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Victoria Poedubicky Ed.S is a retired health educator and school counselor with 33 years experience from the Highland Park Public Schools. 20 of those years were dedicated to initiating, implementing and assessing the Social Decision Making/Problem Solving program through the health program, guidance counseling services, and school and district-wide initiatives as well as integration into the curriculum. She was instrumental in initiating, facilitating and supervising a Social Decision Making Lab, which is a teaching component (intervention) assisting students in learning and strengthening social-emotional skills in a one-one or small group setting. Victoria has published several articles and most recently co-authored Social-Emotional Learning Lab: A Comprehensive SEL REsource Kit published by Research Press.  She has also provided workshops to parents and staff, taught a social-emotional learning course at Rutgers University, has served as a mentor to other teachers and counselors, and is a co-developer, program coordinator and instructor for the Online Direct Instruction in Social-Emotional Learning and Character Development for Teachers and Support Staff at Rutgers University.