#mindfulAISD (11/28)

Week of November 28th

Welcome to the #mindfulAISD newsletter for the week of November 28th. This will serve as a way to highlight the awesome mindfulness work being done across the district as well as offer resources. Have suggestions for material you'd like to see on here? Please email the SEL Mindfulness Specialist: james.butler@austinisd.org


Student Leadership at Clifton Check it out @mrbutler629, students leading students using your educator guide for Specialties! #MindfulAISD @AustinISDSEL --Clifton Child Care‏@CliftonChildDev	Blanton Elementary Mindful Monday Movement w Ms Coffey's class @BlantonElem ! #mindfulaisd @AustinISDSEL @AISDECRocks --Aleza Berube SEL‏@alezamarie	Weekly Mindfulness & Yoga for Parents at Perez Venga para Atención Plena y Yoga bilingüe en la biblioteca de @Perez_Elem! #mindfulAISD #SELfcare @mrbutler629 @AustinISDSEL @AISDLibTech Join us for Parent/Staff Mindfulness & Yoga Wednesdays @Perez_Elem library! #mindfulAISD #SELfcare @mrbutler629 @AustinISDSEL @AISDLibTech --Perez Reads‏@Perez_Elem_Lib

Student Leadership at Clifton

Check it out @mrbutler629, students leading students using your educator guide for Specialties! #MindfulAISD @AustinISDSEL

--Clifton Child Care‏@CliftonChildDev

Blanton Elementary

Mindful Monday Movement w Ms Coffey's class @BlantonElem ! #mindfulaisd @AustinISDSEL @AISDECRocks

--Aleza Berube SEL‏@alezamarie

Weekly Mindfulness & Yoga for Parents at Perez

Venga para Atención Plena y Yoga bilingüe en la biblioteca de @Perez_Elem! #mindfulAISD #SELfcare @mrbutler629 @AustinISDSEL @AISDLibTech

Join us for Parent/Staff Mindfulness & Yoga Wednesdays @Perez_Elem library! #mindfulAISD #SELfcare @mrbutler629 @AustinISDSEL @AISDLibTech

--Perez Reads‏@Perez_Elem_Lib

#mindfulAISD YouTube Playlist

We finally have a mindfulness YouTube playlist! It's just the beginning, but there are 3 videos explaining different mindful breathing techniques. There are plans for more videos with students leading the exercises because those would be much better than the ones with me leading the exercises. :) Special shout out to Judd Absher at Highland Park for recording, editing and uploading these videos for us.

If y'all want to record your students doing mindfulness activities for the playlist, please send them to me so I can put them on there.

**You can add these YouTube videos to your GoNoodle account so you can use these videos to make your champ stronger!

https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLk8vStkqPsIPKQv5a7w_dkyy86e4PfF7K

Previous Newsletters

Since there is different information and resources on each article, I am going to include links to all the previous newsletters from now on along with a highlight or two from each newsletter.

Week of November 14 (GIFs for deep breathing & Breathing script for HS--Palm the Present Moment by Donald Altman from "The Mindfulness Toolbox")

Week of November 7 (AISD e-Wellness spotlight)

Week of October 31 (Mindfulness Challenge update)

Week of October 24 (Progressive Muscle Relaxation script)

Week of October 17 ("Just Breathe" mindfulness video)

Week of October 10 (Stop Breathe Think App/Site & Curious Not Furious article)

Week of October 3 (Pokemon poses & Mindfulness and the Brain article)

Week of September 26 (Replacing Detention w/ Meditation article & Guided Breathing tracks in Spanish & English)

Week of September 19 (Teacher Self-Care & Connecting Mindfulness w/ SEL: Mind Yeti)

Week of September 12 (KEYE News feature & Helping Teens Destress)

Mindful Classrooms--Week 14

If you're using Mindful Classrooms: The Educator Guide, I recommend using Week 14 this week. It's a very loose recommendation though. Please do what's best for you and your students. If you'd like the free electronic copy of the book, please feel out the Google Form at the bottom of this page.

Photos/stories of Mindful Classrooms being used in class are always welcome and would be great for the newsletter! Email James Butler.


Calm FREE Calm.com Lifetime Subscription for Teachers (PreK-12) If you haven't done this yet, I HIGHLY recommend it. Click on the above link and fill out the quick form for a FREE lifetime subscription. It's a $300 value and they are giving it away for free to teachers! Calm also has an app for phones. **There are free sections on calm.com and the app, so feel free to share with your students' families.	Mind Yeti Connecting Mindfulness w/ Explicit SEL Lessons Mindyeti.com is a great resource that connects mindfulness with Second Step lessons. Visit the site and sign up for a FREE account! There is also an informational page that explains the connection between Mind Yeti and Second Step. **Parents/guardians can also sign up for a free account. Share with your students' families!	GoNoodle GoNoodle For the Body and the Mind Go to the CATEGORIES tab at the top of the page and look for "calming" and "stretching." They have a bunch of great videos to use for daily mindfulness time and/or mindfulness breaks. GoNoodle can be found in the AISD cloud and then you have access to GoNoodle Plus with ALL of the videos. **Share gonoodle.com with your students' families so they can sign up for a FREE account to use at home.

