CT Teachers Eligible For Free Yale Emotional Intelligence Course

CONNECTICUT — The Yale Center for Emotional Intelligence will offer a free online course to Connecticut teachers to help them manage emotions and stress as they get back to school.

The course is being offered for free to Connecticut preK-12 teachers thanks to a donation from the Dalio Education philanthropy.

The 10-hour course focuses on identifying and managing difficult emotions, the science of stress and trauma and strategies to help students manage emotions. It also explorations race, bias identity and social and emotional learning.

"Our readiness this fall to tackle Connecticut’s educational emergency revolves around having in place the social emotional learning and mental health supports necessary to create compassionate academic spaces anytime, anywhere," said state Department of Education Commissioner Miguel Cardona in a statement. "As our nearly 100,000 teachers and school staff prepare to resume classes next month, it’s critical that they are equipped with the tools to not only understand and manage their own emotional response to the pandemic but help their students navigate those complex feelings as well."