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Resources to integrate mindfulness into your student’s technology driven life.
Educators understand and appreciate the potential of technology as a learning tool. But only if it’s used intentionally. Learn how to incorporate a mindful approach for yourself and your students, guiding them toward a balanced relationship with technology.
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How to Help Teens Build Their Self-Worth
Avoiding social comparisons that harm our sense of self-worth has become more difficult than ever with the growing culture of social media. Learn how to help your teens build their self-worth with key insights based on the latest scientific research.
5 Mindfulness Practices for Stressed-Out Teachers
In teaching, there’s a lot you can’t control. But there’s a lot you can do to improve your response to stress. Learn 5 mindfulness practices for teachers.
How One Toronto School Teacher is Teaching Mindfulness Through Music
For the past decade, mindfulness has arisen as a valuable tool for educators. But mindfulness’ value in the classroom has only just begun to become clear. Now, it’s inspiring others to find new and creative ways to teach mindfulness and other related qualities. One such example is a Toronto instructor who is using music to help students learn about mindfulness,
How One School Transformed Student Behavior by Replacing Detention with Mindfulness
Meditation calms me down and stuff. – 4th-grade girl, Holistic Me program Should we replace detention with mindfulness? That’s the question now posed to schools all across the U.S. as a result of the work by the Holistic Life Foundation.
Teen Depression is on the Rise: Are Smartphones to Blame?
As technology keeps evolving, each generation of parents has had to deal with problems that their parents or grandparents could have never dreamt! First, it was TV, then it was video games rotting the brain, and now smartphones. What will come next? Who knows?! And it seems like with each new technology the effect is different… and often worse. Take
Technology Changes Us, And Generation Z Is Proof
We all know that each generation has different experiences, they grow up in a different time, so it’s impossible not to! But is the latest generation, generation Z, missing out? Has their generation been destroyed by technology? We’ve all see the articles online saying things like Millennials are killing fabric softener or Millennials are running the wine industry, but what
Study: Using Mindfulness to Help Children with ADHD
In theory, mindfulness sounds like the perfect solution to helping children that suffer from ADHD. Mindfulness helps us become more aware, it helps us focus, control our thoughts, and manage our emotions—things that those with ADHD have trouble with. Today, people are trying to get away from using medication to treat their problems and turning to natural solutions like mindfulness
Screen Time is Changing Young Brains, but Could it be Good?
Today children are exposed to screens of all sorts from an early age: TV screens, phone screens, tablet screens, etc. A huge change from the times when the most screen-time children got was watching Saturday morning cartoons. Today we have 24/7 cartoon channels, games on phones, tablets, computers, and even devices made specifically for children. As much as we’d love
amaZEN U: An Amazing Way to Bring Yoga to Schools
Yoga in schools is something that has been a controversial topic since it was introduced in public schools years ago. Having roots in Hinduism there has been the question of whether yoga is a religious practice, and thus violating the separation between church and state. Some argue that the religious association of yoga means it does not belong in
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