Helping Children Succeed: What Works and Why

Helping Children Succeed: What Works and Why

by Paul Tough
Helping Children Succeed: What Works and Why

Helping Children Succeed: What Works and Why

by Paul Tough

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Overview

A NOW READ THIS PBS NewsHour and New York Times Book Review selection 

An essential handbook of successful strategies to help kids overcome issues, learn, and thrive—including in today’s chaotic learning environments for kids

 

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780544935280
Publisher: HarperCollins
Publication date: 05/24/2016
Pages: 144
Product dimensions: 5.50(w) x 8.40(h) x 0.70(d)

About the Author

About The Author
PAUL TOUGH is the author of Helping Children Succeed and How Children Succeed, which spent more than a year on the New York Times hardcover and paperback bestseller lists and was translated into twenty-eight languages. He is also the author of Whatever It Takes: Geoffrey Canada’s Quest to Change Harlem and America. He is a contributing writer to the New York Times Magazine and a regular contributor to the public radio program This American Life. You can learn more about his work at paultough.com and follow him on Twitter: @paultough.

Table of Contents

1 Adversity 1

Why do poor children struggle in school?

The importance of noncognitive skills

"O.K., now that we know this, what do we do?"

2 Strategies 6

The problem with scaling up

Different approaches, common threads

An unbroken story from birth through high school

3 Skills 9

Can we agree on the best way to teach grit?

Teaching character without talking about character

Is "Teaching" the right word to use?

4 Stress 13

A brief explanation of our fight-or-flight response

What toxic stress does to the brain

Why executive functions matter in school

5 Parents 16

How babies make sense of the world

The importance of "serve and return"

Helping infants handle stress (or not)

6 Trauma 19

What is your ACE score?

Adverse experiences vs. adverse environments

ACEs and their effect on school success

7 Neglect 22

The "good" kind of neglect?

The harsh effects of chronic understimulation

A lesson from a Russian orphanage

8 Early Intervention 26

Why the early years matter

Education funding meets brain science

Baby talk and the policy makers' dilemma

9 Attachment 30

What a Jamaican study can teach us about parental attachment

Building a "secure base"

Can we just hand out brochures and let parents figure it out from there?

10 Home Visiting 36

Attachment and Biobehavioral Catch-up

Julianna and the cookie

Throwing incident

"We just zero in on this one positive moment."

11 Beyond the Home 42

The Educare effect

Reaching informal childcare providers

Helping pre-K teachers feel less stressed-out

The bi-directional model of self-regulation

12 Building Blocks 48

What changes (and what doesn't) in kindergarten

"It may not be a matter of you just not sucking it up enough"

The deep roots of perseverance and resilience

13 Discipline 53

The history of "zero tolerance"

Who gets suspended and why

The effects of suspensions on the kids who aren't suspended

Why harsh punishments often backfire.

14 Incentive 56

The behaviorist approach to education

Getting past stickers and pizza parties

"The impact of financial incentives on student achievement is statistically 0."

15 Motivation 59

Intrinsic vs. extrinsic motivation

What makes a 4-year-old want to quit crayoning?

Autonomy, competence, and relatedness

16 Assessment 65

How do we measure noncognitive abilities?

Finding the educators who help kids engage

What are the deep messages teachers convey to their students?

17 Messages 74

The narrative of failure within each school

What kind of classroom promotes perseverance?

Begritty, or just act gritty?

18 Mindsets 81

Is my teacher a friend or a foe?

The transformative power of a Post-it-switching off the fight-or-flight alarm

19 Relationships 86

Why Rashid got jumped, and why he was able to talk about it

How classroom climate affects test scores

Is it really possible to transform an entire school?

20 Pedagogy 91

What happens when teachers give up the reins?

Self-directed projects and student-Led conferences

Assigning work that is challenging, rigorous, and deep

21 Challenge 100

Lots of basic skills, little problem-solving

The Japanese approach

The dominant American instructional strategy

"Confusion and frustration should be minimized."

22 Deeper Learning 104

The demands of the 21st-century job market

"Deeper learning has historically been the province of the advantaged"

Change comes to Elm City Prep

23 Solutions 110

Seven million children in deep poverty

A broken system

Changing our policies, our practices, and our way of thinking

Acknowledgments 117

A Note on Sources 120

Index 121

About the Author 127

About the Type 128

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