Mindful School Communities : The Five Cs of Nurturing Heart Centered Learning(tm) (a Heart-Centered Approach to Meeting Students' Social-emotional Needs and Fostering Academic Success)

Build a thriving school community that creates healthy, resilient, and successful students. A companion to Mindfulness Practices, this research-backed guide outlines how to teach self-regulation by fostering the five Cs of social-emotional learning and mindfulness: consciousness, compassion, confidence, courage, and community. The authors provide a wealth of practical exercises, strategies, and tools to bring this scientifically proven approach to life across grade levels and subject areas. Use this resource to foster the well-being of every learner: Benefit from exercises that infuse social-emotional concepts and 21st century skills into academic curriculum across subjects and grade levels. Discover ideas for incorporating historical examples of consciousness, compassion, confidence, courage, and community into classwork. Learn ways to assess the five Cs elements, including the research-based S-CCATE tool, to provide evidence for what might seem unquantifiable. Become familiar with different ways educators have implemented Heart Centered Learning(tm) in the real world. Work with numerous activities and mindsets that foster a mixture of vulnerability and strength and ameliorate trauma. Contents: Introduction Chapter 1: Heart Centered Learning Chapter 2: Heart Physiology and Heart-Mind Connections Chapter 3: Consciousness Chapter 4: Compassion Chapter 5: Confidence Chapter 6: Courage Chapter 7: Community Chapter 8: Conscious Leadership Epilogue: Taking Heart, Having Heart--Looking to Our Future Appendix: S-CCATE--A Visioning and Assessment Tool to Create Heart Centered Communities References and Resources Index "In Mindful School Communities: The Five Cs of Nurturing Heart Centered Learning, authors Christine Mason, Michele M. Rivers Murphy, and Yvette Jackson make the case for a new system of schooling that prioritizes the social and emotional needs of the learner to the benefit of both students and educators. The authors note that schools that operate in a compassionate, caring, and community centered fashion create healthier, happier, and more successful students. As such, the authors offer the reader an in-depth guide to heart centered learning and its implementation. Readers will learn about the basics of Heart Centered Learning, as well as its primary elements: consciousness, compassion, confidence, courage, and community. This book also provides a wealth of real-world exercises and strategies meant to implement and sustain heart centered learning in schools. Furthermore, in order to ensure the success of Heart Centered Learning in schools, the authors have built the system on a wealth of research. In this book, readers will find a research backed guide to the development of a new, compassionate system of schooling, as well as all of the tools needed to bring their system to life"-- Provided by publisher