Mindful Breathing with Children
Part of the MindUP Curriculum is a core practice of mindful breathing that is done three times a day. We do the breathing breaks across all grade levels in our school. Click on the video below to see...
View ArticleThinking Through Quality Questioning
Over 200 educators joined us last Friday for one of our Distinguished Educator events. Jackie Walsh and Beth Sattes kept all of us engaged and thinking about questioning strategies for the entire day!...
View ArticleSusan Kaiser Greenland and The Mindful Child
Our agency was so fortunate to host Susan Kaiser Greenland for a day of training on February 24th. Susan is the author of The Mindful Child. To prepare for Susan’s visit, the teachers at our school...
View ArticlePass the Cup with PreK: Adapted from The Mindful Child by Susan Kaiser Greenland
Below is a post from one of our very talented PreK teachers, Cristina Garcia. Enjoy! In preparation for a visit from Susan Kaiser Greenland, the JEJ staff read The Mindful Child for our book study. It...
View ArticleGoodbye Rituals at School – The End of Year Open House
We are winding down another school year here at JEJCS. It has flown! We have a few end of year rituals at our school to help bring closure to the academic year. One tradition is an end of year open...
View ArticleEnd of Year Rituals – Advice for the Incoming Class
We spend the last week of school talking a lot about being ready for the next grade. Our early childhood students go and visit their new classrooms and teachers. Our PK-4 students made a poster of...
View ArticleEnd of Year Rituals – The Class Book
Each June, as school is winding down, we take students through an activity that allows them to reflect on their year and what they admire about their classmates. Those reflections are bound into books...
View ArticleJoin Us at our Distinguished Educator Series! Questioning for Learning:...
We hope you will attend the next event in our Distinguished Educator Series with Jackie Wash and Beth Sattes for a transforming day of learning on Friday, November 2, 2012. Administrators, teacher...
View ArticleMindUP and Research: The Results are In!
When our school decided to implement the MindUP program across all grade levels, we knew that we would do a research study about it. We are incredibly lucky to have a full-time researcher in our...
View ArticlePK-4 Family Game Night: Guest Post by Cristina Garcia
This year we started what will become a tradition for Pre-K families, Family Game Night. Families had an option to bring their favorite game or play a board game that we provided. They were paired up,...
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