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Katherine Priore: Combatting Toxic Stress in Low-Income Schools
FromYogaland Podcast
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Length:
32 minutes
Released:
Sep 6, 2016
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Podcast episode
Description
My guest this week is Katherine Priore Ghannam. Katherine is the founder of Headstand, a nonprofit organization that teaches yoga and mindfulness to kids attending low income schools. Headstand is a program that is integrated into the school's curriculum and a large part of its focus is to help children combat "toxic stress." Here's a summary of what we talk about on the episode:
* The definition of toxic stress and how it can inhibit a child's ability to learn.
* Learning to see a child's behavior as their way of communicating their needs, difficulties, and emotions.
* The importance of adult self-regulation when teaching children.
* The changes she sees in students from the beginning of the year to the end.
* How yoga and mindfulness have helped create cultures of compassion in the schools that Headstand serves.
* How the job has fueled Katherine's optimism
* Katherine's desire to see social/emotional learning and mindfulness integrated into schools everywhere.
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* The definition of toxic stress and how it can inhibit a child's ability to learn.
* Learning to see a child's behavior as their way of communicating their needs, difficulties, and emotions.
* The importance of adult self-regulation when teaching children.
* The changes she sees in students from the beginning of the year to the end.
* How yoga and mindfulness have helped create cultures of compassion in the schools that Headstand serves.
* How the job has fueled Katherine's optimism
* Katherine's desire to see social/emotional learning and mindfulness integrated into schools everywhere.
Shownotes: yogalandpodcast.com/episode16/ For information regarding your data privacy, visit acast.com/privacy
Released:
Sep 6, 2016
Format:
Podcast episode
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