After a year of the pandemic, we are finally starting to see some light at the end of the tunnel. Students are starting to return to in-person classes in schools and no longer need to
Is mindfulness for everyone? I think about that question a lot. The way I’d answer it, as a woman of color who practices mindfulness, is that it should be for those who are interested in
We’ve arrived at the third and final part of our series, “Inside the Virtual Classroom” (here are Parts 1 and 2) and this week we explore student challenges. Some of the more talked about challenges,
In a world where the death of George Floyd and the emergence of the Black Lives Matter movement have become part of the national lexicon, we have to examine how racial literacy is applied in
For the next few weeks, we will be talking with a few of our instructors about various aspects of teaching mindfulness. As more and more youth are exposed to mindfulness and begin to experience and
This time last year, a lot of teachers were doing what you do best: they were in a classroom engaging with their students, teaching them, guiding them, empowering them, and helping them to cement skills
In last week’s blog post we talked about the creation and development of the Inner Strength app and this week we’ll do a little bit of a deeper dive into that process. There are a
An important aspect of working with teens is being able to meet them where they are, whether that’s mentally, emotionally, or physically. We realized that in order to do this, we needed a better way
As human beings, loss is something that we all must face from time to time. When we hear the word “loss” our first thought is generally around the loss of a person or a pet
It’s 11:00 PM on a Thursday night and you’ve finally got a moment or two to yourself. You’ve uploaded tomorrow’s lesson for 79 of your students to their virtual classroom, including that YouTube video that
