Education Week – Emotions Help Steer Students’ Learning, Studies Find
By Sarah Sparks Education Week April 26, 2016
Things to Read
- Rick Hanson’s Hardwiring Happiness
- https://ww2.kqed.org/mindshift/tag/mindfulness/
- Excellent bibliography! Mindfulness Resource List Oct 2015 (Gardener & Grose, Brock U.)
- Mindfulness Training Improves Working Memory Capacity and GRE Performance While Reducing Mind Wandering; Michael D. Mrazek, Michael S. Franklin, Dawa Tarchin Phillips, Benjamin Baird, and Jonathan W. Schooler; University of California, Santa Barbara; Psychological Science
24(5) 776–781; DOI: 10.1177/0956797612459659 Retrieved from http://pss.sagepub.com/content/24/5/776.abstract - New York Times article Using Mindfulness to Help Close the Achievement Gap Thanks Beth Lease – PSU Harrisburg!
- Transforming Students’ Lives with Social and Emotional Learning; To appear in the Handbook of Emotions in Education, Marc A. Brackett & Susan E. Rivers; Yale Center for Emotional Intelligence; Yale University. Retrieved from http://ei.yale.edu/wp-content/uploads/2013/09/Transforming-Students%E2%80%99-Lives-with-Social-and-Emotional-Learning.pdf
- Shapiro, S., Brown, K., & Astin, J. (2011). Toward the integration of meditation into higher education: A review of research. Teachers College Record. 113(3),493-528. Retrieved from http://www.contemplativemind.org/admin/wp-content/uploads/2012/09/MedandHigherEd.pdf
- The Slow Professor: Challenging the Culture of Speed in the Academy http://www.universityaffairs.ca/features/feature-article/the-slow-professor/ (Thanks Eileen Grodziak)
- Resources shared by Jim Crivaro , Instructor in Kinesiology Penn State YorkEDUCAUSE (Thanks Amy Roche!) article Stress and Renewal…and What You Can Do About It.
- Session details from GGSC Summer Institute for Educators on Social-Emotional Learning (my blog)
- Real Happiness: The Power of Meditation by Sharon Salzberg (2011) Workman Publishing, New York.
Things to Do
- Greater Good In Action (UC Berkeley)
- Guided meditation sessions (UCLA)
- App: Stop – Breathe – Think
- Monitor your moods with Yale’s Mood Meter app
- RAIN – a 4-step Mindfulness Approach in Difficult Times
- Loving-kindness Meditation – The Center for Contemplative Mind in Society
- Things to do in the College Classroom Vanderbilt University
- Atlas of Emotions – Dalai Lama & Eckmans
Research Centers
- Greater Good Science Center (UC Berkeley)
- Yale Center for Emotional Intelligence
- U Mass Medical School Center for Mindfulness in Medicine Healthcare, and Society (Jon Kabatt-Zinn)
- CASEL Collaborative for Academic, Social, and Emotional Learning
- PSU’s Bennett Pierce Prevention Research Center (Greenburg & Gill)
- Penn Program for Mindfulness (College of Medicine)
- UCLA Mindful Awareness Research Center (Winston & Lopez)
- Penn’s Positive Psychology Center (Seligman, Duckworth)
- Harvard School of Public Health Center for Health and Happiness
- The Effective Lifelong Learning Inventory (ELLI) U. of Bristol UK (Deakin Crick, Claxton, & Broadfoot)
- The Mindfulness Institute of the Jefferson-Myrna Brind Center of Integrative Medicine