The EQ Educator: Taking Social Emotional Learning to Schools

Social Emotional Learning teaches the essential life skills children (and adults) need. What does it take to integrate these skills in a school? The EQ Educator supports educators in K-12 and Higher Ed to apply social emotional learning (SEL) to build a more effective and positive classroom and school community.

Read this book to...

... see the “whole story” of social emotional learning through nine powerful SEL Benchmarks.

... understand SEL from “the inside out” by strengthening your own emotional intelligence to support effective relationships.

... learn key SEL concepts and strategies to optimize the conditions for learning and thriving in the classroom.

... create a systemic action plan for multi-tiered integration of SEL into your school community.

... join other educators in Six Seconds global EQ community of change-makers contributing to a world of insight, connection, and purpose.

About the Authors

Dr. Lorea Martinez is an Education Consultant supporting schools and teachers integrate Social Emotional Learning (SEL) in their educational programs and teaching practices as they transition to the Common Core State Standards. She holds a PhD from the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona; a former special and general education teacher, administrator and data analyst. She is based in the San Francisco-Bay Area, but consults across the US and Spain.

Dr. Susan Stillman is Director of Education at Six Seconds. She has been an advocate and leader promoting SEL in education since the mid 1990 s when she chaired her district s strategic planning subcommittee on 'personal and social responsibility' and implemented an SEL initiative in her Connecticut public school. Since then, she has frequently presented at local, state, and national conferences, published widely, and consulted globally in emotional intelligence and social emotional learning.