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Children blossom - they are not water to be boiled

Teach Kids When They’re Ready Education has changed, kids haven’t.

Spending Time in Nature Produces Better Behaved Students New research finds third-graders are more attentive after experiencing a class taught on the lawn.

In order to realize those possibilities, we must learn to slow the mind, see them clearly, and act with intention to bring them into the world with focused presence.

Some ideas on increasing compassion in our classroom and in our lives.

Just A Little Nicer Compassion is a universal virtue, but is it innate or taught? Have we lost touch with it? Can we be better at it? In this hour, TED speakers explore compassion: its roots, its meaning and its future.

Teachers, you are wizards, magicians, and masters of a year long (career long) performance. Don't forget to allow yourselves to make the classroom your stage.

Education Is Performance Art Teller, of the entertainment duo Penn & Teller, explains how magic and discomfort made his teaching come alive.

The humanity that is gained through the lesson of caring for the dying will never be measured on a test, but it will extend the depths of our souls. This is a true education 'lesson'. Excellent work at Harley High School.

A Matter of Death and Life - Mindful High school seniors at The Harley School in Rochester, New York, have the option of taking a class called “hospice.” Most who sign up for it don’t know what they’re in for, but none of them forget the experience when it’s over.

What makes a good life? Lessons from the longest study on happiness Psychiatrist Robert Waldinger, director of a 75-year study on adult development, shares how to build a fulfilling, long life.

How to live a life of purpose These human stories carry powerful moments of inspiration.

Teaching Peace in Elementary School Many educators believe that children need to learn emotional intelligence to reach their full academic potential.

It's important to feel, recognize, and work through all emotions. Pretending some don't exist doesn't solve the inside issue.

Let the Child Cry: How Tears Support Social and Emotional Development Crying is an important part of children's social-emotional development. Instead of demanding that they stop, create an emotionally safe classroom with patience, acceptance, and compassion.

Managing one's mental health and emotional triggers should be every part of a student's wellness plan.

Boost Your Resilience By Managing Emotional Triggers Teachers, what or who triggers you? By exploring how we respond, we can increase our emotional resilience.

The MSBR (Mindfulness Based Stress Reduction) program guide. Research backed, scientifically proven, and easy enough for anyone who tries to read and understand. All that you need is contained within you, and once you begin, there is no going back to who you once were, but why would you want to anyway? :) Be well out there,

It's a theme that keeps coming back around. Mental health and who we will be is more important that what we do for work.

First make a life, then pursue making a living.

Your Mental Health is More Important Than Your Grades Ideas about "traditional" and "non-traditional" students have flipped, with increasing numbers of students being working professionals who want to earn new and advanced degrees. But across the board, what unites students of all ages and life circumstances is this: unprecedented stress levels.

All of your feelings are okay. It's what they tell us about how to become better teachers that matters.

Hey, New Teachers, It's OK To Cry In Your Car Getting through October and November can be tough for first-year teachers. Having someone along for the ride can help, and a veteran teacher near Miami offers hope and advice.

The pressure they feel must learn to be managed as a coordinated, team based, mindful effort or in many cases it will be detrimental to their learning and retention, as well as their life.

School Stress: Rescuing Our Children We want to prepare our children for the real world, allowing them to experience challenges and even (yikes!) fail at times, developing resiliency. We must, however, find a better balance, evaluating common stressors, and ask ourselves -- what in the educational environment no longer serves us?

The power of this research cannot be overstated....

"In health, it recommends expanding the opportunity for people who experience recurrent depression to take a course of Mindfulness-Based Cognitive Therapy (MBCT), as well as funding the training of competent teachers to deliver those courses.

In education, it recommends designating schools to pioneer the further development of mindfulness training for teachers and young people.

In the workplace, it urges government departments to take a lead by training their own staff in mindfulness, and encouraging examples of best practice and quality research.

And in the criminal justice system, it invites consideration to be given to offering mindfulness training to offenders with depression." ...

When does your training begin? ;)

Mindful Nation UK Report on Mental Health in Public Policy - Mindful The report's recommendations are practical, based on a summary of existing evidence for mindfulness.

This principle applies in Montessori and other alternative education settings as a way to minimize power relationships. Often schools will have non-violence and anti-bullying programs, all the while continuing to display power relationships between staff. Kids learn what is real and what is not by how we behave as adults around them, not what we tell them.

Do you think this would be good public school policy?

Straight from the horse's mouth. It's all about how you make them feel.

"My best teachers are the ones that don't just care about how I'm doing in my academics-- they care about how I'm doing in life." -William, 12th grade student

Agree? If so, consider an emotional intelligence training program utilizing Mindfulness.

Great exercise for the kids in class, and for the kid in us all.

Blowing Bubbles ❤️ STREET LOVINGKINDNESS with Sharon Salzberg Sharon invokes the joyous freedom of "Blowing Bubbles" in the second video of her STREET LOVINGKINDNESS VIDEO SERIES. The Buddha said, “life is like bubbles ...

Emotional skills are the driver of life success. These are skills we can learn through Mindfulness practice.

Sometimes career success starts in kindergarten.

Student Centered education puts them in the driver seat. It's the best way of making it all meaningful.

Student-Led Conferences Resources to get started.

Great reminder in Kindfulness, a basic tenant of mindfulness training. Be well out there

Great things!

What Happens When Mindfulness Enters Schools Could teaching mindfulness meditation in schools help students and teachers, inside and outside the classroom?

The kindness of a handwritten note cannot be overstated, and the learning will never be measured against a standard, but this is the way kids grow as people not only as students.

Why one woman is looking for the kids who sent messages of support after Katrina, 10 years later. They made all the difference.

'...perhaps the loveliest marker of Laetitia’s intelligence lies in the questions she asked her philosopher mother at a young age. Like this one, in kindergarten: “Mama,” she asked, “if all people who are born eventually die, then what is the point in living?”

Annette’s answer: “Laetitia, you live to learn.”

In Mindfulness we learn to learn about ourselves from within, the infinity mystery.

Are You Smarter Than This 11-Year-Old? Laetitia Hahn speaks five languages and plays unreasonably impressive concert piano. Feel bad. Feel very bad.

Q: What would you say is the purpose of life?

A: To come out of misery. A human being has the wonderful ability to go deep inside, observe reality, and come out of suffering. Not to use this ability is to waste one's life. Use it to live a really healthy, happy life!

How to Hardwire Your Brain for Happiness with Dr. Rick Hanson Renowned psychologist Rick Hanson shares his expertise to explain the hardwiring of our brains and why focusing on the positive makes such a big difference.

How to Maintain Peace & Joy Despite Your Everyday Struggles A busy life doesn’t have to be a stressful life. By adding, subtracting, and modifying a few of our daily tasks, we can maintain our peace and joy