Stop managing behavior. Start changing it.

Dr. Mike Conner sits down with Dr. Donna Housman, CEO and founder of Housman Learning, to explore the paradigm shift reshaping early childhood education: why emotional intelligence isn't a soft skill, it's the durable, sustainable driver of academic achievement and lasting behavioral change.

Key Topics:

• The evolution of emotional intelligence from "soft skill" to critical educational driver
• ECSEL (Emotional, Cognitive, and Social Early Learning): The evidence-based program closing the preparation gap
• Why self-regulation, not funding, is the real differentiator in high-risk populations
• The achievement gap is a symptom; the preparation gap (birth to kindergarten) is the disease
• How early childhood emotional competence prevents the "troubled teen" crisis before it starts
• Teacher satisfaction, retention, and the post-COVID educational landscape

Dr. Housman brings 30 years of clinical psychology expertise and longitudinal research proving that developing emotional intelligence starting as early as 3 months old transforms children's trajectories, and challenges the entire education sector to rethink what "preparation" really means.

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