The proposed research seeks to investigate emotional capital within the field of education. It defines emotional capital as a combination of emotion-based knowledge, management skills, and capacities that can be used as social and emotional resources. The research seeks to investigate teaching professionalism issues for the identification and harnessing of resources and skills for emotional capital. Not merely interior and subjective states, emotions should be rightly seen as intertwined in the complex reality of teaching along with cognition, self and context, ethical judgement, and purposeful action. The research is aligned with the Social and Emotional Learning (SEL) framework but moving beyond the focus on students, this research focuses on teachers’ wellbeing as well as the knowledge gap in the root causes of emotional detriments as well as how emotional capital can be applied and enhanced especially in the areas of emotional knowledge, skills, and capacities. In this effort, this research seeks to conduct 2 interviews 6 months apart with 16 to 20 teachers from primary, secondary, and junior colleges in Singapore. The concept of emotional capital also allows for envisioning practices beyond wellbeing to serve as resources for circulation, accumulation, and exchange with other forms of capital. This research also seeks to advance a critical and ethical notion of emotional capital that does not seek to accrue individualistic profit through manipulative means, but from self and societal benefit accrued from relational and mutual interdependence leading to community flourishing. There is also a need to focus on teachers’ emotional wellbeing as it is inconceivable for adequate care to be given to their students if teachers are not in a good emotional place themselves. Given the advent of automation brought forth by artificial intelligence, teachers need to be actively teaching and modelling such emotional capital to enhance students’ future employment readiness, as it is the case that emotional skills cannot be easily replaced.