This week’s (February 3) issue of TIME magazine has a cover story, The Mindful Revolution, The Science of Finding Focus in a Stressed-Out, Multi-Tasking Culture.  The article, which discusses the benefits and increasingly widespread adoption of Mindfulness in the US features Mindful Schools – the primary curriculum I am using in teaching mindfulness at West Mercer – as an example of how to teach mindfulness to kids!

Here’s an excerpt on teaching mindfulness to kids and Mindful Schools from that article:

“Educators are turning to mindfulness with increasing frequency–perhaps a good thing, considering how digital technology is splitting kids’ attention spans too. (The average American teen sends and receives more than 3,000 text messages a month.) A Bay Area-based program called Mindful Schools offers online mindfulness training to teachers, instructing them in how to equip children to concentrate in classrooms and deal with stress. Launched in 2010, the group has reached more than 300,000 pupils, and educators in 43 countries and 48 states have taken its courses online.”