Breathe4Change Professional Development for Calm Middle School of PMS Library

Funded Oct 30, 2024

Thank you to everyone who donated to the MSP Library BreatheforChange 2024 2025 project! During this school year, I am attending 200 hours of training to become a certified yoga instructor and social-emotional learning certified educator. As I progress through the course, the students and I benefit from better communication and an increased ability to persist with schoolwork!

During this training, I get a chance to teach a yoga class to my colleagues to demonstrate my skills as a yoga teacher of all ages. Yoga can be taught in one-hour formal classes, but it can also be instilled into small moments during the school day, where staff and students alike can benefit from better feelings within themselves through mindfulness and stretching, which translate to better learning.

The highlight of my training is the class I prepared and taught for building community among middle school students. In this class, we breathe to support each other, we simulate through stretches connections to the earth, and each other. Thank you for caring and bringing best practices to our middle school in New Jersey!”

With gratitude,

Ms. Abbate