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
87 episodes
Teaching Wonder: Jane Goodall inspires a Conscious Generation
What if the most powerful classroom tool isn’t another strategy, but a deeper way of seeing? In this episode, Amy Edelstein explore show purpose, presence, and philosophical clarity can reshape teaching from the inside out—so young people feel ...
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Episode 87
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29:47
Middle School Mindfulness, Made Practical
In this episode, Amy Edelstein shares a practical, developmentally appropriate guidance on teaching mindfulness to middle schoolers. She describes how to adjust practices to this age group, with a focus on structure, repetition, and emotional i...
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Episode 86
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24:29
Letting Go & Creating Safe Spaces: Rituals for the Conscious Classroom
For teachers feeling overwhelmed by global challenges and classroom responsibilities, this episode offers a lifeline of wisdom. Amy Edelstein delves into the transformative power of letting go—not as abandonment of responsibility, but as a prof...
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Episode 85
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20:10
Mindful Interconnectedness: Seeing Beyond Personal Stress
In this episode, Amy Edelstein explains why she included the lessons on systems thinking in the Inner Strength Teen Mindfulness Program. Teaching students how to understand their experiences within larger systems, helps them manage ...
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Episode 84
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24:20
Closing the School Year with Purpose: Mindful Rites of Passage
We explore how to end the school year with mindful intention and purpose by creating powerful rites of passage that help students recognize their growth, learn from challenges, and prepare for summer with confidence.• Experiential mindf...
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Episode 83
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28:44
True North: The Key to Navigating Change in Education
In this episode Amy Edelstein explores what it can meet to root in our True North, our deepest values, when we lean into how education needs to transform.The questions surrounding education's future form an intricate web: How do we p...
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Episode 82
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27:25
Brave New Learning: Sal Khan, AI Tutors, & the Future of Mindfulness Education
The educational landscape is undergoing a profound transformation through artificial intelligence, and mindfulness education stands at this exciting frontier. In this thought-provoking exploration, Amy Edelstein reviews Sal Khan's new book "Bra...
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Episode 81
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34:58
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
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
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
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