Mindful SchoolSEL

SEL Strategy: Chime Time (Mindful Listening)

Discover "Chime Time," a mindful listening strategy designed to help students center and ground themselves. This CASEL-aligned activity supports self-awareness and self-management for more effective teaching and learning.
By Ilana Nankin, Ph.D.
May 2, 2022

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By Ilana Nankin, Ph.D.

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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!

Chime Time is one strategy to build Emotional Intelligence, one of the five layers of Human Intelligence. The more we understand, embody, and teach Human Intelligence, the more we co-create what education was always meant to be. If this vision resonates, explore how the Master’s Degree is helping educators nationwide integrate these capacities into daily teaching and leadership.

About the Author

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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