Rebecca Leimkuehler

Director of Social Emotional Learning at the Cartwright Center for Strong Families and Thriving Children
Cartwright Elementary School District #83

Ms. Rebecca Leimkuehler is the Director of SEL as well as the current facilitator for the Arizona ACE Consortium Trauma-Sensitive Schools Workgroup. Ms. Leimkuehler brings three decades of experience working in education as a teacher, mentor, school principal, and district director of SEL. This path included a purposeful focus on the social and emotional well-being of both students and adults. While working as a school principal, Rebecca worked to ensure her school adopted a trauma-sensitive approach to their work. This three-year process of shifting adult mindsets and embedding trauma-sensitive approaches into her school has given her the experience to share her story, strategies, do's and don'ts with fellow educators.