Attentive Teaching is an education nonprofit that aims to help teachers create peaceful and safe classrooms by recognizing and addressing trauma and stress-related issues through mindfulness and self-regulating techniques. The Attentive Teaching podcast is here to help listeners improve themselves and their classroom. Join educator Cindy Schwartz each Monday to explore mindful teaching strategies and hear from educators, mental health and mind-body professionals, parents and students. Attentive Teaching: where calm is created and resilience is cultivated.
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Racism, Sexism, Bias and Teacher's Mental Health
Attentive Teaching takes the discussion of C.R.T. and moves it forward with a deep dive into the ways states are passing laws that are prescribing what teachers can and cannot teach. It appears that the teaching of racism, sexism and bias are on the chopping block and we'd like to explore how the mental health of teachers is being affected.
Can stressed teachers teach and can stressed students learn?