SESSION TYPE: Featured Speaker SESSION TITLE: Creating Emotionally Literate Schools: A Skill-Based Sustainable Approach STRAND: Whole School Issues DAY: Saturday TIME: 8:30 - 9:30 am LOCATION: Beekman Parlor, 2nd floor

How are you feeling? It's not an idle question. Feelings matter! The RULER Program is an evidence-based, district-wide approach to social and emotional learning that integrates professional development training and coaching, instructional practices and tools, and student learning activities. In order to create caring, productive and engaging learning environments, we believe it is necessary for schools to provide learning opportunities for all stakeholders to develop and model the skills of Recognizing, Understanding, Labeling, Expressing, and Regulating emotion (known as the "RULER" skills).

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BIOGRAPHY

Marc Brackett, Ph.D., is the Deputy Director of the Health, Emotion, and Behavior Laboratory and Fellow of the Edward Zigler Center in Child Development and Social Policy at Yale University. He is the author of 60 scholarly publications, including six SEL curricula, and has received numerous grants to examine the effects of these curricula in schools throughout the US and abroad.