Mindfulness is going mainstream, and author Deborah Schoeberlein pioneers its practical application in K-12 education. By showing teachers how to tune into what’s happening, inside and around them, she offers educators fresh, straightforward approaches to training attention and generating caring in the classroom. Mindful Teaching and Teaching Mindfulness emphasizes how the teacher's personal familiarity with mindfulness seeds the ground for an education infused with attention, awareness, kindness, empathy, compassion, and gratitude. The book follows a teacher from morning to night on typical school day. The schedule provides a practical context for applying and promoting mindfulness throughout the day. Brief, readable segments focus on a full range of topics including classroom procedures, lesson structure, and pacing, as well as social and emotional learning. This approach familiarizes the reader with mindfulness and fosters gradual and steady skills development. Reading the book catalyzes readers’ insights and inspires the teacher’s self-confidence in applying mindfulness — personally and professionally.
Deborah Schoeberlein has more than twenty years' experience working with not-for-profit organizations in the United States and abroad. Her professional expertise spans capacity building and leadership development; HIV prevention programming; health education curriculum development for schools and community based-organizations; professional development for teachers and health educators; and freelance journalism.
She is currently the Executive Director of the Roaring Fork School Health Centers in Colorado, overseeing services at three primary-care facilities, providing classroom-based health education and working closely with school district administrators on school-based health center policy and guidelines.
Previously, Deborah was the founding director of the Initiative on Contemplation in Education at the Garrison Institute and a Managing Member of Praxis Advisors, LLC, a consulting group dedicated to capacity building among non-governmental organizations in the Russian Federation. Earlier in her career, Deborah created and subsequently edited Health in Action, a school health practitioners' publication of the American School Health Association.
She also served as Project Consultant on a cooperative agreement between the National Middle School Association and the Division of Adolescent and School Health at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention for the national dissemination of EveryBody(tm) -- an HIV prevention curriculum that she developed and implemented during the 1990s in her capacity as Executive Director of RAD Educational Programs, a 501(c)(3) organization that she founded in 1992.
