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Incorporating Mindfulness Training Into Teacher Education

    CARE Training participants earlier this year Teacher stress and burnout are widespread and significant factors in the quality and costs of education. Evidence is mounting that contemplative practices are effective at reducing them.  Most recently, a study published in the journal Mind, Brain and Education trained a group of elementary school teachers in a form of Mindfulness-Based Stress…

Contemplative Practices in the Classroom

This illuminating new video about the Hawn Foundation’s MindUp Program is a good introduction to the today’s contemplative practices in the classroom. And it features Garrison Institute Initiative on Contemplation and Education Director Tish Jennings, Advisory Board member Dan Siegel and Education Leadership Council member Kim Schonert-Reichl.