Studying Practices of Engaged Mindfulness and Antiracism Through Teacher Research

• In Event: Mindfulness, Empathy, and Justice: Forging New Paths in Teacher Research

Abstract

In this presentation, we tell the story of our work as district-based teacher research facilitators over the past six years in bringing PK-12 practitioners together to study ways of becoming more mindfully aware in their daily lives as educators and increasing their commitments to equity practices. We share how these year-long research groups were structured and facilitated; how the focus on antiracist pedagogy deepened over time; and what we are learning from the teachers’ studies about how they make sense of the effects of mindful practices on their well-being as teachers as well as the way mindfulness informs their ability to notice, question, and disrupt patterns and systems of inequity in their classrooms and curriculum.

Authors

• Erica Kruger, Madison Metropolitan School District
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• Marcela Kyngesburye, Madison Metropolitan School District
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• Sara Parrell, Madison Metropolitan School District
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• Kathleen Doherty, Madison Metropolitan School District
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