Mindful Classrooms

The Mindful Classroom

The Mindful Classroom: Constructive Conversations on Race, Identity, and Justice helps teachers and discussion facilitators practice and teach mindfulness and movement techniques that can deeply enhance conversations about race, identity, and social justice, furthering social justice efforts at their most basic stage—person to person—from the face-to-face or online classroom to the community at large. Mindfulness and movement practices can help us prepare for and engage in difficult conversations, and the more conscious we become of our emotional, mental, and physical landscape, the more we are able to engage proactively rather than reactively, consciously rather than automatically. We become able to act (or not act), rather than react in situations with others. The topics of race and social justice are timely, and they are triggers. Productive engagement with these topics demands we remain mindful of how we may be triggered and how we may be triggering others; it demands we pay attention to ourselves at a fundamental level, and it demands that we grant such attention to others.

Mindful Classrooms: the Educator Guide

Mindful Classrooms is a 36 week guide outlining how to utilize mindfulness in the classroom through five different facets of mindfulness: stretching, breathing, listening, seeing, and eating. It is written by a former Pre-K teacher and Austin ISD Teacher of the Year based on experience using mindfulness in his classroom. There are scripts, photos, and different Social and Emotional Learning topics to focus on each week. Mindful Classrooms makes implementing mindfulness into your daily routine with students easy and understandable for the teacher and students. Teachers, administrators, family members and students who have used Mindful Classroom have found it to have a profound impact on their lives in the classroom and at home.

Mindful Classrooms