The Conscious Classroom
The Conscious Classroom with host Amy Edelstein explores the world of mindfulness in education. Named Top 100 Classroom Podcasts by Feedspot! Amy shares best classroom tools and practices for adolescents, why teaching students about perspectives, worldviews, and context is as important as teaching classic stress reduction tools including breath, body scan, and open awareness mindfulness techniques. We'll look at trauma sensitive approaches, systems thinking, social emotional skills and how to empower teens and support mental wellness. Honored with a Philadelphia Social Innovation Award, Amy's organization Inner Strength Education, has empowered more than 30,000 Philadelphia teens and 3,800 teachers with mindfulness and systems thinking tools. Visit: www.InnerStrengthEducation.org
Episodes
80 episodes
Returning to Analog
In this episode of The Conscious Classroom, Amy Edelstein questions the use of the popular idiom "returning to analog." While agreeing with the sentiment that we reconnect with the preciousness of our humanity as technology conti...
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Episode 80
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25:54
Inspiration, Illumination & Sacred Intention: A New Year's Day Contemplation
This episode of The Conscious Classroom with Amy Edelstein invites us to explore the power of setting meaningful intentions and to learn how to let go of will-based resolutions as the most effective means to create lasting transformation. ...
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Episode 79
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41:43
Being with What Is During the Holidays
Holidays are awe-filled and also can bring about feelings of sadness, grief and loneliness for ourselves and our students. Join Amy Edelstein in this episode of The Conscious Classroom Podcast as we explore how to let go into the present moment...
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Episode 78
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28:58
Dedication, Transformation & the Arts
Experience the essence of creativity and dedication with Amy Edelstein as we journey with her to CoSM, the Chapel of Sacred Mirrors in the Catskills. This episode celebrates Alex and Alison Gray, the visionary artists who have devoted decades t...
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Episode 77
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31:43
Creating Positive Spaces with a Grateful Mindset
Creating Positive Spaces with a Grateful MindsetIt's so simple, could it really change our outlook, experience and classrooms? In this episode of the Conscious Classroom, Amy Edelstein looks at ways that gratitude can transform ou...
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Episode 76
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22:28
Authenticity: the elusive quality that ignites classrooms
Do you feel like you're authentic in your teaching and in your life? How does we "become" more authentic? Can mindfulness bring authenticity or is it more than that?In this episode, Amy unpacks the elusive quality of a...
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Episode 75
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34:15
Contentment in Times of Stress
Discover the secret to finding profound contentment even in the most stressful times. What if you could cultivate a deeper sense of fulfillment through mindful awareness and systems thinking? On today's Conscious Classroom podcast, Amy Edelstei...
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Episode 74
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30:09
Plato Knew It All Along - Teachers, Transmission & Trustworthy Impact
Can shifting the focus for teachers from content to connection be the key to lifting adolescent loneliness? Journey with Amy Edelstein on this episode of the Conscious Classroom podcast as she unpacks the role of teachers as moral exemp...
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Episode 73
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1:04:14
Loneliness or Connection in the Classroom?
What happens when a student fails to show up for a crucial presentation? Explore the profound lessons on commitment and responsibility in this episode of the Conscious Classroom podcast. Join me as we unpack the culture of individualism and wha...
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Episode 72
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25:28
Education Design that Works: Blending Visionary Ideas with Classroom Realities
In this episode we pack two levels of insight that are mostly at odds with one another when it comes to improving educational design. We examine the dual landscape of educational innovation, where grand visions and data analysis for systemic ch...
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Episode 71
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29:16
Jim Crow's Pink Slip - Dismantling the Education Gap
Jim Crow's Pink Slip - Dismantling the Education Gap with Amy EdelsteinIn this episode of The conscious Classroom, Amy Edelstein helps illuminate the little-known history and ongoing influence of resistance to de-segregation within Amer...
