as an educator, director, principal, and
professor of education. She has trained
more than 10,000 educators, parents
and individuals, and has had significant
experiences collaborating with school
administrators in the implementation
of unique and innovative educational
curricula for both public and private
schools. She crafts training programs and
mentors principals to develop an effective
program and climate for social-emotional
learning.
Jensen is co-founder and CEO
of Synapse School in Menlo Park,
California. Synapse is an independent
elementary and middle school for gifted,
talented and creative children where
an advanced academic curriculum is
fully integrated with interpersonal and
intrapersonal intelligences.
She also serves as president and co-
founder of Six Seconds, The Emotional
Intelligence Network, where she hasA MOTHER’S
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Her approach has always been to look at
the whole child from a comprehensive
perspective, finding the child’s strengths
and facilitating the world of discovery for
the child to recognize and believe in those
abilities.
Since the beginning of her career,
Jensen has been a visionary for gifted
education. She received her Ph.D. from
the University of California, Berkeley,
where she majored in child development.
Early in her profession, she designed
individualized programs for gifted minors,
and as a master teacher and diagnostician,
she produced and modeled
procedures for administering
learning differences tests,
created curriculum for individual
children, evaluated school programs, and
guided teachers in selecting methods and
materials for prescriptive teaching.
Jensen’s work with gifted/talented
children includes pioneering experienceR
esearch indicates that increased
emotional intelligence leads
to better health, academic
achievement and stronger
relationships. Who better
to instill the importance of
emotional intelligence in children than
their parents?
The road to increased emotional
intelligence can be challenging and filled
with roadblocks. Helping parents find
their way through this journey are
three women dedicated to teaching
the skills and benefits of emotional
intelligence, and helping
families succeed in
improving these valuable,
life-changing skills.ANABEL JENSEN, PH.D.
Anabel Jensen has taught, nurtured
and advocated for the needs of gifted/
talented children for over four decades.Anabel Jensen, Ph.D. Brene Brown, Ph.D. Charlotte Reznick, Ph.D.