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Webcast: Inside social-emotional education

Gunn High School Principal Denise Herrmann joins Palo Alto Weekly journalists Jocelyn Dong and Elena Kadvany to discuss the Palo Alto Unified School District's proposed framework for boosting students' social-emotional skills.

Herrmann recently co-chaired the district's Social Emotional Learning Curriculum Committee. For more information on the topic, go to PaloAltoOnline.com.

Watch this week's webcast here.

Webcasts are posted every Friday afternoon on PaloAltoOnline.com, as well as on Palo Alto Online's YouTube channel, youtube.com/paweekly.

Check out previous weeks' episodes:

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Webcast: Inside social-emotional education

Gunn High School Principal Denise Herrmann joins Palo Alto Weekly journalists Jocelyn Dong and Elena Kadvany to discuss the Palo Alto Unified School District's proposed framework for boosting students' social-emotional skills.

Herrmann recently co-chaired the district's Social Emotional Learning Curriculum Committee. For more information on the topic, go to PaloAltoOnline.com.

Watch this week's webcast here.

Webcasts are posted every Friday afternoon on PaloAltoOnline.com, as well as on Palo Alto Online's YouTube channel, youtube.com/paweekly.

Check out previous weeks' episodes:

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Behind the Headlines: Year in review

Behind the Headlines: Carmageddon

Behind the Headlines: Harvard report on special education

Behind the Headlines: Palo Alto trees -- dead or alive?

Behind the Headlines: Board of Education election analysis

Behind the Headlines: City Council election analysis

Behind the Headlines: Bullying case tests district's policies

Behind the Headlines: the debate over weighted grade-point averages

Behind the Headlines: Palo Alto politics, East Palo Alto evictions

Behind The Headlines: Campaign finance, Airbnb conflicts

Behind the Headlines: The Donkeys of Barron Park

Behind the Headlines: Election special

Behind The Headlines: Retail news, housing controversies

Behind the Headlines: Remembering 9/11

Behind The Headlines: Palo Alto's master plan for public art

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Behind The Headlines: Housing Crisis, November Election

Behind The Headlines: Stemming the Flow -- Flood Protection

Behind The Headlines: Muslim in America -- Reaction to rhetoric

Behind The Headlines: Locals to Impact Olympics

Behind The Headlines: Race, Policing and Reconciliation

Behind the Headlines: Reporters' Roundtable

Behind The Headlines: Innovator in Education

Behind The Headlines: Spectacular fireworks

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Behind the Headlines: Saving Buena Vista

Behind The Headlines: Brock Turner uproar and election recap

Behind The Headlines: Palo Alto students speak out

Behind The Headlines: DA's fatal police shooting report & Cash flows into the Assembly race

Behind the Headlines: Teacher Compensation in Palo Alto

Behind The Headlines: To the rescue -- Disaster volunteers prepare

Behind The Headlines: Size Matters -- Student-to-teacher ratios in Palo Alto

Behind the Headlines: Transportation: problems and solutions

Behind the Headlines: Taxi struggles and Eichler disputes

Behind The Headlines: Palo Alto considers full-day kindergarten

Behind The Headlines: State Assembly District 24 -- A look at the candidates

Behind The Headlines: College Terrace challenge Stanford toxic study

Behind the Headlines: Inside the Brock Turner case

Behind the Headlines: Tackling Palo Alto's housing and traffic problems

Behind the Headlines: Dr. Steven Adelsheim on youth mental health

Behind the Headlines: Renaming movement, Addison Donation, Office Cap

Behind the Headlines: "State of the City" with Mayor Pat Burt

Behind the Headlines: Bridging the gap - Understanding Palo Alto's Chinese community

Behind the Headlines: Growing up Undocumented

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Comments

Never forget
another community
on Mar 4, 2017 at 12:28 am
Never forget, another community
on Mar 4, 2017 at 12:28 am
Parent
Gunn High School
on Mar 4, 2017 at 1:20 am
Parent , Gunn High School
on Mar 4, 2017 at 1:20 am

Is she kidding?!!!! This school has been good for a long!!!! Time. [Portion removed.]


ugh
Midtown
on Mar 4, 2017 at 7:52 am
ugh, Midtown
on Mar 4, 2017 at 7:52 am
Curious
Gunn High School
on Mar 5, 2017 at 1:58 am
Curious, Gunn High School
on Mar 5, 2017 at 1:58 am

[Post removed due to same poster using multiple names]


Really?!
Gunn High School
on Mar 5, 2017 at 2:02 am
Really?!, Gunn High School
on Mar 5, 2017 at 2:02 am

[Post removed due to same poster using multiple names]


I. Love. Gunn. !!
Gunn High School
on Mar 5, 2017 at 2:05 am
I. Love. Gunn. !! , Gunn High School
on Mar 5, 2017 at 2:05 am

[Post removed due to same poster using multiple names]


Never forget
Another Palo Alto neighborhood
on Mar 5, 2017 at 2:13 am
Never forget , Another Palo Alto neighborhood
on Mar 5, 2017 at 2:13 am

[Post removed due to same poster using multiple names]


Link?
Charleston Meadows
on Mar 5, 2017 at 9:46 am
Link?, Charleston Meadows
on Mar 5, 2017 at 9:46 am

Never Forget, I'm curious about what you're referring to. Please provide a link to what Ms. Herrmann did at her previous school in WI. PAO will not remove such a link, only an unwarranted interpretation. Thanks.


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