Faculty Institute Focuses On Emotional Intelligence

Brunswick welcomed Marc Brackett, Ph.D., founding director of the Yale Center for Emotional Intelligence and Professor in the Child Study Center at Yale University, as the keynote speaker at last week’s Faculty Development Day.

 

Brackett’s research focuses on the role of emotions and emotional intelligence in learning, decision making, relationship quality, and mental health; the measurement of emotional intelligence; best practices for teaching emotional intelligence; and the influences of emotional intelligence training on children’s and adults’ effectiveness, health, creativity, and both school and workplace climate.

 

Brackett is also the lead developer of RULER (an acronym for the five key emotion skills of recognizing, understanding, labeling, expressing, and regulating emotions), an evidence-based approach to social and emotional learning adopted by more than 1,500 public, charter, and private schools across the United States and around the world.

 

After a 90-minute interactive discussion — focusing on best practices to support high school students in leading positive change in schools — Brunswick faculty took part in three 30-minute workshops facilitated by fellow colleagues.

 

Topics included “The Art of Feedback,” “Team Building and Leadership,” and “Mindfulness Education.”