Today, more K-12 students are dealing with more academic, social, and emotional stressors than ever before. Students of all ages are becoming more and more dependent upon adults to calm their emotions, complete challenging academic tasks, and resolve social conflicts that arise each day. There is just not enough time for the adults at school to help every child in need.

Attend this edWebinar to see how one simple, evidence-based, metacognitive strategy develops every student into an autonomous critical thinker and problem solver across academic content areas and social and emotional contexts. With just an eye-dropper dose of the metacognitive strategy called “Structured SELf-Questioning” sprinkled into already-existing daily routines, classroom management systems, and every academic state standards-aligned curriculum, student outcomes, and independence dramatically increase. You’ll also see video examples of preschoolers being aware of and managing their emotions. Learn a practical way to engage all K-12 students in self-directed learning and take away ideas and reproducible for practical applications in your classroom tomorrow to develop your students as the CEOs of their own brains, emotions, and learning.

This edWebinar will be of interest to K-12 teachers and school and district leaders. There will be time for questions at the end of the presentation.

About the Presenter

Richard K. Cohen is the assistant superintendent of the Metuchen School District in New Jersey and serves as co-adjunct faculty at Rutgers University in New Brunswick, New Jersey. Before becoming assistant superintendent, Richard led as principal for Red Bank Primary School in Red Bank, New Jersey, and acted as founding director of a new bilingual school, Colegio Americano, in San Salvador, El Salvador. His professional experiences as an educator range from working in predominantly low-income public and charter schools to some of the most affluent public and private schools.

Rick has served as a leader of social-emotional learning (SEL) at the district, county, state, and national levels. His work infusing academic state standards and SEL skills together with evidence-based character education has won national and state of New Jersey School of Character Awards and a National Promising Practice Award from Character.org. In 2015, Rick also served on the New Jersey State Standards Revision Committee, helping add self-reflection and metacognition into academic state standards. Rick’s work has been published in Character.org’s 11 Principles Framework for Schools, Edutopia, and NJEA Review’s “Great Ideas” column. Rick is coauthor of The Metacognitive Student, which has won two national awards for Best Indie Book in Education (Forewords Reviews 2021 and IPPY Awards 2022) and has been featured in articles in Edutopia and Educational Leadership. Rick received a bachelor’s degree in political science from the University of Michigan and a master’s degree in educational administration from Rutgers University.

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Time: 1:00 pm — 2:00 pm EST

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