Reimagining mindfulness training to deepen K-12 Teachers’ social, emotional, and cultural competencies
Bibliographic record
Abstract
As more attention is placed on the importance of developing K-12 teachers’ social, emotional, and cultural competencies (SECCs), efforts are needed to reimagine approaches that most effectively support teachers’ SECC development. The nascent field of Adult SEL offers an opportunity to situate SEL approaches for teachers not as simply “self-care” support, but rather as professional development that centers skills and practices related to teacher agency, social relationships, and a sense of community. In this practice paper, we will a) describe the practice of mindfulness as a promising approach for cultivating teachers’ SECCs and b) offer a reimagining of mindfulness training for K-12 teachers that balances a focus on self-care with a broader aim of collective care and transformation. We offer recommendations for researchers and practitioners on how training to support teacher mindfulness can be designed, implemented, and evaluated in ways that include outcomes related to a more collectivist approach. As support for this reorientation, we also provide preliminary qualitative evidence from K-12 teachers. We close by discussing how shifting teacher well-being efforts from the individual “me” toward a collective “we” can empower teachers to work together to establish personal and professional well-being.
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame distilled prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.
Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.002 | 0.002 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.003 | 0.000 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one teacher head, not a consensus.
How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".