Todays educational leaders offer their best ideas for combining emotional intelligence with academic rigor to create caring and successful schools. Key topics include:Transforming the Lives of Children(James P. Comer)Leadership for Academic Social and Emotional Learning (Mary Utne OBrien Roger P. Weissberg Timothy P. Shriver)How New Knowledge About the Brain Applies to Social and Emotional Learning (Ronald S. Brandt)A Vision of Schools with Heart and Spirit (Linda Lantieri)Institutionalizing Programming for Social and Emotional Learning (Linda Bruene Butler Jeffrey S. Kress Jacqueline A. Norris) Implementing a Social and Emotional Learning Program (Carol Apacki)