why U.S. schools need a new, strengths-based approach Jones-Smith, Elsie. creator text bibliography cau Santa Barbara, Calif Praeger 2011 monographic eng

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285 p. : ill. Emergence, growth and current uses of strengths-based educational systems -- The strengths mindset: understanding the nature of strengths -- Brain development, emotion, and learning -- The strengths-based school's component 1: a strengths-building pyramid -- Component 2: improving instruction, the academic curriculum -- Component 3: caring and empathic classrooms -- Component 4: preventing failure -- Component 5: increasing home, school, and community partnerships -- Assuring teachers understand their own strengths -- Creating and communicating a strengths-based school vision: getting involved. HKBU library Elsie Jones-Smith. YT2025 M09 Individualized instruction School improvement programs Multiple intelligences Academic achievement LB1031 J76 S 2011 9780313391538 031339153X 9780313391545 0313391548 SDU 110202