You're on track to get doubled donations (and unlock a reward for the colleague who referred you). Keep up the great work!
Take credit for your charitable giving! Check out your tax receipts
To use your $50 gift card credits, find a project to fund and we'll automatically apply your credits at checkout. Find a classroom project
Skip to main content

Help teachers & students in your hometown this season!
Use code HOME at checkout and your donation will be matched up to $100.

Your school email address was successfully verified.

Upload a classroom photo

Mrs. Carlson’s Classroom Edit display name

  • Cascade Brook School
  • Farmington, ME
  • More than a third of students from low‑income households

Your custom url is https://www.donorschoose.org/s-t-carlson

I have been using mindfulness in my fourth-grade classroom for several years. I have found it to be beneficial and effective in helping the children in my class to be more aware and available. My students become teachers by example as they assist our guidance counselor in bringing the strategies they internalize to students in other classrooms in our school. Mindfulness has had a profound effect on my classroom community as students discover the wonders of their inner worlds and connect more deeply to each other and to learning. The Mindful Schools Teacher Certification Program involves the week-long closing seminar/retreat that I am hoping to fund. This comes at the end of a year-long immersive online course that is currently underway. During this time I am connecting with educators around the world who, like me, are interested in honing skills and gaining training in order to be able to bring mindfulness practices to our school communities. Participating in the program is deepening my personal practice and greatly enhancing the work I do with children. I look forward to seeing the other program participants from around the world at the closing retreat.

About my class

I have been using mindfulness in my fourth-grade classroom for several years. I have found it to be beneficial and effective in helping the children in my class to be more aware and available. My students become teachers by example as they assist our guidance counselor in bringing the strategies they internalize to students in other classrooms in our school. Mindfulness has had a profound effect on my classroom community as students discover the wonders of their inner worlds and connect more deeply to each other and to learning. The Mindful Schools Teacher Certification Program involves the week-long closing seminar/retreat that I am hoping to fund. This comes at the end of a year-long immersive online course that is currently underway. During this time I am connecting with educators around the world who, like me, are interested in honing skills and gaining training in order to be able to bring mindfulness practices to our school communities. Participating in the program is deepening my personal practice and greatly enhancing the work I do with children. I look forward to seeing the other program participants from around the world at the closing retreat.

Read more

About my class

Read more
{"followTeacherId":6351081,"teacherId":6351081,"teacherName":"Mrs. Carlson","teacherProfilePhotoURL":"https://storage.donorschoose.net/dc_prod/images/teacher/profile/orig/tp6351081_orig.jpg?crop=905,905,x1954,y543&width=136&height=136&fit=bounds&auto=webp&t=1553876435385","teacherHasProfilePhoto":true,"vanityURL":"s-t-carlson","teacherChallengeId":21373045,"followAbout":"Mrs. Carlson's projects","teacherVerify":-1211977821,"teacherNameEncoded":"Mrs. Carlson","vanityType":"teacher","teacherPageInfo":{"teacherHasClassroomPhoto":false,"teacherHasClassroomDescription":true,"teacherClassroomDescription":"","teacherProfileURL":"https://www.donorschoose.org/classroom/s-t-carlson","tafURL":"https://secure.donorschoose.org/donors/share_teacher_profile.html?teacher=6351081","stats":{"numActiveProjects":0,"numFundedProjects":1,"numSupporters":14},"classroomPhotoPendingScreening":false,"showEssentialsListCard":false}}