With all the thousands of amazing resources available today, it doesn't feel quite right to offer just these few. We live in an amazing time with access to high quality teachings, research and practices that 50+ years ago people had to travel thousands of miles for. In the spirit of deep gratitude I offer just a few that have impacted my journey. This page will be updated often. Especially impactful resources have a ♥.
Mindfulness
Books & Articles
- Radical Acceptance by Tara Brach ♥
- Loving Kindness by Sharon Salzberg
- Real Happiness by Sharon Salzberg
- A Heart as Wide as the World by Sharon Salzberg ♥
- Unlimiting Mind by Andrew Oldzenski ♥
- Insight Meditation by Joseph Goldstein
- Buddha's Brain:The Practical Neuroscience of Happiness, Love & Wisdom
by Rick Hanson ♥ - Here, Now, Aware by Joseph Goldstein♥♥
- Doing the Buddha's Practice by Jack Kornfield♥♥
- What is Papanca? by Andrew Olendzki♥♥
Short introductory videos or news clips:
- Dan Harris Hack Your Brain's Default Mode with Meditation (My 11th-12th graders loved this)
- Dan Harris What is Meditation
- Dan Harris What Do We Have All Wrong About Meditation? (Great for skeptics!)
- Headspace Expectation animation
- Headspace Letting Go of Effort animation
- Headspace Underlying Calm
- Headspace Meditation tips | Dealing with anxiety
- Headspace: How to Start Meditating
Mindful Teaching & Leading
Articles
- Cultivating Children's Inner Strength by Linda Lantieri
- How to Teach Teens About the Brain by Amir Flesher
- Mindfulness Poems from Mrs Mindfulness.com
- Mindfulness: A Teacher's Guide by Amy Saltzman ♥
- When Mindfulness Meets the Classroom by Lauren Cassani Davis
Books
- The Way of Mindful Education by Daniel Rechtschaffen ♥
- A Still Quiet Place by Amy Saltzman
- Building Emotional Intelligence: Technique to Building Inner Strength in Children by Linda Lantieri
- The Mindful Leader: Awakening Your Natural Management Skills Through Mindfulness Meditation by Michael Carroll ♥
- A Mindfulness-Based Approach to Working with High-Risk Adolescents by Sam Himelstein ♥
- Teaching Mindfulness Skills to Kids and Teens by Christopher Willard and Amy Saltzman
Mindfulness Apps & Guided Meditations
Some of these links bring you to websites of different Buddhist traditions. I am not a Buddhist per se, but I find jewels in each collection. Most modern teachers give secular-oriented talks.
- Insight Timer ♥ ♥(App I use every day with a wide range of guided meditations and fun tracker of who is meditating near you and how many around the world.)
- Dharma Seed ♥ (A massive collection of talks and meditations from the Insight tradition. A tremendous gift to us. Check out Kamala Masters, Christina Feldman
- HeadSpace ♥ (Offers a 10-day free trial and lots of youtube videos. Good, simple, secular meditation)
- Stop, Breath, Think - a great site and app. Check out their videos on youtube also. Narrated well.
- Calm ( A pleasant app with beautiful graphic and sound options for practitioners who enjoy sound and sight focus points)
- Self-Compassion with Kristen Neff (Essential, short, self-compassion meditations) ♥
- UCLA Mindful Awareness Research Center Guided Meditations
- San Francisco Zen Center (Another large collection of talks and meditations in he Zen tradition.)
- Tara Brach's Guided Meditations (She is one of my favorite teachers ) ♥
- Introduction to Meditation Collection ( A nice collection of different teachers)
- Insight Meditation Center: Introduction to Meditation Series Gil Fronsdal (An in-depth course with audio and transcript instructions on the four foundations of mindfulness.
- AudioDharma.org: Another very large collections of quality teachings.
- Pema Chodron - YouTube channel featuring Pema Chodron
- Plum Village Thich Nhat Hahn's Website (full of resources)
- Plum Village's Apps and Meditations Page
Teacher Training
- Mindful Education.org - A great resource to learn about what is happening in mindfulness for educators.
