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ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Rina Deshpande
Rina Deshpande is a teacher of children and adults in academics and self-regulation through mindfulness practice. After teaching bilingual (Spanish-English) third grade and fifth grade as a public school teacher in New York City, Ms. Deshpande helped found Relay Graduate School of Education as Assistant Professor of Practice and Director of the Elementary Masters Program where she designed, taught, and coached elementary teachers in the classroom. Believing that ongoing learning is the foundation of improving instruction, Ms. Deshpande attended the Harvard Graduate School of Education Mind, Brain, and Education program where she earned her masters degree. She presently continues self-regulation and emotion-regulation research as an HGSE fellow and is a contributing writer to Sonima.com.
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