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Teaching Kids to Thrive

Essential Skills for Success
By: Debbie Silver, Dedra Stafford

Foreword by Rick Wormeli

The strategies and tools in this guide equip educators to develop resilient and mindful learners primed for academic growth and personal success currently and in the future.

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  • Grade Level: PreK-12
  • ISBN: 9781506326931
  • Published By: Corwin
  • Year: 2017
  • Page Count: 288
  • Publication date: April 25, 2017

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There’s more to student success than standards and test scores…

The modern view of student achievement focuses on high test scores, higher standards, and racing to the top. Thrive skills fit with new ESSA requirements to go beyond basic academic measurements in order to equip students for lifelong success.

Debbie Silver and Dedra Stafford present a practical handbook that guides teachers and parents in fostering learners who are socially and emotionally healthy and prepared to undertake future challenges. Through practical examples, precise strategies, and specific tools this book demonstrates how to empower learners in areas that include:

  • Using mindfulness strategies to help students tap their inner strengths
  • Learning to self-regulate and control other executive brain functions
  • Developing growth mindsets along with perseverance and resilience
  • Cultivating a sense of responsibility, honesty, and integrity
  • Encouraging a capacity for empathy and gratitude

Grounded in decades of psychological research, Teaching Kids to Thrive merges academic, social, and self-skills to stimulate personal and school achievement.


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Key features

Aside from Debbie Silver's great reputation and speaking prowess, the following are the key sales points:

Teaching Kids to Thrive Offers

SEL skills overview: Gives a summary of the essential social and emotional learning skills needed to help students thrive both now and in the future.

The latest research: Incorporates the newest findings from neurobiology and explores their implications for classrooms.

Stories: Abounds with anecdotes demonstrating how Thrive skills improve the academic, social, and emotional lives of students

Implementation support: Delivers strategies, tips, and tools to help teachers implement SEL training at any grade level.

Thrive Skills in Action: Provides easy, inexpensive, teacher-tested activities for integrating Thrive skills in the classroom.

Additional Resources: The Taking It to the Next Level section on the Thrive website presents several resources for further activity ideas, websites, and supplemental tools.

FAQ: Poses thorough and insightful answers to frequently asked questions.

Discussion questions: Inspires deeper thinking for learning groups and individual reflection.

Author(s)

Author(s)

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Debbie Silver

Dr. Debbie Silver is a humorist, consultant, and retired educator with over thirty years of experience as a classroom teacher, staff development facilitator, and university professor. As a classroom teacher, Debbie won numerous awards, including the 1990 Louisiana Teacher of the Year award. She speaks worldwide on issues involving education and is a passionate advocate for students and teachers.

Debbie wrote the best-selling books, Drumming to the Beat of Different Marchers and Fall Down 7 Times, Get Up 8. She co-wrote the best-selling Teaching Kids to Thrive. In 1990, Debbie Pace and Lawrence Silver merged their families of 3 boys (Debbie) and 2 boys (Lawrence) as they married and eventually both earned their doctorate degrees (to form a “pair-a-docs”). They currently reside in Melissa, TX.

One of the nation’s most popular keynote speakers and professional development presenters, Debbie has given presentations around the world (including 49 states [Hey, Delaware, let’s talk!], Canada, Mexico, Europe, the Middle East, Australia, Africa, and Asia), helping audiences to interact with students on a more meaningful level.

While inspiring educators to enjoy the job they once loved, she reminds them of how important they are in the lives of children, their families, and the world. Through her writing and her speaking she makes essential points while sharing poignant stories and lots of laughs.

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Dedra Stafford

Dedra Stafford is a dedicated consultant and a proud member of the Association of Middle Level Education and National Association of Secondary School Principals Speakers Cadres. She is an Educational Speaker and has presented at international, national, state, and local conferences across the nation including NMSA (National Middle School Association) sharing inspirational ideas, from technology to school climate. Dedra is passionate about providing quality staff development for educators. She an internationally known speaker, trainer and author in the educational world. Dedra creates entertaining workshops that get crowds energized, motivated, and inspired to be their ‘best’ for the students they serve. As a former classroom teacher, she understands the need for professional development where practical ideas can be implemented immediately into the classroom. She creates fun-filled workshops designed to be hands-on and interactive. Dedra has a unique ability to put educators at ease as she teaches concepts and beliefs incorporated with humor in a user friendly way. She speaks on the topics of about technology, climate, curriculum, and classroom techniques resulting in her audience laughing, learning, and having new enthusiasm for their work.

Table of Contents

Table of Contents

Foreword


About the Authors


Acknowledgments


INTRODUCTION


Why Teach Social and Emotional Learning (SEL) in the Classroom?

