What if creating a peaceful classroom started with you?
This book invites you to shift from reacting to leading with presence—choosing connection over control, and calm over chaos. Through small, powerful shifts in awareness, you'll discover how to pause, reflect, and teach from your deepest values.
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Find Your Calm
Discover practices to center yourself amidst classroom chaos and respond with intention rather than reaction.
Lead With Purpose
Align your teaching with your deepest values and create a classroom culture of mindfulness and presence.
Teach With Intention
Transform challenges into opportunities for growth, connection, and meaningful learning experiences.
VISON AND MISSION
Response Ability in the Classroom is their first book, and a celebration of the children who are in classrooms and the educators who give their hearts to them every day. Paige and Cyndi are on a mission to support teachers through real, practical, and heart-centered strategies. They believe every classroom moment is a chance to connect, reflect, and grow, and they invite readers to join them on this path of exploration, self-reflection, and advocacy for a more connected and compassionate learning environment.
Teach from the Inside Out
What if the secret to a peaceful classroom wasn't about changing the children—but changing the way you see what is happening in front of you, and making a choice to respond in a different way?
Response Ability in the Classroom is a groundbreaking guide that challenges educators to rethink social emotional teaching and learning from the inside out.
Drawing on decades of hands-on experience, this book reveals how small shifts in awareness can lead to profound transformations in your teaching. Through practical strategies and heartfelt reflections, you'll discover how to pause in the chaos, find your breath, and choose responses that reflect your deepest values.
This isn't about control—it's about connection. It's not about managing behavior—it's about leading with presence. In these pages, you'll learn to see every challenge as an opportunity to teach, connect, and grow—not just for your students, but for you, too.
Find your calm. Lead with purpose. Teach with intention.
A Practical Guide to Mindful Teaching
From Thoughts to Thinking
Tools and strategies that lead to a growth-oriented mindset and resilient responses in challenging classroom situations.
Real-Time Practices
Learn and model mindfulness practices in the classroom in real time, in real life, with real impact on both you and your students.
Respond, Don't React
A practical guidebook to respond thoughtfully to life events instead of reacting automatically, creating space for better outcomes.
A New Way of Being
Discover not just a new way of doing, but a new way of being—allowing your authentic brilliance to shine through in your teaching.
Meet the Authors
Cyndi Willmarth and Paige Brown have spent Nearly thirty-five years walking alongside each other in their shared journey of reflection, teaching, and personal growth. What began as simple conversations about classroom dynamics and student development evolved into a lifelong exploration of social-emotional learning–not just for the children they taught, but for themselves as educators and human beings.
A Partnership Built on Connection
Together, Cyndi and Paige's friendship and professional bond became the heartbeat of their work. They spent countless hours exchanging ideas, supporting each other through challenges, and celebrating the joys of teaching. Their partnership is rooted in mutual respect and a shared belief in the power of reflection, connection, and authentic relationships.
Response Ability in the Classroom is their first book, and a celebration of the children who are in classrooms and the educators who give their hearts to them every day. Paige and Cyndi invite readers to join them on this path of exploration, self-reflection, and advocacy for a more connected and compassionate learning environment.
Response Ability Resources
Digital resources to help you practice from the inside out!
