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Edited by bestselling author and mindfulness expert Patricia A. Jennings, the compact volumes in this series will provide school leaders and classroom teachers with social and emotional learning tools and strategies that are grounded in research, yet highly accessible. Featuring recommended SEL practices from experts in the field, the books can be used confidently by PreK - 12 educators to transform school culture, improve student behavior, and foster student learning. This set includes 1-copy each of Mindfulness in the PreK-5 Classroom by Patricia A. Jennings, Mindfulness in the Secondary Classroom by Patricia C. Broderick, SEL Every Day by Meena Srinivasan, Assessing Students' Social and Emotional Learning by Clark McKown, Preventing Bullying in Schools by Catherine P. Bradshaw and Tracy E. Waasdorp, and SEL From the Start by Sara Rimm-Kaufman.

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"Patricia (Tish) Jennings is a professor of education at the University of Virginia and an internationally recognized leader in the fields of social and emotional learning and mindfulness. Her honors include the 2023 Distinguished Researcher Award from the University of Virginia and the 2018 Cathy Kerr Award for Courageous and Compassionate Scientific Contributions from the Mind & Life Institute. With more than 22 years of experience as a teacher, school director and teacher educator, Jennings has authored numerous articles in peer-reviewed journals and chapters, as well as several books. She is the editor of Norton Books in Education's Social and Emotional Learning Solutions series. Patricia C. Broderick, a research psychologist at Penn State University and a mindfulness teacher, lives near Philadelphia. Meena Srinivasan, a National Board Certified Teacher, is a South Asian-American edupreneur with deep expertise in the fields of Social and Emotional Learning (SEL) and Mindfulness in Education. She is the Founding Executive Director of Transformative Educational Leadership (TEL). Prior to this role she spent five and a half years working in partnership with the Collaborative for Academic, Social and Emotional Learning (CASEL) to implement SEL system-wide in the Oakland Unified School District. Meena has taught and led in a variety of school settings (public, private, urban, international) and holds a Clear Administrative Services Credential in the state of California. She is the creator of the SEL Every Day online courses and was featured in the Dec 2020/Jan 2021 issue of Educational Leadership Magazine on ""Mindful School Leadership."" Clark McKown, associate professor of behavioral science at Rush University Medical Center and founder and president of xSEL Labs, lives in Evanston, Illinois. Catherine P. Bradshaw is Professor & Senior Associate Dean at the School of Education & Human Development at the University of Virginia and co-director of the Johns Hopkins Center for the Prevention of Youth Violence. She lives in Charlottesville. Tracy Evian Waasdorp, PhD, M.S.Ed, is a Senior Research Scientist at the Children's Hospital of Philadelphia (CHOP) and a fellow of CHOP's Violence Prevention Initiative. Dr. Waasdorp's research focuses on school-based bullying prevention and intervention, across all forms (e.g. relational aggression, cyberbullying, and bystander behaviors). She also examines school staff and parent responses to bullying, as well as school climate and connectedness. Based on this work, she collaborates on developing and validating school-based programming that focuses on improving social and emotional skills and reducing bullying and aggression. Sara E. Rimm-Kaufman, PhD, is the Commonwealth Professor of Education at the University of Virginia School of Education and Human Development. She lives in Charlottesville. She and her research group at the UVA Social Development Lab (www.socialdevelopmentlab.org) conduct research on elementary and middle school classrooms with the goal of developing roadmaps for administrators and teachers making decisions for children and youth."

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