Happy Back to School (and Beyond)!

September 3, 2019

Experts share back to school tips on what students really need to thrive this year—and how we can all do our part to provide it.

A recent study out of the Center for Education Policy Research at Harvard University (CEPR), MIT, and Transforming Education confirmed what anyone can intuit: Mindfulness is a good thing for students. Full stop. But what that research, which focused on a small cohort of students in a short-term mindfulness program, also called for is the need to explore the benefits of longer-term mindfulness program. Philly’s own Gail Silver, a children’s book author and founder of Yoga Child, is one step ahead of Harvard, having created the nonprofit School Mindfulness Project, which strives to create an entire mindfulness ecosystem in schools and the wider community.

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