Publisher Description
Roots of empathy—an evidence-based program developed in 1996 by longtime educator and social entrepreneur Mary Gordon—has already reached more than 270,000 children in Canada, the U.S., Japan, Australia, New Zealand, and elsewhere. Now, as the New York Times reports that "empathy lessons are spreading everywhere amid concerns over the pressure on students from high-stakes tests and a race to college that starts in kindergarten," Mary Gordon explains the value of and how best to nurture empathy and social and emotional literacy in all children—and thereby reduce aggression, antisocial behavior, and bullying.
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About Mary Gordon
Mary
Gordon is
the author of several novels, multiple memoirs, a short-story collection, and Reading
Jesus, a work of
nonfiction. She has received many honors, among them a Lila Wallace–Reader’s
Digest Writers’ Award, a Guggenheim Fellowship, an O. Henry Award, an Academy
Award for Literature from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, and the
Story Prize. The State Writer of New York, she teaches at Barnard
College and lives in New York City.
About Teri Schnaubelt
Teri Schnaubelt is a Chicago-based stage, on-camera, and voice actor as well as oil painter and photographer. An Earphones Award–winning narrator, she has voiced over a hundred books for New York Times and USA Today bestselling authors, in addition to helping independent authors get their stories heard.