Barbara Larrivee

Barbara Larrivee, Ed.D., has had a long career as a teacher education professor at Rhode Island College and California State University and has written 8 books and 25 articles in education, psychology and counseling journals. Her work and writing span many areas. Most recently, she writes about reducing stress, developing social and emotional skills, and cultivating mindfulness. Over the years, she has been writing about classroom management, managing challenging student behavior, creating learning communities based on respectful communication, and becoming a reflective practitioner. She presents at conferences and conducts workshops worldwide.

Barbara has an Ed.D. in research methods and education and a M.Ed. in special education from the University Massachusetts. While completing her degrees, she also worked at a detention center for incarcerated youth, did in-house training in counseling methods for very troubled youth and was a foster parent for a youth caught up in the juvenile justice system. Her background uniquely positions her to merge science and practice. She has spent her whole career as a teacher educator translating research into strategies to help teachers become more mindful, self-reflective and socially-emotionally literate so they can then be models for their students. In her most recent book, A Daily Dose of Mindful Moments, she does the same for a more general audience.

Her previous book, Cultivating Teacher Renewal: Guarding Against Stress and Burnout gives teachers the stress management and coping strategies they need to deal with the stress that comes with their job. It was chosen by Choice, the premier source for reviews of academic books, for their list of Outstanding Academic Titles of 2013 which includes only the top 10% of books reviewed yearly. Her text, Authentic Classroom Management: Creating a Learning Community and Building Reflective Practice, is widely used both nationally and internationally.

Barbara is a longtime mindfulness practitioner and yogi. In her leisure time, she enjoys walking, hiking, bicycling and rollerblading. She live in Santa Barbara, California and Falmouth, Massachusetts with her husband.

Her dedication to bringing mindfulness and social-emotional learning (SEL) to schools has led her to recently establish Mindful Moments in My Classroom, funded with half of the profits from her most recent book. It sponsors grants to educators to implement mindful moment practices.