Anabel Jensen

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Dr. Anabel Lee Jensen
OccupationEducator, Businesswoman, Author
CitizenshipUnited States
EducationBrigham Young University
Alma materUniversity of California, Berkeley
SubjectEmotional 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, born to two US Army officers who were of Danish descent, began attending

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

EQ into the mainstream.[4]

In 1997, former Nueva School administrators and teachers Jensen, Karen McCown,

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. As of 2013[update] she is a full professor at the Notre Dame de Namur University in California, where she teaches psychology[9] 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[10] 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.[11] She has been interviewed frequently in digital and print publications such as Quartz (2015)[12] and bizjournals.com (2015).[13]

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,[14] and the book Emotional Development and Emotional Intelligence: Educational Implications was written based on Jensen providing curriculum access to the writer.[15] 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

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[14]
  • 2010: Feeling Smart (
    ISBN 9781935667001
    , Roeper Review)

References

  1. ^
    Notre Dame University. Archived from the original
    on 2013-04-26. Retrieved 2013-02-28.
  2. ^ a b c d e "Adivsors and Associates: Anabel Jensen". Unite Education. Archived from the original on 2013-09-17. Retrieved 2013-02-28.
  3. ^ a b "Leadership". Synapse School. Archived from the original on 2012-12-28. Retrieved 2013-02-28.
  4. ^
    ISBN 9780275993634
    .
  5. ^
    doi:10.1080/02783198609552994
    .
  6. ^ "Nueva Learning Center, Hillsborough, California, USA". Gifted Education International. Vol 7. September 1990. Retrieved 2013-02-28.
  7. ^
    ISBN 9781935667001
    .
  8. ISBN 978-0-553-38371-3
  9. Spokesman-Review (Spokane, WA). August 17, 2008. Archived from the original
    on March 4, 2016. Retrieved 2013-02-28.
  10. ^ "Leadership: Anabel Jensen". Gifted Support Center. Retrieved 2013-02-28.
  11. ^ "Six Seconds' Anabel L. Jensen | Women of Influence 2015". bizjournals.com. April 2015. Retrieved 2013-02-28.
  12. ^ "This is the skill that determines your child's future employability". Quartz. September 2015. Retrieved 2013-02-28.
  13. ^ "Understanding emotions is Anabel Jensen's key to changing the world". bizjournals.com. July 2015. Retrieved 2013-02-28.
  14. ^ a b Freedman, Joshua; Jensen, Anabel (1999). "Joy and Loss: The Emotional Lives of Gifted Children". Kidsource. Archived from the original on 2013-03-03. Retrieved 2013-02-28.
  15. ISBN 9780465095872
    .
  16. ^ "Bay Area Region". California Association for the Gifted. 2012. Archived from the original on 2013-02-17. Retrieved 2013-02-28.

External links

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