Cultivating Mindfulness in the Classroom

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Mindfulness training, with its immense benefits, is embraced in many professional training arenas, including “major corporations and even the Navy SEALs, but it lags in the arena of educating our most precious assets. The time is now for us to train the whole mind of our students, and Cultivating Mindfulness in the Classroom is an excellent resource to help educators get onboard.

—MARK DIVINE, Author, Unbeatable Mind: Forge Resiliency and Mental Toughness to Succeed at an Elite Level; Founder, SEALFIT

Cultivating Mindfulness in the Classroom makes accessible to classroom teachers a set of strategies that can “provide a missing foundation to the K–12 educational process. Educators have long realized that there is more to teaching than imparting new knowledge and skills in a clear and concise manner. Rather, every student sitting in every classroom is dealing with a complex internal world that involves hopes, dreams, and goals. . . . Thankfully, the authors provide educators with practical tools for addressing students’ internal worlds from both positive and negative perspectives.

—From the foreword by ROBERT J. MARZANO

Part of The Classroom Strategies Series, this clear, highly practical guide follows the series format, first summarizing key research and then translating it into recommendations for classroom practice. Visit marzanoresearch.com/classroomstrategies to download the free reproducibles in this book. Marzano Research is a joint venture between Solution Tree and Dr. Robert J. Marzano. Marzano Research combines Dr. Marzano’s forty years of educational research with continuous action research in all major areas of schooling in order to provide effective and accessible instructional strategies, leadership strategies, and classroom assessment strategies that are always at the forefront of best practice.

ISBN 978-1-943360-09-3 90000

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JEANIE M. IBERLIN

In Cultivating Mindfulness in the Classroom, author Jeanie M. Iberlin and contributor Mike Ruyle advocate that K–12 teachers must use mindfulness practices in the classroom so students know how to cope with their emotions as they learn and grow. They illustrate that mindfulness is an effective, low-cost way for educators to help students manage their stress, focus their brains for extended periods of time, and increase their emotional intelligence. Teachers can foster better classroom cultures and higher student achievement when they make students more mindful of their emotions.

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Cultivating Mindfulness in the Classroom

Cultivating Mindfulness in the Classroom


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