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Want to introduce myself a little more so you have the context of what i do. I work for a nonprofit in Seattle Committee for children and we have been around for about 32 years. Were nonprofit and we do both education and advocacy and on the education end we develop be curriculum and the curriculum is used widely across the country. Its in every state in the country and in canada and 70 countries around the world and programs were familiar with is second step and i am hearing some nods and we ha...

Group that youre at kind of a high level of discourse and you have a general understanding. Could i see a show of hands for those of you that social Emotional Learning is a familiar term . And those that feel you have a deep understanding of it . Okay. Great. Thank you. I want to introduce myself a little more so you have the context of what i do. I work for a nonprofit in Seattle Committee for children and we have been around for about 32 years. Were nonprofit and we do both education and advoc...

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 soci...

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 foundat...

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...

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 soci...

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 kno...

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 thinkin...

About campus sexual assaults and how they are investigated and prosecuted. This week on the washington journal, we kicked off our monthlong series of interviews with University President s as part of our cspan buss Big Ten College tour. This morning joining us on the cspan bus at the campus of the university of nebraska in lincoln is the interim president dr. James linder. Thank you, sir for being with us. Let us begin with the size of the university of nebraska lincoln and also the cost. Well, ...

Better agricultural techniques throughout the state and throughout the world. And this is part of the food, fuel, and Water Initiative that i mentioned earlier. The scope of a Land Grant Institution has certainly increased. So in 1902 the Medical Center joined the system. So the activities have grown as Society Needs have increased, but we still focus on agriculture as one of the Core Missions at the university of nebraska, lincoln, and actually our agricultural programs showed the second highes...