Happy Teachers Change the World: A Guide for Cultivating Mindfulness in Education Kindle Edition

This book by Thay is an incredible resource for teachers!! It's a very unique book in that it has short and simple instructions for the various aspects of practicing mindfulness for adults/teachers (i.e. Walking, sitting, eating, etc. meditations), great ways to teach students, and has input how teachers from around the world have incorporated these practices into their classrooms demonstrating a wide variety of creative ways to engage students of all ages. I have many of Thay's books and other authors on teaching mindfulness to students but I think this book will be my go to book from now on. Wonderful collaboration and a terrific resource!!

Are you interested in implementing mindfulness within your classroom? Do feelings of joy and happiness excite you? Thich Nhat Hanh and Katherine Weare thoroughly write about how learning how to relate to your emotions is fundamental. Learning how to help yourself initiate moments of mindfulness in your life and your practice as an educator, allows for you to help your students learn how to best implement moments of mindfulness within their lives and their academic journey. Mindfulness is critical in ensuring one’s mind and body is performing at their optimal potential thus allow thinking, learning, and teaching to be the central focus within one’s classroom (Hanh & Weare, 2017). Learning how to practice varying techniques of mindfulness for as little as five minutes each day, within the context of one’s classroom, can help ensure that you and all students know how to manage strong emotions should they arise in any given moment. Through the practice of mindful breathing, you learn to connect both your mind and body, feeling what is feels to just be alive and present. This practice allows for feelings of happiness and joy (Hanh & Weare, 2017). Mindfulness allows for one to be fully present and aware. This book contains numerous mindfulness activities to implement within the classroom. Additionally, it is set up in such a way that each chapter contains a section about the purpose and benefits behind implementing each mindfulness practice. Following each explanation, each chapter contains a step-by-by core practice followed by reflections from teachers’ experiences from implementing the practice within their classroom setting. The book contained much beauty throughout both the written words and the context of the practices suggested. This book really was a great, joyous read that was practical and highly informative!

This beautiful yet practical guide is a treasure for educators worldwide. There are a number of mindfulness books on the market for educational settings, but "Happy Teachers" offers unparalleled depth and richness in highly accessible language. The step-by-step instructions are clearly laid out, yet highly adaptable across a range of classroom situations. The many anecdotes from active teachers create a feeling of fellowship and familiarity that both reassure and inform the reader. What I love about this book on "mind"-fulness is that, at its core, it has heart: it is a balanced understanding of how mindfulness practices engage the whole person, both teacher and student. Can't say enough good things about it!

This is a great book for anyone who wants to incorporate mindfulness in their classrooms and/or lives. Although it is written by a master, the book is easy to digest and has really great ideas for integrating mindfulness. I ordered several other books related to this topic as potential book studies at my school and this was by far the best one!

Firstly, let me agree that the binding of the book is poor quality, which does not reflect its content. It is written for an educator that is beginning mindfulness practice, but the practices are indispensable and a valuable resource for all!! It is the best book I have on teaching mindfulness to students!!! Thank you.

At the end of the school year, I saw a friend posted about this book. I was having a difficult time and decided to start reading as soon as school ended. I'm so thankful that I read it. I can't wait to implement the strategies in my classroom. I've already started at home.

This is a must have for teachers who want to start mindfulness or mesiatative practice with a class. I use it for adults and easy to follow as it gives you step by step instructions. Using and inviting a bell is wonderful too and the master of all Thich Bhat Hanh gives us the overall practice! But it!

Your browser does not support HTML5 video.  I was super excited to read this book, this review isn’t on the actual content in the book but the fact that the binding basically came undone from the cover. Literally the first time I open it.

I had been a mindfulness coach with young people for a while before I came across this book, it has an easy to read style but gives a solid grounding in the traditions of mindfulness and how to connect them to young people. It also hooked me up with Plum Village and the other resources they have produced including 'Wake Up'. This is a compilation of songs and meditations that really help bring workshops to life, mind you, when I told my trainer about this he said, 'oh yes, I play keyboards on that', oh dear!

This book was fantastic, some really brilliant ideas for mindfulness activities for all ages. A thought provoking read and also highlights something that is perhaps lacking in the education system at the moment: the importance of teacher wellbeing in order to promote the progress and development of the young people they teach.

This is a beautifully written book, full of wisdom and heartfelt compaasion. The reflections from people who are working this way with children, are really helpful and supportive, such a precious gift. I am sure this book will be a very important influence in my work with mindfulness in education going forward. Thank you :-)

So much to read that is inspired. I will go back again to refer to it with pleasure & delight.

Interesting read