PART I: SOCIAL EMOTIONAL EDUCATION AND THE YOUNG CHILD: Social and emotional education: core concepts and practices / Jonathan Cohen
Development in context: imagining the child at hand / Barbara K. Eisold
PART II: CREATING SAFE, CARING, AND RESPONSIVE SCHOOLS: School climate and social and emotional development in the young child / Joy E. Fopiano and Norris M. Haynes
Helping emotionally vulnerable children: moving toward an empathic orientation in the classroom / Deborah Mugno and Donald Rosenblitt
Creating a classroom community where social emotional learning thrives: the case of the "Cool Girls" list / Ruth Charney and Roxanne Kriete
PART III: PROGRAMMATIC EFFORTS: Fostering emotional intelligence in the classroom and school: strategies from the Child Development Project / Stefan Dasho, Catherine Lewis, and Marilyn Watson
Reach out to schools: a social competency program / Pamela Seigle
I can problem solve (ICPS): a cognitive approach to the prevention of early high-risk behaviors / Marya B. Shure and Ann-Linn Glaser
PATHS in your classroom: promoting emotional literacy and alleviating emotional distress / Carol A. Kusche and Mark T. Greenberg
Improving the social and intellectual climate in elementary schools by addresssing bully-victim-bystander power struggles / Stuart W. Twemlow [et al.]
PART IV: CURRENT ISSUES AND FUTURE DIRECTIONS: Social and emotional learning: the future is now / Ronald J. Areglado
Social and emotional literacy for all in the Twenty-first Century: a challenge and a necessity / Jonathan Cohen.