The 2007 Institute for Emotional Intelligence
EI & Leadership: A Vision of Excellence

February 22-23, 2007
Memorial Student Union Building
Texas A&M University-Kingsville, Texas

Featuring Best Selling Author Margo Murray , President and
Chief Operating Officer of MMHA, The Managers' Mentors, Inc.

Program Highlights:

Keynote with Margo Murray, MBA, CPT
Emotional Intelligence and Leadership for World Health

Keynote with Darwin Nelson, Ph.D.
How to Change Your Emotional Mind

Keynote with Gary Low, Ph.D.
Emotional Intelligence and Leadership: A Vision of Excellence

K-12 Education
EI at the National Center for Deaf Education
EI Research and Teacher Preparation
Dissertation research with EI in Public Schools
EI in Texas Public Education
Incorporating EI with High School Curriculum in South Texas

Higher Education
Galveston College Integrates the Education Model of EI
The MECA Program:  Infusing EI into Innovative Educational Practices
EI Initiatives at Coastal Bend College
Integrating EI-centric Assessment and Interventions with Ron McNair Scholars
A Factor Analytic Study of the Personal Excellence Inventory©
Emotional Intelligence in University Faculty in Taiwan
EI and Student Support Services at UT-Pan American and Texas A&M University-Kingsville
Using EI Assessment and Content in the Psychology of Success
Evaluating EI Competencies Using Grey Comparative Analysis

Business & Organization
Emotional Intelligence and Mentoring for Self-Efficacy in Business
EI for Managing Life Transitions and Change
Using EI with Business Clients
An EI-Based Theory of Personal Excellence
EI and Intercultural Communication
The Relationship Skills Map©
The ESAP© and Emotional Skills Training for Developing Leaders from Within

Pre-Conference Certification Workshop
Pre-Conference Workshop for Emotional Intelligence Certification
with Darwin Nelson and Gary Low on Wednesday February 21, 2007.
Limited to 20 participants and cost $125.

 

Conference Objectives
K-12 Education	Higher Education	Business/Organizational
Develop strategies for teaching social emotional skills including:      Effective Verbal Communications      Goal Setting and Achievement      Organizing for Success Build more effective partnerships between:      Admin – Teachers      Teachers – Students      School-Community Integrate Social/Emotional skills for enhanced self-efficacy. Learn about current K-12 education research in Social Emotional Learning.	Increase student success and improve institutional effectiveness. Provide EI-centric assessment and curriculum components for teacher preparation and student development. Create academically successful and emotionally healthy teachers and students.  Develop academic and co-curricular learning to promote leadership and community responsibility. Learn to develop college success skills in students before they arrive at your institution of higher learning. Incorporate strategies to improve institutional effectiveness by developing metacognitive skills of students based on individual learner needs and potential.	Provide an integrative model for transformative leadership. Learn ways to reduce employee stress and harness emotional energy for positive outcomes. Share methods for developing self-directed and emotionally skilled employees. Develop more satisfied employees with positive attitudes about work.

Who Should Attend
K-12 Education	Higher Education	Business/Organizational
Educators, counselors, administrators, staff, community service professionals, and volunteers who work closely with at-risk populations. Educators, administrators, staff, community service professionals, and volunteers who want to develop and implement success strategies for at-risk populations. Superintendents who want to build stronger, more effective school teams. Curriculum specialists who want to integrate social emotional learning into education. Anyone interested in current research in social emotional learning in K-12 education.	Teacher preparation faculty, departmental chairs, and academic leaders. Interdisciplinary faculty interested in improving student success, institutional effectiveness, and learner-centered assessment. Student service/development administrators and college counselors. Community college faculty and personnel involved with high school to college bridge programs. Faculty, personnel interested in developing advanced placement and advanced college credit programs. TRIO program personnel interested in improving the college success in diverse student populations. Collage Assistance Migrant Program (CAMP) administrators and staff personnel.	Leaders interested in transforming their organizations and their people. Human resources professionals, leaders, and supervisors who desire to: Increase Employee Productivity Increase Employee Satisfaction Decrease Workplace Stress Decrease Employee Turnover Increase Revenue Training and human resource professionals interested in positive personnel development. Consultants and training professionals interested in learning about a research-based education model of social-emotional intelligence. Anyone interested in developing an emotionally intelligent organization and workforce.

 
$125 USD includes all tracks of the regular two-day conference, breakfast, lunch, and snacks.
[the pre-conference certification workshop is separate]

Call for papers: Programs for general and concurrent sessions are being accepted
Please include presenter name(s), title, abstract, and short program description
Deadline for Proposals is September 1, 2006

 For more information contact:
Gary R. Low ● (361) 593-2901 ● gary.low@tamuk.edu
Darwin B. Nelson ● (361) 593-2203 ● darwin.nelson@tamuk.edu
Richard D. Hammett  ● (361) 318-7414 ● rhammett@EiLearningSys.com

Established on the beautiful campus of Texas A&M University-Kingsville in 2002, the Institute for Emotional Intelligence provides a forum for educators, researchers, practitioners, and leaders to share research and practical applications in emotional intelligence in primary/secondary, higher education, and organizational settings.  

Register Online at http://www.tamuk.edu/edu/kwei000/2007Register