Beyond Academic Success

This book will be ideal for educators and administrators, educators, and mental health providers, and, families. The goal of the materials contained within are to develop and enrich the skills that both the educators and the pupils have in harvesting social and emotional learning within the school as well as the larger systemic community. Now, more than ever, education on the social and emotional aspects of learning is critical. As children learn to traverse a world that is ever-flattening concurrently they are drowning with information. Unfortunately, this same information can be misleading, tinged with anger, and creating an ever-unrealistic standard youth may never be able to live up to. As educators, social-emotional learning has always been a natural element of the school day. We must now recognize it as a critical subject area that has to be integrated and reinforced in every aspect of our teaching. The distinguishing quality of social and emotional skills will determine success or failure in those who will have to enter a world ever more connected systemically and globally