Mindful Classrooms Newsletter
February 2020
Featured This Month...
- #mindfulAISD -- February Mindfulness Newsletter from Austin ISD
- Article Share -- Learning Mindfulness Centered on Kindness to Oneself and Others
- Upcoming MC Workshops
- Additional Resources
For more regular mindfulness updates, please follow me on Twitter, @mrbutler629 & @mindfulclassrms. I post regularly, providing tips and highlighting mindfulness happening in schools/districts where I'm working. Also, feel free to tag me when posting about mindfulness.
Background mural info/link: Until We Get There, by Mehran Heard, aka Eatcho, in Portland, OR. Each month will feature a different work of art from throughout the world. Using the arts is a great way to integrate mindfulness (coloring, doodling, noticing, music, etc.).
#mindfulAISD
February Mindfulness Newsletter from Austin ISD
ARTICLE SHARE
Learning Mindfulness Centered on Kindness to Oneself and Others
UPCOMING MC WORKSHOPS/TRAININGS
- Author Chat, School Mindfulness Champion Panel, Mentoring Workshop, and Equity-Based Panel at Coalition of Schools Educating Mindfully Conference in Chicago, IL -- February 28th & 29th (COSEM Conference is February 27th-March 1st)
- Mentor Session & Book Signing at SXSWedu -- March 10th (SXSWedu is March 9th-12th)
- Mindfulness for Librarians Workshop at Texas Library Association Conference -- March 26th (TLA is March 24th-27th)
- Mindfulness Training/Consultation in Midland ISD (TX) -- Spring 2020 (date TBD)
- Mindfulness Workshop at Vernon-Verona-Sherrill School District (NY) -- June 29th
- Mindful Classrooms 1-Day Workshop in Austin, TX -- Summer 2020 (date TBD)
- Mindful Classrooms 1-Day Workshop in Portland, OR -- Summer 2020 (date TBD)
RESOURCES
Mindful Classrooms Website
Published Education Materials
Mindful Classrooms: Daily 5-Minute Practices to Support Social-Emotional Learning
Coloring Book and Reflections for Social Emotional Learning
This versatile coloring book for kids stands on its own merits yet can be paired with other mindfulness curriculum to further integrate social and emotional learning into your everyday. The thirty-six mindfulness coloring pages correspond with the thirty-six weeks of the school year, and the SEL writing prompts support the weekly activities in Mindful Classrooms™ by James Butler.
Libro Para Colorear y Reflexiones para El Aprendizaje Socioemocional
Mindfulness In A Jar: 101 Exercises to Help Children Focus and Calm Their Minds
Mindful Stretching Alphabet Poster
Mindful Classrooms Kit
Bundle the Mindful Classrooms™ resources and save 30%!
Kids feel pressure too! Helping them through their day-to-day problems can be as simple as a moment of mindfulness. With easy-to-use resources, The Mindful Classrooms™ Set packs everything you need to introduce a mindfulness practice in a box:
- 1 copy of Mindful Classrooms™: Daily 5-Minute Practices to Support Social-Emotional Learning: a guide for educators that walks you through thirty-six weeks of daily, five-minute practices for students
- 1 Mindful Classrooms™ poster: a classroom-sized 30" x 19" ABC poster that demonstrates poses found in the educator resource
- 1 copy of Mindfulness In a Jar®: a jar containing 101 cards, each with a two-minute mindfulness exercise to help children focus and calm their minds
- 24 copies of Coloring Book and Reflections for Social and Emotional Learning: a coloring book to draw and reflect on social and emotional skills (also available in Spanish)
Compilation of Mindfulness Resources for Educators
Newsletter Sign Up & Additional Support
James Butler, M.Ed.
Founder of Mindful Classrooms, LLC
Author of Mindful Classrooms: Daily 5-Minute Practices to Support Social-Emotional Learning and Coloring Book and Reflections for Social-Emotional Learning
Austin ISD SEL Mindfulness Specialist
2014 Austin ISD Teacher of the Year
Email: james@mindfulclassrooms.com
Website: mindfulclassrooms.com
Facebook: facebook.com/mindfulclassrooms
Twitter: @mrbutler629