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Nurturing Students' Character: Everyday Teaching Activities for Social-Emotional Learning
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Kress, Jeffrey S.; Elias, Maurice J. – Eye on Education, 2019
"Nurturing Students' Character" is an easy-to-use guide to incorporating social-emotional and character development (SECD) into your teaching practice. The links are clear--elementary and middle school students have better odds of academic success if you nurture their social and emotional skills. Drawing on broad field experience and the…
Descriptors: Social Development, Emotional Development, Values Education, Teaching Methods
Social Competence, Social Support, and Academic Achievement in Minority, Low-Income, Urban Elementary School Children
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Elias, Maurice J.; Haynes, Norris M. – School Psychology Quarterly, 2008
Despite living in disadvantaged urban communities experiencing social and economic hardships, many children emerge with positive outcomes. Social-emotional competence and social support were hypothesized to have strong influences on academic trajectories during the critical period of academic skill acquisition. Participants were 282 third-grade…
Descriptors: Elementary School Students, Academic Achievement, Classroom Environment, Interpersonal Competence
Easing Transitions with Social-Emotional Learning.
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Elias, Maurice J. – Principal Leadership, 2001
Middle schools represent challenges that strongly affect how much energy and focus students bring to academic learning. Kids must develop skills to resist inappropriate sexual behaviors and analyze stressful social situations. Schools should encourage students to develop certain developmental assets: appreciation, belonging, confidence,…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Affiliation Need, Developmental Psychology, Emotional Development