On today’s episode, we will hear the perspective of a public school teacher, which is an exciting first for this podcast!

Amanda and Vickie share a conversation with Jaimie about social and emotional learning, which focuses on whole-child development in order to be more successful academically. 

Don’t miss this intriguing conversation!

Show Highlights:

• Jaimie shares her background and how she became interested in mindfulness and social and emotional learning.
• Jaimie practices mindfulness and meditation each morning for at least three minutes.
• Do what you say and do what you’re doing with your students.
• Social and emotional learning is the ‘on-ramp’ to academic achievement.
• Teaching mindfulness: Model it, teach a mini-lesson about it. Model it, then do it together.
• Mindfulness is one of the only ways to strengthen the grey matter and reproduce new grey matter in the brain, research shows.
• Adults need mindfulness as much as children do.
• Mindfulness helps to deal with the effects of trauma.
• For students with autism or other diverse abilities and special needs, mindfulness is highly beneficial for coping and awareness.
• A social and emotional learning specialist is a relatively new position in terms of foundational principles and is not yet in every school district.
• There are many social and emotional learning self-assessment quizzes on the internet. Jaimie suggests picking some out, taking the assessments to see where your areas of growth are, see where you need to grow, and do your work around that.

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