THURSDAY SESSION DETAILS
Learn about Thursday sessions below. Here is the day's tentative schedule:
8:30-8:45
8:45-10:15
10:15-10:30
10:30-11:20
11:20-11:50
11:50-12:50
12:50-10:00
1:00-1:50
1:50-2:00
2:00-2:50
2:50-3:00
3:00-4:00
4:00-6:00
6:00-7:00
7:00-8:45
8:45-9:30
Mindful Schools will also be hosting a Mindful Room at the conference. It will be an exhibition displaying various mindfulness activities, wall displays, photos, teaching props and books for school-aged students. They curated this room with suggestions from educators from across the nation. It will be open and available for conference attendees to explore the display as well as offer a space for practice throughout Thursday and Friday of the conference. We hope visitors walk away from this exhibition inspired to try out one of these ideas in their school.
IMPORTANT MESSAGES:
SCHEDULE SUBJECT TO CHANGE. Investment per day is $150 ($450 for all three days) through Feb 10, and $200 from then until Feb 23
No onsite registration. No group or package rates. No refunds, but contact us for ticket transfers.
A special thanks to DuPage Regional Office of Education for partnering with us to get attendees 6 CPDUs or 6 CEUs for each day. Non-IL attendees should check that their state accepts them as a provider. Attendees wanting units must sign in and out each day and also complete an evaluation form each day.
Register for each day separately.
For Thursday: Lunch and the evening Expo are included in Coalition Gathering ticket. There is also the option to just purchase the Expo ticket and NOT the Coalition Gathering.
For Friday: Lunch is included.
For Saturday: You'll need to chose your workshop choice at time of registration. Lunch is NOT included.
Welcome/Housekeeping
90 min Barnaby Spring, NYC Dept of Ed, The Emergence of Mindfulness in Education: Laughter, Discovery and Beauty
Break
50 min Breakout Session #1
Buffet Lunch
60 min Roundtables/Working Lunch, Mindfulness Discussions with Like-Discipline Educators Sitting Together
Break
50 min Breakout Session #3
Break
50 min Breakout Session #4
Break
60 min Closing Session Q & A with Barnaby Spring
Dinner on Own, Set Up for Resource Expo
Resource Expo/Networking Session/Cash Bar-Put your raffle tickets in the give-away raffles of choice; $10K+ in donations
Film Screening of May I Be Happy and Meet Filmmakers
Resource Expo/Networking Session/Cash Bar-Winners posted
Thursday Breakout Sessions
There will be three 50 minute breakout sessions on Thursday. Each year we'll select a Sharing Team of diverse leading edge schools to share with the rest of us so that the whole can move forward with more knowledge and confidence. The Sharing Team has volunteered their time and is covering their own costs to get to our Conference-we are so grateful!