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Tell me, what is it you plan to do with your one wild and precious life? Mary Oliver Classroom and Teacher Transformation through Mindfulness ALI HERRON Kindergarten Teacher/ Mindfulness Practitioner Marysville Elementary School Who we

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Tell me, what is it you plan to do with your one wild and precious life? —Mary Oliver

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Classroom and Teacher Transformation through Mindfulness

ALI HERRON Kindergarten Teacher/ Mindfulness Practitioner Marysville Elementary School

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Who we are…. Why we are here.

1.) Share your name and job title. 2.) Share your reason for being here.

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Hello!

I am Ali Herron

You can reach me at aherron@pps.net

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Marysville School

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Defining Mindfulness

What do we already know?

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“Mindfulness means paying attention in a particular way: on purpose, in the present moment, and nonjudgmentally.” ― Jon Kabat-Zinn

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Simply...

Choosing to pay attention

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Simply...

Choosing to pay attention to the present moment

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Simply...

Choosing to pay attention to the present moment as an

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Workshop Format

Brain Science Personal Practice Classroom Integration

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Participants will be able to

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Express a personal understanding of mindfulness

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Articulate brain-based practices for well-being

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Name and describe parts of the brain

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Utilize sentence frames to increase self-regulation

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The Practices

  • 1. The Soft Start
  • 2. Keeping the Brain in Mind
  • 3. The Brain Break
  • 4. Emotional Authenticity
  • 5. Practice the Pause
  • 6. Lens of Self-Compassion
  • 7. Gratitude
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Practice 1. The Soft Start

Begin the day with gentleness and intention

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The Soft Start

What did you notice upon entering? Calm Connect

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This Practice and the Brain:

Neurosequential Model in Education (NME) The ChildTrauma Academy childtrauma.org

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Classroom Integration ✢ Soft Start Elements

✢ Calm ✢ Connect ✢ Community ✢ Chime

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Practice 2. Keeping the Brain in Mind

Understanding the parts of your brain

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Keeping the Brain in Mind

✢ The brain as a house ✢ Hand model of the brain

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This Practice and the Brain:

Understanding the brain integrates the brain

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Classroom Integration

✢ Teach the hand model of the brain

○ Prefrontal cortex ○ Amygdala ○ Hippocampus

✢ Reinforce during read alouds

I am using my .

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Practice 3. The Brain Break

Focused attention training for all

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“One of the primary ironies of modern education is that we ask students to “pay attention” dozens

  • f times a day, yet we never teach

them how.” ― Amy Saltzman

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The Brain Break

Focused attention training in action

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This Practice and the Brain:

Supports functioning of the prefrontal cortex

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Classroom Integration

✢ Teaching the Brain Break

✢ Start small ✢ Focus on the WHY ✢ Expect challenges

After brain break I feel .

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Practice 4. Emotional Authenticity

Acknowledging the range of human emotions

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Emotional Authenticity

The teacher as an emotional being Poem reading: The Guest House By: Rumi

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This Practice and the Brain:

“Affect labeling” reduces amygdala activity

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Classroom Integration

✢ Sharing our emotions ✢ “Feeling” our feelings ✢ Zones of Regulation

I am feeling .

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Practice 5. Practice the Pause

The difference between reacting and responding

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“Between stimulus and response there is a space. In that space is

  • ur power to choose our response.

In our response lies our growth and our freedom.” ― Viktor Frankl

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Practice the Pause

The most important mindfulness tool in the kit! Choose to respond rather than react

8 Breaths to Joy practice

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This Practice and the Brain:

Pausing puts the prefrontal cortex back in control

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Classroom Integration

✢ Pause to: ○ notice feelings ○ savor joy ○ question responses ○ breathe I notice .

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Practice 6. Lens of Self-Compassion

Looking through the lens of universal experience

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Lens of Self-Compassion

Self Kindness Common Humanity Mindfulness

Self-compassion mini-meditation

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This Practice and the Brain:

Activating our care-giving system releases oxytocin

(it works for us, too!)

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Classroom Integration

✢ Speak kind words to yourself for all to hear ✢ Model self-compassion in mistake making ✢ Practice Loving-Kindness meditations Everybody feels sometimes.

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Practice 7. Gratitude

Making what we have enough

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Gratitude

Practice: Gratitude Circle

Name something you are grateful You have the right to pass

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This Practice and the Brain:

Neurons that fire together wire together.

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Classroom Integration

✢ Use perspective-taking to enhance gratitude ✢ Start a gratitude journal ✢ Take it BEYOND November I am grateful for .

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Reviewing Objectives

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Express a personal understanding of mindfulness

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Articulate brain-based practices for well-being

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Name and describe parts of the brain

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Utilize sentence frames to increase self-regulation

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Jot Down 3 practices you are willing to try In closing... Share 1 practice you are willing to try for 7 days in a row

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Giveaways

Thank you for being here. I appreciate your time and dedication to yourself and your students.

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Thanks!

Any questions? You can find me at aherron@pps.net

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Credits

Special thanks to all the people who made and released these awesome resources for free: ✢ Presentation template by SlidesCarnival ✢ Photographs by Unsplash Brain clip art: ✢ https://www.lds.org/media-library/images/choose-right-2012-outline-sharing-time-heart-brain-8 14134?lang=eng The Neurosequential Model in Education ✢ https://www.attach.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/09/NME-Presentation-SPG-0929-comp.pdf 8 Breaths to Joy Practice ✢ https://www.mindful.org/8-breaths-to-joy-a-guided-practice/ Be Kind to Yourself Meditation ✢ https://www.lionsroar.com/meditation-be-kind-to-yourself/