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American educator and author

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[edit]

Anabel Lee Jensen, born to two US Army officers who were of Danish descent, began attending Brigham Young University in 1961, and graduated 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. As of 2013 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[edit]

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]

Publishing history[edit]

References[edit]

  1. ^ a b c “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.
  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. ^ a b c d e Kobus Maree (March 30, 2007). Educating People to Be Emotionally Intelligent. Greenwood Publishing Group. ISBN 9780275993634.
  5. ^ a b Jensen, Anabel L. (1986). “Greater than the parts: Shared decision making”. Roeper Review. 9: 10–13. doi:10.1080/02783198609552994.
  6. ^ “Nueva Learning Center, Hillsborough, California, USA”. Gifted Education International. Vol 7. September 1990. Retrieved 2013-02-28.
  7. ^ a b c Jensen, Anabel (March 12, 2010). Feeling Smart: Competencies Recommendations and Exercises. Six Seconds. ISBN 9781935667001.
  8. ^ Emotional Intelligence: Why It Can Matter More Than IQ (1996) Bantam Books. ISBN 978-0-553-38371-3
  9. ^ “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. 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. ^ Salovey, Peter (1997). Emotional Development and Emotional Intelligence: Educational Implications. Basic Books (Perseus Books Group). ISBN 9780465095872.
  16. ^ “Bay Area Region”. California Association for the Gifted. 2012. Archived from the original on 2013-02-17. Retrieved 2013-02-28.

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