1) Learners will learn tools that will help them overcome obstacles to Meeting others and Making Friends
     2) Learners will learn how they can focus by "seeing" with their other senses
     3) Learners will learn how to speak up and use their voice to say what they need in a respectful way
     4) Learners will learn the importance of being sensitive to and patient with others
     5) Learners will learn some tools for recognizing and managing their emotions
     6) Learners will learn how to maintain positive relationships with others and support feelings in others
     7) Learners will learn some skills for handling conflict
     8) Learners will learn some tools that will help them know how to ask to be Included
     9) Learners will learn how to respond to bullying. 

I have been legally blind since 2002 and have gone through the trauma of having to accept my vision loss, as well as learning to live with and adapt to my visual impairment. Going back into the field of teaching, as a blind person, has been one of my biggest challenges and greatest rewards.
I have taken over 40 hours of training in the area of Social Emotional Learning over the past four years, including trauma-informed care and bullying prevention training. I have written my own SEL curriculum. After reviewing one of my classes, Outschool Safety commended me on the approach I take to teaching bullying prevention. In addition, I have a BS in Elementary Education where I took two courses on teaching disabled children.