Mindful School Communities: The Five Cs of Nurturing Heart Centered Learning

Build a thriving school community that creates healthy, resilient, and successful students. A companion to Mindfulness Practices, this research-backed guide outlines how to teach self-regulation by fostering the five Cs of social-emotional learning and mindfulness: consciousness, compassion, confidence, courage, and community. The authors provide a wealth of practical exercises, strategies, and tools to bring this scientifically proven approach to life across grade levels and subject areas.

Use this resource to foster the well-being of every learner:

• Benefit from exercises that infuse social-emotional concepts and 21st century skills into academic curriculum across subjects and grade levels.
• Discover ideas for incorporating historical examples of consciousness, compassion, confidence, courage, and community into classwork.
• Learn ways to assess the five Cs elements, including the research-based S-CCATE tool, to provide evidence for what might seem unquantifiable.
• Become familiar with different ways educators have implemented Heart Centered Learning in the real world.
• Work with numerous activities and mindsets that foster a mixture of vulnerability and strength and ameliorate trauma.