Acknowledgments
Dedication
Foreword (Joe Blackbourn)
Introduction (Valerie Flanagan, Lisa Fulks, and Robin Magruder)
Part One: New Teachers
Chapter 1: Preparing Future and Current Teachers for Social Emotional Learning (SEL) (Valerie
Flanagan, Lisa Fulks, and Robin Magruder)
Chapter 2: Understanding Teacher Emotional Stress (Chuck Hamilton)
Chapter 3: Who’s Going to Win? (Jeff Wiesman)
Chapter 4: The Other Side of the Tracks (Kerri Adkins)
Part Two: In the Classroom
Chapter 5: Social Emotional Health is Contagious (Katie Smith)
Chapter 6: Two ‘Rounders’ for Sure (Rocky Wallace)
Chapter 7: Rewrite and Repeat (Elisha Lawrence)
Chapter 8: Sometimes You Just Need a Little Push (Holly Graham)
Chapter 9: Connecting SEL to Mentoring for African American Male Students (Jeffrey Herron)
Part Three: From a Parent’s Perspective
Chapter 10: Love Covers All (Jane Bragg)
Chapter 11: Through the Eyes of a Parent: The Other Side of the Table (Laura Beth Hayes)
Chapter 12: My Son CAN Read (Rocky Wallace)
Part Four: School Administration
Chapter 13: Glass Houses (Ellen Hamilton-Ford)
Chapter 14: They’ll Be Fine, Kids are Resilient…Please Stop Saying That! (Franklin Thomas)
Chapter 15: The Toughest Egg to Crack (Kalem Grasham)
Chapter 16: Trix Are for Kids…SEL is for Adults Too (Franklin Thomas)
Part Five: Personal Reflection
Chapter 17: Swimming Lessons (Joetta Kelly)
Chapter 18: Performance Anxiety (Rocky Wallace)
Chapter 19: The Mustard Seed of Teaching (Lisa Fulks)
Chapter 20: It’s Just Not Fair (Marilyn Goodwin)
Chapter 21: He Deals With It (Deborah Holt)
Chapter 22: Closing Thoughts (Rocky Wallace)
Afterword (Mike Hylen)
References