Linda Bruene

Linda Bruene Butler, M.Ed. has worked for over two decades on the development of school-based programs in social and emotional learning. She is currently Clinician Administrator at the University of Medicine & Dentistry of New Jersey-University Behavioral HealthCare's Social Decision Making/Problem Solving Program (SDM/PS). She is also adjunct faculty for courses in the area of social and emotional learning through the Center for Social and Emotional Education, affiliated with Teachers College of Columbia University and the Department of Psychology at Rutgers University.

Ms. Bruene Butler has published in the social problem solving area, has lectured extensively in the field, and has trained many others to become SDM/PS consultants and trainers. Ms. Bruene Butler co-developed the program's training manual for teachers and certified trainers. She was a major contributor to the monograph entitled "Promoting Social and Emotional Learning: Guidelines for the Educator" that was published in 1997 by the Association for Superivision and Curriculum Development (ASCD). She is lead author in a book chapter about the SDM/PS model, in a book entitled Primary Prevention Works: Issues in Children's and Families Lives and most recently a chapter entitled "Using Technology to Develop a Network of Schools to Promote Social Emotional Learning/Emotional Intelligence in Schools" (in press) in a Social and Emotional Learning Series published by Teachers College press. She is also an author of an article published in 2000 entitled "Voices from the Field, Identifying and Overcoming Roadblocks to Carrying Out Programs in Social and Emotional Learning/Emotional Intelligence," in the Journal of Educational and Psychological Consultation. Other recent publications include, a co-authored chapter entitled, "Social Decision-Making and Problem Solving-Essential Skills for Interpersonal and Academic Success," J. Cohen (Ed.) (1999), Educating Minds and Hearts: Social Emotional Learning and Passage into Adolescence." NY: Teachers College Press, and as lead author of an article entitled, "Decision Making and Problem Solving: A Framework for Organizing Social and Emotional Learning," R. Reisman (Ed.) Social and Emotional Learning-New York State ASCD Newsletter published in May 1999.

Her current area of interest is exploring the ways that technology and distance learning methods can be used to harvest, share, and evaluate innovative methods for teaching SDM/PS developed by advanced level teachers and program sites.