Mindful SchoolSEL

SEL Strategy: Chime Time (Mindful Listening)

Chime Time is a mindful listening strategy aligned with the CASEL Competencies of Self Awareness and Self Management. This activity is a perfect way to center ourselves and ground ourselves for effective teaching and learning. Check out our video to see our Founder & CEO, Dr. Ilana Nankin, modeling how to teach Chime Time to […]

By Ilana Nankin, Ph.D.
May 2 2022

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Mindful SchoolSEL

Chime Time is a mindful listening strategy aligned with the CASEL Competencies of Self Awareness and Self Management. This activity is a perfect way to center ourselves and ground ourselves for effective teaching and learning.

Check out our video to see our Founder & CEO, Dr. Ilana Nankin, modeling how to teach Chime Time to both younger and older students!

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Ilana Nankin, Ph.D.
Founder & Co-CEO

Dr. Ilana Nankin is the Founder and Co-CEO of Breathe for Change and an award-winning entrepreneur, teacher educator, and former public school teacher. She holds degrees from UC Berkeley and a PhD in Curriculum and Instruction from the University of Wisconsin–Madison, with research demonstrating the link between educator well-being, SEL, and student learning. As a lead professor of the Human Intelligence course, Ilana weaves embodied awareness and systemic well-being into a clear theory of change: transform educators to transform classrooms.

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