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:
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Discover a process-based, non-prescriptive, personally relevant, and
culturally affirming approach to SEL
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Implement SEL as its own curriculum, a pedagogy for academic units of
study, or a one-to-one intervention
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Facilitate 28 adaptable SEL activities that invite students to
identify their own values, choose how they live, and overcome internal
struggles
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Evoke students' personal values without instilling particular values
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Enhance intrinsic motivation, psychological flexibility, student and
teacher self-reflection, and student voice
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Build relationships, community, a sense of belonging, and compassion
in the classroom
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Have productive conversations with students and their families about
living meaningful lives
Contents:
Introduction: Social-Emotional Learning That Empowers Students
Part 1: Social-Emotional Learning Activities That Empower Students
Chapter 1: Exploration: Empower Students to Discover How Values Show Up
in Their Lives
Chapter 2: Motivation: Empower Students to Associate Their Actions With
Their Values
Chapter 3: Participation: Empower Students to Create Their Own Ways to
Enact Their Values
Chapter 4: Openness: Empower Students to Share How Other People Move
Them Toward Their Values
Chapter 5: Willingness: Empower Students to Serve Their Values When It's
Especially Hard
Chapter 6: Empathy: Empower Students to Understand and Care About One
Another's Values
Chapter 7: Resilience: Empower Students to Turn Their Struggles Into
Opportunities to Reaffirm Their Values
Part 2: Strategies That Make EMPOWER More Effective
Chapter 8: Designing an Empowering Social-Emotional Learning Program
Chapter 9: Supporting Students Who Struggle to Enact Their Values
Chapter 10: Inviting Families Into Conversations About Student Values
Conclusion: Making the Process the Outcome
Appendix: Reproducibles
References and Resources
Index
