Greetings Readers!
As the days grow shorter and Labor Day approaches, most of you are preparing your minds and classrooms for the start of the school year. Increasingly, that means not only writing or revising academic goals and lesson plans but also considering how best to foster the emotional well-being and growth of a new group of learners. What strengths and challenges will your students bring with them? How will you cultivate the former and meet the latter? We thought you might be interested, in this last gasp of summer reading time, to dip into some recent books about social emotional learning and mindfulness: what better way to get into a positive mindset about the fall semester? The dozen titles below are recommendations from two of Norton’s authors whose own work and writing focus on the social and emotional aspects of educating the whole child.
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