What Does Mindfulness Have To Do With Math?
In this episode, Chrissy shares information and experiences that have helped her become more mindful in both her personal and professional lives, including:
how mindfulness connects to math teaching and learning, and how she’s defining it within Mindful Math Coach.
why it’s important to interrogate our childhood beliefs and choose the beliefs we want to have as adults.
examples of language adults use that can contribute to children’s development of mistaken beliefs.
truths about emotional development she first heard at a weekend retreat.
how she discovered her own mistaken beliefs and worked to replace them with new, empowering beliefs.
the sixth sense she’s developed as a result of personal development work and how it helped her create stronger relationships within her school community.
a way to describe who we are at our essence and how we are connected as human beings.
how greater consciousness leads to better teaching, and how it supports antiracism in the classroom.
Resource Links:
A New Earth: Awakening to Your Life’s Purpose by Eckhart Tolle
What Anti-racist Teachers Do Differently by Pirette McKamey
