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Six Easy Ways for Educators to Incorporate Mindfulness in the Classroom

Looking for fun and easy ways to teach and incorporate mindfulness into your classroom? Get started today with these six simple strategies! But first, what is mindfulness and why is it worth teaching into the classroom? Mindfulness is the ability to maintain a moment-to-moment awareness of our own thoughts and feelings. Teaching mindfulness to children …

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Nine Critical Empathy Skills to Teach in the Classroom

What is empathy? And, how can you teach empathy to kids? Is it even possible to teach empathy? We’re here to tell you “yes, yes it can”. Before we get into that, let’s take the time to truly understand what empathy means. “Empathy” has been somewhat of a buzzword in recent years, and, like any …

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Empathy vs. Love: Does the difference matter?

Valentine’s Day kicks off a spring season of love. We take stock of our relationships, whether platonic or romantic, and seek creative ways to display our affection. In January Harvard researchers Robert Waldinger and Marc Shultz released new takeaways from the longest study on human happiness, which underscores the vital role relationships, or as they …

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How to Teach Essential Life Skills in the Classroom

Behavior and learning are deeply connected, so it is imperative to consider both when structuring our environments, planning instruction, and working with students. Teachers can certainly attest to learning being impacted either positively or negatively by the emotions of their students. Then again, like the causality dilemma regarding the chicken or the egg, is it …

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