Jean Klasovsky is a history teacher and social emotional learning coordinator at Farragut Career Academy in the Little Village neighborhood of Chicago. As a history teacher, Jean engages students in reading, writing, speaking, and thinking about their relationship to the world around them, and then provides them with the opportunities to engage in civic life. As a passionate advocate for social emotional learning (SEL), Jean has led the founding of a restorative justice and RtI behavioral health program at Farragut; trains and speaks to teachers, students, policy makers and community members on the importance of SEL in schools; and has given a TEDx talk on restorative justice in September 2013. Jean graduated with a BA in History from Bard College and an MAT in Secondary Social Studies Education from Boston University.
