Social-Emotional Learning

In this interview, Linda Mitchell talks about her new book that explores how to help children deal with their feelings, with photos captured by her husband Odell Mitchell Jr., a retired St. Louis Post-Dispatch photographer. “How Are You Today? A Celebration of Children’s Emotions" is a photography book geared toward a pre-kindergarten through elementary school audience.

Almost three dozen schools in the St. Louis area will track their students’ social-emotional health from the start of the upcoming school year to the end.…