Calm

FREE Calm.com Lifetime Subscription for Teachers (PreK-12)

If you haven't done this yet, I HIGHLY recommend it. Click on the above link and fill out the quick form for a FREE lifetime subscription. It's a $300 value and they are giving it away for free to teachers!

Calm also has an app for phones.

**There are free sections on calm.com and the app, so feel free to share with your students' families.

Mind Yeti

Connecting Mindfulness w/ Explicit SEL Lessons

Mindyeti.com is a great resource that connects mindfulness with Second Step lessons. Visit the site and sign up for a FREE account!

There is also an informational page that explains the connection between Mind Yeti and Second Step.

**Parents/guardians can also sign up for a free account. Share with your students' families!

GoNoodle

GoNoodle For the Body and the Mind

Go to the CATEGORIES tab at the top of the page and look for "calming" and "stretching." They have a bunch of great videos to use for daily mindfulness time and/or mindfulness breaks. GoNoodle can be found in the AISD cloud and then you have access to GoNoodle Plus with ALL of the videos.

**Share gonoodle.com with your students' families so they can sign up for a FREE account to use at home.


Pokemon Poses (created by AISD 3rd graders) List of Pokemon Poses created by AISD Students Mrs. Garcia's 3rd graders at Cunningham created Pokemon Yoga Poses for Market Day last week and they wanted to share their creativity and hard work with y'all. Creating poses and incorporating mindful breathing with the poses is such a great way to make mindfulness fun and easily practiced by all. Nicely done!	Mindful Life Project Guided Mindfulness Activities in English & Spanish--Great for Secondary Mindful Life Project is an incredible organization based out of Richmond, CA. They teach mindfulness, yoga, expressive arts, and hip-hop/performing arts to elementary and middle school students in underserved communities. They also have a free app titled "Mindful Life Project."	Stop, Breathe & Think Stop Breathe & Think is a website and app that provides guided meditations based on how you are feeling at that moment. There are a great number of FREE meditations starting at just a couple minutes long.

Pokemon Poses (created by AISD 3rd graders)

List of Pokemon Poses created by AISD Students

Mrs. Garcia's 3rd graders at Cunningham created Pokemon Yoga Poses for Market Day last week and they wanted to share their creativity and hard work with y'all. Creating poses and incorporating mindful breathing with the poses is such a great way to make mindfulness fun and easily practiced by all. Nicely done!

Mindful Life Project

Guided Mindfulness Activities in English & Spanish--Great for Secondary

Mindful Life Project is an incredible organization based out of Richmond, CA. They teach mindfulness, yoga, expressive arts, and hip-hop/performing arts to elementary and middle school students in underserved communities.

They also have a free app titled "Mindful Life Project."

Stop, Breathe & Think

Stop Breathe & Think is a website and app that provides guided meditations based on how you are feeling at that moment. There are a great number of FREE meditations starting at just a couple minutes long.

Sign Up for Mindfulness Support

If you haven't filled out the #mindfulAISD Google Form (below) and want to highlight your work and/or receive mindfulness support, please check it out. It only takes about 1 minute to complete. Know someone in AISD interested in mindfulness? Send them this newsletter for them to fill out the Google Form.

Contact

James Butler

SEL Mindfulness Specialist

james.butler@austinisd.org

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Week of November 28th

#mindfulAISD HAPPENINGS

Student Leadership at Clifton

Blanton Elementary

Weekly Mindfulness & Yoga for Parents at Perez

Student Leadership at Clifton

Blanton Elementary

Weekly Mindfulness & Yoga for Parents at Perez

Want to Showcase Your Mindfulness Work?

RESOURCES

#mindfulAISD YouTube Playlist

Previous Newsletters

Mindful Classrooms--Week 14

FREE FOR TEACHERS!

Calm

Mind Yeti

GoNoodle

Calm

Mind Yeti

GoNoodle

Pokemon Poses (created by AISD 3rd graders)

Mindful Life Project

Stop, Breathe & Think

Pokemon Poses (created by AISD 3rd graders)

Mindful Life Project

Stop, Breathe & Think

Sign Up for Mindfulness Support

Contact

Connect with James Butler