Training School
Resume:
David A. Levine
Accord, NY *2404
845-***-**** (mobile)
************@*********.***
www.Davidalevine.com
David A. Levine, educator, facilitator, program developer, author, and musician, has been working with students, teachers, administrators, community members and parents across the United States and abroad since 1984. He is the founder and director of Teaching Empathy Inc., a training, development and research group which is devoted to creating emotionally safe schools. The emphasis is on social skills development, leadership training, community building initiatives and curriculum design and implementation. He was the chief trainer for the Northeast Regional Center's Safe and Drug Free Schools Program for the U.S. Department of Education, was an elementary and middle school teacher, and has offered training sessions, workshops, and keynote speeches for hundreds of school districts, state agencies, and other educational organizations across the country.
Education
Q-metrics Emotional Intelligence Mapping Certification Program
San Francisco, CA April, 2000
Lesley University Graduate School, Cambridge, MA
M ED. Creative Arts in Learning, 1984
University of New Hampshire, Durham, NH
B. A. Political Science, 1981
Professional Experiences
Teaching Empathy Inc.: (formerly In Care of Students): Founder and Director. Teaching Empathy is a not-for-profit educational organization devoted to creating Schools of Belonging or places where all staff and students feel emotionally and physically safe in order to thrive socially, academically and professionally. March, 2012-present.
The Ashokan Center: Director of Professional Development. The Ashokan Center is an education facility that uses the outdoors and nature to foster teaching, learning and community building. Beyond science and history programming, Ashokan includes intentional programming in social culture building for schools, youth leadership initiatives, teacher renewal retreats, School of Belonging Workshops and an Empathy in Education Initiative. January, 2012-present.
David A. Levine Workshops: Professional development specialist for school leaders and teachers in the areas of human relationships, social skills development, emotional intelligence, bully prevention, conflict resolution, classroom management, and facilitation skills. 1985-present.
The Onteora Central School District, Boiceville, NY: Director in charge of training and design for US Department of Education Personnel Training Grant. Responsibilities included assessing needs in the district, designing workshop offerings, hiring staff and directing training experiences for school personnel. Additionally, this role involved working with students k-12 throughout the school district as part of follow-up workshops. Issues focus was on risk and protective factors, asset building, social skills development, social responsibility, peer mediation, group dynamics and teacher effectiveness; March,1993-July,1996.
Northeast Regional Training Center for Safe and Drug Free Schools: Chief trainer, classroom specialist, prevention specialist, and peer leadership trainer. Responsibilities included reading and scoring RFPs for team training from school districts and institutes of higher education, designing and directing residential training workshops for teachers, administrators, students, and community members, training teachers on prevention education and community building, facilitating school/community planning teams and providing technical assistance.1988-1992.
Other Relevant Experiences
New York City Public Schools. Multiple Task Award Recipient (5 year contract) to provide professional development in the following areas: leadership training, social culture building, facilitation skills, social and emotional learning infusion, team building, program planning and problem solving, and emotional safety. 2007-present
Department of Instructional Services, Southern Westchester County BOCES. Consulting in-service provider Social and emotional learning initiatives, culture building and systems change, teacher training in classroom management and effective teaching techniques, social skills development, empathy building and bully prevention. 1994-present.
Dutchess County BOCES. Consulting in-service provider Department of Instructional Services,. Bully prevention initiatives, abduction prevention (personal safety), conflict management, mediation facilitation, and character education planning and implementation. 1998-present.
Ulster County BOCES. Consulting facilitator, (Board of cooperative educational services). Innovative leadership initiative for administrators throughout Ulster County. Also teach a facilitation class to members of site-based teams throughout New York State focusing on how to work together more efficiently and effectively. 1994-present.
Wappingers Falls Central School District. Consulting educator,, Department of Education Personnel Training Grants. Worked with over 2,000 staff members on a variety of issues including: mentoring, peer leadership, classroom management, cooperative learning, differentiated instruction, learning styles, multiple intelligences, peer mediation, risk and protective factors, school emergency team training, and school safety. 1987-1998.
Camden Housing Authority. Developer and teacher of life skills training component for welfare to work programs in Camden, New Jersey. 2000-2001.
Selected Presentations, Institutes, and Keynote Addresses:
Armea: Arkansas Mental Health in Education: Two day institute/workshop on Creating an Emotionally Safe Learning Community, 2012.
CAIS (Connecticut Association of Independent Schools) and Ontario Summer Institute: The Brain, Learning and Applications: Three workshop sessions: The Classroom of Belonging, Teaching Empathy, The School of Belonging; 2008, 2009, 2010.
Kingston City School District: District Leadership Retreat: Creating a Collaborative Culture; 2011.
National Alternative Educational Association: Workshop intensive: Creating a School of Belonging; 2008.
NYSPED (New York Special Educators) Conference: Building Emotional Safety in the Classroom; 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008. 2009. 2010
National Youth At Risk Conference: The Emotionally Safe Learning Community; 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011.
PS 114, PS/MS 279, PS/MS 20, PS 315, PS 215, District 9, New York City: Retreat sessions/workshops that focused on creating a learning system devoted emotional safety for all students, staff and parents as a bridge to high performing schools. 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010.
Title I. National Conference: Teaching Empathy Through Music Dialogue; 2006.
Newburgh Union Free School District: Leading Within to Have an Impact Without; 2006
Publications and Recordings
(all materials available upon request)
Motivating students to achieve in a safe learning environment: webinar, 2012.
The Bully Tapes: Songs for a safe school, 2011, Blue Heron Press.
The School of Belonging: A Teacher’s Plan Book, 2006, Solution Tree.
Teaching Empathy: A Blueprint for Caring, Compassion, and Community, 2005, Solution Tree.
Building Classroom Communities: Strategies for Developing a Culture of Caring, 2003, Solution Tree.
Teaching With Sacred Intention, Spring 2002, Reclaiming Children and Youth: Journal of Strength-based Interventions.
Songs Build Empathy and Social Responsibility, Winter 1998, School Safety Journal.
Through the Eyes of Howard Gray: A bully prevention music video program, 1998, Blue Heron Press.
Dance of a Child’s Dreams: Song book for families, 1998, Mel Bay Publications.
Someday That Might Be Me, October 1997, Educational Leadership.
The Peer Partners Handbook (with Jerry Kreitzer), 1995, Station Hill Press.
Dance of a Child’s Dreams (original recorded music recorded with Jay Ungar and Molly Mason), (Parents’ Choice Gold Award Winner), 1995, Angel Records.
Singin’ on a Star: Songs for children to grow on, 1986, A Gentle Wind Recordings.
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