When I die, I hope it is during a staff meeting…

1. When I die, I hope it is during a staff meeting… Pamela Flood Kathryn Markovchick Maine Support Network

2. None of us is as smart as all of us! David & Roger Johnson

3. Silence Starter Hand Up Finish Your Sentence Stop Talking, Stop Doing Eyes on the Facilitator Signal Teammates Signal Other Teams Actively Listen

4. unbelievable truths and a Believable Lie • MSN developed Celebratory Learning to explain the research-based foundation used by MSN to engage all learners and participants; • MSN has overseen the work of international and gubernatorial educational task forces; • MSN is rapidly expanding its online learning and professional development opportunities; • MSN staff has presented in Canada, Italy, Australia, Japan, Singapore, England, The United States – Including Alaska and Hawaii.

5. unbelievable truths and a Believable Lie • MSN developed Celebratory Learning to explain the research-based foundation used by MSN to engage all learners and participants; • MSN has overseen the work of international and gubernatorial educational task forces; • MSN is rapidly expanding its online learning and professional development opportunities; • MSN staff has presented in Canada, Italy, Australia, Japan, Singapore, England, The United States – Including Alaska and Hawaii.

6. Steve & Sybil Wolin Marian Diamond H. Stephen Glenn Jane Nelson Leslie Hart Diane Loomans Karen Kolberg Laughing Classroom Robert Sylwester Renata & Geoffrey Caine David & Roger Johnson Pat Wolfe Eric Jensen Spencer Kagan Brain Research Humor & Resiliency Cooperative Learning William Glasser Susan Kovalik Basic Needs Horham Maslow Thematic Integrated Instruction James A. Beane Curriculum Design David M. Kiersey Isabel Briggs Myers Personality Types Problem Based Learning Celebratory Learning Wendy Mobilia Education by Design Bernice McCarthy4-MAT Universal Design CAST Learning Styles Tony Gregoric Differentiated Instruction Gayle Gregory Multiple Intelligences Diane Heacox Judy Wood Environmental Influences Technology Carolyn Chapman Kathleen Butler Howard Gardner Carol Ann Tomlinson Links Rita & Ken Dunn Thomas Armstrong Daniel Goleman David Lazear

7. unbelievable truths and a Believable Lie • MSN developed Celebratory Learning to explain the research-based foundation used by MSN to engage all learners and participants; • MSN has overseen the work of international and gubernatorial educational task forces; • MSN is rapidly expanding its online learning and professional development opportunities; • MSN staff has presented in Canada, Italy, Australia, Japan, Singapore, England, The United States – Including Alaska and Hawaii.

8. Unbelievable Truth www.mdoediploma.com

9. unbelievable truths and a Believable Lie • MSN developed Celebratory Learning to explain the research-based foundation used by MSN to engage all learners and participants; • MSN has overseen the work of international and gubernatorial educational task forces; • MSN is rapidly expanding its online learning and professional development opportunities; • MSN staff has presented in Canada, Italy, Australia, Japan, Singapore, England, The United States – Including Alaska and Hawaii.

10. Unbelievable Truth

11. unbelievable truths and a Believable Lie • MSN developed Celebratory Learning to explain the research-based foundation used by MSN to engage all learners and participants; • MSN has overseen the work of international and gubernatorial educational task forces; • MSN is rapidly expanding its online learning and professional development opportunities; • MSN staff has presented in Canada, Italy, Australia, Japan, Singapore, England, The United States – Including Alaska and Hawaii.

