To celebrate SEL Week, we invited you—students, parents, teachers, counselors, school and district administrators, and community leaders—to share your SEL story. Of the many excellent entries we received, Tina, an SEL educator/coordinator in Des Plaines, Illinois, is one of our 10 finalists. You can view all 10 finalists here.
The views in this blog are those of the author and do not necessarily reflect the views of CASEL.
Tina Centineo is an SEL educator/coordinator from Des Plaines, Illinois, where she integrates social and emotional learning into schoolwide systems and directly teaches kindergarten through 8th-grade students. She believes that SEL today is an investment in a child’s tomorrow.