Middle School Mindfulness, Made Practical
From The Conscious Classroom by Amy Edelstein
September 9, 2025 · 24 min · Episode 86
About this episode
Amy Edelstein shares practical guidance on teaching mindfulness to middle schoolers, focusing on structure and emotional intelligence.
Send us Fan Mail In this episode, Amy Edelstein shares a practical, developmentally appropriate guidance on teaching mindfulness to middle schoolers. She describes how to adjust practices to this age group, with a focus on structure, repetition, and emotional intelligence. Paying attention to their emerging selfhood, a teacher can guide that emergence while recognizing that students are still very group oriented. Short, tactile practices, playful competition, and thoughtful repeat...
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Host: Amy Edelstein
Topics covered
- mindfulness
- middle school
- emotional intelligence
- teaching practices
- selfhood
Keywords
- mindfulness
- middle school
- emotional intelligence
- teaching
- selfhood
- developmentally appropriate
- practices
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