He will speak about the importance of promoting student mental health in high school, and advocate for peer and staff support.
Ronen Habib is the ed-tech coordinator and a teacher/creator of the Positive Psychology Course at Gunn High School. He is also the founder of EQschools, an organization providing emotional intelligence training to students, parents, and teachers.
Emotional intelligence ( EI) or emotional quotient ( EQ) is the capacity of individuals to recognize their own, and other people's emotions, to discriminate between different feelings and label them appropriately, and to use emotional information to guide thinking and behavior.