Emotional Intelligence (EQ) is the ability to deal with ourselves, our relationships with others, and our lives in a healthy, caring, and productive way. It’s a set of life skills that can be taught.
Kids with high EQ know how to:
But unlike math, science, history, and languages, EQ skills are comprehensively taught in only 10%-15% of U.S. schools.
Social-Emotional Learning (SEL) is the term educators gave the coursework that helps teach kids essential EQ skills that provenly lead to high-performing students, happy schools, and healthy, productive and successful lives that positively affect community and workplace environments.
Let’s work together to champion EQ coursework from every school and its best practices in every home!
During Covid-19 you especially need to make sure your kids or grandkids, nieces and nephews experience emotional intelligence curriculum and home practices. In fact, we all can help counter the reality that 90% of parents and the public at large don’t know this remarkable education even exists.
As a nonprofit project of the Earthways Foundation, our role is to…
Make you and all Americans aware of the tremendous benefits of this life skills learning now, and for creating healthy life success…and encourage you on behalf of the children in your life- and all young people – to help get this learning to them.
Provide free access to many of the best home EQ learning materials (because there aren’t enough therapists to help America’s 78 million parenting families). We also help build SEL organizations.
This movement is a rare reason for optimism that something hugely good is possible on a mass scale, with tremendous positive outcomes for children, families, communities and global society.
Among those who encourage EQ learning without endorsing our specific effort: Former First Ladies Michelle Obama and Laura Bush, Lady Gaga, film director George Lucas, relationship expert John Gray, New Hampshire Republican Governor Chris Sununu, and Children’s Defense Fund founder Marian Wright Edelman. Former HUD Secretary Henry Cisneros is an EQuip Our Kids! endorser.
Michelle Obama / Laura Bush / George Lucas / Lady Gaga / Henry Cisneros
Google, the LA Lakers (an EQuip Our Kids! endorser), the U.S. Air Force, Pepsico, American Express, Panda Express, Allstate Insurance, Forbes Magazine, Harvard Business Review.
“I am happy to endorse the campaign because this is something we’ve needed for a long time.“
–Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti • Other Endorsements
Contact us if you or your organization want to help spread awareness of this learning, want to publicly endorse the campaign, or be a sponsor or volunteer.
The Big EQ/EQuip Our Kids! Campaign intends to be the first-ever mass advertising, marketing and organizing campaign whose sole goal is that every school include in its curriculum the development of students’ and teachers’ social and emotional intelligence and skills.
