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 three Heinemann books, 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 is also the author of a professional text entitled Literacy Centers: a Standards Based Approach for Grades 3 and Beyond, and she is featured in instructional videos on effective literacy practices, including Step into Guided Reading.
Gianna began her teaching career in 1992 in District 2 in New York City, where she developed expertise in workshop instruction and in balanced literacy, and became a National Board Certified Teacher Her passion for education led her to co-found and lead public, charter conversion, and charter schools in Harlem, New York, and in Denver, Colorado. Gianna has been a teacher, coach, school leader, district level leader and independent consultant. She is a Goleman EI Certified Emotional Intelligence Coach.
Follow Gianna on Twitter @Gianna_Cassetta
Grades: K–8
