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In the latest spotlight of a monthly series highlighting Yale Child Study Center (YCSC) community members and their work, meet Amy Norback, MA, who serves as associate director of training and implementation at the YCSC’s center for emotional intelligence.

Dr. Robin Stern explains what gaslighting is and discusses how to pre-plan for positive interactions at holiday gatherings.

Family gatherings are often filled with laughter, love and a generous helping of comfort food. But, as a former patient once experienced, sometimes they may be tinged with something less savory:​ Gaslighting.

In a fascinating interview on the Leaders Coaching Leaders Podcast, Marc Brackett, the founding director of the Yale Center for Emotional Intelligence delves into the importance of emotional intelligence and self-regulation in both personal and professional realms

The Yale Center for Emotional Intelligence (YCEI) has released its 2023-2024 Research Year in Review report. The annual report features the collective accomplishments of our researchers across new grants, publications, conference presentations, invited talks, and popular media content between January 1, 2023, and June 30, 2024. This period has been marked by exciting transitions, evolution, and growth for the YCEI, all in service of advancing social and emotional learning (SEL) through high-quality evidence and rigorous PreK-Grade 12 programming.

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.