Mindful SchoolSEL

SEL Strategy: Mindful Listening

Develop student focus and self-awareness through "Mindful Listening" (Chime Time). This CASEL-aligned strategy helps students ground themselves and improve concentration in the classroom.
By Ilana Nankin, Ph.D.
May 18, 2022

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Mindful SchoolSEL

Join Breathe For Change’s Founder & CEO, Dr. Ilana Nankin, as she shares the Mindful Listening SEL Strategy! This strategy aligns with the CASEL Social Emotional Learning Competencies of Self Awareness and Relationship Skills. It’s a great tool to introduce to students of all ages to cultivate and embody effective listening skills.

Mindful Listening is one strategy to build Social 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.

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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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