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The Yale Child Study Center welcomes and introduces new community members on an on-going basis. All new faculty, staff, and trainees are invited to share bios and photos upon joining the department, and those who wish to participate are announced approximately monthly. This month, meet Aakash Chowkase, PhD, who joined the center on November 1.

Wickersham Elementary School has been named a 2025 RULER Spotlight School by Yale Center for Emotional Intelligence for its success in using RULER, a social-emotional tool helping students identify and communicate their emotions, setting a model for over 5,000 schools worldwide.

Researchers from the Education Collaboratory will be sharing their work at the 2024 Collaborative for Academic, Social, and Emotional Learning (CASEL) SEL Exchange in Chicago, Illinois during the week of November 12th, 2024.

In this Education Week article, Drs. Marc Brackett and Robin Stern share pointers for educators on discussing the election in their classrooms and creating emotionally intelligent spaces that encourage intellectual curiosity.

Approximately 150 attendees joined this year's Yale Child Study Center Open House, held at 350 George Street in New Haven on September 19. Learn more about this annual event, view photo events, and view video clips from one of the flash talks.

On Tuesday, October 8, 2024, twelve members of the Yale Child Study Center community were recognized for professional progression in the prior academic year.

2021 was a year marked by the lingering effects of a global pandemic, political upheaval, and ongoing challenges to diversity, equity, and inclusion in education. A new large-scale study from the Education Collaboratory at the Yale Child Study Center reports on the affective experiences of more than 8,000 school personnel representing all 50 states and territories. This paper is the first first-author publication from Miranda Wood, who completed these analyses while she was a post-graduate associate at the Yale Child Study Center under the mentorship of Dr. Christina Cipriano. Miranda is currently a doctoral candidate at the University of Missouri. The team was supported by Drs. Cheyeon Ha and Marc Brackett.

Robin Stern and Diana Divecha share several healthy emotion regulation strategies that parents can model for their children in stressful or uncertain scenarios.

How do different emotions impact everyday life? And what are the kinds of experiences we want and need—in the classroom, at work, and in our own developmental trajectories—to be able to deepen our emotional wisdom so we can make better decisions and have healthier relationships? In this episode of Learning Through Experience, we dig deep into feelings with Dr. Marc Brackett.