Book Excerpt: ‘Permission to Feel’ Shows the Power of Giving Students Tools to Understand and Regulate Their Emotions

Marc Brackett, Ph.D., is the founder and director of the Yale Center for Emotional Intelligence and a professor in the university’s Child Study Center. He is the lead developer of RULER, an evidence-based approach to social and emotional learning that has been adopted by nearly 2,000 pre-K through high schools across the United States and in other countries.