Kristin Stuart Valdes has been working with the CLASS since 2011 as a coach, master coach, Senior Program Manager, and Instructional Designer. She is also the author of Humanizing the Classroom : Using Role Plays to Teach Social and Emotional Skills (Rowman and LIttlfeild, 2019).
Social-emotional Learning is a broad term that describes any intervention that teaches intrapersonal (self to self) and interpersonal (self to others) communication skills that are emotionally productive and equitable.