilience
Cultivating a sense of responsibility, honesty, and integrity
Encouraging a capacity for empathy and gratitude

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1506326935
• ISBN13: 9781506326931
• Release Date: May 2017
• Publisher: Corwin Publishers
• Length: 288 Pages
• Weight: 1.38 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.9" x 9.9"