Connecting with Families – Home Visits
If you have never done home visits with your students before, you might want to consider it. This post explained how it looks in our school and it is something that we are asked about often. It can be...
View ArticleMindUP Lesson 15: Taking Mindful Action in the World
In this culminating lesson of the MindUP curriculum, students work together to plan an act of kindness for the community. It could be a project for the school (as exemplified by our first graders in...
View ArticleMindful Breathing with Children
Part of the MindUP Curriculum is a core practice of mindful breathing that is done three times a day. We do the breathing breaks across all grade levels in our school. Click on the video below to see...
View ArticleThinking Through Quality Questioning
Over 200 educators joined us last Friday for one of our Distinguished Educator events. Jackie Walsh and Beth Sattes kept all of us engaged and thinking about questioning strategies for the entire day!...
View ArticleSusan Kaiser Greenland and The Mindful Child
Our agency was so fortunate to host Susan Kaiser Greenland for a day of training on February 24th. Susan is the author of The Mindful Child. To prepare for Susan’s visit, the teachers at our school...
View ArticleThe Ice Game: Activity adapted from The Mindful Child by Susan Kaiser Greenland
Below is a post from our 5th grade teacher, Anne Mechler. Anne tried out the “Melting Ice Game” from Susan’s book, The Mindful Child. This activity can be found on pages 137-138. Let me just start with...
View ArticleOur Experience as Junior Reporters
Hi! I’m Oscar. I’m Joab. We’re in the 5th grade at the J. Erik Jonsson Community School. We have enjoyed our years here a lot. We are very good friends. We just had the experience of a lifetime. We...
View ArticleGoodbye Rituals at School – The End of Year Open House
We are winding down another school year here at JEJCS. It has flown! We have a few end of year rituals at our school to help bring closure to the academic year. One tradition is an end of year open...
View ArticleJoin Us at our Distinguished Educator Series! Questioning for Learning:...
We hope you will attend the next event in our Distinguished Educator Series with Jackie Wash and Beth Sattes for a transforming day of learning on Friday, November 2, 2012. Administrators, teacher...
View ArticleMindUP and Research: The Results are In!
When our school decided to implement the MindUP program across all grade levels, we knew that we would do a research study about it. We are incredibly lucky to have a full-time researcher in our...
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