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TAMPA, Fla —
As mental health issues continue to impact kids, many school districts are taking their own approaches to help.
According to the CDC, last year 37% of high school students said they experienced poor mental health during the pandemic; 44% of them said they felt sad and hopeless a lot.… [Read more]
By Ben Painter
4th-grade students led their town School Committee through the practices that have been supporting their mental health. What the School Committee did next shows us what is possible for mindfulness in schools.
… [Read more]“If I’m a little stressed or overwhelmed about school, I just take a few deep breaths and that helps me
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CAPE ELIZABETH, Maine —
Cape Elizabeth Middle School hired a Mindfulness Director to help students navigate some of their mental health needs
Cape Elizabeth Middle School introduced a new teacher to their students in 2019 that teaches them about mindfulness.
Students are being reminded to take a deep breath and slow down.
Erica … [Read more]
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A program that started at the onset of the pandemic has gotten positive feedback all around, the principal says.
Mindfulness is on the minds of teachers and students at Cape Elizabeth Middle School and a program now in its second year has also included parents and caregivers.
The school has been hosting a … [Read more]
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“Don’t just do something! Sit there!”
That’s how the pioneering Insight teacher Sylvia Boorstein used to introduce meditation to beginners. “Being peace,” is the way the Vietnamese Buddhist monk Thich Nhat Hanh explained it. Tibetan lamas sometimes called it Mind Training, and Massachusetts MD and Zen practitioner Jon Kabat Zinn, seeking stress reduction … [Read more]
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In her role as Mindfulness Director at a US middle school, Erica Marcus is helping students and teachers honor the difficulties of learning in the era of COVID, while also savoring the joys.
While hybrid learning comes with a slew of challenges, Erica Marcus is using these difficulties to teach mindfulness to the … [Read more]
Source: www.mindful.org
Mindfulness meditation teacher Enrique Collazo is disrupting class-as-usual with a mindfulness and compassion curriculum.
Enrique Collazo’s goal as the mindfulness director of Oakland’s MetWest High School is to improve students’ relationships with their thoughts, cultivate compassion, and celebrate interconnectedness through course curriculum and mindfulness sessions. And he’s seeing results. “There is a lot … [Read more]
Source: richmondmagazine.com
BareSOUL Yoga’s founder creates a new collective centered on Black wellness
When Vicki Wise heard the news on Sept. 23 that the two police officers who shot and killed Breonna Taylor in her home in Louisville, Kentucky, would not face criminal charges, she was angry. After a summer steeped in racial tension, it … [Read more]
Carrington Kernodle Epperson is the Mindfulness Director at the University of Virginia. Among the initiatives she led in her first months at UVA was Flourishing While Black, a program sponsored by the Contemplative Sciences Center that uses culturally responsive yoga and meditation sessions to foster well-being and a greater sense of belonging among undergraduate and … [Read more]
By Taeya Boi-Doku
During these past few months, the world has felt like it is simultaneously spinning out of our control and desperately needing our help. To try and make sense of this jumble, I have found that I need to stay in motion. Knowing that I cannot keep up with all the information in … [Read more]