Andrea Samadi, an author and teacher from Toronto, Canada, now living in Arizona, USA, has spent the past 20 years working with social/emotional learning, students and education. Andrea knows first-hand about stress in the classroom as her first job from The University of Toronto’s Faculty of Education was a behavioral class. She felt overwhelmed by the lack of resources to help her manage and teach her students, so she set out on a mission to find ways to support students and educators in the classroom.

In 2014, the program she created, Level Up (that consists of a book and over 60 online lessons and resources) was chosen by Arizona’s Department of Education for a Character and Leadership Grant to be used for AZ schools. She learned quickly that educators were looking for programs that taught the basics of neuroscience. In 2015, Andrea consulted with Mark Robert Waldman, one of the leading neuroscience researchers in the country, to help her make the connection between how the brain impacts learning, achievement, well-being and results. Follow Andrea on Twitter @AndreaSamadi

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