Mindfulness in the School Library
Wendy DeGroat is the librarian for Maggie L. Walker Governor’s School (MLWGS), where she also serves as a mindfulness instructor and member of the school leadership team. Wendy has been integrating mindfulness in the library for over seven years and has a certification in Koru Mindfulness. She enjoys teaching students how to take their research skills to the next level so they can move confidently and effectively from wonder and questions to analysis, reflection, and action. She has authored articles for School Library Connection, Knowledge Quest, EBSCOpost, and other publications, co-edited an issue of Knowledge Quest, taught webinars, and presented at regional, state, and national library conferences about topics such as mindfulness in libraries, news literacy, and raising cultural awareness through contemporary poetry. In the spring of 2021, she brought One Small Step to MLWGS, a program from StoryCorps that brings people with different political perspectives together to talk about the values and experiences that inform their political beliefs, making MLWGS one of the first high schools in the nation to bring One Small Step to students.
