by Lynea Gillen | Nov 13, 2016 | Media, Mental Health
Several years ago, the children in the 6th grade classroom I was visiting as a school counselor started to talk about the dangers in the world and how many “bad” people there were “out there.” I asked them to tell me more. They told me about stories from the news,...
by Lynea Gillen | Oct 16, 2016 | Mindfulness
Bringing yoga and mindfulness practices to the classroom can seem challenging – if you’re going it alone. That’s a big reason we’ve launched a series of free webinars with educators who’ve successfully integrated them into their own classrooms and others’. It’s an...
by Lynea Gillen | Oct 8, 2016 | Social-Emotional Learning
Stories can do a lot of things – soothe, entertain, enchant, even teach. And it’s not just the content of the story itself that teaches. It’s what stories require of us: the use of our imagination. Imagination lays the groundwork for critical social skills such as...
by Lynea Gillen | Sep 28, 2016 | Mindfulness
This post was originally published on Parent Herald. It’s a big developmental step when a child begins to realize that they can control their thoughts and feelings. They begin to understand how what we think affects how we feel and what we do. This is a skill I’ve...
by Lynea Gillen | Sep 6, 2016 | Community, Families, K-12 Education
When I was a young teacher, I was given some good advice by a mentor: Start off the year firm. You can always loosen up. But if you start too loose, you will have a hard time getting the classroom under control later. It took some practice to become very precise and...
