Christina Johnson’s classroom must be the most peaceful place ... program director of Mindful Schools, a group in Emeryville, Calif., that trains teachers in mindfulness.

Focus. Awareness. Resilience. Curiosity. Reflection. All are elements of thriving classrooms and students. All are trainable skills that can be intentionally taught and cultivated to strengthen ...

Woodson PK-8, will be teaching classes totally online and created a Bitmoji classroom this year. [ Courtesy of Jocelyn Moore-Hill ] She’s also limiting decorations in her physical classroom.

This fall, as teachers nationwide prepared their classrooms for the new school year, many reported being bombarded with a decorations blitz, from educational supply store promotions to classroom ...

Educators are only beginning to explore and understand what it actually means to teach mindfulness in the classroom. How do you teach students to be mindful in learning? Distilled to its ...

With the mindful classroom we incorporate physical being. They look at their objective for the day. Then we do a mindful meditation for one minute. Now they are seated and I calm down their breathing.

Associate professor of psychology at CMU Anna Fisher led the study, which tested the effects of classroom decorations on focus and ability to learn in children ages 3-5. When placed in a highly ...