Speaking Topics
- Cultivating adult social and emotional competency development: self-awareness, self-management, social awareness, and relationship management
- Creating learning environments guided by both policy and practice that support equitable implementation of social and emotional learning for students
- Embedding social and emotional skills and competencies into curriculum
- Establishing communities that foster relationships, competence, and autonomy
- Leadership development and capacity building
Speaker Profile
Gianna Cassetta is coauthor of Classroom Management Matters: The Social and Emotional Learning Approach That Children Deserve; No More Taking Away Recess and Other Problematic Discipline Practices; and, The Caring Teacher: Strategies for Working Through Your Own Difficulties with Students.
She began her teaching career in New York City, where she became one of the first 25 National Board Certified Teachers in the state. Her passion for education led her to co-found and lead a public-to-charter conversion school in Harlem, NYC, which outperformed the district it was housed in as well as the city. She helped launch the Office of School Reform and Innovation at Denver Public Schools, where she shepherded aspiring school leaders through a new school application and start-up process, before starting her own school in Far Northeast Denver.
Gianna has led statewide professional development initiatives and consulted nationally. She is a certified Goleman EI Emotional Intelligence Coach and an International Coaching Federation Associate Certified Coach. Contact her at The Plain Red Horse Coaching and Consulting.
Grades: K–8
