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Almut Zieher, Ph.D., an Associate Research Scientist at the Yale Child Study Center at Yale University. Her experiences as a general and special education teacher led her to study how teachers learn and engage in social and emotional behaviors to increase teacher well-being and responsive teaching. She uses social, emotional, and mindfulness theories and approaches to inform formative assessment system development, responsive and individualized teacher professional development and participatory research as learning.听
Dr. Zieher has contributed to field-building with instrumental articles and leadership. She is the first author of the article, Considering the "How" of SEL: A framework for the pedagogies of social and emotional learning, which was selected as a 2025 Article of the Year in the SEL flagship journal, Social and Emotional Learning: Practice, Policy, and Research. Early findings of her project to develop a novel measure of mindful teaching are described in the article Mindful qualities of teaching: A collaborative analysis of teachers' recollections of听classroom interactions published in the same journal. 听
You can contact Almut at almut.zieher@yale.edu with thoughts, suggestions, and questions about the Social and Emotional Learning Special Interest Group.