Our program offers educators training on New Mexico Public Education Department’s social and emotional learning framework.
Social emotional learning is a a virtual community of practice for K-12 teachers, schools and school districts seeking to incorporate social-emotional learning in the classroom.
We meet the first and third Tuesdays of the month from 3:30 p.m. to 4:30 p.m. Mountain Time.
Kelly is the manager for SEL programs for the New Mexico Public Education Department and has been an educator, counselor and behavioral health specialist in New Mexico for more than 30 years. She is a strong supporter of whole child education and social and emotional learning as the pathway toward equity, access and success in education for all students and adults.
Kay is a behavior support specialist with Albuquerque Public Schools. Kay helps to support and empower teachers in the area of social-emotional learning, positive behavior support systems and general classroom organization and management. Kay also has experience working as a classroom teacher in New Mexico in both the general education and special education settings.
Wyckoff oversees community engagement and education activities for New Mexico PBS. She also spent two decades performing with Relâche, a music ensemble based in Philadelphia. She directed a community music school in a Philly suburb years before becoming director of programs for the Montana Arts Council. After serving as Louisiana’s Assistant Secretary for Cultural Development, she moved to New Mexico. She has worked in public media for 11 years.
Chavez-Miller has been a New Mexico classroom teacher for 21 years, having taught elementary through high school students. She is a New Mexico Golden Apple fellow, Fulbright Teacher Fellow to Finland and National Geographic Grantee and Explorer. Currently, Chavez-Miller works with early-career and pre-service teachers as a full-time faculty member at Central New Mexico Community College in the Teacher Alternative Licensure Program.
Price is a life-long New Mexican and has spent decades teaching in public schools focusing on gifted students, math and science. She began her journey in SEL about 20 years ago when she realized it was often the “missing piece” in educational practices. She currently is working with an ECECD grant as a regional childcare coordinator for north west and north central New Mexico.
Moore is the Director of Student Support for Future Focused Education. Moore focuses on fostering the development of asset-driven, trauma-informed and inclusive school practices in order to increase schools’ capacity to set students up for success, while promoting school cultures of support for all. With over 10 years of social work experience domestically and abroad, she holds a Masters in Social Work (MSW), with an International Concentration, from Dominican University, and a Bachelor’s Degree in Social Work from Pacific University. Although her career has taken her to work internationally, she is most passionate and proud to be living and working in her community of birth.
Her work in Albuquerque, NM has included: in-home services to youth and families, building case management services within School Based Health Centers, youthdrive program development, the training and development of young adult peer support workers, teaching and supervising BSW and MSW interns, establishing and mobilizing community partnerships and the opening of a peer-support drop-in center for
transition-age young people who have experienced disconnection from school, work, family and/or community.
