The Recipe for Student Well-Being: Five Key Ingredients for Social, Behavioral, and Academic Success (Your research-based recipe for thriving, successful students). This item is unavailable.The Recipe for Student Well-Being: Five Key Ingredients for Social, Behavioral, and Academic Success (Your research-based recipe for thriving, successful students)

What are the five essential ingredients for ensuring all students succeed academically, socially, and behaviorally? This practical guide details each ingredient, why it matters, and how to implement it. The Recipe for Student Well-Being goes beyond the idea of a purchased curriculum to cover how different factors integrate to comprehensively meet students’ social, emotional, and behavioral needs as enablers to academic success.

Education leaders will:

• Learn the what, why, and how of the key ingredients for student well-being
• Foster a school culture and climate that promotes student growth and academic success
• Understand why and how to focus on educator well-being first in order to yield positive student outcomes
• Garner strategies and tools to establish, restore, and maintain positive teacher-to-student and student-to-student relationships
• Maximize success with tips on how to ensure SEL initiatives works
• Reflect with end-of-chapter questions that make the content relevant
• Implement research-based SEL curriculum and instruction that aligns with the values and culture of a school

Contents:
Acknowledgments
About the Author
Introduction
Chapter 1: The SEL Recipe
Chapter 2: SEL for Adults
Chapter 3: Safe, Predictable, and Positive Environments
Chapter 4: Positive Relationships
Chapter 5: SEL Curriculum and Instruction
Chapter 6: Assessment
Epilogue

Brian Smith, PhD, has been a leader in translating research into effective SEL programs for nearly twenty years. He led the design and development of multiple revisions of the PreK-8th grade Second Step curriculum as Senior Research Scientist at the Committee for Children as well as the revision of the K-12 SEL curricula as Director of Research at CharacterStrong. Dr. Smith has presented to educators in multiple states on SEL-related topics and worked directly with schools to improve their SEL planning and implementation.
Prior to attaining his doctorate from the University of Washington Dr. Smith worked in schools in multiple roles, including elementary counselor, early intervention and prevention specialist, mental health specialist, school social worker, and substance abuse counselor.

Dr. Clay Cook is the Chief Development Officer at CharacterStrong which is an organization that aims to create a more loving world through education by designing low-burden, high-impact multi-tiered solutions (characterstrong.com). He formerly held the John and Nancy Peyton Endowed Chair in Child and Adolescent Wellbeing at the University of Minnesota and also co-founded the School Mental Health Assessment, Research, and Training (SMART) Center at the University of Washington. Dr. Clay Cook has been a professor and researcher at three universities (Louisiana State University, University of Washington and University of Minnesota) studying topics such as youth mental health, educator well-being and resilience, social-emotional learning, and implementation of evidence-based practices. He has obtained over 20 million dollars in grant funding for his research and published over 100 peer-reviewed scientific articles. His research has influenced everyday policy and practice in schools. He has delivered over 40 keynote presentations and numerous invited breakout sessions to educational leaders (superintendents, district leaders, and principals), teachers, and support staff. His work has been featured in the New York Times, Times Magazine, NPR, Edutopia, and other outlets.

Dr. Aria Fiat is an Assistant Professor and Pediatric Psychologist at Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center. She is committed to making mental health care more equitable and accessible through integrated systems of service delivery that emphasize prevention. As a clinician, researcher, educator, and consultant, Dr. Fiat works to enhance the capacity of systems to promote behavioral health and wellness, with an emphasis on supporting the educators and caregivers who help children thrive. She is particularly focused on initiatives that enhance organizational wellbeing as a key facilitator of systems change.
Dr. Fiat has co-authored over three dozen peer-reviewed articles, book chapters, and conference proceedings on topics related to school mental health. Dr. Fiat is the creator of The Seven C’s: A Toolkit for Caregivers Coping in a Crisis and a co-developer of the Adult Resilience Curriculum (ARC), a wellness-promotion program that has been implemented in school districts across the country to counteract educator stress and burnout. Dr. Fiat belongs to the National Association of School Psychologists (NASP), the American Psychological Association (APA), and the Society of Pediatric Psychology (SPP). She is also a certified instructor of Yoga Calm for Children. Outside of her role as a psychologist, Dr. Fiat is the co-founder and Vice President on the board for Supplies for Dreams, a Chicago-based non-profit dedicated to mitigating educational inequities.
Dr. Fiat received a BS in Education and Social Policy from Northwestern University and a MA and PhD in Educational Psychology from the University of Minnesota – Twin Cities.