Teaching with the HEART in Mind: A Complete Educator's Guide to Social Emotional Learning

Creating better outcomes for your students sometimes means you have to challenge the odds. Academics and standardized assessments aren’t the solution. You need to educate both their hearts and minds.

• How to create a safe, supportive school culture that encourages a positive educational mindset and better goal-setting.
• A three-step method to infuse HEART skills into lesson planning for every content area and grade level.
• A full scope and sequence by grade, along with critical indicators of mastery for each discipline in the HEART in Mind program.
• Strategies for teachers to develop their own social and emotional capacity for a more effective, resilient, and mindful teaching focus.
• Over 90 activities to implement SEL into your classroom—even virtually!

• How to create a safe, supportive school environment that encourages a positive educational mindset and better goal setting.
• A three-step process to infuse HEART skills into lesson planning for every subject and grade level.
• A full scope and sequence by grade, along with indicators of mastery for each skill in the HEART in Mind program.
• Tools for teachers to develop their own social and emotional capacity for a more effective and resilient teaching focus.
• Over 90 activities to implement SEL into your classroom—even virtually!

"We now know that learning is built on the foundation of positive relationships and interactions with others. In Teaching with the HEART in Mind, Lorea Martinez provides essential guidance to create these relationships by effectively implementing social-emotional learning so all children can feel a sense of belonging and thrive. Anyone who is looking for a practical and research-based guide to strengthen school communities through SEL should read this book." - Linda Darling-Hammond, Ph.D. President, Learning Policy Institute Professor Emeritus, Stanford University

"This book provides important scientific information and practical guidance and strategies that will help teachers become more effective, passionate educators who are better able to enhance the social, emotional, and academic competencies of all students. I encourage all educators and school administrators who are committed to understanding and implementing quality social and emotional learning to read this excellent resource." - Roger Weissberg, Ph.D. Distinguished Professor Emeritus of Psychology, University of Illinois at Chicago Chief Knowledge Officer, CASEL

"Lorea Martinez has created a new tool kit to help build a new, caring, supportive and successful schoolhouse. In Teaching with the HEART in Mind, she shows exactly why and how to put the emotions of the learner and the instructor front and center, to optimize benefits for ALL children. This is a book you will wear out quickly from frequent and enthusiastic use!" - Maurice Elias, Ph.D. Director, Rutgers Social-Emotional and Character Development Lab Co-author of Boost Emotional Intelligence in Students: 30 Flexible, Research-Based Activities to Build EQ Skills

"Teaching with the HEART in Mind is a beautiful contribution to the SEL ecosystem of supports for teachers and schools. Dr. Martinez effortlessly weaves between SEL for educator self-development and SEL instructional strategies and practices for students, drawing on contemporary theory and practice and insightful lessons learned along her journey as an educator-scholar." - Christina Cipriano, Ph.D. Assistant Professor, Yale Child Study Center Director of Research, Yale Center for Emotional Intelligence

"In these times of educational upheaval, Dr. Martinez offers a template for all educators to teach with HEART. Starting with research from today's leading scientists and moving on to practical applications of those insights with examples from her own teaching experience, Dr. Martinez skillfully convinces the reader that all learning is indeed social and emotional." - David Adams CEO, The Urban Assembly

"This is a wise and practical book that is grounded in excellent research and well synthesized practice experience. It provides adaptable approaches and tools that teachers can use to create classroom conditions for learning that support the social, emotional, and cognitive development of every student." - David Osher, Ph.D. Vice President and Institute Fellow American Institute of Research (AIR)

"Teaching With The Heart in Mind is a must read for today's education professional. Teaching is an act of the heart and the mind. Dr. Martinez' attention to the former is well articulated and long overdue." - Brian Perkins, Ph.D. Director, Summer Principals Academy Teachers College, Columbia University

Dr. Lorea Martínez Pérez is the award-winning founder of HEART in Mind Consulting, a company dedicated to helping schools and organizations integrate Social Emotional Learning in their practices, products, and learning communities. An educator who has worked with children and adults internationally, Dr. Martínez is currently a faculty member at Columbia University Teachers College, educating aspiring principals in Emotional Intelligence. Previously, she was a special education teacher and administrator. Learn more at loreamartinez.com.