Creating a Self-Directed Learning Environment: Standards-Based and Social-Emotional Learning

By: Greg Mullen

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Synopsis: Educate the whole child—improve the whole school. Implementing new teaching practices can feel like juggling. This book shows you how to balance standards-based learning, social-emotional learning, and cognitive development and build realistic plans for success. With a flexible, three-tiered, visual framework designed for schoolwide collaboration, it helps you build on your school&’s strengths and the potential of existing programs. It also offers: • An integrated philosophy focused on self-directed learning and the whole child • Attention to academic inclusion, behavior intervention, and classroom management • Research sourced from CASEL and state programs and initiatives • Numerous illustrations, tables, and graphics • Tools and supplemental resources for implementation