{"product_id":"creating-compassionate-change-in-school-communities-isbn-9781394265220","title":"Creating Compassionate Change in School Communities","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAddressing everyday suffering in schools through compassion\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eCompassion and dignity provide an essential framework for building caring and inclusive schools. Many books focus on what teachers can do as individuals; \u003ci\u003eCreating Compassionate Change in School Communities\u003c\/i\u003e is different. This book focuses both on how educators can cultivate compassion within themselves and lead together to cultivate humanizing school environments. Teachers, librarians, counselors, resource specialists, mental health professionals, and social workers who are working to create conditions for compassion and dignity in schools are all leaders who can impact change. Offering concrete evidence and case studies that showcase the power of compassion to create flourishing school communities and rejuvenate education, the book will help all educators better serve K-12 students with school cultures that promote healing. Compassion can be cultivated, dignity can be affirmed, and leaders need skillful means to do so—tools and practices that can help them develop compassion for themselves and others and see their own dignity and that of others. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eExperiment and engage in meditation practices to strengthen personal capacity for mindfulness and compassion and the application to the classroom and school communities\u003c\/li\u003e  \u003cli\u003eEngage in hands-on writing exercises and self-reflection questions educators can ask themselves and then apply their personal growth to influence school policies and climate\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eGain perspective on compassion in schools through a multidisciplinary lens drawing from contemplative practices, psychology, and organizational change theory\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eLearn from stories and examples of K-12 educators who have exemplified compassion in action\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e \u003cp\u003eWhile we cannot fully address all the suffering that is happening in schools today, educators do have the power to work within themselves and together locally to create more compassionate responses to suffering and to affirm the dignity of all members of their school communities. \u003ci\u003eCreating Compassionate Change in School Communities\u003c\/i\u003e offers a valuable approach to integrating wellness into schools, as much for principals and superintendents as for teacher leaders, librarians, counselors, resource specialists, and others who work to create the conditions for compassion and dignity in their school. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIntroduction 1\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart 1: Cultivating Awareness and Setting Intentions 15\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eChapter 1: Pausing to Attune to Our Own Experience 17\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eChapter 2: Getting Close to Suffering in Our Schools 31\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eChapter 3: Curiosity and Friendliness as Resources 45\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eChapter 4: Setting Intentions to Act Compassionately 57\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eChapter 5: Empathy and Compassion 69\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart 2: Embracing Self-Compassion and Affirming Dignity 77\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eChapter 6: Self-Compassion Teaches Us to Be a Friend to Ourselves 79\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eChapter 7: Making Room for Self-Compassion 93\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eChapter 8: Self-Compassion as Preparation for Action Toward Justice 105\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart 3: Widening the Circle of Compassion 113\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eChapter 9: Recognizing Common Humanity and Interdependence in Our Everyday Interactions 115\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eChapter 10: Working with Our Difficulties and Limits 131\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart 4: Creating Compassionate Schools 147\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eChapter 11: Humanizing School Environments 149\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eChapter 12: Building a Shared Commitment to Compassionate Action 163\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eChapter 13: Preparing for Collective Compassionate Action by Seeing the System 179\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eChapter 14: Leading for Compassionate Change 191\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eConclusion 205\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eReferences 211\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIndex 225\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eASHLEY SEIDEL POTVIN, PhD,\u003c\/b\u003e is a Research Associate in the Renée Crown Wellness Institute at the University of Colorado Boulder. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eWILLIAM R. PENUEL, PhD,\u003c\/b\u003e is a Distinguished Professor in the School of Education at the University of Colorado Boulder. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eSONA DIMIDJIAN, PhD,\u003c\/b\u003e is Director of the Renée Crown Wellness Institute and Professor in the Department of Psychology and Neuroscience at the University of Colorado Boulder. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eTHUPTEN JINPA, PhD,\u003c\/b\u003e is the Founder and Chairman of Compassion Institute, and the principal author of Compassion Cultivation Training\u003csup\u003e™\u003c\/sup\u003e.  \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAddressing everyday suffering in schools through compassion\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eCompassion and dignity provide an essential framework for building caring and inclusive schools. Many books focus on what teachers can do as individuals; \u003ci\u003eCreating Compassionate Change in School Communities\u003c\/i\u003e is different. This book focuses both on how educators can cultivate compassion within themselves and lead together to cultivate humanizing school environments. Teachers, librarians, counselors, resource specialists, mental health professionals, and social workers who are working to create conditions for compassion and dignity in schools are all leaders who can impact change. Offering concrete evidence and case studies that showcase the power of compassion to create flourishing school communities and rejuvenate education, this book will help all educators better serve K-12 students with school cultures that promote healing. Compassion can be cultivated and dignity can be affirmed, and leaders need skillful means to do so—tools and practices that can help them develop compassion for themselves and others and see their own dignity and that of others. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“This important book builds on a simple but radical premise: ‘Our schools today need to become spaces of healing’ for students, parents and families, and educators themselves. If we acted on that premise—as the authors of this book urge and equip us to do—American education would be transformed. We would no longer focus single-mindedly on conveying information and developing cognitive skills. Instead we would attend to the development of whole persons and to the well-being of their communities. That’s an uphill task to say the least, but this well-researched book gives us the motive and means to make that journey.”\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003e—PARKER J. PALMER\u003c\/b\u003e, author of \u003ci\u003eThe Courage to Teach\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eA Hidden Wholeness\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eHealing the Heart of Democracy\u003c\/i\u003e  \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePraise for \u003ci\u003eCreating Compassionate Change in School Communities\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e“What a timely gift of a book! Filled with gratitude and hands-on support for healing spaces of learning, \u003ci\u003eCreating Compassionate Change in School Communities\u003c\/i\u003e is a text that is poised to (gently) transform the lives of students and teachers.”\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e—Antero Garcia,\u003c\/b\u003e Associate Professor, Stanford University\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e“Education has changed drastically in the past five years. This book humanizes the difficulty of the changes and provides tangible steps educators can take to support their students and the people many often overlook, themselves.”\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e—Autumn Rivera, \u003c\/b\u003e2022 Colorado Teacher of the Yearand2022 National Teacher of the Year Finalist\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e“This exceptionally written book reminds us to engage our work in education with our heads \u003ci\u003eand our hearts\u003c\/i\u003e. A much-needed text during these times of intensified stress, anxiety, self-doubt, and blame, these authors shepherd readers through strategies and tools to help us heal individually as we renew and reset our commitments to practices of listening, compassion, empathy, and understanding, in service with and to others. An accessibly written book, grounded in transformative and rigorous research, this book should be read by any of us determined to keep pressing and fighting for education for all.”\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e—H. Richard Milner IV\u003c\/b\u003e, Professor, Vanderbilt University, and author of \u003ci\u003eThe Race Card\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e“This important book builds on a simple but radical premise: ‘Our schools today need to become spaces of healing’ for students, parents and families, and educators themselves. If we acted on that premise—as the authors of this book urge and equip us to do—American education would be transformed. We would no longer focus single-mindedly on conveying information and developing cognitive skills. Instead we would attend to the development of whole persons and to the well-being of their communities. 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