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See what registrants shared when asked how they bring SEL to their work: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1PAt9OY1EGTFubYAB_HBIBx4xQjDlp9nCp95ch-VklPE/edit?usp=sharing

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Mindful listening is key here. Honoring, acknowledging and believing someone's experience. Compassion is key.

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Mindful listening is key here. Honoring, acknowledging and believing someone's experience. Compassion is key.

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It depends on how you implement. Pre/Post test, reduction in school office referrals/suspension, change in response to triggers/other. 

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It depends on how you implement. Pre/Post test, reduction in school office referrals/suspension, change in response to triggers/other. 

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Find suggested training ideas in the presentation resource sheet https://drive.google.com/file/d/1c534yQgx1hHFqQ0b-BZmH8Ai5tpsk9sj/view?usp=sharing

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Choose a mindful moment from our resources list - it's a fun activity that all kids can get on board with.

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Choose a mindful moment from our resources list - it's a fun activity that all kids can get on board with.

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Service members sharing ideas via youtube https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCs7AoIF89LIMUbkpm7DU70g

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Students can use their senses to notice what is happening in this outside space

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We encourage the adults/staff learn how to practice mindfulness first. There are different approaches.  Implementing within a classroom or 1:1 is possible. The curriculum I utilize is topic-based with 12 lessons. Once a week schedule up to an hour to go through a lesson. There are activities designed as homework which is based on the theme. 

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We encourage the adults/staff learn how to practice mindfulness first. There are different approaches.  Implementing within a classroom or 1:1 is possible. The curriculum I utilize is topic-based with 12 lessons. Once a week schedule up to an hour to go through a lesson. There are activities designed as homework which is based on the theme. 

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With teens I have done listening to five where you close eyes and listen raising one finger for each new sound you hear.  I think we could do this in online groups as well.

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With teens I have done listening to five where you close eyes and listen raising one finger for each new sound you hear.  I think we could do this in online groups as well.

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smiles can be seen in our eyes and also expressing warmth and joy through tone of voice

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smiles can be seen in our eyes and also expressing warmth and joy through tone of voice

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I drew a small labyrinth with seeds once, with fallen petals once and we would walk it right away as soon as we got outside.  Our time constraints have been  an issue.  Also, they will need even more to move their bodies, we all do, when we get outside and transition from screen time.  A simple walk the paths of the gardens and share what comes up for us with whoever is nearby is a mindful moment, right?

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I was teaching at one of the 1st pilot schools for SEL in Austin.  They started 8+ years ago and the program is still going strong and the department has grown.  The website doesn't show much, but maybe if you follow the links??? https://www.austinisd.org/sel/implementation

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I was teaching at one of the 1st pilot schools for SEL in Austin.  They started 8+ years ago and the program is still going strong and the department has grown.  The website doesn't show much, but maybe if you follow the links??? https://www.austinisd.org/sel/implementation

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Implementation in Austin ISD AISD implemented Social and Emotional Learning by rolling our systems and strategies through the district's vertical team structure. A vertical team consists of a high school and all of its feeder middle and elementary schools. As of 2015-16, all schools in AISD are officially implementing SEL.

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first, create a safe space by defining what a safe space is for the students. acknowledge the emotional impact of the pandemic and offer students space to share. it may also be helpful to make group agreements together for the space - that way it's collective. 

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first, create a safe space by defining what a safe space is for the students. acknowledge the emotional impact of the pandemic and offer students space to share. it may also be helpful to make group agreements together for the space - that way it's collective. 

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Begin garden time with letting kids quietly walk through the garden and look for something they are grateful for.

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Mindful eating of a mandarin orange - smell, feel, listen, taste SLOWLY... I've had success with elementary through middle school aged kids

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Mindful eating of a mandarin orange - smell, feel, listen, taste SLOWLY... I've had success with elementary through middle school aged kids

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Have students keep garden journals and record changes they see

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Have students keep garden journals and record changes they see

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(this is the place with the huge drop in suspensions)

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creating a safe environment for students to share - if they know that anything they bring up will be heard with respect, i think this topic will come up on its own.

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creating a safe environment for students to share - if they know that anything they bring up will be heard with respect, i think this topic will come up on its own.

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Do repetitive garden tasks with children, such as cracking corn, saving seeds, processing beans, etc.

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Do repetitive garden tasks with children, such as cracking corn, saving seeds, processing beans, etc.

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identify a gesture together that shows a "smile"- waving hands, thumbs up, wiggling fingers

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identify a gesture together that shows a "smile"- waving hands, thumbs up, wiggling fingers

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Brief check ins at the beginning and end of the day

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Brief check ins at the beginning and end of the day

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I currently take mindful nature walks with patients 

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I currently take mindful nature walks with patients 

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encourage children to look at your eyes

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perhaps using a common item familiar to all the kids either in virtual or in person classroom, as the tool to find mindfulness

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perhaps using a common item familiar to all the kids either in virtual or in person classroom, as the tool to find mindfulness

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build a sensory planter box with different herbs to smell and feel.  Do they remind you of anything? what do you like the best? what do you like least?

