EMPOWER Moves for Social-Emotional Learning e-bog

EMPOWER students to make school a source of meaning, vitality, and community in their lives. Using this book's interconnected processes-exploration, motivation, participation, openness, willingness, empathy, and resilience-students clarify and commit to the values they want to live by. You will learn 28 activities, as well as extensions and variations for each, that increase student engagement not only in school but in building meaningful lives.This book will help educators: Discover a process-based, non-prescriptive, personally relevant, and culturally affirming approach to SEL Implement SEL as its own curriculum, a pedagogy for academic units of study, or a one-to-one intervention Facilitate 28 adaptable SEL activities that invite students to identify their own values, choose how they live, and overcome internal struggles Evoke students' personal values without instilling particular values Enhance intrinsic motivation, psychological flexibility, student and teacher self-reflection, and student voice Build relationships, community, a sense of belonging, and compassion in the classroom Have productive conversations with students and their families about living meaningful livesContents:Introduction: Social-Emotional Learning That Empowers StudentsPart 1: Social-Emotional Learning Activities That Empower StudentsChapter 1: Exploration: Empower Students to Discover How Values Show Up in Their LivesChapter 2: Motivation: Empower Students to Associate Their Actions With Their ValuesChapter 3: Participation: Empower Students to Create Their Own Ways to Enact Their ValuesChapter 4: Openness: Empower Students to Share How Other People Move Them Toward Their ValuesChapter 5: Willingness: Empower Students to Serve Their Values When It's Especially HardChapter 6: Empathy: Empower Students to Understand and Care About One Another's ValuesChapter 7: Resilience: Empower Students to Turn Their Struggles Into Opportunities to Reaffirm Their ValuesPart 2: Strategies That Make EMPOWER More Effective Chapter 8: Designing an Empowering Social-Emotional Learning ProgramChapter 9: Supporting Students Who Struggle to Enact Their ValuesChapter 10: Inviting Families Into Conversations About Student ValuesConclusion: Making the Process the OutcomeAppendix: ReproduciblesReferences and ResourcesIndex