Creating Compassionate Change in School Communities

Ashley Seidel Potvin , William R. Penuel , Sona Dimidjian , Thupten Jinpa 지음

Jossey-Bass 2025년 04월 21일 출간

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Addressing everyday suffering in schools through compassion Compassion and dignity provide an essential framework for building caring and inclusive schools. Many books focus on what teachers can do as individuals; Creating Compassionate Change in School Communities 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. Experiment and engage in meditation practices to strengthen personal capacity for mindfulness and compassion and the application to the classroom and school communities Engage 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 Gain perspective on compassion in schools through a multidisciplinary lens drawing from contemplative practices, psychology, and organizational change theory Learn from stories and examples of K-12 educators who have exemplified compassion in action While 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 t

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Introduction 1 Part 1: Cultivating Awareness and Setting Intentions 15 Chapter 1: Pausing to Attune to Our Own Experience 17 Chapter 2: Getting Close to Suffering in Our Schools 31 Chapter 3: Curiosity and Friendliness as Resources 45 Chapter 4: Setting Intentions to Act Compassionately 57 Chapter 5: Empathy and Compassion 69 Part 2: Embracing Self-Compassion and Affirming Dignity 77 Chapter 6: Self-Compassion Teaches Us to Be a Friend to Ourselves 79 Chapter 7: Making Room for Self-Compassion 93 Chapter 8: Self-Compassion as Preparation for Action Toward Justice 105 Part 3: Widening the Circle of Compassion 113 Chapter 9: Recognizing Common Humanity and Interdependence in Our Everyday Interactions 115 Chapter 10: Working with Our Difficulties and Limits 131 Part 4: Creating Compassionate Schools 147 Chapter 11: Humanizing School Environments 149 Chapter 12: Building a Shared Commitment to Compassionate Action 163 Chapter 13: Preparing for Collective Compassionate Action by Seeing the System 179 Chapter 14: Leading for Compassionate Change 191 Conclusion 205 References 211 Index 225

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저자(글) Ashley Seidel Potvin

저자(글) William R. Penuel

저자(글) Sona Dimidjian

저자(글) Thupten Jinpa