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Mindful School Communities: The Five Cs of Nurturing Heart Centered Learning™
Build a thriving school community that creates healthy, resilient, and successful students. A companion to Mindfulness Practices, this research-backed guide outlines how to teach self-regulation by fostering the five Cs of social-emotional learning and mindfulness: consciousness, compassion, confidence, courage, and community. The authors provide a wealth of practical exercises, strategies, and tools to bring this scientifically proven approach to life across grade levels and subject areas.
Benefits
- Benefit from exercises that infuse social-emotional concepts and 21st century skills into academic curriculum across subjects and grade levels.
- Discover ideas for incorporating historical examples of consciousness, compassion, confidence, courage, and community into classwork.
- Learn ways to assess the five Cs elements, including the research-based S-CCATE tool, to provide evidence for what might seem unquantifiable.
- Become familiar with different ways educators have implemented Heart Centered Learning™ in the real world.
- Work with numerous activities and mindsets that foster a mixture of vulnerability and strength and ameliorate trauma.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
Part I: Scientific Basis and Overview
Chapter 1: Heart Centered Learning
Chapter 2: Heart Physiology and Heart-Mind Connections
Part II: Heart Centered Components
Chapter 3: Consciousness
Chapter 4: Compassion
Chapter 5: Confidence
Chapter 6: Courage
Chapter 7: Heart Centered Community
Chapter 8: Heart Centered Leadership
Epilogue: Taking Heart, Having Heart—Looking to Our Future
Appendix: S-CCATE—A Visioning and Assessment Tool to Create Heart Centered Communities
PRINTABLE REPRODUCIBLES
- Additional Community Exercises
- Definitions of Compassion for Define and Notice Compassion Exercise
- Exercise Planners
- Figure 2.1: Appreciation Form
- Figure 3.1: Who Am I? Form
- Figure 3.2: Five Ws of Conscious Living Form
- Figure 3.3: KWL for the five Ws of Conscious Living
- Figure 5.1: Strategies to Build Confidence
- Figure 6.1: We Are Vulnerable Exercise Form
- Quotes on Courage
- Rate, Clarke, Lindsay, and Sternberg (2007)—“Factors Underlying People’s Implicit Conceptions of Courage”: Distinctively Characteristic Ratings of an Ideally Courageous Person
SUGGESTED RESOURCES
BOOKS
- Brendtro, L. K., Brokenleg, M., & van Bockern, S. (2019). Reclaiming Youth at Risk: Futures of Promise (3rd ed.). Bloomington, IN: Solution Tree Press.
- Kanold, T. (2017). HEART! Fully Forming Your Professional Life as a Teacher and Leader. Bloomington, IN: Solution Tree Press.
- Mason, C., Rivers Murphy, M., & Jackson, Y. (2019). Mindfulness Practices: Cultivating Heart Centered Communities Where Students Focus and Flourish. Bloomington, IN: Solution Tree Press.
WEBSITES
Introduction
Chapter 2
Chapter 3
- Day-to-Day Experiences
- Center for Collaborative Education, “Striving for Democracy in Schools”
- Five Facet Mindfulness Questionnaire
- Institute for Evolutionary Leadership
- Projects on Hunger and Food Insecurity for Grades 6–8
- uBegin
Chapter 4
- Angela Cardenas’s blog—resources for teaching students compassion
- A Mighty Girl
- Brightly
- Dr. Michele Borba
- Center for Healthy Minds, “Sign Up to Receive the Kindness Curriculum”
- Collaborative and Proactive Solutions, “The CPS Model”
- Compassion Games
- Compassionate Action Network
- Compassionate Schools Project, “Program”
- Fears of Compassion Scale
- Mindful Schools, “Mindfulness Fundamentals”
- Mindful Teachers, “Videos About Kindness, Compassion, and Service (Part 1 of 2)”
- PeaceJam
- Self-Compassion, “Scales for Researchers”
- YouTube, “Compassion International”
Chapter 5
- Apple App Store, “Breathe, Think, Do with Sesame”
- Biography, “People”
- Google Play, “Breathe, Think, Do with Sesame”
- National Film Board of Canada, “Richard Cardinal: Cry from a Diary of a Métis Child”
- Stop, Breathe, and Think, “On a Mission: SBT Kids!”
- TeachHUB, “Jordan Catapano”
- University of Maryland, Department of Sociology, “Using the Rosenberg Self-Esteem Scale”
- YouTube, “Amy Cuddy: 30 Seconds on Power Poses”
Chapter 6
- Books about courage
- Brené Brown
- The Connor-Davidson Resilience Scale
- Everyday Power—Courage Quotes About Life, Strength and Facing Fear
- Frontiers in Psychology, “The Academic Resilience Scale (ARS-30): A New Multidimensional Construct Measure”
- Habits for Wellbeing—20 Inspiring Quotes on Courage
- Lauren Tarshis, “The I Survived Series”
- Pearson, “Resiliency Scales for Children & Adolescents: A Profile of Personal Strengths”
- Positive Psychology, “How To Measure Resilience With These 8 Resilience Scales”
- The Science of Psychotherapy, “The Predictive 6-Factor Resilience Scale”
- Success—Quotes to Spark Your Inner Brave
- Teaching Tolerance
Chapter 7
- My Sandy Hook Family
- Peace at Home Parenting Solutions
- Safe and Sound Schools
- Sandy Hook Promise
- Schools that focus on community
- Student Teacher Relationship Scale (STRS)
Chapter 8
- Barrett Values Centre, “Personal Values Assessment (PVA)”
- CASEL, “Collaborating States Initiative”
- Center for Educational Improvement, “A Giving Heart and a Kind Mind”
- Institute for Mindful Leadership, “Guided Meditation Archives—Institute for Mindful Leadership”
- SoundCloud, “Institute for Mindful Leadership”
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