EQuip2Achieve Summit

12/24/2022

Thank you for your continued support this year and wishing you all the best for 2023 ✨

Happy holidays from all of us at Equip2achieve Summit!

10/07/2022

It’s important for preschool teachers to be able to recognize when students need emotional support—even if they seem to be doing fine.

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It’s important for preschool teachers to be able to recognize when students need emotional support—even if they seem to be doing fine.

10/06/2022

Emotional intelligence is the capacity to blend thinking and feeling to make optimal decisions. It’s being smarter with feelings. In the Six Seconds Model of Emotional Intelligence, it is broken down into 3 pursuits:

Self-Awareness: Be more aware, by clearly seeing what you feel and do
Choice: Be more intentional, by doing what you mean to do
Purpose: Be more purposeful, by doing it for a reason

These pursuits are made measurable and actionable by 8 unique emotional intelligence skills, which are explained below:

What is emotional intelligence? Emotional intelligence is about being smarter with feelings. More aware. More intentional. More purposeful.

10/06/2022

In this article, we review the different qualities a neurodivergent individual might have, diagnoses that encompass these qualities, and expert-recommended approaches to ensuring neurodivergent individuals lead a happy, successful life.

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What Does It Mean To Be Neurodivergent?

09/08/2022

Without a doubt, the professional landscape has changed rapidly in the last two years. COVID made us adapt to a new reality in order to continue being productive even in our homes, and many of us developed skills we didn’t know we had. However, one skill will be the most sought after in the near future: emotional intelligence.

Without a doubt the professional landscape has changed rapidly. However, one skill will be the most sought after: Emotional intelligence.

08/29/2022

Our EQuip to Achieve summit is coming to an end tomorrow!

Our CoHosts are excited to bring this Summit to every Educator, SEL Practitioner, and Parent’s home! We are adapting and listening to the growing needs of our community. We need to provide better ways to internalize the information that is taught remotely, and also help children maintain and even increase their Emotional Intelligence. We are happy to provide a Summit that finds solutions to all of these and more!

Thank you for joining us forge a path towards emotionally responsive education.

08/22/2022

Lee Guerette's specialty is helping teachers introduce Mindful practices from the book “CognitiveYoga”. She has an MA in Reading and Language, and advanced certification from 6seconds to assess and create curriculum. She is the Director of Cognitive Yoga and author for EQ4Peace Worldwide.
Her presentation at the EQ2A summit is titled “How to Treat Your Neighbor” and focuses on both educators and parents.
We will learn about Negative self-chatter. How common it is, how destructive, and how it begins or goes away.

1. We must understand our psychological makeup to monitor and make life choices that will bring us health and happiness.
2. We need to become lifelong learners, flexible thinkers, and open to new ideas.
3. We need to be culturally sensitive to other races, geographic influence, religions, economic and educational levels.
4. We need to become wise stewards of earth resources.
5. We need a moral compass for just social practices in business, as individuals and communities.

Good teachers always endeavor to bring positive ethics into the classroom, but as an experienced advocate of social-emotional learning, she would suggest that Social Emotional Learning become a co-curricular activity or be woven into all courses as a best practice. Curriculum and training for teachers to understand and use collaborative, thought-provoking, emotionally profound lessons to deeply engage their charges is essential for them to become 21st-century thinkers.

She believes that the main challenge in education (K-8) today is “Self-Regulation - acceptance of Diversity” whilst the biggest opportunities are “Global Community Communication--Emphasis on Well Being.”
Cognitive Yoga

08/22/2022

You can still register for the EQuip to Achieve Summit. You will have access to all of the sessions for 4 weeks from your registration date. Learn from teachers, counselors, SEL coaches, and many more! Register now at https://buff.ly/2Ojiu1m

08/16/2022

Lorena Seidel M.Ed. is a Social-Emotional Learning specialist, a Montessori educator, a Positive Discipline facilitator, a Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction teacher, and a mother of three. She helps educational leaders to support the social and emotional well-being of students (and their families!)

Her presentation at the EQ2A summit is titled: "Helping Families Raise Emotionally Intelligent Children" and focuses on educators.

Research shows that 80% of our children's future success depends on their mindset. Let's learn how to best support our children's social and emotional well-being - in and out of the classroom so that they grow with an invincible mindset and an unshakable sense of self which can greatly reduce the risk of many problems faced by youth today.
The biggest challenge in k-8 education is bridging the school/home social and emotional gap. There is a need to offer a well-structured parenting education plan that elevates the parents' emotional intelligence.

Parent ed. is random, disconnected, and shallow -as often schools will bring experts/authors to give their signature talk with no follow-up. Parents create more meaningful change in their family dynamics when they go deeper into strategies, coaching, and implementation.

Lorena believes in a world in which all children experience healthy, peaceful, and positive childhoods. World peace starts with peace in our homes and classrooms. If we get this right, we can raise the next generation of emotionally equipped humans who can heal humanity.

Purposeful & Joyful Parenting

08/16/2022

Without sponsors, many programs, events, and spaces would not be viable.

A very big thank you to our sponsors for the sponsorship of our organization! We were thrilled to work with you for the EQ2A summit. As a sponsor, your contribution is vital to continue our important work. We cannot succeed without the generosity of supporters like you.

Without your contribution, this event would not have been a success. A big thank you from everyone at EQuip to Achieve.

08/15/2022

Vera Thomas is a Certified Life Coach, Speaker, Trainer, Mediator, Poet, and 12x Amazon Best Selling Author. She is the founder of “The Vera Thomas Show” a Podcast/Video show, and a Consultant at the Certified Center for Teacher Effectiveness. She has worked with individuals, companies, non-profit organizations, schools, and churches engaging youth and adults.
At the EQ2A summit, her presentation focuses on both parents and educators and is titled: Instilling Greatness In Myself and My Children
This presentation is an examination of parental styles, attitudes, and behaviors that impact children. We will learn the tools for immediate consideration.
According to her, Social-emotional learning (SEL) and EQ, are both lacking in today's society and awareness must begin at the earliest age possible.
From a personal perspective, having grown up bullied and ridiculed, it was absolutely necessary for her to learn how to be in touch with and control her emotions. She could not teach how to do this if she wasn’t able to do it for herself. Using tools she has incorporated into her own life enhances what she does to guide others through the process. It is an ongoing process.
She believes the main challenges in education (K-8) today are:
1. How some teachers relate, respond, and react to students.
2. The teaching of SEL and EQ as well as financial literacy.
Conversely, the biggest opportunities in education today are the opportunity to teach SEL and EQ techniques and apply them daily. This enhances the school experience for both students and teachers and helps teachers and parents recognize their impact on children.

The Vera Thomas Show
Thomas

08/15/2022

The EQuip to Achieve Summit is underway! All sessions are accessible on demand on our website. It's not too late to register! Join us, so that together, we can help kids become happier and healthier! Visit our website, https://buff.ly/305Bd39, to register!