
NAEA Open Studio Conversation: Feelings Reboot: Utilizing the Arts To help Our Students Regulate their Emotions
Includes a Live Web Event on 10/23/2025 at 7:00 PM (EDT)
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NAEA Open Studio: Feelings Reboot: Utilizing the Arts To help Our Students Regulate their Emotions
Thursday, October 23, 2025 | 7pm ET
Cost: FREE!
We live in stressful times of profound unpredictability and continued violence where both teachers and learners may struggle to regulate their emotions. How can educators help students control their emotions while preventing their own anger from consuming them and keeping their own aggression in check? In this webinar, experts on emotional regulation will discuss helpful and effective strategies educators can use with their students to channel their feelings in positive and creative ways. The panel members will share a wealth of ideas to use in any classroom setting.
Please note that participation in this live event or recording does not include NAEA professional learning credit.
Jenalee Hinds
Assistant Professor
University of Kentucky
Jenalee (Jena) Hinds is an assistant professor at the University of Kentucky whose work blends education, creativity, and well-being. Her research focuses on identifying the best interventions and practices, including visual storytelling, design, and aromatherapy, to reduce test anxiety and support student success. She is the developer of the Stress Performance Evaluation (SPE) app, designed to measure and manage stress during testing and other high-stress situations. In addition to her research, Hinds is a children’s book author who utilizes visual arts and storytelling to spark curiosity, foster cultural connection, and promote emotional growth in young learners. She is passionate about bringing the arts into math education, showing how creativity enhances problem solving and resilience. Through teaching, writing, talks, and community engagement, she empowers future educators and students to view knowledge in new ways, combining research-based strategies with imaginative design to build confidence, well-being, and lifelong learning.
Harlie Blauw
School Psychologist
Anchored Christian Grief Camp
Harlie Blauw is a nationally certified school psychologist who holds a doctorate in educational leadership. During her time serving students at the Mississippi School of the Arts, she created an arts-focused grief retreat for teens, and she has also organized student support groups for cultivating self-compassion and mindfulness through the arts. As a practitioner she is currently focusing her energy on her nonprofit organization, Anchored Christian Grief Camp, to help support grieving children through the arts.
Beverley Johns
Learning And Behavior Consultant
Retired Professional Fellow, MacMurray College
Beverly Johns has spent a majority of her career working with public school students with significant emotional or behavioral challenges. She has worked with students who have experienced trauma or came to school “angry at the world.” As a professional fellow at MacMurray College, she has also trained future educators to work in special education, and she has trained general education teachers to work with students with special education needs. She is the author or coauthor of 28 nonfiction books, as well as >span class="NormalTextRun SCXW184869493 BCX0"> Johns believes >span class="NormalTextRun SCXW184869493 BCX0">, as well as a restorative tool to help students appropriately reboot their feelings.