It’s 7:50 a.m. on a Friday in a fourth-grade classroom at Crockett Elementary School in Phoenix, Arizona. The students are quiet and focused, working on their “Zen Tangles,” a mindfulness-based art ...

The beginning of the school year is all about routines and procedures. Teaching students how to line up. Where to return materials. How to choose a book from the classroom library. It is also the ...

Mindfulness is a powerful tool which supports children in calming themselves, focusing their attention, and interacting effectively with others, all critical skills for functioning well in school and ...

As her Churchland Academy Elementary students faced COVID learning loss, community traumas and rising gun violence, first-year principal Karla Jakubowski knew she wanted to address social and ...

American classrooms are quietly evolving. Alongside the traditional triad of reading, writing, and arithmetic, a fourth discipline is staking its claim: Mindfulness. No longer confined to yoga studios ...

OXFORD – In a pre-K classroom at Rosser Early Learning Center in Moorehead, children sit with legs crossed and eyes closed. In what is normally a bustling classroom, an unexpected silence settles in.

APPLETON - It's a situation educators who work with preschoolers have encountered many times: a 3- or 4-year-old child waddles up to a peer and swipes a toy from them. This can result in the kind of ...

Children are uniquely suited to benefit from mindfulness practice. Habits formed early in life will inform behaviors in adulthood, and with mindfulness, we have the opportunity to give our children ...