"Social-emotional learning is a necessary aspect of a child's development, and it is often overlooked in education. Children must have access to social-emotional education to experience full neurological development and excel as contributing members of society. Authors Tracey A. Hulen and Ann-Bailey Lipsett offer their book Building Blocks for Social-Emotional Learning: Creating Safe, Secure, and Successful Elementary Schools to help elementary educators implement social-emotional instruction into their classrooms. The book includes detailed information on children's neurological development and need for social-emotional nourishment, which serves as a foundation for the practical strategies to integrate social-emotional concepts into instruction, lesson planning, and assessment. Building Blocks for Social-Emotional Learning provides everything elementary teachers need to help students understand and develop social-emotional concepts so they can reach their full potential"--