By: Carolyn Grabiel Zombie films, like all genres, follow a formula. One of the first elements is the protagonist's lack of awareness that the world has gone dystopian. The actor playing the lead role goes about a routine while missing the dramatic changes all...
Overview of the JabuMind App Teachers, you give everything to your students and community, often putting your classroom and students' needs before your own. You are often our first responders to our children's trauma. Teaching is considered one of the most stressful...
By: Erin Swanson, M.Ed. Take a Mindcation Summertime. That blissful time of year when teachers pause. Teachers offer limitless attention to the needs of others; summer provides a welcome change, a chance to practice self-care and self-reflection. Yet, what happens...
By: Erin Swanson Teacher Anxiety is On the Rise With fall approaching and COVID cases rising, teachers face an impossible decision: return to the classroom and risk their own health and that of their students or return to complicated virtual learning that leans...
What is behind the name JabuMind? JabuMind co-founder Jill Apperson Manly taught elementary children in Eswatini, Africa (formerly Swaziland). Inspired by the rich culture and fueled by her passion for social-emotional learning, Jill wrote the children's book...
by Kathleen Caffrey Over the last few weeks and months, with the worldwide COVID-19 pandemic, our lives have experienced challenges unprecedented in our times. With daily newsfeeds and my work with JabuMind, I have been spending a lot of time thinking of teachers...
New Mindfulness App Designed for Teachers Launches to Support Educators Amid Crisis JabuMind Releases Scientifically Based Mobile Meditation Self-Care Tools for Teachers Newport Beach, CA, May 18, 2020 Newport Beach, CA-based education technology company JabuMind LLC...
By: Ann Rankowitz We are living through a pandemic that most of us could never have imagined. And, based on a recent survey by the Yale Center for Emotional Intelligence and the Collaborative for Social Emotional and Academic Learning (CASEL), teachers are not in...
While we've always known that hand-washing was one of the most effective actions we could take to protect our health, what we may not have considered is how we can use the time spent with warm water rushing over our hands to soothe our souls. In this brief meditation,...
At this time when we are all experiencing the impact of an unexpected visitor in our lives, it's the perfect time to invite our feelings and emotions into our awareness to better understand what their messages are.? Being in the present moment allows us to pay...
