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Mindful and Kindful

Help me give my students rich literature and journal resources to teach, support and deepen their mindfulness, compassion and empathy skills.

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My Students

Our students are lovely kids who lack the advantages provided youngsters from middle-class and wealthy school districts. Many are English Language Learners, most come from high stress living situations. Many have parents who are ill, deceased, incarcerated, working several jobs or struggling to find work. Many have been exposed to sometimes extreme violence. Some of our students, though born here, come from families with undocumented adults and live with the fear of seeing their families split in two. But all of our kids hope to overcome the trauma of their lives to become successful in whatever way they define this and our teaching staff is here to support them.

My Project

In addition to my role as an ESL teacher, I teach mindfulness and social-emotional learning to multiple classrooms and a mindfulness club each week. Students are riveted by the mindfulness/kindness-based stories I read them as part of these lessons. Even the older ones seem moved and inspired by them. I have spent hundreds of dollars of my money on these books and many of my students have heard them multiple times. The wealth of new mindfulness and kindness books for students offers new promise for transformation in our school community and beyond.

The gratitude journals are particularly key to these lessons, as multiple studies have linked the cultivation of gratitude to greater happiness and compassion for self and others.

Our popular "Kindness Club," a blend of mindfulness, yoga and active kindness projects directed toward the school community, will find its anchor in the brief writing component of these unique journals. Additionally, themes from the journals will be used as a warm-up activity for the classes I visit and for our intermediate English Language Learners during journal time.

Ms. Roberts William H Ziegler Elementary School Grades 3-5

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At this school, more than 50% of students are Black, Latino, and/or Native American, and more than 50% come from low-income households. Learn how your donation to this school supports a more equitable education.

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Nearly all students from low‑income households Data about students' economic need comes from the National Center for Education Statistics, via our partners at MDR Education. Learn more

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Where Your Donation Goes

Where your donation goes
Materials Cost Quantity Total
The 3 Minute Gratitude Journal for Kids: A Journal to Teach Children to Practice Gratitude and Mindfulness • Amazon Business $5.99 20 $119.80
A World of Pausabilities: An Exercise in Mindfulness • Amazon Business $12.53 2 $25.06
Mind Bubbles: Exploring mindfulness with kids • Amazon Business $10.99 2 $21.98
Bee Still: An Invitation to Meditation • Amazon Business $16.99 1 $16.99
Heart Bubbles: Exploring compassion with kids • Amazon Business $10.99 1 $10.99
Peaceful Piggy Meditation (Albert Whitman Prairie Books (Paperback)) • Amazon Business $6.64 1 $6.64

Materials cost

$201.46

Vendor shipping charges

 FREE

Sales tax

 $0.00

3rd party payment processing fee

$3.02

Fulfillment labor & materials

$30.00

Total project cost

$234.48

Suggested donation to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

$41.38

Total project goal

$275.86

How we calculate what's needed

Total project goal

 $275.86

2 Donors

-$275.86

Donations toward project cost

-$234.48

Donations to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$41.38

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 $0.00

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