

Incorporating the Illinois Standards for Social and Emotional Learning into a School:
What are the steps that a school needs to do to meet these learning standards? How can a school teach these learning standards through formal and informal lessons?
Developing Social and Emotional Intelligence:
What is social and emotional intelligence, why is it important, and what can you do to develop it in yourself and your students?
Looking into the Brain:
How is the brain wired to be emotional and how are the emotional parts of brain connected to intellectual parts of the brain?
Wiring and Focusing the Brain:
How can you influence the development of the emotional areas of your students' brains and how can you use social and emotional intelligence to positively impact academics and learning?
Creating and Maintaining a Deep Connection with Your Students:
How can you communicate and relate to your students in a way that deepens your connection to them and builds their social and emotional intelligence?
Actualizing the Power of Schools to Influence Social and Emotional Intelligence:
What can schools do to effectively support students with social, emotional and psychological concerns and be a catalyst for parents to support these concerns?
Teaching with Mirrors:
What are your students teaching you about yourself and how can they help you grow us a teacher?
Shedding LIght on Your Beliefs:
How are your beliefs influencing your teaching and your students' lives?
Creating Meaningful Parent/Teacher Conferences:
What are the essential topics related to social and emotional intelligence that need to covered to create meaningful and productive parent-teacher conference.
Discovering the Gifts of Your Students:
What can you do to find your students' areas of intelligence and how can you use them to build social and emotional intelligence?
Building Social and Emotional Intelligence through Sports:
How can coaches use sports to develop their players' social and emotional intelligence?
Building Social and Emotional Intelligence Through Drama:
How can you use drama to develop your students' social and emotional intelligence?
Understanding and Empowering a Highly Sensitive Children:
How can the quality of high sensitivity negatively impact a students' life and what can you do to effectively support a highly sensitive student?
Minimizing the Negative Effects of a Divorce:
What can you do to help students cope with a divorce and how can you help parents to minimize its effects on students' academics and lives?
Developing a Baby's Social and Emotional Intelligence:
What can a daycare provider to do foster the the social and emotional intelligence of a baby?

