4 Mindfulness Practices for Your High Schoolers, Plus a Free Course! Because students can’t learn when they are stressed. Your school can get access to IBM's Open P-TECH totally for free. It's a pre-career platform that provides students and teachers with digital learning on the tech and professional skills of tomorrow. More Right now, if our lives were a play, it feels like COVID-19 has the lead role and is front and center on the main stage. Meanwhile, over in the wings, we are still carrying on with “business as usual,” even though nothing is like it was before. For our students, this is their experience of school right now (imagine starting 9th grade in 2020!). They still need to learn the Pythagorean Theorem, learn how to write a thesis statement, and make it to their classes on time. And yet, they wear masks to school, can’t go to their friends’ houses, and their parents are worried all the time. While they sit in their third Zoom class of the day, trying to pay attention, their minds wander: Will I have a virtual high school graduation? Will my mom find another job? Will the world ever be the same again? This is where practicing mindfulness practices can help.