For over twenty years, New York State Certified Teachers and Kid Esteem Directors Lee R. Chasen PhD, RDT, LCAT, author of SURPASSING STANDARDS: Integrating Emotional Intelligence for Academic Achievement through Educational Drama (2009, Peter Lang Publishers), and Marianne Franzese Chasen MA, MEd, have empowered Long Island and New York City Public Schools with innovative staff development and student training programs that integrate social and emotional intelligence skills within the academic curriculum. Based on the latest research regarding brain function, which finds that optimum cognitive development and intellectual growth cannot occur without emotionally intelligent processing, Lee and Marianne have created essential learning tools that engage a fundamentally more powerful learning process. Some of the programs they offer for teachers, students, counselors, group leaders and clinicians include:

Building Community, Character and Social Skills: Integrating Social and Emotional Intelligence Skills In the Social Studies Curriculum

The Literacy Express: Integrating Reading, Writing and Character Education Through Social and Emotional Intelligence Skills In the Primary English Language Arts Curriculum

The Quest For Character: Integrating Social and Emotional Intelligence Skills Within the Academic Curriculum

Social and Emotional Intelligence Skills: Tools and Techniques for Building Character in the Elementary Classroom

Social and Emotional Intelligence Skills: Tools and Techniques For School Psychologists and Social Workers

Social / Emotional Empowerment Tools for At-Risk High School Students

Emotional Intelligence: The Key to Behavior Management in the Classroom

Educational Theatre: Tools and Techniques For Directing Plays and Theatrical Performances In Schools

Supporting Asperger's Students In The Elementary Classroom

Creative Arts Approach to Social and Emotional Intelligence for Counselors and Group Leaders

Meeting The Standard: Tools and Techniques for Managing Test Anxiety

Contact Lee R. Chasen PhD, RDT, LCAT at 631-321-6675 for more information