Mindful Educators Community

https://mindfuleducators.mindful.org/

Pure Edge, The Awake Network, and Mindful have gathered the best practices for bringing mindfulness into the classroom from 25 of today’s leading mindfulness experts and educators—and we’re offering them to you for free.
Here are some of the great resources you can explore:
On Finding Calm:

  • The Science of Mindfulness
  • How to Bring Embodied Mindfulness Practices to Kids and Youth
  • How Mindful Teachers Lead to Mindful Students

On Honing Attention:

  • How to Create Healing-Centered Schools
  • What Mindfulness Has to Offer You
  • The 5 Myths of Bringing Mindfulness into Schools

On Building Resilience:

  • How to Lead with Mindfulness
  • Embodied Resilience
  • Creating Resilient Students and Systemic Change

Meditation Timer

These audio files consist of various lengths of silence as an aid to meditation practice. A bell is rung once at the start and three times at the end. You may download these files or listen to them in streaming audio.

http://www.insightmeditation
center.org/meditation-timers/


Apps

Headspace for Educators

https://www.headspace.com/educators

Headspace offers free access to all K-12 teachers, school administrators, and supporting staff in the US, UK, Canada, and Australia. Helping you be kind to yourself and your health, and guide your students and their parents through this difficult time.

Free subscription


WE Virtual Learning Center

https://weschools.we.org/

Rooted in social and emotional learning and positive youth development, the program supports teachers and empowers young people to be their strongest selves: gaining the critical skills to be future-ready and compassionate citizens.


RESOURCES for EDUCATORS

 

 

Educators First with Heidi Bornstein


Download Mindfulness Everyday Resource List in French

 

 

 

 

Focus on Teacher Wellness

The Teacher Self-Care Manual: Simple Self-Care Strategies for Stressed Teachers by Patrice Palmer Teaching Well: How healthy, empowered teachers lead to thriving, successful classrooms by Lisa Bush Fostering Mindfulness: Building Skills That Students Need to Manage Their Attention, Emotions, and Behavior in Classrooms and Beyond by Shelley Murphy Teacher Burnout Turnaround: Strategies for Empowered Educators by Patricia A. Jennings

Penguin Random House

Resources for Educators, Librarians, and Parents

https://www.rhteacherslibrarians.com/latest-buzz/updates-and-resources-for-educators/

Building Empathy With Books - Middle School (Penguin Random House)

https://images.randomhouse.com/promo_image/9781524720087_5243.pdf


School Mental Health Ontario

https://smho-smso.ca/

School Mental Health Ontario is a provincial implementation support team. We help school districts enhance student mental health through the use of evidence-based strategies and services.

https://smho-smso.ca/find-a-resource/

Everyday Mental Classroom Resource (K-8)

ducators have a very important role to play in promoting mental health and well-being at school.  This resource is designed to support elementary educators (K-8) in this role by offering a repository of high-quality everyday mental health practices that can be easily incorporated into classroom routines.  It is the result of a collaboration between the Elementary Teachers’ Federation of Ontario (ETFO) and School Mental Health ASSIST, with evidence/review support from the Centre for Addiction and Mental Health, Provincial System Support Program. The Everyday Mental Health Classroom Resource has been informed by evidence and co-created with practicing educators to ensure that it will meet the needs of busy educators.
https://smh-assist.ca/emhc/Faith and Wellness Mental Health Resource

 

The practices align with Ontario’s curriculum and are designed to help Catholic elementary teachers model and teach social-emotional skills and create and sustain mentally healthy classrooms. https://smho-smso.ca/fw/


SELSpace

https://selspace.ca/

A site created by educators for educators. A space to explore and find lessons and resources that support student Social and Emotional Learning. The question is no longer IF SEL improves academic performance, but rather HOW you are going to incorporate it into your teaching.

SELspace is divided into carefully considered modules to assist educators in integrating and addressing SEL (Social and Emotional Learning). Each module looks at essential knowledge and skills related to a student’s social and emotional well-being. The modules collectively support the goal of building a positive community within classrooms, schools, and the communities we live in.


Empowering Education Mindful Moments for Schools K-8

https://soundcloud.com/empoweringeducation-info

Playlist of guided practices that are suitable for both school and home


Myndful Movement Program with Deb Taylor

https://myndfulmovement.com

Educators Courses / Resource Material / Movement Videos

MYndful Movement includes: positive intentions set with calming breath-work, basic physiotherapy exercises, gentle stretch, Qigong, gentle toning movements to support your full body, strong mind. 


Stressed Teens

Stressed Teens with Gina Biegel

https://www.stressedteens.com/

Stressed Teens offers online courses for teens, parents, educators and professionals, as well as resources.

Additionally, Stressed Teens has a free COVID-Toolbox Page and everything on that page is free and there are a myriad of audio mindfulness practices, downloadable mindfulness and stress reduction activities, and of course awesome self-care coloring pages. https://www.stressedteens.com/covid-19-tool-kit


All-School Program from Stressed Teens
(for Middle and High Schools)

https://www.stressedteens.com/

There is a new All-School, All-Community Mindfulness-Centered Social-Emotional Learning (SEL) Curriculum that you can check out. There is a fee, but no one is turned away for lack of funding. The first lessons are up on the webpage check more out: https://www.stressedteens.com/all-school-program

MINDFULNESS-CENTERED SOCIAL-EMOTIONAL LEARNING (SEL) CURRICULUM FOR TEENS, EDUCATORS, AND PARENTS

AN ALL-SCHOOL PROGRAM FOR THE 2020-2021 SCHOOL YEAR  

Link for video on 32-lesson https://vimeo.com/438397321 | Link to video for 16-mindful movement lesson https://vimeo.com/438392743


The Mindful Teen

http://mindfulnessforteens.com/

The Mindful Teen: Powerful Skills to Help You Handle Stress One Moment at a Time by Dzung X. Vo

Being a teen can be really stressful! Mindfulness is a powerful way to handle stress, and live life more fully. This website provides information, tools, and resources to help you get started.

Downloable Guided Meditations (FREE): http://mindfulnessforteens.com/guided-meditations/