Resources

=Here are some resources for your information.= Click here for Mrs Gold's Morning Meeting Resource page.

Click [|here] for the Responsive Classroom website from Northeast Foundation for Children, Inc.

Click [|here] for Instructor Marianne Harcourt's classroom website and information on Responsive Classroom.

= ** Guiding Principles ** = Seven principles, informed by the work of educational theorists and the experiences of exemplary classroom teachers, guide the //Responsive Classroom// approach:
 * The social curriculum is as important as the academic curriculum.
 * How children learn is as important as what they learn: Process and content go hand in hand.
 * The greatest cognitive growth occurs through social interaction.
 * To be successful academically and socially, children need a set of social skills: cooperation, assertion, responsibility, empathy, and self-control.
 * Knowing the children we teach-individually, culturally, and developmentally-is as important as knowing the content we teach.
 * Knowing the families of the children we teach and working with them as partners is essential to children's education.
 * How the adults at school work together is as important as their individual competence: Lasting change begins with the adult community.

(This information reprinted from the Responsive Classroom website with permission from the Northeast Foundation for Children, Inc. [])

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