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The Conscious Classroom
The Conscious Classroom with host Amy Edelstein explores the future of education and the world of mindfulness and contemplative approaches in education. Amy is the Founder and Executive Director of the award winning nonprofit Inner Strength Education, which trained more than 35,000 students and supported 5,000 teachers in its first decade with evidence based programming. In each episode, Amy, who began her own meditation practice more than 40 years ago, leans into the edge of authentic…
Episodes
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Mindful Journaling - Restorative Teachers' Series
Send us Fan Mail In this episode of The Conscious Classroom, we explore the art of contemplative writing, mindful journaling. It is a practice that can help us…
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Back to In Person School - Building the Habit of Resilience
Send us Fan Mail Wow, many schools are going back to full-time in person classrooms. There are many emotions to navigate! Relief and worry. Now is the time to…
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Self Care for Teachers - Essential In These Times
Send us Fan Mail Highlighted in this podcast are the real concerns teachers are facing right now, named, so that you can externalize them and then create space…
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Choice: Helping Students Believe in Themselves
Send us Fan Mail Giving students choice over many small activities and decisions in the classroom sets a tone of respect, appreciation, value, and…
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Finding Balance - Work Life and Work Again
Send us Fan Mail Does work ever stop these days? It's not just negotiating with all the demands, it's setting boundaries. Here are some ways to set limits and…
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7 Learning Styles & Mindfulness Cues for Different Learners
Send us Fan Mail In this episode, Amy outlines the seven different learning styles. During the pandemic, while most students are learning online, we need to…
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Tapping Inspiration & Building Accountability
Send us Fan Mail The New Year is a time when all of us make resolutions to improve, accomplish, and achieve. In this episode of The Conscious Classroom, Amy…
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Joy to You - Special Better Sleep Session
Send us Fan Mail Joy to the World starts with sending joy to ourselves. Most of us probably believe that but how many of us practice that? Here are some…
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Amplifying Generosity
Send us Fan Mail Holidays are a time of giving and family. For students who are resource-challenged, this time of year can be challenging. In this Conscious…
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Camera Up?
Send us Fan Mail Teaching in an online environment due to coronavirus restrictions has required us to deal with new and challenging questions. How can we teach…
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Finding Your Center
Send us Fan Mail When there's distraction in the classroom and students are disengaged or wound up, our inclination as teachers is often to clamp down, to try…
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Gratitude: Building Community in the Classroom
Send us Fan Mail Thanksgiving is a time for conscious appreciation, recognizing the gifts in our lives, even during hard times like these days during the…
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Expressing Gratitude
Send us Fan Mail In this Conscious Classroom episode, Amy Edelstein will explore different ways to think about gratitude as well as several different…
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Building a Culture of Thanks
Send us Fan Mail Gratitude feels good. In this episode of The Conscious Classroom, Amy Edelstein will talk about building a culture of thanks. As we lean into…
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The Joy of Returning to Class - However that looks
Send us Fan Mail COVID-19 has changed all our lives. Students, Teachers, Parents . . . . But regardless of the medium you are going back to school - online or…
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Cultivating Awareness
Send us Fan Mail Awareness is the foundation of stability, good relationships, and creative learning. Mindfulness techniques help teens cultivate…
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Raising Enthusiasm
Send us Fan Mail In this Conscious Classroom episode, Amy Edelstein will share mindfulness tools and tips to raise the level of enthusiasm for learning. She’ll…
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S.P.A.C.E. - 5 Practices to Start the School Year Mindfully
Send us Fan Mail It’s the start of the school year. Hey, no smell of new textbooks, no bulletin boards to decorate, no lockers to assign, no bells and the…
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Cultivating Curiosity: Mindful Qualities for Teen Success
Send us Fan Mail Love of learning is essential for youth to truly internalize information. Contemplative exercises, contextual seeing, and the practice of…
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A Mind Like Water, Inspiring Calm in the Classroom
Send us Fan Mail Bruce Lee, the iconic martial artist, often spoke about the value of a mind like water -- fluid, flexible, soft enough to go around obstacles…
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Improving Friendship
Send us Fan Mail Good relationships with adults and peers help teens navigate mental and emotional challenges more effectively than any other intervention…
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Amplifying Celebration
Send us Fan Mail Hard to believe, the end of the school year is upon us! In this Conscious Classroom Webinar, Amy Edelstein will lead you in some reflections…
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COVID-19: Self Care & Discovering Positivity
Send us Fan Mail Resistance and frustration is an inevitable human reaction to the stressful conditions we are living in. We can learn to allow, observe, and…
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COVID-19: Building Capacity, Let the Lima Bean Grow
Send us Fan Mail In this episode of special support for educators during the time of school closures looks at how we build our inner capacity so we have a…
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Summer Break: Conscious Endings
Send us Fan Mail The end of the school year is a special time. Conscious endings and appreciation for the heartwarming things that happened during the course…
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COVID-19 Developing Patience, Bringing Ease and Insight
Send us Fan Mail Have you ever thought about why they say "Patience is a virtue"? Virtue is not only meant as an inherent moral goodness but also as a quality…
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Peace or Pressure? Supporting students during testing season
Send us Fan Mail Teens are more stressed than ever before. The cloud of testing looms large over students and anxiety about grades and performance can…
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COVID-19 Integrative Mindfulness - Whole Person Wellness
Send us Fan Mail How can we integrate all we are thinking and feeling at this time? What is the Body-Mind connection? When we take into account thought…
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The Dynamics of Calm
Send us Fan Mail Kids are naturally full of energy. That energy, when channeled helps learning. And yet, as teachers we crave calm. In this episode of The…
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Developing Patience
Send us Fan Mail Patience is a virtue. In our era of ever-increasing speed and ever-decreasing attention span, cultivating this virtue may be harder than ever…
The Conscious ClassroomGen C: Learning & Focus in the age of Coronavirus
Send us Fan Mail In the age of coronavirus, everything has changed. Usually at this time, students would be focusing on testing skills. Now they are needing to…
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Practicing Love & Kindness
Send us Fan Mail The foundation of good learning is a good relationship with one’s teacher or mentor. Building Love & Kindness practices into your school day…
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Times of Challenge, Times of Opportunity
Send us Fan Mail We are living through a great cultural change, while we are in the midst of something so big it is hard to see what is changing and where it…
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COVID-19 Exercising Choice, Building Stability
Send us Fan Mail In times of challenge, like we are presented with now during the Coronavirus epidemic, when we feel overwhelmed and ill-equipped to handle the…
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COVID-19 Conscious Classroom
Send us Fan Mail Life has been upended as we know it. Now more than ever, we need tools that will provide our students with calm during the storm, compassion…
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What Is Racial Literacy? Understanding the dynamics of race
Send us Fan Mail Racial stress occurs every day in diverse classrooms. Tensions between students, between teachers, on the news all affect how well we connect…
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Teen Mental Wellness: Promoting positive mental health
Send us Fan Mail Holiday season is a time for family, warmth, and peace. For all too many of our students, holiday time is a time of stress, sadness, and…