Social Emotional Learning (SEL) 101

Jan. 8, 2025

For in-person attendance in the Nashville area, please purchase a ticket.

Virtual
National

Description

SEL 101 is an academic presentation on the topic of Social Emotional Learning, an educational approach that deeply influences children's emotional and social development.  This panel discussion on SEL will focus on how it came to be, how it pervades every corner of our schools...and why it's dangerous for our kids.

The Live-Stream is open to the public at the Moms for Liberty YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/@Moms4Liberty/streams.

If you are in the Nashville, TN, area, you are invited to be part of the in-studio audience.  Tickets are $50 and includes a 5-6 PM social hour with the speakers, hors d'oeuvres and a seat in the studio for the live stream. Please purchase your ticket via the button to the right - seats are extremely limited!

More information about M4LU can be found at https://M4LU.org

 

 

 


Featured Speakers

Speaker: Dr. Jennifer Kom, Professor of Psychology
Speaker Dr. Jennifer Kom, Professor of Psychology
Dr. Jennifer Kom is a Full Professor of Psychology at Bethany Lutheran College in Mankato, Minnesota. Her extensive course offerings include Human Development Through the Lifespan, Child Development, Gender Development, Abnormal Psychology, Personality Development, and Fundamentals of Counseling. Each of these courses is taught from a conservative Biblical worldview perspective, …

Dr. Jennifer Kom is a Full Professor of Psychology at Bethany Lutheran College in Mankato, Minnesota. Her extensive course offerings include Human Development Through the Lifespan, Child Development, Gender Development, Abnormal Psychology, Personality Development, and Fundamentals of Counseling. Each of these courses is taught from a conservative Biblical worldview perspective, aligning with the college's mission.


 


Bethany Lutheran College, known for attracting students from around the world, provides a unique educational environment where students and faculty can engage with a vision of the past, present, and future based on a Biblical foundation. Dr. Kom views it as a privilege to teach psychology to students from such diverse backgrounds at one of the few remaining mission-focused American institutions of higher education that vigorously supports, protects, and promotes academic freedom both within and outside the classroom.


 


Dr. Kom earned her undergraduate degree in Experimental Psychology from Temple University in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. She then pursued her Master’s degree in Human Development and her PhD in Developmental and Child Psychology from the University of Kansas in Lawrence, Kansas.


 


Dr. Kom is married to Joel Kom, and they are proud parents of five boys. The family resides in Mankato, Minnesota, and Dr. Kom is an active member of Peace Lutheran Church in North Mankato. One of the highlights of her week is teaching Sunday School to 4th-6th graders and leading Bible Story Time for the youngest members of the congregation.

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Speaker: Alex Newman
Speaker Alex Newman
An award-winning international journalist, educator, author, speaker, investor, nationally syndicated radio host, and consultant who seeks to glorify God in everything he does.  In addition to serving as president of Liberty Sentinel Media, Inc, and hosting a nationally syndicated radio program, Alex has written for a wide array of publications …

An award-winning international journalist, educator, author, speaker, investor, nationally syndicated radio host, and consultant who seeks to glorify God in everything he does. 


In addition to serving as president of Liberty Sentinel Media, Inc, and hosting a nationally syndicated radio program, Alex has written for a wide array of publications in the United States and abroad.


In addition, Alex has authored and co-authored several books, including Crimes of the Educators and his latest book, Indoctrinating Our Children to Death.


Alex has appeared on hundreds of TV shows including leading shows on Fox, Newsmax, TBN, One America News, the Dove Network, the Christian Television Network, The Blaze, the SonLife Broadcasting Network, Real America’s Voice, and top news channels from Russia and Iran to Turkey and beyond. He has also been featured in dozens of documentaries on topics ranging from education and geopolitics to Covid and transgenderism. 


