Over the past decade, the Music City SEL Conference has brought together more than 6000 educators, youth-serving professionals, and community partners to learn from each other how we can better create environments for children to thrive. By sharing practical knowledge and skills, valuable tools and resources, and cutting-edge research, the conference has fostered a robust community of practice with particular emphasis on schools in the Southeast.

The Music City SEL Conference seeks to uplift practitioners innovating SEL in their schools and communities. The conference will offer two powerful plenary sessions and dozens of unique workshops across Thursday and Friday. Wednesday’s optional Pre-Conference Learning Institutes provide a chance for participants to take a deeper dive into select topics.

Thursday Keynote: Marc Brackett

Marc Brackett is the founding director of the Yale Center for Emotional Intelligence and a professor in the Child Study Center of the Yale School of Medicine. His grant-funded research focuses on the role of emotions and emotional intelligence in learning, decision making, creativity, relationship quality, and mental health; the measurement of emotional intelligence; and the influence of emotional intelligence training on children’s and adults’ health, performance, and workplace performance and climate. His book, Permission to Feel, combines psychological research and compelling anecdotes to offer a blueprint for understanding our emotions and using them wisely in order to achieve success and well-being.

Marc is the lead developer of RULER, a systematic, evidence-based approach to social and emotional learning that has been adopted by more than 2,000 public, charter, and private schools across the United States and in other countries. Research shows that RULER boosts academic performance, decreases school problems like bullying, enriches classroom climates, reduces teacher stress and burnout, and enhances teacher instructional practices.

Marc has made it his life mission to promote emotional awareness in children and adults. His speeches combine science, passion, and inspiration in equal parts to explain why so many children and adults suffer as a result of being emotionally unskilled, and how we can reverse this course.

Last year, more than 700 participants from 35 states came together for the conference with many more adding their names to the waitlist – Yes, space is limited!

Registration includes access to both days of the conference (Thursday and Friday), lunch and refreshments each day, conference bags and materials, optional access to the networking reception and Pre-Conference Learning Institute.

Use the button below to access the registration site and secure your spot today!

Educators, administrators, mental health professionals, community leaders, and other experts on social emotional learning and related topics are invited to submit proposals to present at the 2020 Music City SEL Conference.

All workshops will be reviewed by Alignment Nashville’s SEL A-Team. See below for important criteria, dates & deadlines.

Dozens of community partners line the Music City SEL Conference’s Exhibitor Alley to share tools and resources with more than 700 attendees. Review the exhibitor package and complete the form to register as an exhibitor!

The Music City SEL Conference’s capacity to serve hundreds of educators each year is thanks to the generous sponsorships of our partners. However, a sponsorship isn’t just an investment in the conference, it is an investment in a thriving generation of teachers and students that is vital to all our futures. Review our Conference Opportunity Guide to learn more about sponsoring the 2020 Music City SEL Conference.!