Social emotional learning is commonly referred to as the "fifth curriculum" in addition to math, literacy, social studies, and science. However, educators cannot teach what they do not understand, practice, or model. The problem addressed by this study was some educators in private schools lack training in social emotional learning, which can negatively affect them, their colleagues, and their students. The purpose of this qualitative, descriptive case study was to explore how educators at private schools in Silicon Valley, California describe their experiences with social emotional learning training, and how it affects their ability to deal with job-related stress and apply their social emotional learning skills with students and colleagues. The guiding conceptual frameworks of this study were based on Salovey and Mayer's theories of social emotional learning and emotional intelligence, and Kolb's theory of experiential learning. Three research questions guided this study, asking how educators at private schools in Silicon Valley, California describe their experiences with social emotional learning training, describe how participating in social emotional learning helps them handle job-related stress, and describe how they apply what they learned in social emotional learning training with their students and colleagues. Fifteen educators from private elementary schools located in Silicon Valley, California participated in one-on-one semi-structured interviews and a focus group. Saldana's level 1 and 2 coding process was used to analyze the data. Findings discussed the importance of providing educators with explicit social emotional learning professional development, especially in a format that includes interactive activities and collaborative discussion. Recommendations for future research included understanding the link between explicit SEL professional developments and positive relationships between teachers and students, and additional research in private school environments. [The dissertation citations contained here are published with the permission of ProQuest LLC. Further reproduction is prohibited without permission. Copies of dissertations may be obtained by Telephone (800) 1-800-521-0600. Web page: http://www.proquest.com.bibliotheek.ehb.be/en-US/products/dissertations/individuals.shtml.]