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Youth Connections Charter School

Youth Connections Charter School . Creating a Sense of Community Constructing Brain-Based Curriculum December 2012. Overview. September: Introduction to Classroom Management and Curriculum Building

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Youth Connections Charter School

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  1. Youth Connections Charter School Creating a Sense of Community Constructing Brain-Based Curriculum December 2012

  2. Overview • September: Introduction to Classroom Management and Curriculum Building • October: Class. Management: Creating a Container for LearningCurriculum: Brain Compatible Curriculum – Concepts & Topics • Dec. 7: Class. Management: Prevention: Creating CommunityCurriculum: Identifying Desired Results

  3. Overview • Jan. 18: Class. Management: InterventionCurriculum: Learning Styles and Experiential Lessons • Feb. 15: Class. Management: Invention Curriculum: Instructional Tools, Strategies, & Assessments • March 8: Reflections, Sharing, and Feedback

  4. Ground Rules • Be Here and Present • Participate • Make it work for you • Please let me know…

  5. Best Class Ever: Facilitator • Allow for movement • Variety of instruction • Have breaks: 2 short breaks – 7 minutes • Useful content (ask for feedback) • Use of media to enhance learning, music, art… • Use PowerPoint sparingly

  6. Best Class Ever: Everybody • Positivity • Be considerate of each other (e.g. smelly perfumes) • Be open • Participate • Be present – body and mind • Only volunteer yourself • Choices • Watch our sense of humor

  7. Review

  8. Brain Research • Most learning occurs in the Cerebrum (frontal lobe) • If we feel under threat, we cannot learn – our brains won’t let us • Emotions and learning are intricately tied together • Absence of threat is essential for real learning to occur • Our brain looks for patterns

  9. National Center on Response to Intervention: http://www.rti4success.org

  10. PII • Prevention is anything we do to prevent conflict in our programs or to prepare for it before it happens. • Intervention is responding when conflicts do happen. • Inventionis creating something new and constructive out of the situation.

  11. PBIS Continuum and PII Approach* * Positive Behavior Interventions & Supports and Prevention, Intervention , Invention INVENTION INVENTION INTERVENTION INTERVENTION PREVENTION PREVENTION

  12. What does the data show?

  13. Responding Thinking before we act Reacting Acting without thinking

  14. The Container Concept

  15. Creating Conditions for Community

  16. Times/situations in your life when you have experienced a sense of community. • What were the qualities of that experience? • Definition of “sense of community”

  17. From Group to Community “In genuine community there are no sides. It is not always easy but by the time they reach community the members have learned how to give up cliques and factions. They have learned how to listen to each other and how not to reject each other. Sometimes consensus in community is reached with miraculous rapidity. But at other times it is arrived at only after lengthy struggle. Just because it is a safe place does not mean community is a place without conflict. It is, however, a place where conflict can be resolved without physical or emotional bloodshed and with wisdom as well as grace. A community is a group that can fight gracefully.” M. Scott Peck M.D. The Different Drum: Community Making and Peace

  18. Thomas Sergiovannistates that “the need for community is universal. A sense of belonging, of continuity, of being connected to others and to ideas and values that make our lives meaningful and significant -- these needs are shared by all of us.”

  19. “The people in one’s life are like the pillars on one’s porch you see life through. And sometimes they hold you up. And sometimes they lean on you, and sometimes it’s just enough to know they’re standing by.” • Anonymous

  20. Community is consciousness of connection, combining and comprising: Courtesy, communication, collaboration, cooperation, consideration, caring, compassion, curiosity, commonalities, common goals, confidence, creativity, courage, challenge, camaraderie, and conceivably chocolate. CTC Group, 2004

  21. Conditions for Community to Develop • Intentionality Invitational Education Time • Safe and Trusting EnvironmentSafe Environment Relational Trust • Balancing “Me” and “We” Empowerment (Me) Social Commitment (We)

  22. Conditions for Community to Develop • Positivity Nurturing the Positive Positivity Ratio • OwnershipFocus (goal setting) 3 R’s: Routines, Rituals, Responsibilities • Others?

  23. Intentionality Invitational Education – a Container Framework Making time for relationships

  24. Invitational Education www.invitationaleducation.net

  25. INVITATIONAL EDUCATION

  26. Invitationaleducation.net

  27. Positivity

  28. Reflections on the 10 • Joy • Gratitude • Serenity • Interest • Hope • Pride • Amusement • Inspiration • Awe • Love From: Fredrickson, B. (2009) Positivity: Groundbreaking Research Reveals How to Embrace the Hidden Strength of Positive Emotions, Overcome Negativity, and Thrive. New York, NY: Crown Archetype.

  29. Positivity Individuals • Broadens our minds and our hearts • Transforms us for the better • Fuels Resilience Groups/Teams • Asking questions and focusing outward (open to new ideas) • Connectivity and attunement of the team. More responsive to one another • Bouncing back from adversity rather than getting stuck in self-absorbed advocacy

  30. Positivity RatioThe Tipping PointFlourishing = 3 to 1 “… only when positivity ratios are higher than 3 to 1 is positivity in sufficient supply to seed human flourishing.” (Fredrickson, 2009)

  31. Positivityration.com

  32. Constructing Brain Based Curriculum The Experiential Learning Model

  33. Concepts and Topics • Enduring Understandings – a description of the concepts • Essential Questions - the bridge connecting concepts and topics

  34. Application • Alone or in pairs:Using a curriculum map, choose a unit to create or amend. • Identify concepts & topics for the unit • Create enduring understandings: 1-2 overarching and 1-2 unit (see hand out) • Create 3-5 essential questions for the chosen unit

  35. “Education – true education is not a process of pouring in from without, but of calling forth what is within. It’s not a process of memorization or socialization or instillation, it’s a process of nurturing, of allowing, of evoking. It’s a process of bringing forth the person one is meant to be.” ~ Jeff White

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