Creating a Self-Directed Learning Environment: Standards-Based and Social-Emotional Learning

Greg Mullen is a credentialed educator that has spent the past few years developing an approach toward standards-based education through a lens of social-emotional learning. Inspired by his years as a classroom teacher in California public, private, and charter schools, his focus now is helping schools, teachers, and families troubleshoot obstacles in personalizing education. He enjoys spending his spare time researching across academic disciplines and occasionally performing as a rock musician. Having released his first book, Creating a Self Directed Learning Environment, he continues to write and speak on topics of personalizing education across the country. Learn more about his work at www.ExploringTheCore.com

Title: Creating a Self-Directed Learning Environment: Standards-Based and Social-Emotional Learning

Author: Mullen, Greg

ISBN: 9781544384245

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Publisher: SAGE Publications Inc

Publication Date: 2020-05-07

Number of Pages: 184

Weight: 0.3831 kg

Creating a Self-Directed Learning Environment is filled with strategies on how to begin shifting toward a standards-based approach. These strategies will be extremely useful to all teachers, both those that are beginning their careers and those who are experienced and looking to implement standards-based and social-emotional learning.
-- Meghan Schofield, Third Grade Teacher
Greg Mullen infuses this book with a refreshing passion for teaching. Not only does this book clearly define Common Core Standards, but it also individualizes core standards for every learner, including meeting the all important social and emotional factors required so students can learn.

-- Charla Buford Bunker, FOCUS Instructor
Creating a Self-Directed Learning Environment is a skillfully balanced presentation for how to thoughtfully design and implement content standards, progress monitoring, and social emotional learning in the modern classroom. -- Ashley LaCroix, Technology Integrator

This book promotes self-reflection for the teacher as well as for the students, and it describes vertical planning to identify critical elements of key standards throughout the grade levels, all while being written in user-friendly tone that makes it accessible to all readers.

-- Lisa Graham, Director, Early Childhood Education
Greg Mullen provides useful guidance and valuable information for all teachers in this timely book on an important topic!


-- Deb Bible, Educational Consultant

In his book, Greg Mullen explores the intricate connections between academic, social-emotional, and human development and how these ideas should be considered when teaching the whole child.

-- Christine Clement, Instructional Coach