Associate Director of the Health, Emotions, and Behavior Laboratory at Yale University, coauthor of the new curriculum: Voices of the Children: Unleashing Emotional Literacy (US). Marc Brackett, Ph.D Marc is the principal investigator on a longitudinal study with school children. The studies will test the impact of Emotional Literacy, a published curriculum that integrates 60 lessons on social and emotional learning into existing language arts programs. Marc's research will indicate whether students involved in the curriculum will exhibit better emotion skills, healthier attitudes, more socially competent behavior and improved academic performance. Marc is the Associate Director of the Health, Emotion, and Behavior Laboratory at Yale University. 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