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Top Tips for Making Your School’s Mindfulness Program a Success: Engaging Staff and Parents
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I would share a few video links to the parents about mindfulness and some helpful resources so that they can learn about the importance of it. I would encourage parents to join us for a mindful nature walk in a park close to our school. Or I would invite them to work in our garden alongside our students on campus.
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Each day we use different yoga cards that change with the seasons/holidays. They are mostly the same yoga poses with different names that fit each theme, and we also teach the correct name for the yoga pose.
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“Great idea, Zoe! Seasonal yoga cards with themed names make mindfulness fun and engaging for kids and adults.”
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I will hold weekly mindfulness activities and invite parents to join. When children practice their mindfulness throughout the day I will share it with parents 🙂
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One way to connect parents with the mindful approach would be to send out newsletters or emails
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Taking exercise and breathing exercises after long activities to encourage mindfulness.
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I will incorporate the mindfulness activities we are doing with instructions for how to do it at home in our weekly curriculum emails.
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when my students feel sad or upset i always tell them a phrase i learned from one of my favorite movies and that is “you are kind you are smart you are important” along with a hug to make them feel better. i would like to add some yoga and deep breath methods into our schedule to keep the body calm and reassured when needed.
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I feel like some good tips and tricks would be to develop a mindfulness plan that staff and parents are aware of and agree upon that can be implemented in both spaces to promote generalization and more frequency in those behaviors. We could come up with fun and silly names or activities to do that could promote this.
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I am excited to print out some at home activities for parents to try with their children!
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I think it will be fun to send out a mindfulness tip of the day to the teachers through our communication system. I would also like to send out a weekly mindfulness tip of the week to the parents.
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Joanne, sharing daily tips with staff and weekly ones with parents is a great way to keep everyone engaged in supporting mindfulness! It’s simple and effective.
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I like to encourage this by involving things like daily walks, dance, exercise time, etc.
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Cindy, incorporating daily walks, dance, and exercise is a fun and engaging way to promote mindfulness while keeping everyone active and connected!
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My favorite resource to share with parents is Cosmic Kids yoga
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I would like to organize a day where parents can spend some time with their children in the class and engage in mindfulness activities together.
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Maria, organizing a mindfulness day with parents is a fantastic way to foster collaboration and build mindfulness practices within the community!
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I have a short session of meditation in my class. But we call it “ Finding Our Zen” or if it gets too loud , then we say “ We’ve lost our zen.” We sit in a circle and I play meditation music and we take deep breaths a few times. Then we get our imaginary glass bowls and move it around slowly and focusing on our breathes. And I could plan to include the parents in these sessions. So that the child sees their parents doing it as well.
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Great idea, Alison! Making mindfulness fun with “Finding Our Zen” creates a calm environment, and involving parents reinforces these practices at home. Keep up the great work!
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I wouldn’t mind creating a daily worksheet as part of the kids routine that had different moods (angry to happy) and have the kids pause every morning and talk about how they are feeling and even ask them for something they appreciate in their lives.
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Ocean, I love the idea of a daily worksheet! It encourages self-awareness and appreciation, helping kids connect with their emotions. Great way to incorporate mindfulness!
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