Eq + IQ = Best Leadership Practices for Caring and Successful Schools

Schools cannot teach character . . . School have to create an environment that models and promotes character development and then they have to allow the children to catch character from the behavior of the adults and students around them.From Chapter 1 by James P. ComerLet todays educational leaders show you how to create a safe healthy and successful classroom community!Combining emotional intelligence (EQ) with academic intelligence (IQ) is the essential key to developing knowledgeable caring healthy and successful students in todays troubled world. Social-emotional skills often are not taught at home but they are in fact the crucial connection that enables students to master and retain content knowledge while also creating a classroom atmosphere filled with proficient civic-minded students with sound judgment and problem-solving skills that will last a lifetime this dynamic book todays educational leaders offer their best ideas for building school communities that are safe smart caring successful and emotionally intelligent.Key topics include:Transforming the Lives of Children(James P. Comer) Leadership for Academic Social and Emotional Learning (Mary Utne OBrien Roger P. Weissberg Timothy P. Shriver) How New Knowledge About the Brain Applies to Social and Emotional Learning (Ronald S. Brandt) A Vision of Schools with Heart and Spirit (Linda Lantieri) Institutionalizing Programming for Social and Emotional Learning (Linda Bruene Butler Jeffrey S. Kress Jacqueline A. Norris) Implementing a Social and Emotional Learning Program (Carol Apacki)