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Episode 70
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32:57
Awareness & Innovation: The Wings of Tomorrow's Education
Unlock the synergy between mindfulness and innovation as Amy Edelstein explores the relationship between these two orientations in this episode of the Conscious Classroom. Imagine a learning environment where the air is alive with creativity, a...
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Episode 69
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30:02
Mindful Joy: The Secret Sauce in Educational Leadership
In this episode of The Conscious Classroom, Amy Edelstein unpacks the importance of teacher happiness and how to use mindful awareness and perspectives to improve teacher wellbeing and sense of possibility prior to making practical changes, whi...
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Episode 68
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25:11
Mindfulness Is Not A Pill, It's a Perspective
Discover the keys to unlocking our children's potential in an era where education is at a crossroads and technology's influence is undeniable. This enlightening journey through the world of learning reveals how an evolved mindset, coupled with ...
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Episode 67
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21:41
A Human Relationship to AI
Discover how the relationship we forge with AI in our classrooms can go beyond mere functionality to touch the very core of our humanity. Join me, Amy Edelstein, as we unveil the transformative potential of AI when approached with the same reve...
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Episode 66
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24:19
Scaling Compassion? AI possibilities & Real Life Examples
In this episode, Amy Edelstein reflects on a recent trip to India, which raised intriguing and inspiring possibilities as she visiting with the founders of the Happiness Curriculum, that reaches 1.7 million students each day. She also explores ...
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Episode 65
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31:32
The Power of Fostering Friendships in the Classroom
There's a hidden superpower in a regular teen activity that will provide support for teachers as well as students. This inclination, when activated, encouraged, and guided can create a safety net for students, build webbing so classrooms feel w...
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Episode 64
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37:36
Peace, Reason & Care in the Face of War
In this episode of The Conscious Classroom, Amy Edelstein shares from the heart about the impact of the eruption of war between Israel and Gaza, and that pain that is bringing to so many in the region and beyond. How do we provide steadiness an...
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Episode 63
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24:10
The Future of Education - New Teacher Training Grounds
In this episode, The Future of Education, Amy Edelstein explores a visionary approach to teacher training. If we are to truly inspire teachers and students to engage with their own learning in an innovative and even prophetic way, the training ...
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Episode 62
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30:18
AI - Potential or Peril or Both?
In this episode of The Conscious Classroom, Amy Edelstein shares insights about the potential and peril of new AI tools and considerations explored in the recent C20 meetings on Technology, Security and Transformation. As a panelist for the con...
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Episode 61
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31:32
Empathy or Compassion? Discovering an Orientation that Brings Energy & Joy
In this episode, Amy Edelstein looks at the difference between empathy and compassion, exploring the elements of compassion that allow it to become a source of our own joy and upliftment. She also illuminates how detachment, universality, and s...
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Episode 60
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28:28
Uncommon Leadership: The Path for the History Makers of Tomorrow - Villanova Women's History Speaker of the Month
In honor of Women’s History Month, Amy Edelstein was invited by Villanova University's School of Business to unpack what it takes to pursue our own calling, break limits, and strive to for excellence in our work, our personal growth...
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Episode 59
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54:23
Virtual Reality Education- It's Coming, Are We Ready?
Virtual Reality Education is not a future prospect. Higher Education spaces like Morehouse College have already taught full semesters using VR. This Metaverse is rapidly expanding into K-12. In this episode of The Conscious Classroom, Amy Edels...
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Episode 58
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29:17
A Web of Connection: Systems & Solutions for Teen Discouragement
In this episode, Amy shares a brief look at how our awareness of large scale systems that we can intuit through our mindfulness practice and through exploring the interconnected systems we see in nature and in the structure of the cosmos can re...
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Episode 57
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29:18
A Freedom Worth Striving For - Independence Day
A Freedom Worth Striving For - Reflections in Independence on the American Holiday 4th of JulyWhat makes freedom exalted? What can our students aspire to when the "freedom" they have been taught to cherish is either - in the case of pol...
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Episode 56
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16:35