Conference Objectives

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

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.