Living Above the Line 

If our students are going to be effective and successful, they need to become aware of their thinking. This session provides a simple way to help our students know when their thinking is working in their best interest and when it is not. It explores (1) the conditions that come up in our life that invite us to go Below the Line, (2) indicators that help us know when we are Below, (3) how to handle Below the Line experiences with more grace and dignity and (4) how to trampoline back Above the Line.

Paul Bernabei is co-founder and director of Top 20 Training that provides seminars and materials enabling students and adults to develop their potential and create effective and healthy school and workplace cultures. He and his Top 20 team have trained over one million educators throughout the United States. 

Paul has created social-emotional learning curriculum for grades K-12 and has co-authored five books: 

• Top 20 Teachers: The Revolution in American Education

• Top 20 Parents: Raising Happy, Responsible and Emotionally Healthy Children 

• Top 20 Teens: Discovering the Best-kept Thinking, Learning and Communicating Secrets of Successful Teenagers 

• Why Students Disengage in American Schools and What We Can Do about It

• Rebalanced Thinking, Rebalanced Living: Developing Your Inner Life through Social-Emotional Learning