Essential Connection Skills, (Corwin, 2025)
Essential Connection Skills: Strategies for Integrating Social Connections Into Core Content (Corwin, 2025)
Co-authored with Dr. Jeff Zwiers
Available now for early pre-order!
Today’s classrooms require more than academic rigor—they need strong social and emotional foundations that nurture students’ overall well-being. Essential Connection Skills provides educators with practical strategies to seamlessly integrate meaningful connections into daily instruction, empowering students across four key domains:
- Connections to Self: Building students’ self-awareness, reflection, and emotional resilience.
- Connections to Others: Strengthening interpersonal skills, communication, collaboration, and empathy.
- Connections to Learning: Enhancing engagement, critical thinking, and creativity through authentic learning experiences.
- Connections to Community: Developing students’ sense of belonging, civic responsibility, and cultural awareness.
Essential Connection Skills: Strategies for Integrating Social Connections Into Core Content (Corwin, 2025)
Co-authored with Dr. Jeff Zwiers
Available now for early pre-order!
Today’s classrooms require more than academic rigor—they need strong social and emotional foundations that nurture students’ overall well-being. Essential Connection Skills provides educators with practical strategies to seamlessly integrate meaningful connections into daily instruction, empowering students across four key domains:
- Connections to Self: Building students’ self-awareness, reflection, and emotional resilience.
- Connections to Others: Strengthening interpersonal skills, communication, collaboration, and empathy.
- Connections to Learning: Enhancing engagement, critical thinking, and creativity through authentic learning experiences.
- Connections to Community: Developing students’ sense of belonging, civic responsibility, and cultural awareness.