Lauren Porosoff - Two-for-One Teaching: Connecting Instruction to Student Values (Integrate Social-Emotional Learning into Academic Instruction)

TWO -FOR- ONE

teaching

Connecting Instruction to Student Values

lauren porosoffjonathan weinstein

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For my parents, Leslie and Harold Porosoff, who gave me every opportunity to learn, love learning, and foster a love of learning in others.

Lauren

In loving memory of my mother, Eve Jean Weinstein, who taught me that the essence of learning is connection; and for my father, Louis Weinstein, who was afraid I would leave him out, as if I could.

Jonathan

Acknowledgments

Whenever Im asked to give new teachers advice, I say to find three mentors: one who supports you, one who pushes you, and one who inspires you. I was lucky enough to find one mentor who did all three. Thank you, Melanie Greenup. We havent worked together in many years, but I will include your name in every book I write.

Thanks also to my teachers who made me feel seen and cared for and even loved. Janis Birt made me feel like math mattered and I mattered. John Aune made me feel like writing was more than a cute hobby and that maybe one day Id write a whole book. (This is my fourth, Mr. Aune!) Joe Algrant and Barbara Silber showed me the wisdom of recognizing our vulnerabilities and trusting a partner who is strong in all the ways were weak. Judy Dorros taught me that I dont need a lot of friends; I just need one whos true. Hadassah Bar-El taught me that the best teachers do smile before November.

And thanks to my rock-star students at every school where Ive taught. Youre why I started doing this work. Youre why I still do.

Lauren

I would like to thank my academic family, many of whom once haunted the hallways of the George Peabody Building at the University of Mississippi, for their contributions as my teachers, friends, clinical supervisors, therapists, students, and sometimes all of the above. I am also grateful to the Association for Contextual Behavioral Science, especially the friends and colleagues from this organization who took an early interest in our work. Last, I would like to acknowledge my inspirational mentors at the University of Mississippi Center for Contextual Psychology, Kelly Wilson and Kate Kellum, who taught me, as Albert Camus said, The struggle itself toward the heights is enough to fill a mans heart.

Jonathan

We want to thank our colleagues and friends who read our drafts and gave us the feedback that helped us improve them: Jon Alschuler, Stephanie Behrens, Olga Berkout, Yash Bhambhani, Mike Bordieri, Chad Drake, Joanna Dudek, Brad Fraver, Sharan Gill, Laurie Hornik, Kate Kellum, John Kurtz, Ciara McEnteggart, and Mollie Sandberg.

We also want to thank Barbara Swanson and Marcy Mann at the New York State Association of Independent Schools, Emily McGrath at the Northwest Association of Independent Schools, Alecia Berman-Dry at the Association of Independent Maryland and DC Schools, Rachel Folan at the New Jersey Association of Independent Schools, and the creative, committed educators who attended our workshops through these organizations.

Thanks to Matt and Jenn Villatte for their incredible work translating relational frame theory to make it more comprehensible and usable. Mastering the Clinical Conversation is the gift that keeps on giving.

Huge thanks to our perceptive, generous, wise editor Tonya Cupp. Giving a manuscript to an editor is kind of like putting a resistant child on a school busa relief for sure, yet also a knot-in-our-stomachs act of trust. But much like parents sending a child into the classroom of a talented teacher, we knew that when we sent our manuscript to Tonya, it would come back so much better than it was before. We hope this is a book that will empower teachers to empower their students. Tonya is an editor who empowers her writers to empower their readers.

Finally, we thank our families, especially our parents, to whom weve dedicated this book, and our children, Allison Porosoff and Jason Weinstein, who constantly remind us of what we value.

Lauren and Jonathan

Solution Tree Press would like to thank the following reviewers:

David Bosso

Social Studies Teacher

Berlin High School

Berlin, Connecticut

Paul Cancellieri

Science Teacher

Rolesville Middle School

Rolesville, North Carolina

Cheryl Hermach

Language Arts Teacher

Lafayette High School

Wildwood, Missouri

Ryan Reed

Social Studies Teacher

China Middle School

China, Maine

Patricia Scriffiny

Math Teacher

Montrose High School

Montrose, Colorado

Bradley Shepstead

Eighth-Grade Teacher

Rolesville Middle School

Rolesville, North Carolina

Ashley Williams

Fifth-Grade Teacher

Sandhills Farm Life Elementary School

Carthage, North Carolina

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