It is impossible not to have a social curriculum in your classroom and school. We cannot not communicate and are therefore constantly sending social messages about each other and life. We are thus "teaching" a social curriculum every second by our very presence. The Essential Social Curriculum helps you understand, create, and powerfully communicate a social curriculum driven by values. To teach in the social curriculum with love, consciousness, and clarity is the foundation of The Essential Social Curriculum. Schools using The Essential Social Curriculum have produced inspiring climate and culture where students want to socially and academically improve. Whether in the classroom or school wide, TESC builds an inner drive to excel as a person and a learner. Based in classic psychology, neurology, behavioral sciences, and academic research, TESC brings clarity, confidence, joy, and peace to school staff and students alike. Parents and visitors to the school quickly feel its presence communicated through the climate and culture. The reader is guided through The Essential Questions that underlie social interaction. Questions such as " Do I exist?", " Do I make a difference good or bad?", and " Can I trust myself?" among others. How these questions manifest in students and staff are illuminated with numerous stories. Once you know the questions, you are guided in ways to answer those questions with precision, congruity, and intention. Students instantly recognize when you are understanding and answering their Essential Questions and instantly respond with positive answers to your Essential Questions as well. Students will help you be the best teacher possible as you provide them wonderful answers to their Essential Questions. Along with the above, you are guided in how to create a Value Driven Classroom. When you drive values as the primary climate and culture of the classroom and school, order manifests. If you drive behavior and order, it becomes harder and harder to see and experience positive values in everyone involved. Being a congruent model of the values you want within your climate and culture, how to make those values the center of all class process, and how to deal with violations of values are given special emphasis. While many social problems are eliminated and reduced by answering the Essential Questions and creating a Value Driven Classroom, a remarkably simple and specific intervention is given for direct violations of the values such that everyones Essential Questions are affirmed and love again prevails in the climate and culture. From preschool to High School, from self contained classrooms to alternative schools, The Essential Social Curriculum applys to all and helps joy and peace reign in schools.
