Today our guest is Dr. Renee Carr - Owner and Founder of Kids Before Content LLC.

We talk with Dr. Carr about importance of educators developing their own social & emotional learning skills in order to better serve their students. Dr. Carr shares an example from the classroom that highlights the significance of equipping and supporting educators. She also discusses her new book, Kids Before Content: An Educator's Guide on Social-Emotional Learning Competencies, and provides practical suggestions for how we can assist educators today. Dr. Carr underscores the significance of leadership and character, not only for the present but also for future generations.

 

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Renee G. Carr, EdD has been working in education and related programmatic work since 2007. She is multilingual: she speaks Modern Greek, French, and Spanish. Dr. Carr has worked at a university, government contractors, non-profits, associations, and two school districts in the Washington, DC area.

Dr. Carr's areas of expertise include social-emotional learning, international exchange, and world languages. She has a background in educational research including qualitative coding, case studies, literature reviews, and project management. She has presented at conferences and shared research findings with peers in her field.

During the pandemic, she wrote a book for the publisher Rowman & Littlefield called Accountability in the Classroom: Using Social-Emotional Learning to Guide School Improvement. The premise of this book came from her dissertation topic, social-emotional learning and school accountability systems. She added her own experiences as an educator both from the perspectives of World Language education and the COVID-19 crisis.

The idea behind her second book Kids Before Content: An Educator's Guide on Social-Emotional Learning Competencies came from both her dissertation and her experiences with recommending a pilot social-emotional learning program at her school.

In 2022, Dr. Carr became a trainer and coach. She offers education and training in emotional intelligence and leadership. Dr. Carr received her EdD in Educational Leadership and Administration from the George Washington University in 2019 and her MA in Political Science in 2009 from the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. She obtained her BA in French and International Studies in 2007 from the University of Washington, Seattle.