COSEM Equity-Based Convo

Thanks to Tovi, Tracy & COSEM for having me as the special guest for this month's Equity-Based Conversation.

Immediately below are resources from our conversation and more to support your personal practice and implementing with students.

-James Butler

Educator, Author, Mindfulness Specialist

Personal Practice

• Free app subscriptions for educators -- Headspace & MyLife (formerly Stop Breathe Think)
• Suggested Daily Practice -- A document I created focused on personalized practice

Mindful of Equity

• Austin ISD Equity Office
• National Equity Project
• Free download of Racial Healing Allies: A Useful Tool in How Racial Autobiographies Can Heal Us At Work And In Life by Tovi Scruggs-Hussein and 18 others (including yours truly) :)
• Equity image & Mindful of Inquiry questions see below...

Implementation (synchronous or asynchronous)

• Quick Mindfulness for Stress Relief
• "Today's Mindful Moment" videos & more from Austin ISD
• Physical & Mental Health Menu -- A document I created to help with being intentional about our physical and mental health care. Document is in English & Spanish. Shout out to Guerrero-Thompson 4th & 5th grade teachers for translating the doc in Spanish.
• 10 Suggestions for Mindfulness Implementation image see below...

Science & Research

• Vagus Nerve Survival Guide from Psychology Today
  
• Mindfulness Research from Mindful Schools
• Breathing science:The Influence of Breathing on the Nervous System from PubMed Central
• Gratitude research article from NPR

• "How Stress Affects Your Brain" TedEd video by Madhumita Murgia
  
• Nine Ways Mindfulness Reduces Stress article by Shamash Alidina

Professional (& Personal) Inspirations

• Dr. Angela Ward, Educator & Coach featured in Education Week Leaders to Learn From
• Dr. Angela Rose Black, Educator & Founder of Mindfulness For The People
• Tovi Scruggs-Hussein, Educator, Author & President of Coalition of Schools Educating Mindfully

Founder of Mindful Classrooms, LLC

Author of Mindful Classrooms: Daily 5-Minute Practices to Support Social-Emotional Learning and Coloring Book and Reflections for Social-Emotional Learning

Austin ISD SEL Mindfulness Specialist

2014 Austin ISD Teacher of the Year

Email: james@mindfulclassrooms.com
Website: mindfulclassrooms.com
Facebook: facebook.com/mindfulclassrooms
Twitter: @mrbutler629