Useful Links: Emotional Literacy

BOOKS

Goleman, Daniel
EMOTIONAL INTELLIGENCE 
1996 Bloomsbury Publishing PLC

Steiner, Claudia
EMOTIONAL LITERACY: INTELLIGENCE WITH A HEART 
2003 Personhood Press

Bocchino, Rob  
EMOTIONAL LITERACY:  TO BE A DIFFERENT KIND OF SMART
1999 Corwin Press

Sharp, Peter
PERFECT PARTNER
Nurturing Emotional Literacy:  A Practical Guide for Teachers, Parents and those in the Caring Professions.

DEP 
Books and resources for teachers and children including: Thinking skills and Emotional Literacy
DEP, 801, Wilmslow Road, Manchester  M20 2QR
Tel:  0161 445 2495

WEB LINKS AND RESOURCES

ANTIDOTE – making change possible
Antidote can help you use emotional literacy to enhance learning, well-being and community .  Antidote’s aim is to create an emotionally literate society, where the facility to handle the complexities of emotional life is as widespread as the capacity to read, write and do arithmetic.

Courses, conferences, school development packages, and publications.
Web site: www.antidote.org.uk

SEAL (Society for Effective, Affective Learning)
SEAL is am international community of people who share a passion for learning
Their vision:  Working to bring about the time when all learners will have the opportunity to develop their full potential through teaching that recognises and respects their unique abilities.
Web site: www.seal.org.uk

SEAL RESOURCE:
Excellence and Enjoyment:  Social and Emotional aspects of Learning
The SEAL resource provides a framework for explicitly promoting social, emotional and behavioural skills, with built in progression for each group within a school.
Where to get it:  Ref DfES0110 – 200056
Please contact:  DfES Publications Centre
PO Box 5050, Annesley
Nottingham, NG15 0DJ
E-mail:  dfes@prolog.uk.com
Web site:  http://bandapilot.org.uk/pages/seal/

SELIG – SOUTHAMPTON EMOTIONAL LITERACY INTEREST GROUP
SELIG is part of Southampton Local Education Authority providing guidelines for Schools, Local Authorities and Health Services.

They provide emotional literacy resources and free online resources, books, journals and guidelines.
Web site: www.nelig.com/resources/online.htm

SEL - SUSTAINABLE SCHOOLWIDE SOCIAL AND EMOTIONAL GUIDE AND TOOLKIT

A step by step guide and 40 tools take school leaders and stakeholder teams through the process of planning for and accomplishing the changes needed for sustainable SEL.

Based on research and interviews with expert practitioners, the guide not only maps each step in the process but also defines sustainability factors

Email: FCASEL@LISTSERV.UIC.EDU

SCHOOL OF EMOTIONAL LITERACY
The school offers a specialised consultancy on a variety of areas.  These are areas not usually offered by LEA staff or other training organisations.

Buckholdt House
The Street
Frampton on Severn
Gloucestershire
GL2 7ED
Tel:  01452 741106    
e-mail:  info@schoolofemotional_literacy.co.uk

LUCKY DUCK PUBLISHING
Books, videos and resources
Web-Site: www.luckyduck.co.uk/shop/products

EQ.ORG (American site)
This is billed as ‘the internet’s leading directory of Emotional Intelligence/EQ/EI sites, sources and organisations.’
Articles, Certification Training, EQ organisations

Wired for Health –

Wired for Health is a series of websites developed by the Department of Health and the Department for Education and Skills.

There are lots of materials for downloading for Teachers, Healthy School Programme Co-ordinators, Education and Health professionals and young people
Web-Site: www.wiredforhealth.gov.uk

YOUTH ACTIVISM

CHANGEMAKERS
Enterprising minds, active citizens, future leaders.
Tel:  0191 226 7730
Web-Site: www.changemakers.org.uk

Changemakers provide a platform and process for young people to get actively involved in their communities.
‘Our youth led learning programmes, grant schemes and volunteering initiatives stimulate enterprising minds, motivate active citizens and educate future leaders.  We create active and involved citizens with a positive and pro-active approach to the world in which they live and their part within it.

Changemakers offer learning programmes, policies and campaigns, funding schemes, publications and resources

FUNDING OPPORTUNITY
The Big Boost – Funded by the National Lottery.
Getting young people’s ideas off the ground.
Will help young people start up projects that we hope will make a lasting difference to them as well as to their communities.  The programme will support more than 12,000 young people over two years.  For information call Changemakers, Newcastle Office on 0191 226 7330