AcademicFreedom

Maggie Folkers, SEAD Specialist, Office for a Safe and Respectful Learning Environment, NDE Adults cannot teach what they don’t know - they need to have social emotional skills embedded in who they are. In this interactive session for middle and high school educators, you will deepen your own social emotional competencies, explore benefits of daily SEL practice, and examine tools designed to create the conditions that support social emotional academic development. Moderated by: Michelle Wise Bellard

Every student has a story. Teachers can help rewrite many of those stories and reinforce others. Human brain development requires social relationships, emotional experiences and cognitive opportunities—and the quality of these relationships, experiences and opportunities influences how the brain develops, and hence how a person thinks and feels. Linking strategies that activate and enhance appropriate brain responses will provide happier and healthier classrooms.

Juliana Urtubey 2021 National Teacher of the Year, 2021 Nevada Teacher of the Year, NBPTS Teacher Fellow, NV Teach Plus Fellow

Plenary: Student-Led Restorative Practices

Marc Brackett Keynote Speaker Founding Director, Yale Center for Emotional Intelligence and Professor, Child Study Center, Yale University