| THE BOARD OF DIRECTORS ANNOUNCES ITS NEWEST MEMBER, KAREN MCCOWN
Honored as Educator of the Year by the California Association of the Gifted, Karen has presented at thousands of symposia and conferences. She has served on a broad range of trustee and advisory boards for social, emotional, and mental health.
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Karen is recognized as an educational pioneer who founded the Nueva School in Hillsborough in 1967, where she published Self-Science, her visionary emotional intelligence curriculum. She is dedicated to continuing her legacy with the founding of Synapse which she hopes will become a model for future schools. In planning the school she met with educators, political and business leaders and Nobel Laureates to consider the educational needs of our society. She saw that the central foundation of a school should be not simply giving students knowledge, but giving them the opportunity to develop wisdom. Her commitment is reflected by her active involvement on campus. She is the chair and co-founder of Six Seconds, a non-profit organization that offers training and materials on emotional intelligence.
