Jacquelyn G. Sowers, M.Ed.

The workshop leader is Jacquelyn G. Sowers, M.Ed., a consultant in human resource development, health promotion, and education with 40 years of experience at every level of schooling. She has been a classroom teacher, principal, curriculum developer, and college instructor. She has worked with educators, parents, clergy, health professionals, and community leaders in 49 states and abroad toward the goal of developing healthier youth, families, schools, and communities. She has special expertise in adolescent and adult development, learning, and motivation; sexuality education, pregnancy, STD/AIDS, and violence prevention, substance abuse, suicide, and the development of moral and ethical reasoning. She directed a national study of parent involvement in education and conducts a variety of seminars around issues of parenting, child advocacy, goal setting, strategic planning, conflict resolution, and program implementation. Her workshops for educators on teaching-learning strategies, motivation, the development of higher order thinking skills, adult-child communication, and conflict resolution have received national acclaim. She has served as a consultant to many school systems and communities facing controversy, endeavoring to help people with diverse interests and values find the necessary common ground to act together in the best interests of children and their healthy futures.

Over the past several years Ms. Sowers has been researching the links between health and academic achievement. She has conducted scores of seminars on topics related to Health and Learning for administrators and school board members under auspices of the American Association of School Administrators, the Association for Supervision and Curriculum Development, the National Association of State Boards of Education, and the National School Boards Association. Most recently, her timely seminars on helping schools address terrorism and other traumatic events have been presented at a score of state and national conferences.

Ms. Sowers is especially proud of her work with parents and the professionals who work with them. She is an honorary life member of the National PTA and received New Hampshire's first "Friend of the Family" Award.

Jacquelyn G. Sowers, M.Ed.
National Consultant, Health Promotion, and Education
Sowers Associates
One Park Avenue
Hampton, New Hampshire 03842
(603) 926-0744 (e-mail: swrsassoc@aol.com)

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