This is Perseverance. It's not how many times we get knocked down, but rather how many times we get back up.(Tubthumping anyone?) Teaching ourselves and our students to have grit will help them be successful.
Mindfulness is a great tool to help teach our students how to handle the emotions which inevitable arise in times of failure. We will not always be successful. Our students need to know about the times we have triumphed but also about the times we have failed.
Mindfulness helps us reframe the times in which we did not have success. It helps us look deeper into the 'why' we may have failed. I helps us become curious about it and explore new and different approaches. Mindfulness can help us learn gratitude for the small successes when we otherwise only see the big failures.
Some days you may not feel like engaging in mindfulness but it is a great way to build resilience, grit, and perseverance.
As a school we utilize the mindfulness tool Inner Explorer. I wanted to share a school success. An example of teachers persevering and trying mindfulness.
As a school, this school year (to date) we have completed 10,819 minutes of mindfulness. That is over 180 hours!
You are amazing! If you feel knocked down today I hope this gets you back up again!
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