Teacher
Patricia "Tish"Jennings, M.Ed. Ph.D. Patricia Jennings is a Professor at the Curry School of Education and Human Development at the University of Virginia. She is an internationally recognized leader in the fields of social and emotional learning and mindfulness in education. She became a meditation practitioner at 17 and has taught mindful awareness practices to children and adults for over 40 years. Her research places a specific emphasis on teacher stress and how it impacts the social and emotional context of the classroom. Jennings recently led the team that developed CARE, a mindfulness-based professional development program shown to significantly improve teacher well-being, classroom interactions and student engagement in the largest randomized controlled trial of a mindfulness-based intervention designed specifically to address teacher occupational stress.
Where
Barry University, San Andreas Hall, Room 11111300 NE 2nd Ave, Miami Shores
Miami, FL 33161
Driving Directions
Event Organized and Co-hosted by Valerie York-Zimmerman and Gus Castellanos, M.D.
Miami-Dade County Public Schools Educators Program
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