Director of Rutgers SEL and Character Development Lab, Maurice J. Elias on "Boosting Emotional Intelligence Through Sports, Academics and Character."

<p>Welcome back to the Neuroscience Meets Social and Emotional Learning podcast, episode #75 with Maurice Elias, a Professor of Psychology at Rutgers University<a href='#_edn1'>[i]</a>, Director of the Rutgers Social-Emotional Learning Lab<a href='#_edn2'>[ii]</a>, Academic Director of The Collaborative Center for Community-Based Research and Service at Rutgers and he is one of the members of CASEL (Collaborative  for Social and Emotional Learning) which our listeners will know as a trusted source for knowledge about high-quality, evidence-based social and emotional learning programs.<a href='#_edn3'>[iii]</a> Prof. Elias lectures nationally and internationally to educators and parents about students’ emotional intelligence, school success, and social-emotional and character development. Among Dr. Elias’ numerous books are ASCD’s <em>Promoting Social and Emotional Learning: Guidelines for Educators, the Social Decision Making/Social Problem-Solving </em>curricula for grades k-8, <em>Emotionally Intelligent Parenting</em>, and many others that I will reference in this interview.</p> <p> </p> <p><a href='https://youtu.be/6AQNx5COXBA'>Watch the interview on YouTube here. </a></p> <p> </p> <p>Podcast Introduction and Backstory of Maurice Elias</p> <p> </p> <p>My name is Andrea Samadi,  I’m a former educator who created this podcast to bring the most current neuroscience research, matched with social and emotional skills, with interviews from experts who have risen to the top of their field with specific strategies or ideas that you can implement immediately, to take your results to the next level. My vision is to bring the experts to you, and help you to implement their proven strategies, whether you are a teacher working in the classroom or online, a student, or parent working in the corporate space, for immediate results.</p> <p> </p> <p>When I was first introduced to Maurice Elias, it was from Corwin Press’s Marketing Department, who explained to me that his work fit directly into what we are