Mindfulness
Discover how students and educators can reduce stress, better regulate emotions, and focus more fully on teaching and learning by tuning into their inner selves.
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12 Ways to Help Students Identify Their Emotions
A toolkit of teacher-tested ideas to help build students’ ability to understand and express their feelings.1.5k -
Teaching Young Learners Self-Calming Skills
To help early elementary students manage big emotions, try breathing exercises and sharing how you deal with overpowering feelings. -
Creating a Dedicated Space for Reflection
Providing students with a quiet spot where they can calm themselves in times of stress helps them develop self-regulation.30k -
How to Maslow Before Bloom, All Day Long
Morning meetings are a good place to start, but what you really need is a toolkit of strategies to meet your students’ social and emotional needs all day long.15.5k -
More Than a Check-In: Maslow Before Bloom Throughout the Day
While checking in on students’ well-being at the beginning of class is important, tending to it throughout the day helps students flourish—socially, emotionally, and academically.12.1k -
Weekly Circles for Students and Faculty
See what happens when students and faculty participate in regular meetings to build trust and promote deeper learning.20.1k -
Counting Down to Restore Calm in the Classroom
This simple mindfulness activity can help reset your brain when things get chaotic during the school day.9.6k -
When Teachers Experience Empathic Distress
Mindfulness and compassion are effective self-care strategies for teachers who work with students who routinely experience trauma.15.3k -
8 Activities for Students (and Teachers) to Create a Mindful Classroom
Everyone in the classroom benefits when there are opportunities throughout the day to reflect and prepare for learning.6.2k -
Integrating SEL and Literacy
Get a peek at daily advisory meetings where students build both literacy and social and emotional learning skills in tight-knit groups.12k -
The Neuroscience Behind Productive Struggle
Challenging tasks spur the production of myelin, a substance that increases the strength of brain signals. Here are four strategies to incorporate productive struggle into your lessons.7.8k -
7 Ways to Calm a Young Brain in Trauma
How can we help elementary students who have been scarred by tragedy become more receptive to learning?13.3k -
How Teachers Can Set and Maintain Reasonable Expectations for Themselves
Combat stress and make space for self-compassion by using these cognitive reframing strategies to set realistic expectations.327 -
Rock On! How I Taught Focus to a Class That Wouldn’t Sit Still
How an art project on making rock sculptures helped a class of first graders settle down and find their focus.12.6k -
The Power of the Pineapple: Helping Kids Learn Self-Regulation
Observing nature can be an effective method for young students to discuss and understand their emotions in a calm learning environment.1.2k
