The Mindful Blog
A Look Back at Student Voice Summit 2022
Welcome to our second annual Student Voice Summit featuring student speakers, performers, panelists, and artwork. Students from across the United States completed video submissions with the following questions in mind:What’s going on in the world? How do you handle...
Give the Gift of Time & Training
While we love teacher appreciation week each year (and hope your building enjoyed it!), it isn’t just a week-long practice. Whether it is walking through the building or sitting in on classes, as administrators, every day you see the true impact of your educators’...
Equity and SEL: Better Together
The recent challenges and chaos of the pandemic has really highlighted the importance of Social Emotional Learning (SEL) and Diversity, Equity and Inclusion (DEI). Separately they are important, but together they can help change the world. Despite all of our...
Student Voice Summit Recap: Aiming for Action and Agency
A Look BackIn May, Mindful Practices and Class Catalyst were honored to host our first annual Student Voice Summit: Aiming for Action and Agency, featuring youth voices from across the United States. Led entirely by K-12 students, our Student Voice Summit featured...
Turning ESSER Funds in to Long Term School Success
The newly released ESSER Funds, is much like winning the lottery for low-income, public schools. Find out how best to invest these funds to maximize a positive, long-term impact.
Managing Anxiety of Returning to In-Person Learning
With the return to in-person learning, anxiety shows up in different ways for staff, students and families. Mindful Practices has invited leaders who are skillfully navigating this transition to share ideas for managing the anxiety that comes with a return to...
Early Childhood Additions to the SEL On Demand Video Library
We’re excited to share our Early Childhood SEL videos featuring Ms Amy. Kids will love the catchy toons and these easy to follow practices.
Easing Your Start-of-the-School Year Anxiety
The end-of-summer jitters come for educators every year, but the unknowns for this upcoming school year may feel especially anxiety-inducing. At Mindful Practices, we believe the way to embrace the present is to understand the intricacies of how we are feeling and how to regulate those feelings. Our practices below are meant to provide self-care around boundaries, gratitude, and mindfully acknowledging your present feelings and emotions so you can feel more prepared to handle the unknowns as you move into the school year.
Equity and Allyship
We recorded this town hall with Autumn Gupta with Bryanna Wallace, the founders of Justice In June on July 17th. Visit their website https://justiceinjune.org/ for their compete list of learning resources and a schedule of what to do each day to be a better...
SEL in Every Corner of the Building, Everyday
Mindful Practice's school partner, London Middle School, shares their SEL story and how they connect with every student, everyday. View Free SEL ResourcesAlso available directly on YouTube Town Hall Date & Time: June 19, 2020 Presented by: Dr. Luis Correa -...
Prioritizing Your Life: Rocks, Pebbles and Sand
Prioritizing what to focus on in your life is a question we all ask ourselves. We created a simple animation about the impact of focusing on the important things in life...or how if you focus on the minutia how you'll end up missing out on the important things. This...
Morning Mindfulness Schedule (week of 6/14)
Viewing Schedule for the week of 6/14 We're bringing mindfulness to you live every weekday morning at 8am CT to help you start your day off right. We're presenting on YouTube Live so you can enjoy these sessions with ease on any device. Click the links to view live or...
Morning Mindfulness Schedule (week of 6/7)
Viewing Schedule for the week of 6/7 We're bringing mindfulness to you live every weekday morning at 8am to help you start your day off right. We're presenting on YouTube Live so you can enjoy these sessions with ease on any device. Click the links to view live or add...
Morning Mindfulness Schedule (week of 5/31)
Viewing Schedule for the week of 5/31 We're bringing mindfulness to you live every weekday morning at 8am to help you start your day off right. We're presenting on YouTube Live so you can enjoy these sessions with ease on any device. Click the links to view live or...
Morning Mindfulness Schedule (week of 5/24)
Viewing Schedule for the week of 5/17 We're bringing mindfulness to you live every weekday morning at 8am to help you start your day off right. We're presenting on YouTube Live so you can enjoy these sessions with ease on any device. Click the links to view live or...
Morning Mindfulness Schedule (week of 5/17)
Viewing Schedule for the week of 5/17 We're bringing mindfulness to you live every weekday morning at 8am to help you start your day off right. We're presenting on YouTube Live so you can enjoy these sessions with ease on any device. Click the links to view live or...
Mindful Reading Playlist
Enjoy our Mindful Reading Playlist where we read children's books with a positive social-emotional message. During each video we take a moment to reflect on the stories and how they can relate to our viewer's lives. Some of the books we've read in this series include:...
Morning Mindfulness Schedule (week of 5/10)
Viewing Schedule for the week of 5/10 We're bringing mindfulness to you live every weekday morning at 8am to help you start your day off right. We're presenting on YouTube Live so you can enjoy these sessions with ease on any device. Click the links to view live or...
SEL & Arts Town Hall
Mindful Practice's own Vienna Webb and Michael Reindeau lead interactive lessons on teaching the arts through the lens of social emotional learning.Also available directly on YouTube Town Hall Date & Time: May 6, 2020 Presented by: Vienna Webb & Michael Riendeau
One Survivor’s Story
How Schools Can Support Families During COVID-19 We have all been effected by COVID-19 but luckily many of use only have seen this from a distance. Our friend and educator, Kate Mitchell Alfonzo tells her story of how COVID-19 impacted on her family. We also discussed...
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