Matt Renwick's List: Mindfulness

• “Before we can teach a kid how to academically excel in school, we need to teach him how to have stillness, pay attention, stay on task, regulate, make good choices,”
• Mindfulness is the ability to exist in the present moment and practicing it often looks like meditation.
• “The other thing we know mindfulness does with the brain is it increases the activity in the prefrontal cortex,”
• “When we look at low-performing schools it’s not that these children are unable to learn, it’s that very often they are unavailable to learn,”

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