Kind of reaching out to people and bringing the message of social Emotional Learning not just to schools because educators kind of get it. Its not a stretch when we talk to them why its important to get it, but we want to take the message outside of the school into the media, into the communities, into families so that people kind of understand this process of another way of learning and becoming an educated person. A couple of other things i do i work with anne on the board and with the foundation. That has been exciting. I do advising for sesame street. If you have small children the next seafn sesame street you will see some of the favorite characters and breathing and learning problem solving models and were very excited [inaudible] and theyre focusing on self regulation and other skills and specific focus and exciting working with them the past year and a half or so so i want people to have a look here, and what i would like to do is tie some of the things together that you have b
Listening to that i was thinking oh my gosh in every category that person would have to be very socially emotionally competent. You need the awareness to know something is going on. You need that empathy to compel you do something about t you need the management skills to approach that situation calmly and not be over reactive. You need to have your own skills and make the right decisions that will work in that moment, so i was glad that she gave that example and i am able to show you how having these skills are very important, and i would also like to say a lot of you have seen the bullying film and saw a lot of adults who clearly needed more training in their social emotional competencies and if we think about it think about i dont want to assign blame to administrators or to parents who we all know are often just doing the best they can with the kind of experiences they have grownup with, the training they had and the skills they are, but imagine the scene with the administrator how
Kind of things that we do, and i also do advocacy work so i come and speak at meetings like this. I was at the attorney generals meeting in Washington State and i would like to congratulate you and especially those in Law Enforcement in california for the high level of discourse that you have incredibly impressed today by what i have heard and my hats off to you for all the good work youre doing. So i do advocacy and part of that is kind of reaching out to people and bringing the message of social Emotional Learning not just to schools because educators kind of get it. Its not a stretch when we talk to them why its important to get it, but we want to take the message outside of the school into the media, into the communities, into families so that people kind of understand this process of another way of learning and becoming an educated person. A couple of other things i do i work with anne on the board and with the foundation. That has been exciting. I do advising for sesame street. I
Was on the list. It was about seventh or eighth down but when they answered the next question, what do you think you could change if somebody could give you some help . The recession and the war, even the sweating fell down the list and what really popped was bullying and our numbers matched the National Data 85 of the kids we talked to said it wasnt so much theyre getting picked on, but i know im supposed to do something. I want to do something when i see my friends get picked on and i dont know what to do. Show me what to do and with that direction from our audience and a plea for politicallal useful advice that has grown to a Global Partnership and stop bullying, speak up. There is a reel they would like to show that comes before this. Can we hit that one . Could you define that. Sorry. Give you overview of the campaign. How are you all doing . [inaudible] what would happen if everyone took the pledge to stop bullying . Welcome everyone. This is Anderson Cooper special. Bullying sto
Figure out what to do when you have a problem, so you can probably just look at that and oh yes, i see where the connections would be and i would like to kind of point out because we are talking about bullying today one of the things i love i dont know if rosylyn is still in the room but she talked about a specific example. This is an example of what a teacher should be able to do if she sees something in the hallway and described this whole process and when i was listening to that i was thinking oh my gosh in every category that person would have to be very socially emotionally competent. You need the awareness to know something is going on. You need that empathy to compel you do something about t you need the management skills to approach that situation calmly and not be over reactive. You need to have your own skills and make the right decisions that will work in that moment, so i was glad that she gave that example and i am able to show you how having these skills are very importan