#19: Dr. Elizabeth Grassi

Teaching Effectively, Meditation and More

Welcome to another episode of Sauce Talk, a podcast about sports, meditation, mental life, and living well in general. Today’s podcast is an interview with Dr. Elizabeth Grassi.

Before joining Regis University, Dr. Grassi was a K-12 Culturally and Linguistically Diverse teacher, mentor teacher, and teacher trainer in the United States and internationally.  In 1998, she was awarded Teacher of the Year for her work with immigrant/refugee students.  In 2003, she joined the Regis faculty as a specialist in culturally and linguistically diverse education. She’s an evaluation and assessment specialist and presently serves as the Director of Faculty Assessment at Regis University. She’s also a trained Mindfulness Teacher and is presently pursuing bilingual/bicultural International Mindfulness Teacher Training.  

In this conversation we discuss Dr. Grassi’s teaching philosophy, differentiation in teaching, methods for giving all students adequate attention, meditation, sitting with the uncomfortable, the practice of acceptance, the difference between intellectual and experiential understanding, implementing meditation into the classroom, mindful listening instead of fixing, the balance between doing and being, meditation in the age of distraction, the beauty of a messy, daily practice, how to sit and practice when you don’t want to, and other topics.

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