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- Up one level
- Brooklyn Urban Garden School
“Quiet Time has the potential to positively affect students in all grades and create a happier and healthier educational environment. I know I am very excited to see how the program develops through the school with new TM learners and old,” says Raisa Martinez, a BUGS volunteer and second-year masters student of Human Development and Social Intervention at New York University. [page courtesy of the Internet Archive]
- Can Meditation in Schools Increase Student Bandwith?
Crime and Education Lab New York is partnering with the David Lynch Foundation to implement the Quiet Time program, which provides students with training and time to practice meditation, for two 15-minute periods every day, with the goal of increasing students’ cognitive bandwidth and their ability to focus and learn. This program was introduced and evaluated in the Chicago Public Schools, with promising results. Now Quiet Time is being expanded to New York City, and Crime and Education Lab’s randomized evaluation aims to generate rigorous evidence about the potential of mediation to support students and improve outcomes in America’s largest city.
- Implementing Quiet Time at Bronx High School For Law and Community Service (4:30)
Students and teachers discuss the benefits of implementing the Quiet Time program at the Bronx High School For Law and Community Service. Not only has TM helped to foster an atmosphere of peace and learning, but test scores have improved and students are feeling that "all the stress is leaving their body."
- Project Uplift visits the Brooklyn Urban Garden Charter School (2 min)
Joining forces with The David Lynch Foundation's "Quiet Time" program at The Brooklyn Urban Garden Charter School, Project Uplift visited its first elementary school. Project Uplift lets you experience your innate superpower of relaxation by lifting the world with your mind. How it works: the headset measures a user's brainwaves, rewarding alpha waves (associated with wakeful relaxation) by triggering a fan underneath the globe in the tower.
- Reading, Writing, Required Silence: How Meditation Is Changing Schools And Students
Jaweed Kaleem, Senior Religion Reporter, The Huffington Post, 6/12/2015, updated 12/6/2017
"BUGS, as the charter school is called, adopted Quiet Time when it opened in 2013. The school focuses on sustainability and holistic education and has three full-time staffers who teach kids about the practice of and science behind meditation. Located in Brooklyn’s Windsor Terrace neighborhood, BUGS serves New York City’s District 15, which includes some of the richest and poorest neighborhoods in the city. The school has about 200 students, nearly half of whom qualify for free or reduced lunch, and nearly one-quarter of whom have disabilities."