Dealing with the Urgent Educational Challenge

Promoting Social-Emotional Well-Being among Teachers, Students, and Families

Walter S. Polka, John E. McKenna, Monica J. VanHusen

• Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
• Year: 2024
• eBook ISBN: 9781475870213
• Edition: 1
• Topic: Psychology
• Subtopic: Student Life
• Index: Psychology

Dealing with the Urgent Educational Challenge: Promoting Social-Emotional Well-Being among Teachers, Students, and Families provides readers with key research-based and pragmatically tested approaches and processes to deal with the unprecedented mental health issues prevalent in today's schools, families, and communities. Practicing educators and researchers representing various backgrounds, leadership roles, and learning contexts provide insights about appropriate and effective personal, professional, and organizational programs, projects, and activities that may be implemented to address the social-emotional learning needs of people within school communities.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Title Page
• Contents
• Foreword: Social-Emotional Learning: “A Serious Matter”
• Preface
• Acknowledgments
• Introduction
• Chapter 1: Promoting Personal and Professional Well-Being in Schools for Happier Teachers, Students, and Parents: Insights from Positive Psychology
• Chapter 2: Best Practices to Promote and Support Social-Emotional Learning and Wellness in PreK–12 Schools
• Chapter 3: One School District’s Upstream Approach to Creating Successful Initiatives: The Journey of a Social-Emotional Learning (SEL) Program
• Chapter 4: The Rise in Student Behavior Referrals and the Impact on the Social-Emotional Health of Teachers Post-Pandemic in Three Western New York High Schools
• Chapter 5: A Practicing Middle School Principal’s Approaches in Creating and Delivering a Culture for Social-Emotional Learning
• Chapter 6: Intentionally Shattering Silos: Fostering Collaboration and Belonging to Support Well-Being in Schools
• Chapter 7: Providing Community Care Services to Children during Crises and Beyond
• Chapter 8: Improving Socio-Emotional Experiences for Special Education Students: A Persistent Balancing Conundrum between Fidelity to Regulations and Meeting Student Needs
• Chapter 9: Applications of Multi-tiered Systems of Support to Promote Social, Behavioral, and Academic Success for Students with Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder
• Chapter 10: Social-Emotional Intelligence: A Guide for Parents and Teachers
• Chapter 11: From Overwhelmed to Resilient: The Role of Artificial Intelligence in Reducing Burnout
• Chapter 12: The Necessity to Develop, Implement, and Navigate Proven Social-Emotional Learning Practices, NOW!
• Afterword: “Casserian Engeri”
• About the Authors and Contributors
• About the Editors