James A. Butler

James A. Butler, M.Ed., has taught kindergarten and prekindergarten since 2002 and serves as the social-emotional learning mindfulness specialist for the Austin Independent School District in Austin, Texas. He earned a B.S. in education and early childhood from Manchester University and an M.Ed. in curriculum and instruction from Grand Canyon University.

Butler is the author of Mindful Classrooms™: Daily 5-Minute Practices to Support Social-Emotional Learning (PreK to Grade 5), published by Free Spirit Publishing in 2019. Sources also note that he helped implement a mindfulness curriculum across all 130 Austin ISD campuses during the 2016–2017 school year and that he had previously written the Mindful Classrooms curriculum based on his classroom practice.