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build a sensory planter box with different herbs to smell and feel.  Do they remind you of anything? what do you like the best? what do you like least?

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There are many yoga teacher trainings for adults and kids - online and locally! I highly recommend becoming well-versed and well-practiced in mindfulness practice in order to offer it effectively!

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There are many yoga teacher trainings for adults and kids - online and locally! I highly recommend becoming well-versed and well-practiced in mindfulness practice in order to offer it effectively!

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We use a "Council Ring" circle and start each class with a share, and go around the circle offering each child an opportunity to share from a prompted question/ thought. Sometime we use a Talking Stick.  We also speak about the skill of listening to others.

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We use a "Council Ring" circle and start each class with a share, and go around the circle offering each child an opportunity to share from a prompted question/ thought. Sometime we use a Talking Stick.  We also speak about the skill of listening to others.

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Any sensory plants that kids can touch, smell, and feel in their own way and individually

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Any sensory plants that kids can touch, smell, and feel in their own way and individually

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Pilgrimage of the heart yoga is offering a mindfulness training for teaching children and teens this month.

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Pilgrimage of the heart yoga is offering a mindfulness training for teaching children and teens this month.

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lionsroar.com

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Ask how they feel before, during and after mindful practices/activities

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Imagination Yoga is a platform that informs enables and empowers people to teach yoga, kindness and mindfulness to kids. We are a community of parents, teachers, yogis, health professionals and child advocates, with a shared goal of inspiring the next generation with mindfulness and bold kindness.

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https://youtu.be/X4s8Ty3YCyI

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Could be helpful to ask teachers or school staff what type (if any) mindfulness practices are used in the classroom and build off of that

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Could be helpful to ask teachers or school staff what type (if any) mindfulness practices are used in the classroom and build off of that

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Drawing a plant from different perspectives

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Drawing a plant from different perspectives

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Measure levels of anxiety and depression of students before and after implementation of mindfulness/SEL practices

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Phenology wheels; drawing same place during diff seasons

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Phenology wheels; drawing same place during diff seasons

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as kooky as they are emojis can be useful with teens and pre-teens

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as kooky as they are emojis can be useful with teens and pre-teens

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I have my preschool children imagine smelling a flower and then blow out a candle. 2-3x

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I have my preschool children imagine smelling a flower and then blow out a candle. 2-3x

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From Joseph Cornell's Sharing Nature, https://www.sharingnature.com/sound-map.html

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https://nature-mentor.com/sit-spot/  Is a great activity that can be adapted for all ages and programs.

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https://nature-mentor.com/sit-spot/  Is a great activity that can be adapted for all ages and programs.

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Podcast recommendation:  Ten Percent Happier

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We did camp for middle school students this summer.  We shared "a view from my window" with each other.  What do we see?  What can we hear?  How is that different from what others see and hear?

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We did camp for middle school students this summer.  We shared "a view from my window" with each other.  What do we see?  What can we hear?  How is that different from what others see and hear?

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sharing nature with children -- great book 

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sharing nature with children -- great book 

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be vulnerable yourself - share something personal or unique, that way students may feel able to do the same. it's hard to build trust with guest speakers/teachers

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be vulnerable yourself - share something personal or unique, that way students may feel able to do the same. it's hard to build trust with guest speakers/teachers

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Acknowledging the roots of mindfulness practice

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Acknowledging the roots of mindfulness practice

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I just want to share that it seems important to also give credit and connection to the traditions and cultures mindfulness practices are rooted in, whether that's in an age appropriate way or even at least with the teachers learning to share them so they can be grounded in and acknowledge their cultural history too.

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Are children showing up.  Continuing to show up.  It is the most important measure and super easy to track.

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Are children showing up.  Continuing to show up.  It is the most important measure and super easy to track.

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Use of puppets - especially for young students

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Use of puppets - especially for young students

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encourage teachers to cut a bouquet from herbs in the school garden to bring to their room to fill the room with the smell.  Have students notice the smell and describe it.  Encourage teachers to refresh their bouquet whenever they need to and pick different herbs.

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This is a true and valid concern about social emotional learning, and is also a concern for other groups that experience discrimination. Trauma training must include understanding of trauma through the lens of systemic racism, oppression and marginalization of minority groups, this includes understanding intergenerational and historical trauma. Mindfulness training must also be a practice that examines systemic racism, oppression and marginalization. At Mindfulness First we are creating an incubator of mindfulness teachers who identify as members of minority groups to build a program that teaches equitable mindfulness/SEL and focuses on power and community. To begin your own journey of understanding in this area, please look at Resmaa Menakem’s book “My Grandmother’s Hands”  www.resnaa.com and Rhonda MaGee’s book “The Inner Work of Racial Trauma” www.rhondavmagee.com.

Sunny Wight
(she/her/hers)
www.mindfulnessfirst.org