What is Mindfulness?
Mindfulness is awareness that arises through paying attention, on purpose, in the present moment, non-judgementally. From Jon Kabat-Zinn
Curriculum
Learning 2 Breathe-A Mindfulness Curriculum for Adolescents to Cultivate Emotion Regulation, Attention, and Performance
This curriculum is based on Jon Kabat-Zinn’s pioneering work on mindfulness-based stress reduction that is supported by rigorous research. It is a clear, user-friendly, and inspiring guide for bringing mindfulness to our youth.
MindUP Curriculum-15 Lessons for PRE-K-8th Grades
Each lesson offers easy strategies for helping students focus their attention, improve their self-regulation skills, build resilience to stress, and develop a positive mind-set in both school and life.
Mindful Schools-Online, Self-Paced Classes for Educators
Offers online courses to help bring mindfulness to your K-12 classroom. The Fundamental course focuses on building your own practices and the Educator Essentials Course offers access to their K-12 curriculum and learn strategies to teach mindfulness skills to your students.
Calm Classroom-3-minute, scripted mindfulness-based techniques for PREK-High School
The scripted format makes it easy for teachers and students to lead the techniques with little-to-no prep required.
Research in Schools
- Mindfulness Changes the Brain-The amygdala is less activated, the hippocampus, critical to learning and memory, is more active, and the prefrontal cortex is more activated.
- Mindfulness with Teachers-When teachers learn mindfulness, they not only reap personal benefits such as reduced stress and burnout15 but their schools do as well. In randomized controlled trials, teachers who learned mindfulness reported greater efficacy in doing their jobs16 and had more emotionally supportive classrooms17 and better classroom organization18 based on independent observations.
- Mindfulness with Students-Studies find that youth benefit from learning mindfulness in terms of improved cognitive outcomes, social-emotional skills, and well being. In turn, such benefits may lead to long-term improvements in life. For example, social skills in kindergarten predict improved education, employment, crime, substance abuse and mental health outcomes in adulthood.19
- Explore the Mindful Schools Website for more information.
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