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The first 5-weeks of school: Click grade levels below to open the PDF
This document is intended to help teachers scaffold your first 5 weeks of instruction and beyond. It is based on the CASEL's 3 signature SEL practices:
- Welcoming Routines and Rituals
- Engaging Pedagogy
- Optimistic Closure
GRADE LEVELS:
Continua Models
Works that Influence Us
Relationship of Childhood Abuse and Household Dysfunction to Many of the Leading Causes of Death in Adults:
The Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACE) Study
V.J. Felitti, R. F. Anda, et al., American Journal of Preventative Medicine, Volume 14, Issue 4, May 1998, Pages 245-258
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Pedagogy of the Oppressed
Freire, Paolo, New York, Continuum (2008)
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Savage Inequalities
Kozol, Johnathan, New York, Crown Publishers (1991)
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Other People's Children, Cultural Conflict in the Classroom
Delpit, Lisa, New York, The New Press (1995)
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Culturally Responsive Teaching & The Brain
Hammond, Zaretta, Thousand Oaks, Corwin (2015)
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Whistling Vivaldi
Steele Calude M., New York, W.W. Norton Company (2010)
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The Body Keeps The Score
Van Der Kolk, Bessel, New York, Penguin Books (2014)
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RTI in Restrictive Environments
C.R. Cook & D. Browning Wright, Horsham, LRP Publications (2009)
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Behave
Sapolsky, Robert M., New York, Penguin Press, (2017)
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The Coddling of the American Mind
Greg Lukianoff-Jonathan Haidt - Penguin Press (2018)
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Prevalence of Adverse Childhood Experiences From the 2011-2014 Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System in 23 States
Melissa Merrick-Derek Ford-Katie Ports-Angie Guinn - JAMA Pediatrics (2018)
Preview on JAMA Pediatrics