Description
Ensure that all school decisions are made in the best interest of children and their success with this first-ever published field guide promoting child development and learning.
Table of Contents
Foreword - Michael Fullan
Preface - Edward T. Joyner
Acknowledgments
About the Authors
Part I. Child Development = Education
1. The School Is Preventive and Promotive - James P. Comer
2. Essential Understandings of the Yale School Development Program: A Reference Guide to the Comer Process - Michael Ben-Avie, Edward T. Joyner, and James P. Comer
3. Schools in Society - Carmen S. Gonzalez
4. Child Development Is the Foundation of Education - Fay E. Brown and Joanne N. Corbin
5. Promoting Youth Leadership Development in Comer Schools - Valerie Maholmes
6. Children Must Be Taught to Deal with Anger - The Yale Child Study Center Faculty
7. Children with Special Needs: Special Education and the Comprehensive School Plan - Michael Ben-Avie, Virginia Arrington, Morton Frank, and Robert Raymond
8. Using the Pathways with Individualized Education Plans for Children with Special Needs - Nora Martin
Part II. Children Need Healthy Adults - Michael Ben-Avie
Balanced Development
Development Into Adulthood
9. Teaming and Team Building - Miriam McLaughlin, Alice Huff Hart, Everol Ennis, Fred Hernandez, and Jan Stocklinksi
10. A Team Approach to Educational Change - J. Patrick Howley
11. Establishing a Foundation: A Principal's View of Task and Process - Jeffrey German with J. Patrick Howley and Michael Ben-Avie
12. It's All About Effective Relationships: Frameworks for Understanding Ourselves and Others - J. Patrick Howley
13. Three Guiding Principles for Interaction on Teams - J. Patrick Howley
Part III. A Time to Act
14. Children and Trauma - Robert A. Murphy
15. Children During Wartime - Robert A. Murphy
16. Children of the World: How We Created a Full-Service School - Grace Nebb
Index
