Budding Brains: Integrating Mindfulness, Neuroscience, and Conflict Resolution for Kids
A recap of our live conference on January 26, 2019 plus bonus material
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Welcome to Budding Brains: Integrating Brain Science, Mindfulness and Conflict Resolution for Kids - the online version. We held our live conference on this topic on January 26, 2019. This course includes a recap of the Conference, including most of the video footage, materials, and workshop information about teaching brain science that we shared there. It also includes videos of us teaching this material to our students; mindful hip-hop artist JusTme reading Sergio Sees the Good; teacher tips and additional resources.
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Friendly note: two of the videos included in this course, the conference keynote address by Dr. Elizabeth Hoffman and the short video of conference highlights (the "promo" video), are also available on the Peace of Mind website here: https://teachpeaceofmind.org/conference-2019/. Thanks!
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Your Instructor
Linda Ryden MEd, is the creator of the Peace of Mind Program and author of the Peace of Mind Curriculum Series and five acclaimed storybooks. Linda has served as the full-time Peace Teacher at Lafayette Elementary School, Washington DC’s largest public elementary, since 2003 and continues to teach Peace of Mind classes to more than 700 students every week while actively engaged in supporting her school’s efforts to sustain an inclusive and equitable school climate. Her work has been featured in The Washington Post, Washingtonian Magazine, Washington Parent, Washington Family, Teaching Tolerance, Edutopia, among others. Linda brings a passion for teaching peace and over 25 years of teaching experience to her work with children and adults. She holds a BA from Wesleyan University and a Masters in Education.
Jillian Diesner MEd, LPC, consults on the Early Childhood implementation of Peace of Mind and author of the Peace of Mind Core Curriculum for Early Childhood. Jillian is dual-certified School Counselor and Special Education teacher and a Licensed Professional Counselor in the District of Columbia. She holds Masters’ degrees in Early Childhood Special Education from the George Washington University and in Marriage & Family Counseling from the University of Florida.
Cheryl Cole Dodwell is the Executive Director of Peace of Mind Inc and serves as managing editor for the Peace of Mind Curriculum Series and Storybooks. Cheryl holds an MBA from Stanford University with a focus in public and nonprofit management and BA from Princeton University in Economics and East Asian Studies. For more about our team, visit TeachPeaceofMind.org.