Happy Teachers Change the World: A Guide for Cultivating Mindfulness in Education

Are you interested in implementing mindfulness within your classroom? Do feelings of joy and happiness excite you? Thich Nhat Hanh and Katherine Weare thoroughly write about how learning how to relate to your emotions is fundamental. Learning how to help yourself initiate moments of mindfulness in your life and your practice as an educator, allows for you to help your students learn how to best implement moments of mindfulness within their lives and their academic journey. Mindfulness is critical in ensuring one’s mind and body is performing at their optimal potential thus allow thinking, learning, and teaching to be the central focus within one’s classroom (Hanh & Weare, 2017). Learning how to practice varying techniques of mindfulness for as little as five minutes each day, within the context of one’s classroom, can help ensure that you and all students know how to manage strong emotions should they arise in any given moment. Through the practice of mindful breathing, you learn to connect both your mind and body, feeling what is feels to just be alive and present. This practice allows for feelings of happiness and joy (Hanh & Weare, 2017). Mindfulness allows for one to be fully present and aware. This book contains numerous mindfulness activities to implement within the classroom. Additionally, it is set up in such a way that each chapter contains a section about the purpose and benefits behind implementing each mindfulness practice. Following each explanation, each chapter contains a step-by-by core practice followed by reflections from teachers’ experiences from implementing the practice within their classroom setting. The book contained much beauty throughout both the written words and the context of the practices suggested. This book really was a great, joyous read that was practical and highly informative!

This beautiful yet practical guide is a treasure for educators worldwide. There are a number of mindfulness books on the market for educational settings, but "Happy Teachers" offers unparalleled depth and richness in highly accessible language. The step-by-step instructions are clearly laid out, yet highly adaptable across a range of classroom situations. The many anecdotes from active teachers create a feeling of fellowship and familiarity that both reassure and inform the reader. What I love about this book on "mind"-fulness is that, at its core, it has heart: it is a balanced understanding of how mindfulness practices engage the whole person, both teacher and student. Can't say enough good things about it!

This book by Thay is an incredible resource for teachers!! It's a very unique book in that it has short and simple instructions for the various aspects of practicing mindfulness for adults/teachers (i.e. Walking, sitting, eating, etc. meditations), great ways to teach students, and has input how teachers from around the world have incorporated these practices into their classrooms demonstrating a wide variety of creative ways to engage students of all ages. I have many of Thay's books and other authors on teaching mindfulness to students but I think this book will be my go to book from now on. Wonderful collaboration and a terrific resource!!

The book was a good value for a hardcover. I'm not really sure how much I will use the techniques outlined in the book in the classroom. The book is an easy read.

This is a great book for anyone who wants to incorporate mindfulness in their classrooms and/or lives. Although it is written by a master, the book is easy to digest and has really great ideas for integrating mindfulness. I ordered several other books related to this topic as potential book studies at my school and this was by far the best one!

I bought this book as a summer read, not knowing about mindfulness. I have fallen in love. The writing gives me peace, the practice gives me peace, and I am able to take that to my classroom. I am rereading it, dog-earing pages, and taking notes. This book has helped me to bring change.

The contents of the book are great but when the binding was already falling apart when I opened the book for the first time.

Thich Nhat Hanh is an inspiration, I have followed his work for years. This book is so necessary and needed in today's world. It is filled with wisdom and practical ways to incorporate mindfulness in the classroom. I have been an educator for over 20 years and it is high time that Thay's (as he is known by his students) philosophy regarding education be implemented. We are working with spiritual beings and we need to honor that. This book beautifully shares how teachers who use his vision have transformed their lives and as a result the lives of their students.

such a beautiful book and gives really good advice and examples on how to incorporate mindfulness in the classroom! HIGHLY RECOMEND

TNH lays a very strong foundation for bringing Mindfulness to the class. Over decades the Plum Village network has expanded to the world in many schools lead by researchers, formers Plum Village monks and teachers. Very useful book with real experiences of teachers from around the world.

Chegou dentro do prazo! Ótimo livro!

Excelente servicio, el paquete llegó a tiempo y en muy buen estado, es una herramienta que todo maestro debe tener.

I had been a mindfulness coach with young people for a while before I came across this book, it has an easy to read style but gives a solid grounding in the traditions of mindfulness and how to connect them to young people. It also hooked me up with Plum Village and the other resources they have produced including 'Wake Up'. This is a compilation of songs and meditations that really help bring workshops to life, mind you, when I told my trainer about this he said, 'oh yes, I play keyboards on that', oh dear!