Week 12- Independent Research Notes

     I was excited to learn this week about how mindfulness practices can work to root out implicit racial biases. I sort of felt like there was a missing piece in my research and I was left with the complicated question of how to tackle implicit bias with educators who seek to utilize mindfulness in their classrooms. This new information offered a great explanation of how mindfulness itself can work to better individuals, make them more aware, and enable them to incorporate mindfulness more equitably.  

     I’d like to look further into the idea of utilizing mindfulness as a tool for eliminating (as much as possible) implicit biases within education. I think this is an important piece of mindfulness's equitability in schools.  I often come back to the notion that for mindfulness to be equitable, educators must first do the work to root out implicit bias. I think this new learning helped me to understand that more deeply and added information on how that can be done.