meditation and education

San Francisco schools transformed by the power of meditation

NBC News: Silence isn't something people usually associate with middle school, but twice a day the halls of Visitacion Valley…

December 30, 2014

Mindfulness program reveals positive results

Sarah Duggan, EducationHQ: Using mindfulness in the classroom improves students’ self-control, attentiveness and respect for each other, researchers have discovered.…

November 21, 2014

Restive lads opt for meditation over detention

Alexandra Smith, The Sydney Morning Herald: Teenage boys are not known for deep contemplation, but if if gets them out…

October 28, 2014

Social and emotional skills for schools

Ravi Pradhan, República: In the past decade, a very exciting new approach has started to attract the attention of educators…

August 20, 2014

‘Mindfulness’ therapy adopted by stressed Britons

Sarah Knapton, The Telegraph: Financial firms in the City of London are recommending mindfulness to stressed employees while schools are…

May 13, 2014

Primary school uses meditation to boost concentration

Cotswold Journal: A primary school in the Cotswolds is using a special technique to boost children’s concentration and wellbeing. Shipston…

March 28, 2014

Mindful meditation at school makes kids go ommm

Mary MacVean, Los Angles Times: Hundreds of schools in California alone have mindful meditation programs, and educators see benefits. Mindfulness…

March 3, 2014

Could meditation help Long Island students?

Anne Michaud, Long Island Newsday: A woman I had just met was so upset that she began to confide in…

February 11, 2014

Mindfulness in college admissions wins support of teachers, administrators, students, parents

PRWEB: Strolling through UC Berkeley’s campus on a warm, cloudless day, Alex Thaler points to a verdant expanse of grass…

September 25, 2013

“Room to Breathe” — A documentary film about mindfulness in a troubled middle school

Room to Breathe is a documentary about teaching mindfulness to students of the troubled Marina Middle School in San Francisco,…

September 21, 2013