Mindfulness
Utilizes mindfulness meditation and emotional intelligence exercises to build self-regulation, empathy, and mindful attention, gain impulse control to build better regulatory and decision-making skills.
MARC fosters and publicizes research to support the scientific benefits of mindful awareness, offering tools and classes to professionals in mental health, medicine, and K-12 education.
This website includes a downloadable starter lesson for educators, and multiple videos from classroom examples, to scholarly lectures from biologists and psychologists.
Mindfulness activities and teaching resources such as lesson plans, links to scholarly articles, and advice for teachers who are unsure about implementing mindfulness curriculum.
Being a teen is stressful! Whether it’s school, friends, or dating, the teen years are full of difficult changes-both mentally and physically. If you’re like many teens, you may have difficulty dealing with stress in effective ways. You aren’t alone, and there are things you can do to stay calm, no matter how stressful life becomes. All you need to do is stop, breathe, and be mindful and aware in the present moment.
Various tips, steps and resources for educators to read and learn on how to implement mindfulness into the classroom curriculum.
University of Southern California’s Masters in Social Work program has created a Mindfulness Toolkit that contains a list of mindfulness tips, tricks, and meditation for beginners.
Free Meditations from Mindfulness
All of the meditations on the page are taken from their book ‘Mindfulness: Finding Peace in a Frantic World’. The book contains the complete 8 week mindfulness course developed at Oxford University.
Backed by extensive positive psychological research, MindUP aims to cultivate mindful, emotional, social techniques to improve behavior and learning by teaching children skills to manage emotions and behaviors, reduce stress, sharpen concentration, and increase empathy and optimism.
Aims to reduce adolescent stress and its physical and psychological consequences by teaching teens mindfulness-based stress reduction techniques, enabling them to build social skills, confidence, and more.
The Teaching Channel provides free membership to create an online community in which teachers can learn, connect, and inspire each other to improve outcomes for K-12 students across America. The website provides over 175 videos on how to effecively teach to the Common Core Standards.
Teachers face stressful days and often can be given overwhelming tasks. Studies show that those who show gratitude, despite the hardships, often see a decrease in stress, are more productive, and feel much better overall. The goal of this challenge is to make your life a little bit better one day at at time. “The 5 Day Gratitude Challenge” aims to put a little structure into giving thanks, and offers an opportunity to encourage people.