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The Mindful Education Workbook: Lessons for Teaching Mindfulness to Students by Daniel Rechtschaffen
skylarprimm's review
5.0
Every once in a while, I step away from a book for a very long time for no particular reason. This was one of those books. By the time I reached the meat of the text, in the form of a progression of 30 lessons in mindfulness, I was swept up in a very stressful school year and in no shape to consider trying them. Summer is (mostly) a more restful time, and I’m glad I was able to take this back up.
Leaving my personal story aside, [a:Daniel Rechtschaffen|7107576|Daniel Rechtschaffen|https://s.gr-assets.com/assets/nophoto/user/u_50x66-632230dc9882b4352d753eedf9396530.png] continues to make a compelling case for bring mindfulness practices into the classroom (begun in [b:The Way of Mindful Education: Cultivating Well-Being in Teachers and Students|17986444|The Way of Mindful Education Cultivating Well-Being in Teachers and Students|Daniel Rechtschaffen|https://images.gr-assets.com/books/1372046810s/17986444.jpg|25222363]), and provides a convenient set of lesson plans and best practices for doing so. I’m going to try them in my classroom this fall, and I think the lessons’ progression from a personal to a global perspective will fit very well with our school’s ethos.
In the end, I was left inspired by two sentences from the book’s final paragraph: “The healing of our society requires more people who can empathize, being attuned to the needs of others. The healing of our natural environment requires people who are attuned to the needs of the planet.”
Who can argue with that? Is it not our moral obligation as educators to work toward this more perfect world?
Leaving my personal story aside, [a:Daniel Rechtschaffen|7107576|Daniel Rechtschaffen|https://s.gr-assets.com/assets/nophoto/user/u_50x66-632230dc9882b4352d753eedf9396530.png] continues to make a compelling case for bring mindfulness practices into the classroom (begun in [b:The Way of Mindful Education: Cultivating Well-Being in Teachers and Students|17986444|The Way of Mindful Education Cultivating Well-Being in Teachers and Students|Daniel Rechtschaffen|https://images.gr-assets.com/books/1372046810s/17986444.jpg|25222363]), and provides a convenient set of lesson plans and best practices for doing so. I’m going to try them in my classroom this fall, and I think the lessons’ progression from a personal to a global perspective will fit very well with our school’s ethos.
In the end, I was left inspired by two sentences from the book’s final paragraph: “The healing of our society requires more people who can empathize, being attuned to the needs of others. The healing of our natural environment requires people who are attuned to the needs of the planet.”
Who can argue with that? Is it not our moral obligation as educators to work toward this more perfect world?
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