EdCamp Presentation

Yesterday, Saturday, November 20th, seven of our team members went to Grover Middle School in the West Windsor-Plainsboro school district to talk to teachers from around New Jersey about the social-emotional needs of students, and how mindfulness can be incorporated into the classroom. We started our with a "Get off of Autopilot" activity, where teachers were told to stand up. Then, they were given two commands, such as walk and stop. We kept on adding more commands, and switching the definitions, to get teachers more alert and off autopilot. 

After the autopilot activity, we shared mindfulness coping strategies with teachers, including the two books we used in our sessions: The Mindful Teen by Dr. Dzung Vo and The MindUP Curriculum for 6-8 Graders.  ​

Many teachers had questions about our 4-week session, happening in December, in which students of all grades can come in during their lunch/flex to learn a bit about the brain and mindfulness. Dr. Carter, our school principal was there, and took a picture with us afterwards: 

Overall, the session was a great success, and we got in touch with many teachers to collaborate in teaching students mindfulness.