New Book For Your Reading List? Happy Teachers Change the World: A Guide for Cultivating Mindfulness in Education

What Are Your Reading to Learn and Grow as an Educator?

I believe the best educators are not content to do the same old thing year after year.  Whether you call it innovation, curiosity, or something else the best educators are always trying to push their thinking by engaging in social media, exploring blogs, attending conferences, and exploring the newest generation of educational books.

We've created a Recommended Educational Book Site to organize and share some great books connected to teaching and learning. I am always curious about what will be next on my reading list.

Up today is a book that I stumbled on when looking for some ideas connected to a post I was reading about Diffusion of Innovation. I was curious to learn more and while exploring stumbled on this book.

Happy Teachers Change the World: A Guide for Cultivating Mindfulness in Education by Thich Nhat Nanh and Katerine Weare 

Beginning firmly with teachers and all those working with students, including administrators, counselors, and other personnel, the Plum Village approach stresses that educators must first establish their own mindfulness practice since everything they do in the classroom will be based on that foundation. The book includes easy-to-follow, step-by-step techniques perfected by educators to teach themselves and to apply to their work with students and colleagues, along with inspirational stories of the ways in which teachers have made mindfulness practice alive and relevant for themselves and their students across the school and out into the community. 

The instructions in Happy Teachers Change the World are offered as basic practices taught by Thich Nhat Hanh, followed by guidance from educators using these practices in their classrooms, with ample in-class interpretations, activities, tips, and instructions. Woven throughout are stories from members of the Plum Village community around the world who are applying these teachings in their own lives and educational contexts.

Happy Teachers Change the World is the first official, authoritative manual of the Thich Nhat Hanh/Plum Village approach to mindfulness in education. Spanning the whole range of schools and grade levels, from preschool through higher education, these techniques are grounded in the everyday world of schools, colleges, and universities.

What are you reading right now? Have a book to recommend? Please share in the comments below.