Topic Archives: Mindful Teaching

Here are 10 quick tips on how to make your online classes, meeting and events more relational, interactive and energizing.

Join us for a virtual "circle" share to pause, reflect, and connect

So many of us are having to convert our trainings from in-person to online events. I was fortunate enough to take a course on this and also practice some of the skills. Here is my attempt to support you in making the switch to online training.

A holistic restorative approach aims to create the conditions in which students and staff can learn, grow and thrive together. During this two-day event youth and adults will share stories, build community and expand skills and knowledge related to restorative practices, mindfulness, equity, social emotional learning, youth-adult partnership and healing engaged practices.

With kids who are well-behaved, regulated and motivated, we can respond to their disruptive very directly and they will stop. But with kids who have been marginalized and traumatized a more informed approach is necessary. I have developed an approach called "Two Feet. One Breath. 5 Cs" to support the teacher in the moment he or she needs to respond to disruptive behaviors from students who seem intent on derailing class.

This post is from my recent graduate work at Antioch New England. In it I reflect on the powerfully transformative work of Carol Rodgers as expressed in her essay from Voices Inside Schools— "Seeing Student Learning: Teacher Change and the Role of Reflection."