Alex is on the Leadership Council of Freedom Force International, one of the premier liberty organizations in the world. He also serves as a director for the organization Bear Witness Central, which works to protect and preserve the U.S. Constitution by educating the public in partnership with other conservative organizations. Alex is a Leadership Fellow at the James Madison Institute, Florida’s premier free-market think tank. And he serves on advisory boards of Citizens for Free Speech, the Illinois Family Institute, and numerous other groups. Alex also serves on the boards of organizations ranging from


In addition, Alex serves on several advisory boards for education-focused organizations, including U.S. Parents Involved in Education (USPIE), the Nehemiah Institute, and the Samuel L. Blumenfeld Foundation for Literacy. Alex is also member of the American Enterprise Institute’s Conservative Education Reform Network alongside other leading conservative voices in the education policy field. Finally, he serves as a senior fellow with Classical Conversations, the world’s largest homeschooling community with almost 50,000 member families around the world. 


For over a decade, Alex taught advanced economics to some of America’s brightest high-school seniors through FreedomProject Academy, an accredited K-12 Christian school offering a classical education to future leaders worldwide where he now serves on the board. Alex also has an education blog called The Newman Report for Freedom Media, an affiliate of the school. 


Alex speaks regularly at conferences on topics ranging from education and economics to climate and international affairs. He also teaches regularly in evangelical churches on a wide array of subjects. He has spoken at Mar-a-Lago, Re-Awaken America, Eagle Council, and many other leading conservative events. And he has shared the stage with people like Donald Trump, Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis, Gen. Mike Flynn, Charlie Kirk, Kirk Cameron, Phyllis Schlafly, Glenn Beck, Ben Carson, Robert Kiyosaki, numerous patriotic members of the U.S. Congress, multiple members of Trump’s cabinet, and countless other American heroes. 


In addition, Alex advises political, non-profit, and business leaders across the United States and beyond on intelligence, policy, and more.


Alex has a B.S. degree in journalism from the University of Florida with an emphasis on economics and international relations, as well as an A.A. degree in foreign languages from Miami-Dade College. He also studied international relations and geopolitics at the Institute Français des Alpes in France.


Alex has lived, studied, and worked in eight countries (US, Mexico, Brazil, Switzerland, France, South Africa, Spain, Sweden) on four continents. He speaks multiple languages fluently and more at varying degrees of proficiency. 


Most importantly, Alex is married to the love of his life and they have six children, so far. Along with his family, he currently splits his time between various places, including Europe and the United States.


 

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Speaker: Kelly Schenkoske
Speaker Kelly Schenkoske
Independent researcher, education advocate, and host of the “A Time to Stand” podcast where she addresses education concerns, parental rights, and politics. Witnessing alarming ideologies in her children’s school compelled her to begin extensive research. That research confirmed the need to get involved. By 2019 she began leading grassroots efforts …



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Speaker: Tiffany Justice
Speaker Tiffany Justice
Co-founder of Moms for Liberty. wife and mom of four school-aged children. In 2016 she stepped up to serve for 4 years on the School District of Indian River County, FL School Board. She believes that kids in public school deserve innovation and parents have the right to know the …

Co-founder of Moms for Liberty. wife and mom of four school-aged children. In 2016 she stepped up to serve for 4 years on the School District of Indian River County, FL School Board. She believes that kids in public school deserve innovation and parents have the right to know the union interference and government bureaucracy that is keeping that innovation from happening in their children’s district.  Since then she has been featured on multiple TV shows, podcasts, and events, one of the most notable being her takedown of Joy Reid over pornographic library books on MSNBC.

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M4LU

Moms for Liberty's academic initiative to inform, equip, and empower parents with knowledge, understanding, and practical tools.  Find out more at M4LU.org



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Date and Time

Wed, Jan. 8, 2025

6 p.m. - 8 p.m.
(GMT-0600) US/Central

Location

For in-person attendance in the Nashville area, please purchase a ticket.

Virtual
National

Pricing

  • In Studio VIP Ticket
    $50.00
    (ends 01/09/2025)