Patricia A. Jennings

Teaching is one of the most rewarding professions, but also one of the most demanding. Mindfulness for Teachers offers simple, ready-to-use, and evidence-proven mindfulness techniques to help educators manage the stresses of the classroom, cultivate an exceptional learning environment, and revitalise both their teaching and their students' knowledge acquisition. Drawing on basic and applied research in the fields of neuroscience,...

Stress and burnout are eroding teachers' motivation, performance, quality of classroom interactions, and relationships with students, as well as their commitment to the profession. Principals are leaving in droves, and teacher shortages are becoming the new normal. Our teachers are underappreciated and our schools underresourced. But, as the author of Mindfulness for Teachers and The Trauma-Sensitive Classroom points out, educators...

Fully half the students in U.S. schools have experienced trauma, violence, or chronic stress. In the face of this epidemic, it falls increasingly to teachers to provide the adult support these students need to function in school. However, most educators have received little training to prepare them for this role. In her new book, The Trauma-Sensitive Classroom, Tish Jennings—an internationally...