May, 2008.
You Can Do It! Education has just been recognized as Australia's leading social and emotional learning and well-being program being used in over 5,000 early childhood centers, elementary, middle and high schools. After a successful presentation to over 100 school psychologists at St. John's University in March, Professor Bernard has been invited to offer a two-day YCDI train-the-trainer program in June for school psychologists and school representatives in the greater New York City area... two research articles authored by Michael Bernard have been accepted for presentation at the Australian Psychological Society's annual conference in September: 1. "The Effect of You Can Do It! Education on the Emotional Resilience of Elementary School Students with Social, Emotional, Behavioral and Achievement Challenges" and "The Social and Emotional Well-Being of Australian Children and Adolescents: The Discovery of Levels"... in June, a two-day train-the-trainer is to be offered in Singapore by Michael Bernard
January, 2008.
You Can Do It! Education is now established as Australia's most popular program of its kind with over 6,000 of Australia's 10,000 schools employing YCDI resources. Almost 1,000 schools have had YCDI trainers visit to workshop on how YCDI can be implemented on a whole school basis... Recent research submitted for publication now shows that YCDI's student social-emotional learning curriculum leads to increased resilience as well as social and school adjustment of elementary school students with social, emotional, behavioral and achievement challenges... Michael Bernard continues in his appointment as a Professor in The Melbourne Graduate School of Education, University of Melbourne... YCDI is now being distributed in Singapore after a series of extremely successful workshops offered in November, 2007, by Professor Bernard to early childhood educators and primary/secondary teachers with increasing numbers of early childhood centers using the YCDI Early Childhood Program... in March, 2008, Professor Bernard has been invited by the Department of Psychology, St, John's University, to offer workshops on YCDI...he has also been invited by the Albert Ellis Institute to be a lecturer and supervisor in the REBT Child/Adolescent Certificate Program...Michael Bernard has just completed two funded research reports "School Procedures and Practices for Responding to Students Who Bully" and the "ASG Student Social and Emotional Health Report" where he analyzed the responses of over 10,000 students and their teachers in his Social and Emotional Well-Being Surveys published by the Australian Council for Educational Research...