2019 SEL Exchange Program (Online Version)

2 | S OCIAL & E MOTIONAL L EARNING EXCHANGE 2019 We wish to extend a huge and heartfelt thank you to all of the many partners and team members who have worked side by side with us over the last 18 months to launch the inaugural Social & Emotional Learning Exchange. First, to all of the presenters and contributors: We are thrilled you’re bringing your knowledge, talents, and resources to the SEL Exchange. We are so very grateful to our featured speakers and youth presenters—thank you for all the planning calls, meaningful collaboration, and for agreeing to participate! The SEL Exchange Executive Planning Team: Mark T. Greenberg , Joan Cole Duffell , and Karen Niemi . Your leadership has been invaluable. Thank you for partnering with us on the highest level strategy down to the minutiae! SEL Exchange Planning Committee: Thank you for your guidance on this journey and for working closely with us to shape the Exchange in a way that aimed to be inclusive and responsive to the needs of the field. We are grateful for your time, talents, expertise, and commitment to CASEL and the SEL Exchange. Steve Arnold , Robert J. Jagers , Melissa Schlinger , Justina Schlund , Kimberly Schonert-Reichl , Timothy P. Shriver , Karen VanAusdal , Roger P. Weissberg , and Andrea Wishom . Thank you to our focus area co-chairs for spearheading the massive task of evaluating all the incredible proposals we received: Communications: Melissa Mellor Practice: Joan Cole Duffell , Melissa Schlinger , Karen VanAusdal Policy: Jessica Cardichon , Nick Yoder Research: Mark T. Greenberg , Robert J. Jagers , Roger P. Weissberg To our incredible team of reviewers! Thank you for volunteering your time and expertise to review more than 900 proposals. See page 51 for a list of names. To the entire CASEL staff: Each of you has played an important role in guiding our attendees and helping everything run smoothly throughout the conference. Thank you! A big thank you, in particular, to Jessica Bernstein , Cynthia Coleman , Tim Corbett , Kay Daly , Linda Dusenbury , Adam Kernan-Schloss, Rebecca Lectura , Rebecca Liebman , Ty Martinez-Black , Ann McKay Bryson , Judy Nuss , Juan Phillips , Justina Schlund , Claire Schu , Heather Schwartz , Cathy Stein , and Nick Yoder for your hard work, good ideas, program contributions, and coordination and production support. Thank you also to Robert Sherman and Erica Wohlreich for your contributions to the featured speaker program and Founders Dinner production, respectively. Thank you, thank you, thank you to the Total Event Resources team for being our logistics partner. We could not have done this without your hard work! To the core Exchange team: this small but mighty team moved mountains to bring the Exchange into being and we are so grateful for your dedication, tremendous efforts, and stamina! Sarah Griffith-Garcia , Carolina Herrera , Colleen Jackson , and Jennifer Schneider . Finally, thank you to our families for your patience and understanding over the last 18 months. We hope all our participants enjoy the SEL Exchange, and we are so thankful for the opportunity to play our respective roles in what promises to be an important gathering! Kitty Rothschild Pamela McVeagh-Lally 2019 SEL Exchange Executive Producer 2019 SEL Exchange Programming Director CASEL, Chief Operating Officer Thank You