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Submission Guidelines
Our mission revolves around collaboration and mentorship, and we are always looking for new ways to share the expertise, gifts, and experiences of our members. We are excited to add another component to our mindfulness-based learning resources, our professional blog: Voices.
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Voices is a place for mindful educators and leaders who explore, personally practice, and create an inclusive culture of well-being in our schools that align with our Educating Mindfully Mindfulness-Based Learning Framework. Our Educating Mindfully Community Members who are engaged in advocating and developing embodied sustainable systems of care through Mindfulness-Based Learning (MBL) are encouraged to share their experiences, reflections and connections about mindfulness in education that need to be uplifted.
Educating Mindfully's Statement on Secularity
As a professional body for supporting mindfulness in education, we want to share that it is essential to maintain secularity in schools, especially public schools. Please note that different practices are accessible in different environments so we offer a variety of learning opportunities that may or may not be in alignment with your school. The types of practices that are acceptable in different regions vary; know your policy, setting, and community to what would be accessible and acceptable.
Cultivating Communities of Care and Belonging
As an organization, we cultivate supportive communities of care through best practices within mindfulness to nurture the well-being and mental health of our learning communities. When submitting your Voices article, please be sure that your submission takes care in sharing from a trauma-supportive, culturally affirming, and equitable lens so that all of our members and readers are encouraged, inspired, and belong.
Who Reads Our Content
Voices is shared to newsletter subscribers across the globe including educators, counselors, parents, and people who believe that mindfulness-based learning holds the promise of a better way forward for our children and our schools in cultivating mindful global citizens.
What We Publish
Articles that work best for the newsletter are generally around 700-1000 words. They are rich with personal experience and reflection, and they infuse a specific aspect of mindfulness-based learning in schools that people need to hear. We support courageous perspectives, and welcome pieces that discuss topics that few dare to explore. Your article should be steeped in current best practices, along with research, but what we really want is for you to distill the central idea, technique, strategy, or position that is central to your own understanding and that will expand people’s thinking or capacity.
Educating Mindfully aims in its online community, social media posts, newsletters, and other publications to provide a space for the open discussion of ideas concerning the content and the teaching of mindfulness-based learning. Publicity accorded to any particular point of view does not imply endorsement by Educating Mindfully, except in announcements of policy, where such endorsement is clearly specified. Educating Mindfully reserves the right to remove any comments from the site.
Educating Mindfully's Voices professional blog does not adhere to a strict content calendar; a wide variety of topics are featured throughout the year, highlighting community members’ reflections about mindfulness-based learning, in addition to posts that highlight opportunities, resources, and events.
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General Submission Post Structure:
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The Voices blog submission supports the theme for the month (which aligns with our learning opportunities for the month)
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The submission is aligned with our Educating Mindfully Mindfulness-Based Learning Framework
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Within the submission is an application-based practice in alignment to the theme that can be bridged into the classroom
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Highly encouraged (when appropriate): Authors of blog posts create a Lesson Inspiration that is directly connected with the post to develop skill embodiment. We provide the template for authors, or authors can request that a member of the Educating Mindfully team create the companion lesson inspiration
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Certain topics may be given increased attention at particular times of the year, such as the following:
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For 2025-2026, we are focused on infusing our Mindfulness-Based Learning Framework to support educators and leaders with integrating the practices of mindfulness-based learning. We encourage our Micro-Credential Graduates to submit to support this integration from your perspective.
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2025
August - Beginning of the School Year Events - No Submissions Published
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September - Well-Being Practices
October - Embodiment & Presence
November -Culturally Affirming & Equitable Practices
December - Trauma-Supportive Practices
2026
January - Explicit & Embedded Teaching Practices
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February - Mindful Self-Connection
March - Mindful Self-Regulation
April - Mindful Decision-Making (Mindful Leadership Focus)
May - Mindful Social Connection
June/July - End of the School Year Events - No Submissions Published
Ready To Submit?
Please send us your piece (hello@educatingmindfully.org) with the subject line “Voices Submission:________(your article title)” and we will respond as soon as we are able.
Editorial Process
Educating Mindfully Operational Team Members review all pieces submitted for consideration, and will try when possible to let authors know within a month whether or not a submission has been accepted for publication.
All pieces chosen for publication will be copyedited; occasionally a post may be returned to the author for clarification or revision.
Educating Mindfully Team Members reserve the right to make editorial changes in any piece accepted for publication to enhance clarity, conciseness, or style. The editors’ decisions are final.
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Educating Mindfully Team Members also reserve the right to request, or create, a companion mindfulness-based learning lesson inspiration to be in alignment with our service supports for our mindful community.
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Submissions are selected for publication on the basis of a variety of criteria, including relevance, clarity, and alignment to the mission and work of Educating Mindfully. Sometimes, to accommodate the blog schedule, a post may be accepted but scheduled for publication later in the year. We will do our best to keep authors informed as to the status of submissions, but authors are always welcome to email for an update on a submission.