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Commissioner Laszlo Bock, former SVP of People Operations at Google and author of “Work Rules!,” outlines connections between K-12 education and the workforce skills employers need.

Learn more about Joyce Wong Kup and her take on the importance of social, emotional, and academic development.

Commissioner Hugh Price recently spoke with the Yale Alumni Association to discuss how his background in education and personal connection to SEAD informs his involvement with the National Commission.

CASEL has documented major lessons learned from its multiyear effort to help eight urban school districts embed SEL into all of their work. Click here to read the report, which features examples of district work, key impact data on implementation, and previews how the nonprofit intends to scale this work nationally.

Two Texas congressmen—one Democrat, one Republican—embark on an impromptu road trip to the nation’s capital when their flights are cancelled. Check out Evie Blad’s piece in Education Week to find out why their trip was a lesson in social-emotional learning.

This month’s issue of Phi Delta Kappa’s magazine, Kappan, focuses on emotional life and learning and includes an interview with Dr. Marc Brackett, a member of the Commission’s Council of Distinguished Scientists, on the science and teaching of emotional intelligence.

CASEL and the University of British Columbia recently published a report on teacher preparation and social emotional learning. The report found that required teacher preparation courses do little to prepare teachers to promote students’ social emotional growth.

150 Connecticut education leaders recently attended a Yale Center for Emotional Intelligence event, the first in a series aiming to make Connecticut “the first emotionally intelligent state.” Speakers, including one of our Distinguished Scientists Marc Brackett, led sessions that asked the educators to reflect on SEL success stories.

During a discussion with Commissioner Pittman, four members of our Youth Commission shared personal stories of how they have experienced SEAD through their schools, families, and extracurricular activities.

The second edition of the National Commission on Social, Emotional, and Academic Development’s monthly newsletter.