Neuroscience Meets Social and Emotional Learning - Andrea Samadi - Ep 72

Andrea Samadi, a former middle-school teacher from Toronto, Canada, now living in Arizona, has spent the past 20 years working with students and social/emotional learning. She participates in ongoing mentoring with some of the top neuroscience researchers in the country and has developed an online program to inspire student voice, well-being and innovation, using the most current brain research and neuroscience techniques. Andrea knows first-hand about stress in the classroom as her first job out of The University of Toronto’s Faculty of Education, was a behavioral class. She felt overwhelmed and frustrated by the lack of resources to help her manage and teach her students, so she set out on a mission to find ways to support students and educators in the classroom.

In 2014, her program was chosen by Arizona’s Department of Education’s Character Education Matching Grant program where she works with students and educators. When an Arizona administrator urged Andrea to add neuroscience techniques to her programs in 2014 and she listened to this need and created the Level Up program with mentoring from a leading neuroscience researcher, Mark Waldman. Andrea presents around the world on stress, learning and the brain and is always looking for new information to help educators to reduce stress and increase well-being and achievement at home and in the classroom.

In 2019 she released her podcast “Neuroscience Meets Social and Emotional Learning” with well-known speakers in the field of education, neuroscience and emotional intelligence like Marc Brackett, Dr. Daniel Siegel, Mark Robert Waldman, Friederike Fabritius, Dr. Lori Desautels and Michael McKnight. The podcast has met with success as the content is now being downloaded by over 38 countries, showing the importance and need to share more information in this emerging field. We believe that well-being equals achievement, and there is a crucial need for social and emotional learning skills that will prepare our students to be emotionally intelligent, mentally strong, emphatic citizens—who will thrive not just survive in this ever-changing world.

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Neuroscience Meets Social and Emotional Learning Podcast https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/neuroscience-meets-social-and-emotional-learning/id1469683141

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