Surprises in Kindness: Impact of a Mindfulness- and Kindness-Focused Social Emotional Learning Curriculum on Teachers

• In Event: Moscone Center North Roundtable Session 15
  In Roundtable Session: Mindfulness-Based Practices for Teachers and Students

Abstract

A community partnership implemented a mindfulness-based Kindness Curriculum (KC) with the children, families, and teachers of four agencies, in an effort to support and increase intentional implementation of future social emotional learning (SEL) focused education within the larger community’s early childhood population. Using a mixed-methods approach the multi-year research project measures the impact of the mindfulness-based KC with preschool-aged children enrolled in the partnering four early childhood agencies and examines the experiences of their early childhood educators during the KC implementation in their early childhood classrooms.

Authors

• Stephanie A. Burdick-Shepherd, Lawrence University

• Beth A. Haines, Lawrence University

• Kathy R. Immel, University of Wisconsin

• Amanda Karnatz, Lawrence University

• Lund Annika, Lawrence University