Anna-Lisa Mackey - The Social Emotional Classroom: A New Way to Nurture Students and Understand the Brain

The Social Emotional Classroom provides step-by-step plans and action-oriented activities for the busy educator to use with their students. District administrators will want to make this book a must read for all their classroom teachers!

Timothy Hagan, President & CEO, Education Associates

Teachers have learned well the importance of social emotional learning and this book provides excellent guidelines to navigate this critical area. Well-articulated descriptions, charts for assessing SEL health, and creative and helpful suggestions for the school environment make The Social Emotional Classroom a valuable resource for any educator.

Dr. Maria Cleary, President of Readeezy and former school superintendent

For educators looking to cut through all the noise around SEL, The Social Emotional Classroom provides a straightforward and practical guide to bring SEL into your classroom. Based on extensive research, this guide is easily skimmable to help busy educators get just the information they need when they need it to support their students as well as themselves.

Kate Finnefrock, education executive with over 20 years experience building products for educators

This book is rather timely. It comes at a time in history when the world is returning to a new normal after a raging pandemic that has established social emotional learning as a necessity in education. It will empower educators world-wide on how to transform their classrooms into safe, social emotional spaces that cultivate well-being, enable holistic development, and contribute to building a kinder world.

Nandini Chatterjee Singh, cognitive neuroscientist, Senior National Program Officer, UNESCO MGIEP

Anna-Lisa Mackey M.Ed.

Melissa Ragan

Copyright 2022 by Anna-Lisa Mackey and Melissa Ragan. All rights reserved.

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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Names: Mackey, Anna-Lisa, author. | Ragan, Melissa, author.

Title: The social emotional classroom : a new way to nurture students and understand the brain / Anna-Lisa Mackey, Melissa Ragan.

Description: Hoboken, Jew Jersey : Jossey-Bass, 2022. | Includes bibliographical references and index.

Identifiers: LCCN 2022000567 (print) | LCCN 2022000568 (ebook) | ISBN 9781119814320 (paperback) | ISBN 9781119814337 (adobe pdf) | ISBN 9781119814344 (epub)

Subjects: LCSH: Affective education. | Emotions and cognition. | Emotions in children.

Classification: LCC LB1072 .M34 2022 (print) | LCC LB1072 (ebook) | DDC 370.15/34dc23/eng/20220215

LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2022000567

LC ebook record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2022000568

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Cover Image: Wavebreakmedia/Getty Images; Courtesy of Maria OLeary; Courtesy of Nicole Mamdani, Face 2 Face photography

For my husband, Glen,
and our girls, Faith, Amanda, and Nicole

Anna-Lisa Mackey

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For my husband Alex, and our children,
Sam, Alex, Lucy, and Molly

Melissa Ragan

Anna-Lisa Mackey is the CEO of PATHS Program, LLC, a publisher and distributor of award-winning social emotional learning programs for students and teachers. Anna-Lisa has worked with children at risk of developing serious behavior problems as well as training and implementing the PATHS programs throughout the world for over 20 years. She has also spoken about SEL at national conferences including the Innovative School Summit (US), Atlantic Summer Institute (Canada), and Blueprints Conference (US).

Melissa Ragan is a former high school English teacher, and for the past 15 years she has written and delivered professional development resources. She has written for companies including Scholastic, co-created a family engagement program for HMH, and authored a high school transition and social emotional learning curriculum for an ed-tech startup. Melissa has spoken at national conferences on topics focused on English learners, parent engagement, and special education.