CAMDEN - A thin blue film covers each fluorescent light fixture in Linda Brown-Bartlett's unconventional first-floor classroom. The blues and greens in her room — striping a hanging hammock in the ...

October 26, 2009 (PRESS RELEASE) Chicago Public School students and teachers in four elementary schools and one high school now have a new way to deal with their stress during the school day -- the ...

As a child, Ann Ott sought solace in Tippy, her family's dog, after she was sexually abused. As she worked through the trauma, Ott would hug Tippy and cry almost every night. "She slept with me and ...

When Olive-Mary Stitt Elementary School teacher Meghan Yarbrough’s third-graders returned from lunch on a recent afternoon, they entered a darkened classroom where they listened to a soothing recorded ...

A few minutes into the Read 180 class taught by Scott Buresh at Mannheim Middle School, half the students walk to the computers in the back of the classroom while the rest start on workbooks at their ...

DALLAS — Consider building your kids a "calming corner." Teachers can do this in the classroom. Parents can do this in the playroom or bedroom. A calming corner or "mindfulness corner" is just a ...

Mindfulness, a practice that’s growing in popularity, is widely praised as an antidote for the stresses of everyday life and a resource that can help many — from anxious dieters and harried employees ...

A small public school on Chicago’s Southwest Side is on the rise academically but it still struggles to reach all its students. This year, Agustin Lara Academy is trying something new to reduce ...

Meghan Davis walked into Room 9 at Wilson Hill Elementary School in Worthington on Tuesday and felt as if she had stepped into a time machine. Davis, a first-grade teacher, barely recognized the room.

CHARLESTON, S.C. (WCSC) - A Charleston County teacher is using animals to remind her students they can find peace inside and outside of the classroom. Jordan Adams is an elementary school counselor ...