Chapter 4: Love and Limits

What is the relationship between our social & emotional well-being and our capacity for intellectual growth? What are the opportunities and the obstacles associated with full-inclusion classrooms?

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Complementary Resources for Chapter 4

WATCH

• Children Full of Life
• Stop. Think. Act. The Rise Of Social And Emotional Learning
• This Is My Place: Middle Schoolers Talk About Social and Emotional Learning
• Creating a Tone of Decency & Trust (from Eagle Rock School & Professional Development Center)
• The Rift and the Raft (from Ashoka's Start Empathy Initiative)
• The Teacher You Wished You'd Had (from Ashoka's Start Empathy Initiative)
• Collaborative Problem Solving by Ross Greene (recommended by Mission Hill School)
• Neuroscience and the Classroom: Making Connections (recommended by Mission HIll School)
• Ken Robinson: Changing Education Paradigms (recommended by Mission HIll School)
• Why I Wrote - Sammy and His Behavior Problems (from NEFC/Responsive Classroom)
• A Good Day in the Lunchroom (from NEFC/Responsive Classroom)
• What Teaching Matthew Taught Me (from NEFC/Responsive Classroom)
• Caring About Friends (from Portland Children Museum's Opal School)
• Peace Helpers Become Classroom Problem Solvers (from Edutopia)
• Community Begins with the Morning Meeting (from Edutopia)
• A Year at Mission Hill: Love and Limits (from Ashoka's Start Empathy Initiative)

READ

• The Empathy Formula
• This is What Special Education in America Looks like
• Fires in the Bathroom: Advice for Teachers from High School Students by Kathleen Cushman and the students of What Kids Can Do (The New Press, 2005)
• The Power and Promise of Humane Education by Zoe Weil (from Institute for Humane Education)
• Can Students Love School? Yes, if Schools Love Students (from Ashoka's Start Empathy Initiative)
• National Center on Universal Design for Learning (recommended by Mission Hill school)
• Teasing, Tattling, Defiance, and More: Positive Approaches to 10 Common Classroom Behaviors by Margaret Berry Wilson (from NEFC/Responsive Classroom)
• Including Wyatt by Nancy Kovacic (from NEFC/Responsive Classroom)
• Conflict Resolution Strategies (from Portland Children Museum's Opal School)
• Teaching & Learning from the Inside Out (from Center for Courage & Renewal)
• Cultivating Kindness and Playgrounds of Respect by Robert McGarry (from Edutopia)
• Building Social and Emotional Skills in Elementary Students by Randy Taran (from Edutopia)
• Social and Emotional Learning Research Review by Vanessa Vega (from Edutopia)
• A Year at Mission HIll: Seeing the Bigger Picture by Carrie Lee Ferguson (from Ashoka's Start Empathy Initiative)

LISTEN

• Loretta Goodwin: Daring to Dream Amid Apartheid
• Sammy and His Behavior Problems read by author Caltha Crowe (from NEFC/Responsive Classroom)

DO

• Create an inclusive learning environment
• Ask your local middle or high school principal whether you might visit their school for the day and sit in on classes—or shadow a student for the day.
• Misunderstood Minds (recommended by Mission Hill School)
• Try This Format for Problem-Solving Conferences (from NEFC/Responsive Classroom)
• Adapt classroom routines for children on the autism spectrum (from NEFC/Responsive Classroom)
• Sustaining Learning Communities Workshop at Portland Children Museum's Opal School
• 10 Tips for Social and Emotional Learning by Grace Rubenstein (from Edutopia)
• Social and Emotional Learning Resources for Parents (from Edutopia)
• Resources and Lesson Plans for Social and Emotional Learning (from Edutopia)
• How to Bring Social and Emotional Learning to Your School by Grace Rubenstein (from Edutopia)\
• How Assistive Technology Enables Dreams (from Edutopia)