BU Journal of Graduate Studies in Education - Volume 13, Issue 4, 2021 Special Issue – Personalized Reflections on Issues in Education

Classroom-based programs or practices that teach and model emotion regulation, such as The Zones of Regulation, mindfulness, and yoga, can prepare students for a range of grief emotions and provide grieving students with vocabulary and strategies to cope. [...] It invites the griever to live in present awareness with the loss, and prevents avoidance of pain, overindulgence in suffering, and the need to fix. [...] Self-regulation and emotion regulation programs and practices being directly taught in the classroom, such as mindfulness, yoga, and The Zones of Regulation, are pro-active solutions to supporting dysregulated and grieving students. [...] The teachers continue to educate themselves and the students on grief and grief reactions by willingly opening class and peer discussions about change and loss, practising mindfulness and yoga, and using The Zones of Regulation program. [...] Blindness to racialized structures and behaviours in our lives, lack of sensitivity to complex and interconnected Indigenous issues, and hesitancy to recognize Indigenous viewpoints are common in classrooms.