Reading Materials

Choose the Life You Want: The Mindful Way to Happiness
Positive psychology expert Tal Ben-Shahar draws on the latest psychological research on how choices have a direct, long-lasting impact on our happiness.

Mindfulness for Teachers: Simple Skills for Peace and Productivity in the Classroom
From research in the fields of neuroscience, psychology and education, author Patricia A Jennings offers information about how mindfulness can help teachers manage the stressful demands of the classroom, cultivate an exceptional learning environment, and revitalize teaching and learning.

Mindset: The New Psychology of Success
Stanford University psychologist Carol S. Dweck, Ph.D. shows how success in school, work, sports, the arts and almost every area of human endeavor can be influenced by how we think about our talents and abilities.

Mindsight: The New Science of Personal Transformation
With the integration of brain science with psychotherapy, Dr. Dan Siegel offers an extraordinary guide to the practice of “mindsight,” the potent skill that is the basis for both emotional and social intelligence.

Spark: The Revolutionary New Science of Exercise and the Brain
Dr. John Ratey explores the connection between exercise and the brain with evidence demonstrating that aerobic exercise physically remodels our brains for peak performance.

The Power of Habit: Why We Do What We Do in Life and Business
Charles Duhigg explains why habits exist and how they can be changed from exercising regularly, losing weight, being more productive and achieving success.

The Seven Habits of Highly Effective People: Powerful Lessons in Personal Change
Author Stephen R. Covey presents a holistic, integrated, principle-centered approach for solving personal and professional problems with a step-by-step pathway for living with fairness, integrity, service and human dignity.

10 Step Brain Power-Up Guide
From the website Be Brain Fit, this guide offers 10 steps to boost your thinking, memory, mood and focus.

25 Tiny Changes That Will Make You a Happier Person
Lolly Daskal, President and CEO of Lead From Within offers changes you can make to feel happier at work.

45 Simple Self-Care Practices for a Healthy Mind, Body and Soul
From the website Tiny Buddha, this article offers self-care practices for the mind, body and soul.

American Mindfulness Research Association
This organization shares evidence-based practices for the process, practice, and construct of mindfulness as well as standards for the use of mindfulness research and its applications for professional development.

Be Brain Fit
Read articles and other research on ways to boost your cognitive and mental health and fitness.

Five Ways to Be Fully Authentic
Included are tips to stay true to yourself without letting others down.

Great Dream: Ten Keys to Happier Living
This article offers ten factors important to our well-being and what we can do to influence them.

How Can Districts Help Teachers Develop Social-Emotional Skills?
District leaders share insights that show in order for teachers to be effective for their students, they must take care of their own social emotional well-being.

How Gratitude Changes You and Your Brain
Learn more about the research on how gratitude works to improve our mental health.

In Praise of Gratitude
Harvard Health Publications shares advice for a healthier life and focuses on science of gratitude and ways to cultivate it in this piece.

Seven Ways Mindfulness Can Help Teachers
Patricia A. Jennings explains why teachers should cultivate moment-to-moment awareness of thoughts, feelings and surroundings.

The Four Tendencies Quiz
Take this quiz, developed by Gretchen Rubin, author of Better Than Before, designed to help people learn how they respond to both outer and inner expectations.

The Pursuit of Happiness
Find articles written by psychologists, philosophers and educators from science-based information on life skills and habits needed to enhance well-being, build resilience against depression and anxiety, and pursue a meaningful life.