The Mindful Blog
SEL Strategy: Tippy Toes Breath (Elementary)
This SEL strategy helps us focus and relax and is great for your little ones. First: Stand next to your desk with a tall spine. As you get started, place a hand on your chair to help you balance. Then: Focus your gaze on a point in from of you. Choose a spot...
SEL Strategy: Tippy Toes Breath (Elementary)
This SEL strategy helps us focus and relax and is great for your little ones. First: Stand next to your desk with a tall spine. As you get started, place a hand on your chair to help you balance. Then: Focus your gaze on a point in from of you. Choose a spot...
Stay Connected with Mindful Practices Through our Remote SEL Support Program
Mindful Practices knows that during this stressful time, taking care of yourself, your family, and your students matters. Our Remote SEL Support Program includes mindfulness, movement, yoga, stress reduction techniques, and professional development sessions that are...
SEL Strategy: Brain Massage (all ages)
This all ages SEL strategy helps us focus and relax. This activity is a positive way to manage our emotions, and is also an easy thing to do if we are at home and need a break. Close your eyes and take a deep breath. Open your eyes and tap your fingertips on your...
I Teach Because…the Spark of the CEC Conference
I Teach Because... When educators look back at this moment, they might say 2019 was the year when everything in education started to shift. We think it will be in large part because of a spark that began at the Conference for Exceptional Children in Indianapolis. We...
Preparing for Back-to-School with Mindfulness
Any significant change in routine can be a source of stress for children, and back-to-school is no exception. Kids have to make some major mental adjustments as they transition from the freedom of summer to the structure of a classroom. Help your child reduce stress...
Three Ways Teachers Can Kick-Start Social-Emotional Learning During Back-to-School
Back-to-school can be a stressful time for students and teachers alike. Students may be upset, worried, or restless as they adjust to a new schedule, and teachers have to manage all of these emotions while dealing with their own stress. Since the first few days...
Three Ways Teachers Can Kick-Start Social-Emotional Learning During Back-to-School
Back-to-school can be a stressful time for students and teachers alike. Students may be upset, worried, or restless as they adjust to a new schedule, and teachers have to manage all of these emotions while dealing with their own stress. Since the first few days...
Metal Detectors & Armed Teachers? or SEL Solutions for Safer Schools?
Become a Catalyst for Change! We believe in prevention over intervention. Interventions is costly (the equipment, staff and emotional impact) while not solving for the root causes. We support the school districts looking towards Social-Emotional Learning (SEL) to...
The Role of Social-Emotional Learning in Recess
Recess is a time for students to let loose and simply enjoy being children for a while. It provides a crucial period of respite in a heavily structured routine that involves lots of sitting still and listening. It also plays an important role in children’s...
The Role of Social-Emotional Learning in Recess
Recess is a time for students to let loose and simply enjoy being children for a while. It provides a crucial period of respite in a heavily structured routine that involves lots of sitting still and listening. It also plays an important role in children’s...
How Social-Emotional Learning Helps Students Cope with Mental Health Issues
Social-emotional learning is all about teaching children how to manage their emotions so they can handle real-life challenges. While these skills can and should be taught in schools, these same schools can also be a significant source of stress for students on both...
How Social-Emotional Learning Helps Students Cope with Mental Health Issues
Social-emotional learning is all about teaching children how to manage their emotions so they can handle real-life challenges. While these skills can and should be taught in schools, these same schools can also be a significant source of stress for students on both...
Three Fun Ways to Incorporate Social-Emotional Learning in the Classroom
Social-emotional learning (SEL) should be relaxing. We believe that relaxed teachers teach better, and relaxed students learn better. Attempts to incorporate SEL into the classroom will be less successful if teachers are stressed or students are bored. The key to...
Three Ways Teachers Benefit from Teaching Social Emotional Learning in the Classroom
Ask any teacher, and they’ll tell you teaching is a stressful job. Not only do teachers need to manage a classroom full of children, they also have to handle administrative paperwork, parent emails, curriculum development, extracurricular responsibilities, and more....
Three Ways Teachers Benefit from Teaching Social Emotional Learning in the Classroom
Ask any teacher, and they’ll tell you teaching is a stressful job. Not only do teachers need to manage a classroom full of children, they also have to handle administrative paperwork, parent emails, curriculum development, extracurricular responsibilities, and more....
What Is Social-Emotional Learning, and Why Is It Important in the Classroom?
Everyone agrees that schools are responsible for educating young people, but what does this education consist of? Skills like reading, writing, and math are important, but students need more than academic skills to succeed in life. Parents, teachers, and students...
Why Social Emotional Learning Curriculum Should Start in Preschool
Parents, teachers, and students alike agree that social-emotional learning (SEL) should be an essential part of classroom curriculum. But how early should this kind of instruction begin in order for it to be most effective? A study by Greenberg et. al. concludes that...
Self-Care Tips for Preventing & Battling the Flu
According to the map of influenza in the United States, there's a good chance that you or someone you know has experienced, or will experience this year's strain: H3N2. Stay at least three feet away from anyone who is coughing or sneezing. Keep your hands away from...
Child Friendly Meditation for Your Kids
Child Friendly Meditation for Your Kids When most of us picture meditation, it doesn't involve children. Perhaps it's time for that image to change. For those who have practiced meditation for any length of time, the benefits to health and wellbeing become obvious....