Maurice J. Elias, Ph.D., is Professor of Psychology and Coordinator of the Internship Program in Applied, School, and Community Psychology at Rutgers University, Livingston Campus (Piscataway, NJ). He is also Coordinator of the Leadership Team for the Collaborative for Academic, Social, and Emotional Learning (CASEL) and Co-Chair of the CASEL Work Group for Educator Preparation and Leadership for SEL Implementation. His recent books about social and emotional learning include Social Problem Solving Interventions in the Schools (2001), Raising Emotionally Intelligent Teenagers (2002), Emotionally Intelligent Parenting: How to Raise a Self-Disciplined, Responsible, Socially Skilled Child (2000), and Promoting Social and Emotional Learning: Guidelines for Educators (1997). He may be reached at MJERU@aol.com and through the Web at www.EQParenting.com and www.casel.org.
Harriett Arnold, Ed.D., is Associate Professor and Director of the Single Subject Credential Program at the University of the Pacific, Stockton, California, and Facilitator of the Network for Research on Affective Factors in Learning, a special interest group of educators interested in the importance of emotions and learning, funded by the Association of Supervision and Curriculum Development (ASCD). A veteran educator, she has served as an elementary school teacher, secondary administrator, elementary school principal, director of personnel and staff development, and international consultant. Dr. Arnold received an M.Ed. with emphasis in reading from San Jose State University and a doctorate from the University of San Francisco in curriculum and instruction. She is a member of several professional associations, including ASCD, California ASCD, Association of California School Administrators, California Council on the Education of Teachers, and Phi Delta Kappa. Her publications include numerous articles with an emphasis in curriculum, instruction and the role of emotions in learning; she has also authored the books Antioch: A Place of Christians and Succeeding in the Secondary Classroom: Strategies for Teachers, the latter of which focuses on beginning teachers. She may be reached at harnold@uop.edu.
Cynthia Steiger Hussey, Psy.D., is employed as a School Psychologist by the Monroe Township (New Jersey) Board of Education. She is a member of the American Psychological Association (APA), APA Division 16, the New Jersey Association of School Psychologists, the National Education Association, and the New Jersey Education Association. She is a graduate of Douglass College, Rutgers University, and the Graduate School of Applied and Professional Psychology, Rutgers University. As a graduate student, Dr. Hussey was chosen as a recipient of a Douglass College Alumnae Fellowship. Her dissertation was awarded the graduate school’s Cyril Franks Award for excellence in research. She is a member of Psi Chi and Phi Beta Kappa. Her publications include work on the Coping Scale for Children and Youth with David Brodzinsky in the Journal of Applied Developmental Psychology and work on special education needs of adopted youth, published in the Journal of Learning Disabilities. In her current position, her duties include consulting with teachers, conducting psychological evaluations, providing individual and group counseling, and participation on the school crisis management team.