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 Jennifer Wade   Home        Learn More        Standards        Inspiration        About the Author

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Links
  • Casel.org- A site that promotes the integration of social, emotional learning in grades preschool to high school.
  • Mindful.org- An online magazine that includes articles about mindfulness, emotional learning and cognitive development. This link will take you to an article that teaches an adult how to teach children about the brain.​
  • TedTalk- A site that features videos of conference speeches, articles, blogs and more on a large variety of educational topics.
  • Second Step-This is a social-emotional classroom-based program designed to teach children how to understand and manage their emotions.
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Student Mindfulness Tools
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Calm app​ for kids and adults. Guided meditations, calm sounds, and visual. Sleep stories too.

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GoNoodle​ is an interactive class and home app for mindfulness and movement. Children gain awards as to encourage use and participation. 

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Little Children Big Challenges:
Breathe, Think, Do with Sesame Street
 This interactive app is great
​for kids to practice calming down,
breaths and thinking.

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Mind Yeti is a mindfulness app for kids and their adults. This can be used at home and in the classroom.



​Digital Tools For Teachers
QR's- Free Code Creators are a great way to get your students getting to sites independently. Create codes and lost them around the room for all of your favorite sites.
​​Symbaloo- Get all of your apps and tools in one place for quick and easy digital use.
Twitter- Get connected with NVUSD educators and the most current educational sites, tools, and information from around the world.
Pinterest-Many are familiar with this app. Fantastic for new and creative classroom ideas.

Video Making Tools:
EdPuzzle- Video resource perfect for editing and posing questions. Large variety of topics, very easy to use
​Adobe Slides-Free and easy video and slide presentations.
Adobe Spark-Make simple movie and slide show presentations.
Educreations Interactive Whiteboard tool. Can record lessons and voice-overs of digital whiteboard work.

Make Information More Graphic:
​Prezi- A new and improved PowerPoint presentation tool.
Canva- Easy to use for infographics and visuals.
​Bubblus-A tool for graphic mind-mappin
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Recommended Reading
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Teaching With Poverty in Mind, by Eric Jensen, an educator and brain expert, writes on the effects of poverty on the mind of students at risk. He takes a critical look at the U.S. school system and what we should be doing to meet student needs.

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Teaching With the Brain in Mind,​ by Eric Jensen, an educator and brain expert, is a text that applies brain research to the process of teaching and learning.

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The Global Achievement Gap,​ by Tony Wagner,  addresses 21st-century skills needed in our new global economy. Through experience, interviews, and observations, Wagner shares a critical view of what is happening in even our best schools.

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The Flat World and Education, by Linda Darling-Hammond, is a harsh look at the U.S. school system and gives an informative view of what is working in other countries where schools are keeping pace with 21st-century learning.

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HOW-TOs
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LESSONS
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ASSESSMENTS
Recommended Children's Books
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  • The Feeling Book, Todd Parr
  • In My Heart, A Book of Feelings, Jo Witeck
  • Calm Down Time, Elizabeth Verdick
  • How Are You Felling Today, Molly Potter
  • Understanding Myself: A Book About Strong Feelings, Mary Lamia
  • Peaceful Piggy Meditation,  Kerry Lee MacLean


Blogs & Articles
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  • SimpleMinds-A list of mindfulness apps to be used with young children. Apps are for Android and iTunes.
  • Project Happiness Blog
  • Headspace Blog
  • Hey Sigmund Blog​

​   Research:
  • Neurodevelopment in the first three years: implications for the child development, professional practice and policy,  Danya Glaser
 
  • Mindfulness and Student Success, Matt Leland, Journal of Adult Education 
 
  • Childhood Trauma and Its Affects on Health and Learning, Kristi Garrett from California Schools
 
  • An Exploration Study of the Effects of Mindfulness on Perceived Levels of Stress among school-children from lower socioeconomic backgrounds., Elizabeth Costello and Margaret Lawler​​

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Below are the most relevant articles and videos that address aspects of mindfulness.
  • ​Mindfulness is all the Rage but does it Work?
  • Mindfulness
  • Brain Breaks
  • Social and Emotional Learning
  • Teaching Empathy
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