Product Description
There’s more to student success than standards and test scores…
The modern view of student achievement focuses on high test scores, higher standards, and racing to the top. Thrive skills fit with new ESSA requirements to go beyond basic academic measurements in order to equip students for lifelong success.
Debbie Silver and Dedra Stafford present a practical handbook that guides teachers and parents in fostering learners who are socially and emotionally healthy and prepared to undertake future challenges. Through practical examples, precise strategies, and specific tools this book demonstrates how to empower learners in areas that include:
- 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
Grounded in decades of psychological research, Teaching Kids to Thrive merges academic, social, and self-skills to stimulate personal and school achievement.
Key features
Aside from Debbie Silver's great reputation and speaking prowess, the following are the key sales points:
Teaching Kids to Thrive Offers•
SEL skills overview: Gives a summary of the essential social and emotional learning skills needed to help students thrive both now and in the future.• The latest research: Incorporates the newest findings from neurology and explores their implications for classrooms
Stories: Abounds with anecdotes demonstrating how Thrive skills improve the academic, social, and emotional lives of student
Implementation support: Delivers strategies, tips, and tools to help teachers implement SEL training at any grade level
Thrive Skills in Action: Provides easy, inexpensive, teacher-tested activities for integrating Thrive skills in the classroom.
Additional Resources: The Taking It to the Next Level section on the Thrive website presents several resources for further activity ideas, websites, and supplemental tools.
FAQ: Poses thorough and insightful answers to frequently asked question
Discussion questions: Inspires deeper thinking for learning groups and individual reflection.
