
Classroom management tips and content-area activities help you extend the benefits of MindUP throughout your day, week, and year! Includes a full-color, innovative teaching poster with fascinating facts about the brain! A comprehensive guide to helping all learners focus and reach their potential through brain-centered management and teaching strategies. The lessons fit easily into any schedule and require minimal preparation. Each lesson offers easy strategies for helping students focus their attention, improve their self-regulation skills, build resilience to stress, and develop a positive mind-set in both school and life. This research-based curriculum features 15 lessons that use the latest information about the brain to dramatically improve behavior and learning for all students. MindUP is now offering virtual training opportunities and will soon be launching MindUP 2.0 by introducing an interactive online platform which will include training, exclusive content, and an engaging community from around the world.Book Description Paperback. Since 2003, MindUP has impacted nearly 7 million children and trained approximately 175,000 teachers. We are a Global Community in over 14 countries. Increased optimism, happiness, and resilience.ĭe Carvalho, Pinto, & Marôco, (2017) Schonert-Reichl & Lawlor, 2010 Schonert-Reichl et al., 2015 Thierry, Bryant, Nobles, & Norris, (2016).Enhanced tools and strategies for self-regulation.More prosocial, trustworthy, and liked by their peers.Improved student outcomes: academics, attention and prosocial behavior.Better stress regulation as assessed by the stress hormone, cortisol.People who can regulate their emotions are more likely to show empathy and to act prosocially towards others (Blake, Piovesan, Montinari, Warneken, & Gino, 2015 Eisenberg, Smith, Sadovsky, & Spinrad, 2004).MindUP infuses strategies derived from the science of happiness to provide children with skills to foster well-being and happiness.Research has revealed that positive emotions lead to a broader scope of attention and greater motivation (Fredrickson & Branigan, 2005.).Understanding the structure of the brain and how it functions gives children a sense of control and empowerment.

#MINDUP FOUNDATION HOW TO#
MindUP teaches children how to focus their attention, use brain breaks as a means to manage stress, act with empathy, and build resilience in the face of challenge.
#MINDUP FOUNDATION SERIES#
The curriculum consists of a series of lessons that work together to build a scaffolding of awareness and skills necessary to increase prosocial behavior, executive functioning, and social and emotional competence. Developed by a team of experts focusing on four pillars: neuroscience, social-emotional learning (SEL), positive psychology and mindful awareness. MindUP’s signature program is an acclaimed classroom-based curriculum, spanning ages 3 to 14.

Based firmly in neuroscience, MindUP gives children the knowledge and tools they need to manage stress, regulate emotions and face the challenges of the 21st century with resilience. MindUP was created in response to the global epidemic of childhood aggression, anxiety, depression and suicide. MindUP™ | The Goldie Hawn Foundation is a not-for-profit organization founded to help children develop the mental fitness necessary to thrive in school, work and life.
