1st Edition
Bringing Mindfulness Into the Classroom Easy Ideas You Can Try Tomorrow
How can we help our students navigate challenges with confidence, mental wellbeing, and presence? While many schools implement social emotional learning or guidance programs, this book shows an easy, effective, and sustainable way to incorporate mindfulness into your classroom no matter what grade or subject you teach.
Tara Segree, co-creator of the Student Alliance for Flourishing and a collaborator of the Mini Meditations for Kids podcast, shows how mindful practices can help students build confidence, overcome anxiety, focus, engage in learning, find their strengths, and more.
Chapters provide tools and activities for incorporating mindfulness into your day-to-day teaching, as well as ideas for partnering with families so students can continue their practice at home. Special features include The 30-Day Mindfulness Challenge to give you an accessible way to try mindfulness with your students, and pages with journal prompts to help you on your own mindfulness journey.
1. Why Mindfulness Is Essential In Our Classrooms Today 2. How Can Mindfulness Help Teachers? 3. Mindfulness for Student Anxiety and Redirecting 4. Mindfulness for Student Strengths and Collaboration 5. Mindfulness to Engage Students in Learning 6. Mindfulness in Nature 7. How Teachers Can Help Parents with Mindfulness at Home Appendix A: The 30-Day Classroom Mindfulness Challenge Appendix B: Mindful Pages: Journal Prompts for Bringing Mindfulness into Your Own Life
Biography
Tara Segree is a Special Education English Teacher in Maryland and the co-creator of the Student Alliance for Flourishing. Tara was trained in mindfulness under the world renowned expert and author davidji, and Suze Yalof Schwartz of Unplug Meditation in Los Angeles, California.
