Classroom ManagementMindful SchoolSEL

The Educator’s Essential Guide to SEL: 8 Mindfulness-Based SEL Strategies for You and Your Students

As educators, when our students are struggling, we’re profoundly impacted. The fact is, the current declining state of students’ mental health greatly affects how well we are able to teach, and how well students are able to learn. This is why Social Emotional Learning, or SEL, is so important. Mindfulness-based SEL introduces mindfulness strategies as […]

By Shatera Weaver
February 29 2024

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Classroom ManagementMindful SchoolSEL

As educators, when our students are struggling, we’re profoundly impacted. The fact is, the current declining state of students’ mental health greatly affects how well we are able to teach, and how well students are able to learn.

This is why Social Emotional Learning, or SEL, is so important.

Mindfulness-based SEL introduces mindfulness strategies as a bolstering foundation to SEL, profoundly and positively impacting the physical, mental, and social-emotional health of both educators and students.

In this toolkit, you will gain 8 mindfulness-based SEL strategies for you and your students including strategies for:

  • Self-Awareness
  • Self-Management
  • Social Awareness
  • Relationship Skills
  • Responsible Decision-Making

About the Author

Shatera Weaver
EC Instructor

Shatera is a Dean of Culture, special educator, and Breathe For Change graduate whose journey with yoga began as a path to healing while living with Sickle Cell Anemia. Now an RYT 500, she designs and teaches wellness-centered, equity-driven programming for schools nationwide, integrating yoga, meditation, and embodied practices into education spaces. Her work lives at the intersection of wellness and education, expanding access and challenging inequitable systems so more students and educators can feel whole in their bodies and learning.

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