Since emotions are a powerful driver of behavior, behavior management strategies that do not empower students with emotional literacy will do little to help students gain insight into their behaviors. When we ignore, inhibit, or invalidate emotion, we deny students (and ourselves) the opportunity to learn to appropriately express emotion. Only when we invite emotion can we then instruct emotion. Learning outcomes include the following:

• Participants will understand the concept of emotion as energy, a fuel source that drives behaviors. 
• Participants will learn why only two (of five) possible responses to emotion facilitate emotional literacy.
• Participants will understand the five-step roadmap to instructing students how to regulate emotion.