Dr. Lorea Martínez is the award-winning Founder of HEART in Mind Consulting, a company dedicated to helping schools and organizations integrate social emotional learning in their practices, products, and learning communities. An educator who has worked with children and adults internationally, Dr. Martínez is a faculty member at Columbia University Teachers College, educating aspiring principals in Emotional Intelligence. Previously, she was a special education teacher and administrator. She is also the author of the book, Teaching with the HEART in Mind: A Complete Educator’s Guide to Social Emotional Learning.

• false dichotomy between academics and sel.
• We cannot have thoughts without feelings
• Designing with emotions in mind
• Teach skills explicitly
• There was no place to teach the skills.
• Lens of parents not doing enough.
• How to deal with parents at-home culture.
• Lead with understanding.
• How to tell a parent you’re calling child protective services.
• How to be a transformative principal? Pay attention to your own social emotional capacity. Emotions are data and information explaining what’s happening inside.

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