Social and emotional learning is at the heart of good teaching, but as standards and testing requirements consume classroom time and divert teachersAE focus, these critical skills often get side lined. In Sharing the Blue Crayon , Mary Anne Buckley shows teachers how to incorporate social and emotional learning into a busy day and then extend these skills to literacy lessons for young children. Through simple activities such as read-alouds, sing-alongs, murals, and performances, students learn how to get along in a group, empathize with others, develop self-control, and give and receive...