Today's Mindful Moment
Shout out to all the schools who are using these videos with students during distance living & learning. It's an honor that these videos have been helpful. Feel free to share and use with staff, students and families alike.
**Special thanks to KUT and KXAN for highlighting our Today's Mindful Moment videos.
Calling For Special Guests for Videos
The basics of the video: Record yourself leading a mindful moment for 2 minute 20 seconds or less (to meet Twitter platform requirements) and send it to me (email at bottom of page). I don't edit any of my videos aside from trimming the beginning & end when I press record, so send me your best take. I'm excited!
(image from society6.com)
Mindful Moment Scripts
Self-Care for Educators
The SEL Department is excited to share offerings for AISD staff every Friday. Zoom links below.
These are for AISD Staff ONLY.
- Contact your SEL Specialist for Zoom information.
Virtual Mindfulness Retreat
Educating Mindfully Online Summit
Join us for our FREE online personal and professional development event Thursday-Sunday, April 23-26, 2020!
Each day we will provide 10 learning choices, including informative sessions recorded at our 2019 and 2020 Educating Mindfully Conferences, inspirational interviews and chapter author chats.
**Full disclosure: I am playing a few roles in this Summit, including a 90-minute keynote recorded in February, but I'm not getting compensation for this. It's a great event that I'm thankful to be a part of.
It's been extremely useful in helping me strive to promote equitable mindfulness in AISD. It played a key role in my request to call for special guests for our Today's Mindful Moments video, along with inspiration from my friend & SEL colleague Theresa Burke Garcia. The PDF is below. Feel free to use for your own mindful inquiry about your work. Thank you, AISD Equity Team!
During this pandemic, the Center for Mindfulness, The Sanford Institute, and the Compassion have teamed up to offer free Mindfulness and Compassion sessions.
Among these free live sessions you will find sessions for parents, kids, and teens.
Please join us!
Parenting with Presence - Fridays from 10-10:40 am
Mindfulness for Parents & Kids - Fridays from 3-3:20pm
An Open Forum for Teens to Check In - Saturdays from 11:30-12:30pm
To find out more visit:
James Butler, M.Ed.
Austin ISD SEL Mindfulness Specialist
2014 Austin ISD Teacher of the Year
Author of Mindful Classrooms: Daily 5-Minute Practices to Support Social-Emotional Learning
Email: james.butler@austinisd.org
Twitter: @mrbutler629