What Are the Thrive Skills?

Taking This Book to the Next Level (Thrive Website)

Thriving Together

CHAPTER 1. MINDFULNESS IN THE CLASSROOM: SLOWING DOWN TO SPEED UP SUCCESS

Why Don’t They Just Pay Attention?

Mindfulness: What It Is and What It Is Not

Using Mindfulness in the Classroom

Beginning a Mindfulness Practice

Research on Mindfulness in the Classroom

Implementation in the Classroom

What Supporting Mindfulness Looks Like in the Classroom

Frequently Asked Questions

Discussion Questions and Exercises

Thrive Skills in Action

CHAPTER 2. HELPING STUDENTS WITH THEIR COMMAND AND CONTROL FUNCTIONS

Executive Function: What Is It?

The Six Skills of Executive Functioning

EF Skill 1: Self-Regulation and Self-Control

EF Skill 2: Working Memory

EF Skill 3: Task Initiation, Organization, and Time Management

EF Skill 4: Flexibility

EF Skill 5: Emotional Regulation

EF Skill 6: Focus

What Supporting Executive Function Looks Like in the Classroom

Frequently Asked Questions

Discussion Questions and Exercises

Thrive Skills in Action

CHAPTER 3. CREATING STUDENT AGENCY THROUGH SELF-EFFICACY AND GROWTH MINDSET

Self-Efficacy: What Is It?

Self-Efficacy: What Is It Not? (Learned Helplessness)

Aim for the Zone of Proximal Development (ZPD)

Students’ Beliefs About Success (Attribution Theory)

Growth vs. Fixed Mindsets

How Do We Help Students Develop Growth Mindsets?

What Supporting Self-Efficacy and Growth Mindset Looks Like in the Classroom

Frequently Asked Questions

Discussion Questions and Exercises

Thrive Skills in Action

CHAPTER 4. PERSEVERANCE: PUSHING THROUGH DESPITE THE SETBACKS

Quit Now or Finish? What Makes the Difference?

Perseverance: What It Is and What It Is Not

What Educators Need to Know About Perseverance

What Does Perseverance Look Like in the Classroom?

What Supporting Perseverance Looks Like in the Classroom

Frequently Asked Questions

Discussion Questions and Exercises

Thrive Skills in Action

CHAPTER 5. BOUNCING BACK: TEACHING KIDS ABOUT RESILIENCE

Resilience: What Is It?

Acknowledge the Struggle

Normalize the Struggle

The Classroom as the Tribe

Resiliency in Boys

Developing Resiliency Through Competency

Building Hope

What Supporting Resilience Looks Like in the Classroom

Frequently Asked Questions

Discussion Questions and Exercises

Thrive Skills in Action

CHAPTER 6. BUILDING A CULTURE OF RESPONSIBILITY IN THE CLASSROOM

Give Kids a Chance to Act Responsibly

Teaching Responsibility in an Entitled Society

Using Accountability to Promote Responsibility

Building a Culture of Responsibility

Teachers as Models of Responsibility

How Do We Reinforce Responsibility?

What Supporting Responsibility Looks Like in the Classroom

Frequently Asked Questions

Discussion Questions and Exercises

Thrive Skills in Action

CHAPTER 7. CULTIVATING HONESTY AND INTEGRITY IN STUDENT CHOICES

How Do We Teach Personal Integrity?

How Do We Teach Academic Integrity?

What Do We Do When Children Cheat?

The Restorative Justice Approach

The Courage to Take a Stand

What Supporting Honesty and Integrity Looks Like in the Classroom

Frequently Asked Questions

Discussion Questions and Exercises

Thrive Skills in Action

CHAPTER 8. TAPPING INTO EMPATHY

Empathy: What Is It?

Does Everyone Have Empathy?

What Does Empathy Look Like in Action?

Why Is It Important to Teach About Empathy?

Modeling Empathy in the Classroom

Service Learning Projects

Integrating Empathy Into the Curriculum

The Power of Empathy

What Supporting Empathy Looks Like in the Classroom

Frequently Asked Questions

Discussion Questions and Exercises

Thrive Skills in Action

CHAPTER 9. IT’S ALL ABOUT GRATITUDE

“Pay It Forward” Is Still Thriving

Gratitude: What Is It?

What Research Tells Us About Gratitude

Why We Should Teach Gratitude in the Classroom

How Do We Teach Gratitude in the Classroom?

What Supporting Gratitude Looks Like in the Classroom

Frequently Asked Questions

Discussion Questions and Exercises

Thrive Skills in Action

Final Words


References


Index


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