By Eric Schaps, Victor Battistich, and Daniel Solomon
Published in Building academic success on social and emotional learning: What does the research say? edited by J. Zins, R. Weissberg, M. Wang, & H. Walberg, 189–205. New York: Teachers College Press, 2004.
In the course of this work, it was found that helping schools to become a “caring community of learners” proved pivotal for enabling the full range of students to progress along these several dimensions of development. Along with other researchers, it is now a belief that this priority on community building in school provides a powerful focus for improving Caring Communities and Education educational practice, and especially for practice aimed at helping children to become caring, principled, and intrapersonally and interpersonally effective.