The qualitative data included interviews, informal focus groups, and participant feedback, and the quantitative data included participant satisfaction surveys and teacher assessment of student behaviors before/after the curriculum.

This study used a concurrent mixed methods design. Participants included 55 staff and 436 students. This study is unique in that it investigated how to implement mindfulness curriculum within both general education and EBD student populations. We investigated the feasibility, implementation, and benefits of a whole-school mindfulness curriculum (MindUP) in an urban elementary school. Implementing a whole-school mindfulness curriculum can be challenging, especially when serving students in both general education and emotional behavioral disorder (EBD) settings. Mindful education (ME) in schools can address student well-being and stressors, as well as improve the overall school environment. This is an open access article distributed under the conditions of the Creative Commons by Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium or format, provided the original work is correctly cited. Implementation of a Whole-School Mindfulness Curriculum in an Urban Elementary School: Tier 1 through Tier 3.

Recommended citation: Ventura AB, Kissam BI, Chrestensen K, Tfirn I, Brailsford J, Dale LP. OBM Integrative and Complementary Medicine 2023, Volume 8, Issue 2, doi: 10.21926/obm.icm.2302022 Received: Novem| Accepted: | Published: May 24, 2023 Special Issue: Stress, Burnout, and Trauma in Schools: Coping Strategies for Teachers, Staff, and Students † These authors contributed equally to this work. § Current Affiliation: Children’s Oncology Group, Public Health Institute, Monrovia, CA, USA ‡ Current Affiliation: Memory Disorder Clinic, Mayo Clinic, Jacksonville, FL, USA Dale 3ĭepartment of Psychiatry, University of Florida College of Medicine, Jacksonville, FL, USAĬenter for Data Solutions, University of Florida College of Medicine, Jacksonville, FL, USAĭepartment of Psychiatry, College of Medicine-Jacksonville, University of Florida, FL, USA Kissam 1,†, Kandise Chrestensen 1,†,‡, Ian Tfirn 2,§, Jennifer Brailsford 2, Lourdes P. To learn more about how and for what purposes Amazon uses personal information (such as Amazon Store order history), please visit our Privacy Notice.Allison B. You can change your choices at any time by visiting Cookie Preferences, as described in the Cookie Notice. Click ‘Customise Cookies’ to decline these cookies, make more detailed choices, or learn more. Third parties use cookies for their purposes of displaying and measuring personalised ads, generating audience insights, and developing and improving products. This includes using first- and third-party cookies, which store or access standard device information such as a unique identifier. If you agree, we’ll also use cookies to complement your shopping experience across the Amazon stores as described in our Cookie Notice. We also use these cookies to understand how customers use our services (for example, by measuring site visits) so we can make improvements. We use cookies and similar tools that are necessary to enable you to make purchases, to enhance your shopping experiences and to provide our services, as detailed in our Cookie Notice.

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