- MindfulEducation.com - Daniel Rechtschaffen's online platform for learning The Way of Mindful Education
- Wake Up Schools Based on the teachings of Thich Nhat Hanh
- Mindful Schools
- MBSR for Education
- .b from MiSP
- ModMind.org (local)
- Grow Mindful Roots (local)
Research
- Grow Mindful Roots Research Page - A page I assembled for this wonderful organization founded by Lindsay Foreman
- Mindfulness Summit's The Science of Meditation by The Institute of Noetic Sciences
- Evidence for Mindfulness: Impacts on the Wellbeing and Performance of School Staff by Katherine Weare .B
- MindfulSchools.org's Research Page
- Mindfulness in Education Research Highlights from Greater Good, UCLA Berkeley
Brain-Based Teaching and Learning
- Buddha's Brain: The Practical Neuroscience of Happiness, Love & Wisdom by Rick Hanson ♥
- Teaching with the Brain in Mind by Eric Jensen
- The Social Neuroscience of Education: Optimizing Attachment and Learning in the Classroom
by Louis Cozolino ♥ ♥ - Dan Siegel: The Neurological Basis of Behavior, the Mind, the Brain and Human Relationships
- Mindsight by Daniel Siegal
Connection Building and Focus Games
- Spontaneity School: 10 Improv Games to Develop Courage, Compassion and Creativity
- Nurtured Heart Play, an essential book on using play to build connection, focus and relationship by Howard Moody
Restorative Justice
Articles
- 8 Tips for Schools Interested in Restorative Justice from Edutopia.org
- How liberal discipline policies are making schools less safe from The New York Post (An article that opposes RJ in schools. It's very important to know the arguments against the approach you wish to implement!)
- School Climate, the Brain and Connection to School by Chuck Saufler ♥ ♥
- Restorative practices meet key competencies: Class meetings as pedagogy by Sheridan Gray and Wendy Drewery, Faculty of Education, University of Waikato, Hamilton, New Zealand
- Empathy, Equity, Empowerment: Using Restorative Practices to Build Character and Community While Reducing Suspensions by Christopher Martin
- Connection Circles: How to Establish a Restorative Circle Practice by Eric Rasmussen ♥
- Why Restorative Practices Benefit All Students by Maurice J. Elias (2016)
Books
- Circle in the Square by Nancy Reistenberg
- Circle Forward by Carolyn Boyes-Watson and Kay Pranis ♥♥♥
- The Little Book of Restorative Justice by Howard Zehr
- Implementing Restorative Practice in Schools: A Practical Guide to Transforming School Communities by Margaret Thorsborne and Peta Blood ♥ ♥
- Restorative Practices Handbook for Teachers, Disciplinarians and Administrators by Bob Costello
- The Psychology of Emotion in Restorative Practice by Peta Blood
Implementation Guides & Resources
- Oakland Unified School District
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A Whole School Approach ♥ ♥ ♥
- Restorative Justice Project of the Midcoast (Maine)
- San Francisco Unified School District's Resources Collection of implementation guides, resources and articles. ♥ ♥
- What is Restorative Justice? Tutorial
- Almeda County: Restorative Justice: A Working Guide for our Schools ♥ ♥
- Restorative Justice in Oakland Schools: Implementation and Impacts, An Effective Strategy to Reduce Racially Disproportionate Discipline, Suspensions and Improve Academic Outcomes ♥ ♥
- San Francisco Unified School District Restorative Practices Whole-School Implementation Guide
- Restorative Justice: A Working Guide for Schools (Alameda County Health Care Services Agency)
- Taking Restorative Practices School-wide: Insights from Three Schools in Denver
- Restorative Practice Kete (A Kete is A Basket of Materials or Manual) New Zealand Ministry of Education) ♥ ♥
- Restorative Solutions Resources and Links: Handouts
- Teaching Tolerance: Toolkit for Restorative Justice ♥
- Mindfulness Poems for opening and closing circle, from MrsMindfulness.com
- Restorative Justice Circle Scripts
Research
- John Hopkins Research Summary ♥ ♥
- Findings from Schools Implementing Restorative Practices by IIRP
- The promise of restorative practices to transform teacher‐ student relationships and reduce racial disparities in exclusionary discipline by Anne Gregory
- Restorative Practices in Schools: Research Reveals Power of Restorative Approach, Part I by Abbey Porter, IIRP
- Improving School Climate from IIRP
Videos
- A great story from a Principal about RP
- Why we need Restorative Practices in Schools
- Restorative Justice in Oakland Schools: Tier One. Community Building Circle
- Restorative Welcome and Re-entry Circle
- Justice Committee: Using Restorative Practices to Resolve Conflicts
- A great student perspective on the impact of RJ in her life.
- PBS Newshour report on RJ in a Colorado school
- Short video on the benefits of Tier 1 circles - many student perspectives.
Additional Resources for a Stronger Community
- “I thought about quitting today …” from Teaching Tolerance, Number 51: Fall 2015
- "Under The Surface" - Empathy Film
- Turning to One Another by Margaret Wheatley
- The Courage to Teach by Parker Palmer
- The Body Keeps Track by Bessel Van Der Kolk, M.D.
- Schools with Spirit: Nurturing the Inner Lives of Children and Teachers, edited by Linda Lantie i