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- David Lynch Foundation programs in Chicago
The Foundation has received a major grant from the Chicago Crime Lab to use the Quiet Time program for violence prevention.
- Chicago Education Forum, March 23, 2016 - Highlights (4:30)
Cameo appearances from two high school principals (Nakisha Hobbs, Anna Pavichevich), Maria Pike Davis (gun violence activist), Candy Crowley (Fellow-in-Residence, Harvard), Norman Rosenthal, William Stixrud, John Wolf. See following link for full forum recording.
- Chicago Education Forum, March 23, 2016 - Full proceedings (72 min)
This educational forum explores the growing use of Transcendental Meditation (TM) in schools nationwide for improving grades, test scores, and graduation rates and reducing suspensions, expulsions, dropouts, and violence. Featuring Candy Crowley [moderator]; Norman Rosenthal, MD; William Stixrud, PhD; Anna Pavichevich (Principal, Amundsen High School); Nakisha Hobbs (Principal & Co-Founder, Village Leadership Academy); John Wolf (Senior Program Manager, University of Chicago Crime Lab and Urban Education Lab); Asheika Butler (Family and Senior Care Specialist)
- Nakisha Hobbs, Village Leadership Academy Principal (4:50)
The video profiles Village Leadership Academy featuring staff and admin's perspective on how TM and Quiet Time can help elevate their students. VLA is one of two Chicago high schools participating in the Quiet Time program as part of a pilot funded by the Chicago Crime Lab. (Transcript available.)
- Chicago Mothers Who've Lost Children to Violence Find Peace (5:20)
This story is about mothers in Chicago who have lost their children to violence in Chicago. Through a support program, they learned Transcendental Meditation (TM) and were able to find some peace after months of grieving. Here is their story. (Transcript available)
- See also Stritch School of Medicine
Loyola University, Chicago's medical school teaches Transcendental Meditation to medical students
- Can in-school meditation help curb youth violence?
Patrick M. O'Connell, Chicago Tribune, 1/2/2017 Quiet Time was one of three programs — out of 200 applications — selected by the Crime Lab when it asked for proposals to help address youth violence in the city. The Crime Lab awarded a $300,000 grant to the foundation to launch the program in Chicago Public Schools because of its goal to address the effects of toxic stress on young people. Quiet Time also has been implemented in San Francisco, Los Angeles and New York City. The Crime Lab believed the program showed promise because of its demonstrated success in the other cities, executive director Roseanna Ander said, and it was helpful that it was cost-effective to launch and had the ability to be rigorously evaluated.
- Reducing Toxic Stress to Help Youth Succeed
(University of Chicago Urban Labs) The Crime Lab and Education Lab are testing Quiet Time with a randomized controlled trial in CPS high schools, to generate evidence about whether TM can improve outcomes for Chicago’s most vulnerable youth.
- Chicago Tribune - Class, open your minds to meditate
Patrick M. O'Connell. Chicago Tribune digital edition. Quiet Time program offers teens a coping skill amid violence