Mindful School Communities: The Five Cs of Nurturing Heart Centered Learning (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™ 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