Andrea Samadi

Andrea Samadi knows first-hand about stress in the classroom as her first job out of The University of Toronto’s Faculty of Education, was a behavioral class. She felt overwhelmed and frustrated by the lack of resources to help her manage and teach her students so she set out on a mission to find ways to support students and educators in the classroom. At the same time, was motivated to find solutions to elevate student voice, motivation, and character to take students and educators to higher levels of achievement and well-being.

In 2015, Andrea consulted with Mark Robert Waldman, one of the leading neuroscience researchers in the country, to help her make the connection between how the brain impacts learning, achievement, well-being and results. She wrote Level Up: A Brain-Based Strategy to Skyrocket Student Success and Achievement using the latest research to help others increase their learning potential and how to access those “aha” moments of learning. Her programs offer practical strategies that will help a person achieve realistic goals and to handle times when difficult emotions knock us off course. Andrea presents on the impacts of “Stress, Learning and the Brain” as well as topics including “Brain-Aligned Strategies to Skyrocket Literacy Achievement” and “Emotions, Learning and the Brain.”

In 2019, she launched the Neuroscience Meets Social and Emotional Learning Podcast where she provides resources and ideas to implement proven strategies backed by the most current neuroscience research to achieve the long-term gains of implementing a social and emotional learning program in your school, or emotional intelligence program in your workplace for improved productivity, achievement and results.