The Aspen Institute announced Tuesday it has launcheda commission to accelerate the transfer of research about social and emotional skill-building — which includes developing the interpersonal skills that organizers say contribute to success in school, college and work — into teaching practices across the nation.

Seven Californians are members of the National Commission on Social, Emotional and Academic Development.  Linda Darling-Hammond, president of the Learning Policy Institute, is one of three co-chairs.  Other Californians are Laszlo Bock, senior advisor at Google; Ellen Moir, chief executive officer at the New Teacher Center; Pedro Noguera, professor at UCLA; Rachel Santos, positive behavioral interventions and supports coach at ABC Unified; James Shelton, president of education for the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative; and Antwan Wilson, superintendent of Oakland Unified.

Tim Shriver, another co-chair of the commission and chairman of the Chicago-based nonprofit the Collaborative for Academic, Social and Emotional Learning, said the commission wants to instigate far-reaching changes by integrating social-emotional skill building into the nation’s educational system .

[For more of this story, written by Jane Meredith Adams, go to https://edsource.org/2016/nati...onal-learning/569663]