Great Places to Learn: How Asset-Building Schools Help Students Succeed. - Review - book review

Adolescence, Spring, 2001

STARKMAN, Neal, SCALES, Peter C., & ROBERTS, Clay. Great Places to Learn: How Asset-Building Schools Help Students Succeed. Minneapolis, MN: Search Institute, 1999. l99pp. (p).

A school-wide focus on building developmental assets can reinforce the reasons of the heart that inspire careers in education in the first place, and it can help students K-12 become academic achievers as well as healthy, caring, responsible, productive members of society. This book will help you see how your school can become an asset-building school. In Great Places to Learn, you will find: a clear introduction to the developmental assets and the research behind them; the rationale for using the asset framework and its ties to current educational issues; practical ideas for integrating assets throughout the life of your school; stories of creative asset building by teachers, students, administrators, superintendents, guidance counselors, and other school community members; a suggested process for building awareness and sustaining the change for good; and a wealth of handouts, including charts, action lists, and assessment tools.