Synopses & Reviews
The Compassionate Classroom is a long awaited how-to guide for educators who care about creating a safe, productive learning environment. With 45 years combined teaching experience, Sura Hart and Victoria Kindle Hodson merge recent discoveries in brain research with the proven skills of Nonviolent Communication and come to a bold conclusion - when compassion thrives, so does learning.
Learn powerful skills to create an emotionally safe learning environment where academic excellence thrives. Build trust, reduce conflict, improve cooperation, and maximize the potential of each student as you create relationship-centered classrooms. This how-to guide is perfect for any educator, homeschool parent, administrator or mentor. Customizable exercises, activities, charts and cutouts make it easy for educators to create lesson plans for a day, a week or an entire school year. The Compassionate Classroom is the first complete curriculum for teaching NVC to elementary age students.
Review
"I believe the message in this book can change the course of learning and life for all of us." —Marshall Rosenberg, Ph.D., author, Nonviolent Communication
Synopsis
This inspiring guidebook supports teachers seeking to provide a nurturing and creative classroom environment for elementary students. Lessons supply instruction for creating a community of reverence, self-awareness, and mindfulness. Each entry features a concise lesson plan ready for implementation, as well as a brief summary of the interfaith and secular philosophies that underpin the lesson. Specific tips for teaching nonviolent skill sets are provided, including expressing feelings honestly without judging or criticizing, making clear requests of others, and listening empathetically. Educators are assisted in building connections among diverse populations, cultivating self-awareness, and rewarding reflective thinking. Handouts and sample writings offer inspirational models for students to explore identity and spirituality.
Synopsis
This inspiring guidebook supports teachers seeking to create an emotionally safe learning environment where academic excellence thrives. In this first complete curriculum for teaching Nonviolent Communication (NVC) to elementary age students, lessons supply instruction for creating a community of reverence, self-awareness, and mindfulness. The relationship-centered classroom model aids in building trust, reducing conflict, improving cooperation, and maximizing the potential of each student. Specific tips for teaching nonviolent skill sets are provided, and educators are assisted in building connections among diverse populations, cultivating self-awareness, and rewarding reflective thinking. Customizable exercises, activities, charts and cutouts make it easy for educators to create lesson plans for a day, a week or an entire school year.
About the Author
Sura Hart and
Victoria Kindle Hodson share a combined 45 years of elementary teaching experience, partnered with 12 years experience learning and teaching NVC. Hart is a CNVC Certified Trainer, an experienced presenter and worldwide leader in the incorporation of NVC in schools. Hodson is the co-author of the bestselling book,
Discover Your Child's Learning Style. She is a prominent speaker and co-director of the Learning Success Institute in Ventura, California.