Education

A new study finds that a class in nature helps kids be more attentive and focused once they return indoors. Read more

An in-depth look at the research and best practices for bringing mindfulness into schools. Read more

K-12 teachers offer practical—and fun!—ways that social-emotional learning can be integrated into traditional lessons. Read more

How one mother's vision to help her daughter and daughter's friends with anxiety turned into a mindfulness program that's been taught to 15,000 kids in eight school districts. Read more

Designing and instituting a program for mindfulness in schools is fraught with potential problems. Here’s how to avoid having a poorly-designed program. Read more

According to a new study, training teachers in mindfulness can affect the whole climate of the classroom. Read more

Research shows that mindfulness skills improve memory, organizational skills, reading and math scores, all while giving kids the tools they need to handle toxic stress. Read more

Between stacks of homework, bullies, and awkward texts, middle school is its own sort of battlefield. In this five-minute film, students work through their anxieties using mindfulness. Read more

There's a large-scale community mindfulness effort underway in Flint, MI to combat a health crisis: Flint area children may have suffered irreversible damage due lead-contaminated water. Read more

Teachers and parents can help kids regulate, shift, and stabilize their energy and mood, allowing for a little more silence and a little more focus. Read more