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Cultivating awareness, clarifying thinking, and improving focus and concentration are just three of the benefits of having a “mindful” approach in the classroom. Many schools today are opting out of detention and opting into mindfulness to develop strategies and techniques that will help students build lifelong strategies for responding to frustration, distraction, and problems by refocusing on the present.