I get revved up about what we can do to support social-emotional learning.

I champion the rising movement for families to teach social-emotional skills at home! Focusing on mindfulness, instead of busy-ness, and deliberately teaching families how to be more involved in community service builds compassionate problem solvers and begins critical conversations around equity.

When we reach out into our community to respond to need, we teach our kids to see problems compassionately. We mentor them to advocate for solutions and guide them to problem-solve. Depth, power, and impact come directly from teaching our kids to become compassionate problem solvers.

I have seen children, teenagers, and families rise up to respond to needs in our community. When they do this, they broaden themselves and everyone that they meet in their journies. From addressing equity issues in access to quality food or legal representation to shining a light on solutions for our environment, the changemakers I have mentored are accomplishing their goals, expanding their personal capacity, and meeting a critical need.

I would love to connect with you. Take a look at my most frequent types of projects:

Public Speaking
➤ Topics include: community service, families learning to be kinder, how to parent and teach kids to be empathetic, advocating for children with special needs, and how social-emotional learning is a game-changer for families. Some of my favorite presentations are to children to show them how they can use their skills and passions to help others!

Training
➤ Workshops focused on Parents Serving as Advocates, Teaching Toddlers Kindness, How to Go Zero Waste as a Family, Teaching Kids to be Kind Without Going Crazy, and Connecting Kindness to Problem-Solving.

Help Your Organization
➤ Available to help problem-solve issues of curriculum, equity, social-emotional learning, and reaching the hardest to reach student. Organizations that I have helped include families, community organizations, corporations, and schools.

More About Sheila:
As an effective presenter, Sheila has worked one-on-one, in small groups, and as a presenter at large conferences to teach others how to be better parents, teachers, and employers. Her background includes a variety of settings from public schools, private schools, hospitals, community groups, religious organizations, nonprofits, national organizations, and government. Sheila is passionate about empowering others to have the skills to be more effective in their work and actively address issues of equity. She dedicates most of her time teaching children to serve others, training adults to find better employment, training parents to be advocates for their children at home and at school, and having fun along the way.

Professionally, Sheila is first and foremost: a mentor and an advocate. She is the founder of Pennies of Time and Education All. She is a leader in a rising movement for families to be more involved in community service.

Sheila holds a B.S. in Special Education from The University of Texas at Austin and an Ed.M. in Teaching and Learning from the Harvard Graduate School of Education and an Education Fellow with the Institute for Educational Leadership. She has a reputation of being able to reach even the ‘hardest to reach’ students, seeing and meeting the needs of parents, and knowing what directions organizations need to take to be more effective.

Certifications

Texas Teaching Certificate: Special Education (all grades)

Texas Teaching Certificate: General Education (1st through 8th grade)

TBRI: Trust Based Relational Intervention: Practitioner (2020, Karen Purvis Institute of Child Development)

TBRI: Trust Based Relational Intervention: Trauma-Informed Classrooms (2020, Karen Purvis Institute of Child Development)

The Teacher and Social and Emotional Learning (2020, University of Colorado Boulder)

Certified Crisis Prevention Intervention (CPI) Trained Professional

Youth Protection, Safe Environment and Child Safety Licensed (Diocese, BSA)

Recent Conferences

Summer Insitute on Education, Equity, and Justice (“Uplifting Women and Girls of Color Through Antiracist Pedagogy, Practice, and Policy”), American University and Antiracist Research and Policy Center (2020)

Specialties: volunteerism, community service, acts of kindness, service projects, presentation, family coaching, teaching, reaching hard to reach learners, special education, at-risk youth, educational policy, change management, school reform, equity, parenting issues, happier families, better employment, let’s stop hating our jobs, end underemployment, raise kind kids, parent with kindness