MINDFULNESS-BASED EMOTIONAL INTELLIGENCE
The attention training that kids get at P.S. 112 mixes well with the rest of the Inner Resilience Program, which stands as a model of best practices in the social and emotional learning movement. I became a cofounder of the Collaborative for Academic, Social, and Emotional Learning-the group that has facilitated these programs' spread to thousands of school districts throughout the world-while writing my book Emotional Intelligence.
I saw lessons in emotional intelligence-that is, in self awareness, self-management, empathy, and social skills-as syn ergistic with standard academic courses. Now I'm realizing that the basics of attention training are a next step, a low-tech method for boosting neural circuitry at the heart of emotional intelligence. "I've done SEL for years," Linda Lantieri tells me. "When I added the mindfulness piece, I saw a dramatically quicker embodi ment of calming ability and the readiness to learn. It happens at
earlier ages, and earlier in the school year."
There seems to be a natural synergy between SEL and attention training like mindfulness. When I spoke with Weissberg, he told me the organization had just undertaken a review of the impacts of mindfulness in SEL programs.
"Cognitive control and executive function seem crucial for self awareness and self-management, as well as academics," Weissberg said.
Deliberate, top-down attention holds a key to self-management. The parts of the brain for such executive function mature rapidly from the preschool years to about second grade (and the growth of these neural networks continues into early adulthood). These ircuits manage both "hot" processing of emotional moments and "cool" processing of more neutral information, like academics.
MINDFULNESS-BASED EMOTIONAL INTELLIGENCE
The attention training that kids get at P.S. 112 mixes well with the rest of the Inner Resilience Program, which stands as a model of best practices in the social and emotional learning movement. I became a cofounder of the Collaborative for Academic, Social, and Emotional Learning-the group that has facilitated these programs' spread to thousands of school districts throughout the world-while writing my book Emotional Intelligence.
I saw lessons in emotional intelligence-that is, in self awareness, self-management, empathy, and social skills-as syn ergistic with standard academic courses. Now I'm realizing that the basics of attention training are a next step, a low-tech method for boosting neural circuitry at the heart of emotional intelligence. "I've done SEL for years," Linda Lantieri tells me. "When I added the mindfulness piece, I saw a dramatically quicker embodi ment of calming ability and the readiness to learn. It happens at
earlier ages, and earlier in the school year."
There seems to be a natural synergy between SEL and attention training like mindfulness. When I spoke with Weissberg, he told me the organization had just undertaken a review of the impacts of mindfulness in SEL programs.
"Cognitive control and executive function seem crucial for self awareness and self-management, as well as academics," Weissberg said.
Deliberate, top-down attention holds a key to self-management. The parts of the brain for such executive function mature rapidly from the preschool years to about second grade (and the growth of these neural networks continues into early adulthood). These ircuits manage both "hot" processing of emotional moments and "cool" processing of more neutral information, like academics.
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