Integrating Prosocial Learning with Education Standards

Kristie Fink is lecturer and alternative route to teacher licensure coordinator at the School of Teacher Education and Leadership, Emma Eccles Jones College of Education and Human Services, Utah State University, USA.Jonathan Cohen is founder and president of the National School Climate Council (NSCC); adjunct professor of psychology and education at Teachers College, Columbia University, USA; co-editor, The International Journal on School Climate and Violence Prevention; and co-author and editor of more than 85 peer reviewed papers, chapters, and books.Sean Slade is director of outreach and Whole Child programs at ASCD (formerly known as the Association for Supervision and Curriculum Development). He has more than 25 years of experience in education focusing on areas of school reform that relate to education, health, well-being, resilience, and school climate.

This insightful volume focuses on the critical challenge facing our educational system: how to develop supportive, engaging, and healthy schools and educators that successfully enhance the social, emotional, ethical, civic, and academic competence of all students. Fink, Cohen, Slade, and other field leaders brilliantly connect multiple perspectives and share research-based and practical strategies that powerfully educate students to become knowledgeable, responsible, caring, and contributing members of society.--Roger P. Weissberg, PhD, Distinguished Professor of Psychology and Education, University of Illinois at Chicago

• I. Introduction and Overview of Volume Overview – Jonathan Cohen, Kristie Fink, and Sean SladeChapter 1. Whole Child and Learning Standards: A Potential Paradigm ShiftSean Slade. Chapter 2. Prosocial Goals, Strategies, Resources and Common Core Standards AlignmentJonathan Cohen and the National School Climate CenterII. Creating a Climate for learning: School climate reform as a strategy that mobilizes the whole village to support the whole childOverview – Jonathan CohenChapter 3. The Core of the Matter: A Case StudyPatricia A. Ciccone and Jo Ann FreibergChapter 4. The Missing but Essential Keys to Student Growth and Success: Integrating A Whole Child Approach, Prosocial Education and School Climate Reform with Common CoreKristie Fink and Jonathan Cohen Chapter 5. Rethinking Bullying to Promote Academic AchievementDeborah A. Temkin III. Instructional efforts that support the whole child and the Common CoreOverview – Kristie FinkChapter 6. Building a School Climate that Fosters Mathematical Brilliance: Bringing Character to the Common Core State StandardsBob Coulter and Melinda C. BierChapter 7. The Importance of Teaching Digital Citizenship: A Character Development EssentialKaren Geller Chapter 8. Engaging the Whole Child through Academic Service-LearningTeri Dary and Betty Edwards Chapter 9. Using Restorative Practices to Advance Both Prosocial Education and the Common CoreTed Wachtel Chapter 10. Creating Ethical Decision-Makers in the Era of Common Core: Honoring College and Career Readiness and Social-Emotional LearningJocelyn Stanton Chapter 11. Next steps – Truly supporting the whole child and the whole school community – Teachers, PLCs, and the CommunitySean Slade, Jonathan Cohen and Kristie FinkAppendix – The School Climate Improvement Process: Tasks and ChallengesBiographiesIndex