Mindfulness for Educators

Along with newer children’s books about mindfulness, many beloved picture books also offer mindful messages about kindness, friendship, and contemplating the world around us. Here are a few favorites.

In this toolkit, readers can learn more about the case for implementing mindfulness techniques into their daily work and organizational culture, try hands-on strategies for doing so, and learn more from organizations that have begun this journey.

This article offers a definition of mindfulness and describes how it can be used to help children and educators in a classroom setting.

This article for early childhood educators explores easy-to-implement practices can support self-regulation and overall well-being in the early years.

This page contains resources related to the EITP training “Mindfulness, Breath, and Yoga in Your Early intervention Practice: Practical Strategies for the EI Provider.”

This article explains how compounding professional stress and trauma, as an educator, can be addressed with self-care, including practicing mindfulness and reframing negative thoughts.

Children benefit from teachers who are mindfully present—consciously attending and responding to their needs. This Young Children article offers some techniques and strategies that promote mindfulness.

In this article, four of these mindfulness strategies are shared that educators can practice once per day or as often as needed. Teachers can complete them together or separately, and one can adapt them to fit unique situations and preferences.