Spotlighting the strengths of every single student
Subtitle: why U.S. schools need a new, strengths-based approach
By: Elsie Jones-Smith
Publisher: Praeger
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Santa Barbara, Calif
Language: eng
Number of pages: 285
ISBN-13: 9780313391538; 9780313391545
Subjects: Academic achievement; School improvement programs; Individualized instruction; Multiple intelligences
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Emergence, growth and current uses of strengths-based educational systems; title: The strengths mindset: understanding the nature of strengths; title: Brain development, emotion, and learning; title: The strengths-based school's component 1: a strengths-building pyramid; title: Component 2: improving instruction, the academic curriculum; title: Component 3: caring and empathic classrooms; title: Component 4: preventing failure; title: Component 5: increasing home, school, and community partnerships; title: Assuring teachers understand their own strengths; title: Creating and communicating a strengths-based school vision: getting involved.