Steve Haberlin, PhD, is an assistant professor in the College of Community Innovation and Education at the University of Central Florida. Dr. Haberlin has researched and provided workshops on mindfulness and meditation in educational settings for the past decade. He is also the author of Meditation in the College Classroom: A Pedagogical Tool to Help Students De-Stress, Focus, and Connect (2022).

Dr. Haberlin has achieved his goal in developing a useful resource for educators and parents to address the growing problem of stress and anxiety among students and their families. Providing the neurological research basis for the recommendations, Calming Student Stress: Mindfulness, Meditation, and Other Strategies to Reduce Anxiety and Enhance Learning in K-12 Classrooms offers specific, step-by-step guidance that enables teachers to implement a variety of mindfulness strategies to support their students, the students’ families, as well as themselves. Eminently practical, this work offers developmentally appropriate options for students of every age and grade to reduce their stress and enhance their academic performance - as well as their interpersonal relationships - in the classroom and beyond.

• ForewordPrefaceAcknowledgmentsChapter 1: Student Stress: The Nemesis of the ClassroomChapter 2: Understanding Stress, the Amygdala, and Its Impact on LearningChapter 3: Getting Parents and School Administration Behind Your CauseChapter 4: Assessing Students’ Stress Levels & Helping Students Reframe StressChapter 5: Mindful-izing the ClassroomChapter 6: Just Breathe! Breathwork Strategies for K-12 studentsChapter 7: Let’s Get Moving! Movement-Based Strategies for StudentsChapter 8: The Vagus Nerve?Chapter 9: Relaxation and Visualization-Based Strategies for the K-12 ClassroomChapter 10: Reducing Your Own Stress as an EducatorResourcesReferencesAuthor’s NoteAbout the Author

Steve Haberlin, PhD, is an assistant professor in the College of Community Innovation and Education at the University of Central Florida. Dr. Haberlin has researched and provided workshops on mindfulness and meditation in educational settings for the past decade. He is also the author of Meditation in the College Classroom: A Pedagogical Tool to Help Students De-Stress, Focus, and Connect (2022).

Dr. Haberlin has achieved his goal in developing a useful resource for educators and parents to address the growing problem of stress and anxiety among students and their families. Providing the neurological research basis for the recommendations, Calming Student Stress: Mindfulness, Meditation, and Other Strategies to Reduce Anxiety and Enhance Learning in K-12 Classrooms offers specific, step-by-step guidance that enables teachers to implement a variety of mindfulness strategies to support their students, the students’ families, as well as themselves. Eminently practical, this work offers developmentally appropriate options for students of every age and grade to reduce their stress and enhance their academic performance - as well as their interpersonal relationships - in the classroom and beyond.

• ForewordPrefaceAcknowledgmentsChapter 1: Student Stress: The Nemesis of the ClassroomChapter 2: Understanding Stress, the Amygdala, and Its Impact on LearningChapter 3: Getting Parents and School Administration Behind Your CauseChapter 4: Assessing Students’ Stress Levels & Helping Students Reframe StressChapter 5: Mindful-izing the ClassroomChapter 6: Just Breathe! Breathwork Strategies for K-12 studentsChapter 7: Let’s Get Moving! Movement-Based Strategies for StudentsChapter 8: The Vagus Nerve?Chapter 9: Relaxation and Visualization-Based Strategies for the K-12 ClassroomChapter 10: Reducing Your Own Stress as an EducatorResourcesReferencesAuthor’s NoteAbout the Author