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 ...

In most schools across the country, you are likely to find students practicing mindfulness – whether that means taking some collective deep breaths, practicing yoga together or participating in a ...

Thoughts are open for interpretation. Feelings are the interpreters. And, teachers are the translators of both thoughts and feelings. For this reason, education is open to a new mindfulness. Educators ...

My students are in crisis—actual crisis. They are severely anxious, depressed and distressed. They have told me as much over countless office hours, lunches and phone conversations. I sound like a ...