The Inner Wealth Initiative - The Nurtured Heart Approach in Education
The Inner Wealth Initiative - The Nurtured Heart Approach in Education
The Inner Wealth Initiative is about the Nurtured Heart Approach — about creating relationships that energize and support success and positive choices. It has many applications, but this book is about its application in schools. Howard Glasser initially created the Nurtured Heart Approach for families in his therapy practice who were at wit’s end trying to deal with their difficult children. He soon found that, when this approach was used to help difficult children succeed in the classroom, all the other children in the classroom flourished as well. This book was born from that realization and from co-author Tom Grove’s work with teachers and administrators across the U.S. who have found that the Nurtured Heart Approach is the very best solution for leaving no child behind. No matter what subject or grade level you teach, in these pages you will find out why the right social curriculum is crucial for students to learn the academic curriculum; how most disciplinary methods are upside-down, encouraging poor choices by giving students more energy and relationship when they are doing wrong; and how to turn that upside-down equation right-side up. You will find out how you can instill inner wealth in students and guide them to ever-increasing levels of success with only a few minutes of intervention each school day. Amazing and sustained improvements with this approach are not the result of a better or different academic curriculum, nor more staff or more dollars. They are the result of a dramatically improved social curriculum — a curriculum of inner wealth. This approach has expanded into schools, juvenile justice centers, Head Start centers, treatment programs, teen pregnancy programs, therapy offices, and happier homes around the world.
User Ratings and Reviews
5 Stars The Innner Wealth Initiative-The Nurtured Heart Approach in Education
This book is a must read for any person involved with children in the academic world: teachers, principals, administrators, psychologists, social workers, secretaries, janitors, bus drivers. A must read for parents committed to Nurtured Heart Approach with their children who want to move this philosophy into their children’s school system.
5 Stars Nurtured Heart
This book is fabulous. I have worked with children for a long time and know from experience that if children are not connected socially/emotionally, they will not be successful. I think it would be great if schools across the nation would implement this approach.
5 Stars Inner Wealth Iniative
Great ideas for bringing kids to a success mind-set.
I hope to introduce the concepts in a local school.
5 Stars Positively positive, applicable, and filled with hope
I found The Inner Wealth- The Nurtured Heart Approach in Education to be a very user friendly book with sensible suggestions and premises. I wish the ideas in this book could be implemented in the very earliest grades. Teachers do not have time for a lot of non-sense and pie-in-the sky. This book is filled with ideas and approaches maintaining dignity and respect for both Teacher and Student. The book is grounded in reality.It teaches a more peaceful way of life which hopefully diminishes power struggles and the same old unworkable outcomes.
I have profound respect for Teachers, and I realize many of the trying and even dangerous situations they find themselves facing. I found this book to be a motivater for so many students and a tool to help prevent exhaustion and burn out in so many Teachers. I found this book worth the money, and I plan to give this book as a gift to some of my special Teacher friends. This is a useful book, in my opinion, for Pre-school teachers.
5 Stars Inspirational, educational
Our staff has been using “The Nurtured Heart Approach” for several years. The Inner Wealth Initiative provides a stunning and detailed framework for transforming the classroom enviornment. We have purchased a copy of the book for each of our staff members and we meet together weekly to discuss the contents, to share our successes, and to ask each other for support. Thank you, Howie and Tom!!
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