The Oscar winner and MindUP founder tells PEOPLE about her first children's book, 'The After-School Kindness Crew: Pooch on the Loose #1' ...

JACKSONVILLE, N.C. (WNCT) – With classes starting next week, Onslow County Schools are training their teachers in a pilot program based on positive psychology and neuroscience. The new training helps ...

This column is by Candy Gunther Brown, professor of religious studies at Indiana University. The Nov. 30 front-page article on MindUP — and the MCCSC school-board presentation it reported — omit some ...

MCCSC has begun piloting a brain-centered program developed by the Hawn Foundation called MindUP at three elementary schools in the district, but some members of the community don’t want to see the ...

BASALT – Soon, students at Basalt Elementary School will take more than potty breaks and snack breaks. They will take “brain breaks.” “Brain breaks are short periods of focused breathing,” said Kathy ...

Ryan Amsel and Springfield Housing Authority's literacy consultant Karen Guillette. (Submitted photo) Program providers spoke of children arriving stressed out from school, long bus rides, or from ...