12. Believable Lie

13. Outcomes for Our First Staff Meeting! Success for today will look, sound, and feel like… • Getting to Know One Another • Developing Processes / Conditions to Make Our Meetings • Meaningful • Learningful • Energizing • Fun • Communication Connections that Work for Us • Working Together, Laughter, Synergy

14. Agenda • Welcome • Connector • Exploring Research: • Learning/ Meeting Styles and Needs • Brain-Based Learning • Research into Practice • Strategies to Make Our Meetings Meaningful • Closing

15. Mix-Freeze-Group • Mix-move around room slowly (take at least 10 steps) • Freeze- When the music stops – stop where you are and listen for the question • Groupby the # in the answer • Introduce yourselves • Share 1 thing you do with your staff on the first day to create community in your school

16. Mix-Freeze-Group • Introduce yourselves • Share 1 thing you do with your staff on the first day to create community in your school. • This is your base team for the rest of this session. • Collect your belongings and find a learning place for your team. • Wait until all team members are present before you sit down.

17. TEAM Structures A B C D A’s and B’s are Shoulder Partners C’s and D’s are Shoulder Partners A’s and C’s are face Partners B’s and D’sare face Partners

18. Roles for Table Mates A B C D A – Facilitator B – Recorder C – Time Keeper D –Runner

19. What is so important about Relationships? Kagan, 2004

20. Four Essential Elements of Group Work • Sensing people pay close attention to data provided by their senses -- immediate experience, literal facts, and close realities. Action Is What Drives Them • Intuitive people need to find associations and connections among things and are interested in theories and imagined possibilities. Meaning Is What Drives Them • Thinking people prefer logic and orderly, analytic, and objective thinking. Structure Is What Drives Them • Feeling People prefer subjective thinking connected with human values and harmony. Caring Is What Drives Them Carl Jung

21. Developing Working Conditions • One minute write on what you need to do your best work. • Round Robin Share (members or restate what they heard for clarification) • As a team identify one working condition for your base team. • Use thumps up/Thumbs Sideways/ Thumbs down for agreement. • Write working condition on a table tent.

22. Cone of Learning (Edgar Dale) After 2 weeks we tend to remember… Nature of Involvement Verbal Receiving Passive Visual Receiving Receiving/ Participating Active Doing 10% of what we read 20% of what we hear 30% of what we see Reading Hearing Words Looking at Pictures Watching a Movie 50% of what we hear & see Looking at an Exhibit Watching a Demonstration Seeing it Done on Location Participating in a Discussion 70% of what we say Giving a Talk Doing a Dramatic Presentation 90% of what we say & do Stimulating the Real Experience Doing the Real Thing Edgar Dale, Audio-Visual Methods in Teaching (3rd Ed.) Holt, Reinhardt and Wilson (1969)

23. Think – Shoulder Pair • 1 minute - think about a time when you were actively engaged in learning and identify 3 words to describe your experience. • 3 minutes - Pair up with your shoulder partner and share your 3 words. Identify one Ah- Ha for use at your next staff meeting. Record on your reflection log.

24. scientists find Boredom makes the mind switch off not just wander…

25. Some Facts about Learning and the Brain…. • Processing: The brain is a parallel processor. It can perform several activities at once. • Engagement: Learning engages the whole body & mind: movement, food, attention cycles, and chemicals all influence learning.  • Meaning: The search for meaning is innate – it requires more than just information. • Emotions: Emotions are critical. These drive our attention, meaning and memory. • Community: The brain is social. It develops better in concert with other brains. • Environment: Complex learning is enhanced by challenge and inhibited by stress.

26. Placemat Write • Silent reading reflection- Meeting Handouts (5 minutes); • Place placemat in the center of the group; • Each member writes one idea or ah-ha on the placement related to the handouts and improving staff meeting (3 minutes); • Round robin share the ideas (3 minutes); • The group discusses ideas to make staff meetings FUN and ENGAGING; • Record the ideas in the center of the chart; • Post placemats on the wall.

27. None of us is as smart as all of us! David & Roger Johnson

28. What You Have Experienced Today!

29. Round Robin - Table Share • Partner with a table near you; • Each person shares out one idea or ah-ha using a one-word or short phrase; • High Five everyone in the table share; • Visit our website for more information on Leading Celebratory Learning Meetings leadership.mainesupportnetwork.org

30. Thanks for attending our session! Pamela Flood Kathryn Markovchick Maine Support Network mainesupportnetwork.org