Contents -- List of Handouts and Tables -- Tables -- 7.1 Create Your Own Stories: Asset-Building Relationships -- 8.1 Create Your Own Stories: Asset-Building Environments -- 9.1 Create Your Own Stories: Asset-Building Programs and Practices -- Foreword by Dr. Monte C. Moses -- Acknowledgments -- 1. Why We Should Build Assets in School Communities -- 1.1a 40 Developmental Assets (English) -- 1.1b 40 Developmental Assets (Spanish) -- 1.2 Relationship between Levels of Assets and Thriving Indicators -- 1.3 Relationship between Levels of Assets and High-Risk Behaviors -- 1.4 Average Number of Assets, by Grade -- 1.5 Relationship between Assets, High-Risk Behavior Patterns, and Developmental Deficits -- 1.6 Beliefs and Practices That Limit and Promote Asset Building -- 2. Assets and Development across the School Experience -- 2.1 40 Developmental Assets for Early Childhood (ages 3 to 5) -- 2.2 40 Developmental Assets for Middle Childhood (grades 4-6) -- 2.3 Building the Support Assets -- 2.4 Building the Empowerment Assets -- 2.5 Building the Boundaries-and-Expectations Assets -- 2.6 Building the Constructive-Use-of-Time Assets -- 2.7 Building the Commitment-to-Learning Assets -- 2.8 Building the Positive-Values Assets -- 2.9 Building the Social-Competencies Assets -- 2.10 Building the Positive-Identity Assets -- 3. Developmental Assets and Academic Success -- 3.1 Effects of Commitment-to-Learning Assets on Academic Success -- 3.2 Percentage of Youth Who Report Experiencing Developmental Assets That Schools Can Most Directly Affect -- 3.3 Academic Success and Achievement Motivation -- 3.4 Academic Success and Positive Peer Influence -- 3.5 Academic Success and Youth Programs -- 3.6 Academic Success and School Engagement -- 3.7 Academic Success and School Boundaries -- 3.8 Academic Success and Bonding to School.

3.9 Academic Success and Service to Others -- 3.10 Academic Success and High Expectations -- 3.11 Academic Success and Homework -- 3.12 Academic Success and Restraint -- 3.13 Academic Success and Interpersonal Competence -- 3.14 Academic Success and Other Adult Relationships -- 3.15 Academic Success and Caring School Climate -- 3.16 Academic Success and Parent Involvement in Schooling -- 3.17 Academic Success and Reading for Pleasure -- 3.18 The Relationship between Current Educational Issues and Building Developmental Assets -- 4. Preparing to Build Assets -- 4.1 Asset-Building Ideas for School Teachers -- 4.2 Asset-Building Ideas for School Administrators -- 4.3 Asset-Building Ideas for Student Support Staff -- 4.4 Asset-Building Ideas for School Support Staff -- 4.5 Asset-Building Ideas for School Bus Drivers -- 5. Generating Awareness -- 5.1 Eight Principles for Starting a Community-Wide Initiative for Asset Building -- 5.2 Asset-Building Ideas for Parents, Guardians, and Extended Family -- 5.3 Asset-Building Ideas for Schools -- 6. Conducting Assessments -- 6.1 Tips for Meetings with Youth and Adults -- 6.2 Inventory of School Practices Consistent with the Developmental Asset Framework -- 6.3 Inventorying Asset Building in School -- 6.4 Asset Inventory for High School Students -- 6.5 Asset-Building Activity -- 6.6 Increasing the Asset-Building Power of Programs and Practices -- 7. Forming Relationships: Stories from the Field -- 7.1 Characteristics of Asset-Building Adults -- 8. Creating an Environment: Stories from the Field -- 9. Using Programs and Practices: Stories from the Field -- 10. Sustaining the Change -- 10.1 Where Are We Now? Asset-Building Culture Shift Assessment for Schools -- 10.2 Are We an Asset-Building School Community? -- 10.3 Assessing Youth Activities through an Asset-Building Lens.

10.4 Independent Study Performance Worksheet -- 10.5 Independent Study Aide Self-Evaluation -- 10.6 Guidance Counselor Hiring Standards -- Resources for Further Exploration -- About the Authors.