Empowering Education & Conflict Resolution
How does Empowering Education teach conflict resolution? Of all themes that Empowering Education covers, conflict resolution is high on the list. Conflict is in the halls of any middle school, and where it doesn’t exist it that seems teens can create it from thin air....
A Mindful Approach to New Year’s Resolutions
As the days begin to grow longer and we welcome the next calendar year, many are looking toward 2019 with a familiar mixture of hope, trepidation, excitement, and uncertainty. The new year inevitability brings with it the question of resolutions, goals, and hopes for...
Tips for the Trauma Informed Educator: Stress & Trauma as Resilience Factors
Recent years have seen a remarkable shift in schools and educators across the country embracing the concepts of social-emotional learning and trauma-informed teaching. This is undoubtedly a positive and necessary shift in our approach to education. Like any...
School-Based Mindfulness – Examining the Evidence
The past several decades have seen a marked increase in the use of mindfulness-based interventions to promote psychological health and well-being. According to Burke (2009), the use of mindfulness-based approaches with adult populations has been well documented to...
Meet Munchy and Jumpy
Tales of Mindfulness, Social-Emotional Learning, and Second Chances
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