Vicki Zakrzewski is making a difference by empowering educators with a deeper understanding of how to improve the social-emotional well-being of teachers and students alike. In her blogging for UC Berkeley's Greater Good Science Center, Vicki reports on cutting-edge findings from the science of compassion, happiness, gratitude, awe, resilience, and related topics. She not only translates this research into terms relevant to educators but clearly explains how educators can apply these findings to their classrooms. Eschewing easy answers and wishful thinking, Vicki provides educators with credible, research-based ideas for how to cultivate kindness and resilience in their classrooms, and she makes clear how these skills sometimes dismissed as "soft" are actually essential to academic achievement and guard against teacher burnout. Her writing offers a rare mix of benefits to readers: sharp analysis of trends in education, inspiration to tackle complicated problems, and practical tools to effect real psychological and social change. What's more, she has built on her writing by taking it out into the "real world," offering a series of workshops for teachers and launching an unprecedented Summer Institute for Educators this summer, where educators from all around the world will convene on the UC Berkeley campus for an intensive 6-day training to learn about best practices in social-emotional learning.