Mindful School Communities

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Build a thriving school community that creates healthy, resilient, and successful students. A companion to <i>Mindfulness Practices</i>, this research-backed guide outlines how to teach self-regulation by fostering the five Cs of social-emotional learning and mindfulness: consciousness, compassion, confidence, courage, and community. The authors provide a wealth of practical exercises, strategies, and tools to bring this scientifically proven approach to life across grade levels and subject areas. <b>Use this resource to foster the well-being of every learner: </b> Benefit from exercises that infuse social-emotional concepts and 21st century skills into academic curriculum across subjects and grade levels. Discover ideas for incorporating historical examples of consciousness, compassion, confidence, courage, and community into classwork. Learn ways to assess the five Cs elements, including the research-based S-CCATE tool, to provide evidence for what might seem unquantifiable. Become familiar with different ways educators have implemented Heart Centered Learning(TM) in the real world. Work with numerous activities and mindsets that foster a mixture of vulnerability and strength and ameliorate trauma. <b>Contents: </b> Introduction Chapter 1: Heart Centered Learning Chapter 2: Heart Physiology and Heart-Mind Connections Chapter 3: Consciousness Chapter 4: Compassion Chapter 5: Confidence Chapter 6: Courage Chapter 7: Community Chapter 8: Conscious Leadership Epilogue: Taking Heart, Having Heart--Looking to Our Future Appendix: S-CCATE--A Visioning and Assessment Tool to Create Heart Centered Communities References and Resources Index