The Baltimore Wisdom Project has pioneered fresh practices for wisdom integration in schools since 2013. We hold regular residencies at schools to enhance students' practice of mindfulness, to boast their self-esteem, to elevate their well-being, and to create a culture of restorative justice. We give them tools to become wise learners, team-players, and problem-solvers.
Currently, we maintain an in-school program at Darchei Noam School in Baltimore City.
From 2016-2018, we offered wisdom integration at Baltimore's Franklin Square Elementary and Middle School through a collaboration with the Kennedy Krieger Institute.
Youth need to move! Study after study has proven that physical activity must be well integrated into youth's lives to stimulate their overall health and intellectual abilities.
Our movement integrated approach to mindfulness and restorative practice helps youth and the teachers, administrators, and parents that care for them to learn how to use movement (physical actions in time, space, and energy) to draw out key mindful and restorative concepts within academic subjects. This work promotes increased attentiveness, a greater commitment to learning, and a sharpening of youth's capacities for working empathetically with peers. Ultimately, we want to enhance scholastic achievement and academic success by addressing behavioral issues with the power of peace-making within the classroom.
In addition to mindfulness and restorative practice, our work in the classroom uses an array of practices, including the martial art form of Systema, physical game structures, storytelling, poetry, physical fitness exercises, African Liberationist forms of Capoeira, photography, video, and pantomimic movement forms to dramatize ideas within academic subjects.
Our restorative mindfulness work includes intensive practices for conflict transformation, including the use of discussion circles that allow students to think-through and talk-through the motives and outcomes of their behaviors, and different forms of meditation to enhance their attention, focus, non-judgementalism, calm, empathy, and capacity for nonviolence.
We also train teachers and administrators in schools and provide them with best practices for wisdom integration.
Currently, we maintain an in-school program at Darchei Noam School in Baltimore City.
From 2016-2018, we offered wisdom integration at Baltimore's Franklin Square Elementary and Middle School through a collaboration with the Kennedy Krieger Institute.
Youth need to move! Study after study has proven that physical activity must be well integrated into youth's lives to stimulate their overall health and intellectual abilities.
Our movement integrated approach to mindfulness and restorative practice helps youth and the teachers, administrators, and parents that care for them to learn how to use movement (physical actions in time, space, and energy) to draw out key mindful and restorative concepts within academic subjects. This work promotes increased attentiveness, a greater commitment to learning, and a sharpening of youth's capacities for working empathetically with peers. Ultimately, we want to enhance scholastic achievement and academic success by addressing behavioral issues with the power of peace-making within the classroom.
In addition to mindfulness and restorative practice, our work in the classroom uses an array of practices, including the martial art form of Systema, physical game structures, storytelling, poetry, physical fitness exercises, African Liberationist forms of Capoeira, photography, video, and pantomimic movement forms to dramatize ideas within academic subjects.
Our restorative mindfulness work includes intensive practices for conflict transformation, including the use of discussion circles that allow students to think-through and talk-through the motives and outcomes of their behaviors, and different forms of meditation to enhance their attention, focus, non-judgementalism, calm, empathy, and capacity for nonviolence.
We also train teachers and administrators in schools and provide them with best practices for wisdom integration.