Amazon.com description: Product Description: ''This updated and expanded second edition of The Mindful

Teacher  presents a truly inspiring vision of educational change.

It is essential reading for all who agree that it is time to spark a

quiet revolution of learning in which teachers and their students can

truly flourish.
--Michael Schratz,
president of the

International Congress of School Effectiveness and Improvement


''When reforms in some education systems result in alienated teaching

rather than improved learning, it takes a book like The Mindful Teacher

to remind all that education has deeper meaning and substance than

merely achieving performance indicators. This book has a very

important message for all educators!''
--Pak Tee Ng,


National Institute of Education, Singapore


This new and expanded edition of the bestselling The Mindful

Teacher provides educators everywhere with practical ideas for

improving teaching and learning. Dennis Shirley and Elizabeth

MacDonald have created ''Mindful Teacher'' seminars that enable

teachers to focus their craft so that students can learn with dignity

and purpose. This updated second edition includes completely new

sections on the promise of teacher leadership, the strengths and perils

of technology, and schools in the midst of change. The Mindful

Teacher is an indispensable and timely resource for all educators

who seek to transform schools into places of learning and joy.

Book Features:

* Grassroots, nitty-gritty descriptions of teachers leading change.

* Practical recommendations on ways to retain the best of previous

practices while creatively blending them with new innovations.

* Useful ways of using principles of mindful teaching for thinking

through the affordances, as well as the distractions, that accompany

new technologies.

* Research-tested approaches to whole-school change that honor the work

of educators and accelerate the learning of students.


The Mindful Teacher describes real educators in real schools

working with real students. It bridges the rapidly evolving field of

mindfulness studies with educators' life-long quests for substantial

and sustainable improvements in the educations we provide our students.