Former principal of Brooklyn Avenue School, EQ education consultant (US). Bruce Alster Bruce expressed an early interest in the MSC model of EI. He implemented the model while still a principal at Valley Stream School District. Last year he received the award for educator of the year from the Phi Delta Kappa chapter of Hofstra University. He is responsible for the effectiveness of EI in his former school district. Working with his superintendent, Ed Fale and his colleagues he created an excitement and an opportunity to pilot a comprehensive, systemic approach to EI systemwide. Session Information: A Vision For An Emotionally Intelligent Education. Key Concepts: Participants will learn to apply the model to solve problems and address situations having high emotional content. Participants will be introduced to the emotional literacy curriculum With the implementation of No Child Left Behind educators must focus on teaching the whole child in an emotionally sound learning environment that challenges each student to become self-sufficient, cooperative, responsible and contributing members of a global society and encourages each to achieve his/her highest potential. Our vision of a sustainable world includes teacher training on the Mayer/Salovey/Caruso ability based model and the implementation of the Brackett/Maurer/Plain Emotional Literacy curriculum in order to provide all stakeholders with the strategies and skills necessary for our children to become self-reliant, educated and socially responsible individuals. As a result of participating in our workshop, participants will: understand the impact of emotionally intelligent leadership in education understand how emotions impact a person's performance understand the advantage of gauging their own levels of Emotional Intelligence gain insight and guidance related to Emotional Intelligence understand the use of the EI blueprint to solve problems and make decisions learn about an exciting new curriculum that creates emotionally literate students and that promotes academic achievement