Anabel Jensen
| Dr. Anabel Lee Jensen | |
|---|---|
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| Occupation | Educator, Businesswoman, Author |
| Citizenship | United States |
| Education | Brigham Young University |
| Alma mater | University of California, Berkeley |
| Subject | Emotional intelligence, Education |
Dr. Anabel L. Jensen is an American educator and author best known for her work with curriculum utilizing emotional intelligence. A former director of the Nueva Learning Center in the 1980s and 1990s, she became president of Six Seconds in 1997 and CEO of Synapse School in 2009. She currently is a professor at Notre Dame De Namur University.
Biography
Anabel Lee Jensen began attending Brigham Young University in 1961, graduating in 1966 with a BA in psychology and a Masters of Education.[1] She received her Ph.D. from the University of California, Berkeley in 1976,[2] where she majored in child development and minored in statistics.[3]
From 1983 to 1997 she was Executive Director[4] of the Nueva Learning Center in California,[5][6] where she helped develop the "Self-Science" curriculum featured in Daniel Goleman's 1995 book Emotional Intelligence: Why It Can Matter More Than IQ,[7][8] which helped bring EQ into the mainstream.[4]
In 1997, former Nueva School administrators and teachers Jensen, Karen McCown, Joshua Freedman and Marsha Rideout left the school to found the Six Seconds EQ Network, a non-profit focused on education about EQ.[4] As founding President, she has helped write training programs and psychometric assessments for the organization, including Six Seconds Emotional Intelligence Assessment (SEI) and the Youth Version (SEI-YV).[2]
She co-founded the elementary and middle school Synapse School with Karen Stone-McCown in 2009, and remains CEO.[9] As of 2013 she is a full professor at the Notre Dame De Namur University in California, where she teaches psychology[10] to graduate students and is Department Chair of the school's College of Education.[3] She is also a principal advisor to the Gifted Support Center[11] and an advisor for Unite Education.[2]
In 2015, Jensen was named one of the top 100 Women of Influence for 2015 by the Silicon Valley Business Journal for her work in the field of emotional intelligence.[12] She has been interviewed frequently in digital and print publications such as Quartz (2015)[13] and bizjournals.com (2015).[14]
Writing career
Jensen has authored articles for outlets such as Priorities Magazine and the Discovery Channel,[2] including the 1986 article Greater than the parts: Shared decision making about the Nueva School, in the Roeper Review.[5] The second edition of Self-Science was published in 1998, with Jensen contributing.[4] She published Joy and Loss: The Emotional Lives of Gifted Children with Joshua Freedman in 1999,[15] and the book Emotional Development and Emotional Intelligence: Educational Implications was written based on Jensen providing curriculum access to the writer.[16] In 2010 she published Feeling Smart: Competencies Recommendations and Exercises.[7] She has been a keynote speaker at national conferences on various topics.[2]
Awards
- 1990: Crystal Castle Award for Exceptional Service to the Gifted Community[1]
- 1988/1997: President's National Blue Ribbon Award for Excellence[7]
- 1998: Outstanding Americans
- 1998: Who's Who in American Education
- 2001: Nominated for the National Teacher of the Year Program
- 2001: Keller Teaching Excellence Award, Notre Dame University, Belmont, California[1]
- 2012: Distinguished Service Award, California Association for the Gifted[17]
Publishing History
- 1998: Self-Science: The Emotional Intelligence Curriculum (ISBN 978-0962912344, Six Seconds) - co-author[4]
- 1998: Handle With Care : Emotional Intelligence Activity Book (ISBN 978-0962912320, Six Seconds)
- 1999: Joy and Loss: The Emotional Lives of Gifted Children - co-author[15]
- 2010: Feeling Smart (ISBN 9781935667001, Roeper Review)
References
- 1 2 3 "Dr. Anabel Lee Jensen: Professor and Chair, Department of Education". Notre Dame University. Archived from the original on 2013-04-26. Retrieved 2013-02-28.
- 1 2 3 4 5 "Adivsors and Associates: Anabel Jensen". Unite Education. Retrieved 2013-02-28.
- 1 2 "Leadership". Synapse School. Archived from the original on 2012-12-28. Retrieved 2013-02-28.
- 1 2 3 4 5 Kobus Maree (March 30, 2007). Educating People to Be Emotionally Intelligent. Greenwood Publishing Group. ISBN 9780275993634.
- 1 2 Jensen, Anabel L. (1986). Greater than the parts: Shared decision making. Roeper Review. doi:10.1080/02783198609552994.
- ↑ "Nueva Learning Center, Hillsborough, California, USA". Gifted Education International. Vol 7. September 1990. Retrieved 2013-02-28.
- 1 2 3 Jensen, Anabel (March 12, 2010). Feeling Smart: Competencies Recommendations and Exercises. Six Seconds. ISBN 9781935667001.
- ↑ Emotional Intelligence: Why It Can Matter More Than IQ (1996) Bantam Books. ISBN 978-0-553-38371-3
- ↑ Gulker, Linda Hubbard (January 26, 2011). "Learning about Synapse School from Anabel Jensen". InMenlo. Retrieved 2013-02-28.
- ↑ "I Second That Emotion: On the Road to Success, Your 'Emotional Quotient' May Be Just as Important as Your IQ". Spokesman-Review (Spokane, WA). August 17, 2008. Retrieved 2013-02-28.
- ↑ "Leadership: Anabel Jensen". Gifted Support Center. Retrieved 2013-02-28.
- ↑ "Six Seconds' Anabel L. Jensen | Women of Influence 2015". bizjournals.com. April 2015. Retrieved 2013-02-28.
- ↑ "This is the skill that determines your child's future employability". Quartz. September 2015. Retrieved 2013-02-28.
- ↑ "Understanding emotions is Anabel Jensen's key to changing the world". bizjournals.com. July 2015. Retrieved 2013-02-28.
- 1 2 Freedman, Joshua; Jensen, Anabel (1999). "Joy and Loss: The Emotional Lives of Gifted Children". Kidsource. Retrieved 2013-02-28.
- ↑ Salovey, Peter (1997). Emotional Development and Emotional Intelligence: Educational Implications. Basic Books (Perseus Books Group). ISBN 9780465095872.
- ↑ "Bay Area Region". California Association for the Gifted. 2012. Retrieved 2013-02-28.