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INTRODUCTION: The Institute of HeartMath instills compassion, confidence and inspiration in students and teachers by giving them effective tools for achieving positive classroom outcomes. Students learn positive classroom and social behavior and how to manage emotions, respect others’ viewpoints and make responsible decisions. The Heart-Based Education Sponsorship Fund provides financial assistance to students and teachers who otherwise would not have access to HeartMath’s life-changing programs, tools and technology.
Teachers
Teachers and other educators play an integral role in teaching and promoting the emotional development that help children academically and socially. The Institute of HeartMath trains teachers, administrators and support staff how to balance and manage emotions, build resiliency and rekindle their motivation.
Youth
When youth connect with the intelligence of their hearts, they acquire the essential life skills of understanding and managing what they feel. Emotional knowledge and self-regulation stimulate confidence and compassion for others and are the central focus of HeartMath’s learning programs, which help lower test anxiety and raise academic performance.
Teens
The Institute of HeartMath offers many tools, techniques and learning programs to help reduce stress and test anxiety and dramatically improve test scores and overall academic performance. Our teen programs are specially designed to help students understand and manage their perceptions and emotional reactions to life, thereby promoting healthy, positive choices.
Counseling
Professional counselors help students handle daily challenges, and HeartMath programs aid them in this important work by training them how to renew, revitalize and listen more effectively without draining energy reserves. This training improves counselors’ abilities to help students practice emotion refocusing, regulation and restructuring, so they can make smarter choices.
Pre-K Kids
Children’s learning prior to formal education profoundly influences performance in school and their entire lives. Research shows early acquisition of social and emotional skills is essential to classroom success. HeartMath’s fun and engaging programs and products for children, ages 3-6, build a strong foundation by teaching teach simple, but effective skills.
Special Education
HeartMath programs have helped special-education students improve attitudes, behavior, self-regulation, social skills and classroom focus and participation. HeartMath technologies have aided teachers, counselors and school psychologists in working with ADHD, gifted and handicapped students to build self-security.
Classroom Environments
Children are pressured to excel academically. IHM programs, grades 3-12, for regular classrooms, breakout groups and after school, lessen this pressure by teaching the connection between emotions, health and performance in and outside the classroom. Students learn to minimize emotional turmoil, anger and depression, thus promoting healthy behavior and psychological well-being.
How You Can Help
With your support, we can build a new and exciting culture of heart-based learning, where healthy, balanced children can prepare for the changes and challenges of the 21st century and the quest to make the world a better place. Your financial support also will help equip teachers with highly effective tools to help their students succeed.
Ways to Help
Donate to the Institute of HeartMath Education Sponsorship Fund and put our heart-based educational programs and technology into the hands of teachers and students of all ages.
Fulfill our Wish List: To help reduce program expenses, we often need the donation of supplies, services and/or equipment required for research and program development.
Send a Postcard of Care to a teacher, mentor or student anywhere in the world. Write a brief message or select a prewritten note to send in an e-postcard to cheer them up. This is a wonderful opportunity to offer your care, gratitude and a kind word to those who have made a difference in your life.
Please consider making a Contribution In Honor of a someone whose work, kindness or generosity you wish to recognize. Whether it is a student or a teacher who always seems to brighten the school or that special person who offers a heartfelt hello and caring smile to all they encounter, we invite you to honor them with your donation.
Losing a family member, friend or special person is a difficult time in all of our lives. Through your In Memoriam contributions, you can remember and honor them, while at the same time helping instill confidence and inspiration in students and teachers by giving them effective tools for achieving positive classroom outcomes.
Make IHM a partner in your Planned Giving and help us continue our important research and program development for generations to come.
Learning and Performance Testimonials
Classrooms, schools and students are benefiting in a big way from the products and programs sponsored by HeartMath’s Education Scholarship Program. Here’s what some of our awardees have to say:
"Today, all fourth-graders in the great state of Florida sat down to take Florida Writes, our annual writing exam. About halfway through the 45 minutes time, I saw one of my rambunctious little boys put down his pencil, close his eyes, put his hand on his heart and takes his breaths. As I watched him, I could see the tension lift and his shoulders relax. When he was finished about a minute or two later, he picked up his pencil and got back to work. I wish I’d had tape rolling. Additionally, my kids are always reporting that they’re seeing other kids Freeze-Framing before or during tests in other classes. It makes me proud."
– Amanda Travis Simon, fourth-grade math/language arts teacher
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Heart-Based Education Sponsorship Fund Application
Scholarships in the form of HeartMath’s education classroom programs, training and emWave technologies are awarded to applicants who need, but cannot afford to purchase these products.
Eligible applicants include teachers, administrators, counselors and other educators psychologists, social workers, district personnel and any other professionals who serve youth. Please click here to learn more about and complete the application for the Heart-Based Education Sponsorship Fund.
Applications are reviewed quarterly and will be granted based on the need and capacity of the applicant to implement the institute’s education programs in their educational environments.
HeartMath Education Scholarship Fund Recipients
Our education scholarship award program is now in its third year. Through the generosity and support of our donors and supporters, thousands of students and educators in schools and universities in the United States and in countries around the globe are using the Institute of HeartMath’s educational programs and methodologies to reduce stress, raise academic performance and improve classroom climate. Here are some of the organizations that have received scholarships and their purpose:
- Department of Counseling and Education Development, Mental Health Center, Lexington, N.C.; graduate students.
- Garfield Park Academy, Pennington, Pa.; K-12 special education.
- Marin City Office of Education, San Rafael, Calif.; high school students with substance abuse.
- West Palm Beach, Fla.; presentation Florida Tech Association.
- International School, Tbilisi, Republic of Georgia; expatriate adjustment for 200 students.
- Lake County Office of Education, Novato, Calif.; K-12 mental health issues.
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