The Mindful Education Workbook: Lessons for Teaching Mindfulness to Students

The Mindful Education Workbook: Lessons for Teaching Mindfulness to Students Daniel Rechtschaffen W.W. Norton, New York, 2016 288 pages (paperback), $24.95, ISBN-13: 978-0-393-71046-5

Reviewed by Timothy A. Musty

Rechtschaffen wrote The Mindful Education Workbook to offer a step-bystep curriculum for teachers to use in the classroom with students in kindergarten through twelfth grade (K-12). He notes that mindfulness can help teachers reduce stress and can help students to be more emotionally regulated and attentive. Part I of the book contains an inner assessment for use by teachers in evaluating their own stress level, empathy, resilience, focused attention, and self-compassion, for example. Rechtschaffen suggests that teachers begin a mindful sitting practice once per day, and he includes other ideas for living mindfully throughout the day. School social workers can easily adapt these practices for their own use.

Part II outlines ways of introducing mindfulness by first...