"The most exciting revelation of this book is the simple power of making a connection. Somehow, so many of us learn to be married, raise a family, run a classroom, and live our lives without mastering the tools required to form, nurture, and protect healthy relational connections. The power of the connection between a teacher and a student is life-changing!

Loving Our Students On Purpose is both a map and a toolbox. It’s a map that shows the “why” and “where” of getting to a loving, connected classroom culture, and a toolbox to show you “how” to get there. Among these tools is the application of neuroscience and psychotherapy, which shifts old paradigms and shines hope toward new frontiers of successful learning.

With the right tools and the right goal, teachers are poised to change a student’s life like few forces on the planet. This book is a healing process in the right hands. I’m glad that you found this tool that will help you create a classroom that you want to be in, and a place that creates learning in the most effective ways imaginable."

“Loving Our Students on Purpose is an extraordinarily timely book that seamlessly integrates neuroscience, contemporary psychology, and rich personal experience into a highly practical approach to reinvigorate the teacher-student connection.

We owe it to ourselves and to the future of our children to invest in these ideas, and fortunately the authors make this easy through illuminating case studies that bring the concepts to life.”

“With a compassionate and sensitive personal story and careful attention to current research this book matches its title. Loving our students as we teach provides the best kind of education. This book weaves together the science and insightful stories from personal experience into a wonderful blend of warmth and practical knowledge.”

“LoSoP is not another program for your teachers to learn; rather it is an internal reflection process focused on developing and maintaining a safe and loving school culture that can be embedded into the hearts of the teaching teams and their assistants, allied health and wellbeing staff, executive and board members. Loving our Students on Purpose is a great tool to increase student and staff retention, job satisfaction and joyful responsibility in your school community.”

“In Loving Our Students on Purpose, Bernii Godwin and Danny Silk provide, in an accessible volume, insights into optimizing the relationship between educators and their students. The authors confirm that through witnessing and listening to our students we open the often-shut portal to mutual trust and co-regulation. The authors back their intuitions with a neurobiologically based strategy, consistent with principles of Polyvagal Theory, that will shift the educational experience from emphasizing the need to control the student to the mutual benefits of a shared journey of curiosity and accomplishment.”

“Godwin and Silk bring together a powerful combination of the science of connection, co-regulation, choice theory, and applied neuroscience for educators in an easy to understand and very practical handbook. If you want to know how your students are ‘wired’ and how to nurture a culture of effective learning, I guarantee Loving Our Students on Purpose will give you the science and the application you will need to transform your classroom.”