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Unleash your strengths, enhance skills, and embrace personal growth with the SAIL framework. Explore dimensions like global mindset, intellectual agility, social consciousness, well-being, and professional effectiveness. Engage in self-reflection and goal-setting to excel in various aspects of life.
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Getting Started with SAIL Gail Matthews-DeNatale, Ph.D. Center for Advancing Teaching and Learning Through Research
Before we get started Take a moment to remember a specific memory from a time in your life when you were your very best self, where you excelled and did something you are proud of. This ”best you” experience could have taken place anywhere -- at work, with your family, in your community, etc. As you think back on that experience, what three wordswould you use to most accurately describe your strengths and abilities at that time?
What are your 3 greatest “best self” strengths? • Advocacy • Empathy • Networking • Networking • Aesthetic Appreciation • Aesthetic Appreciation • Entrepreneurship • Open-Mindedness • Boundary Setting • Ethical Reasoning • Organization • Civic-Mindedness • Financial Literacy • Perseverance/Resiliency • Coaching/Mentoring • Help Seeking • Planning • Collaboration/Teamwork • Humility • Problem Solving • Comfort with Ambiguity • Inclusivity/Inclusive Action • Quantitative Reasoning • Inclusivity/Inclusive Action • Communication • Independence/Autonomy • Resourcefulness • Self-Care • Computational Thinking • Information Literacy • Self-Control • Conflict Resolution/Transformation • Conflict Resolution/Transformation • Initiative • Self-Efficacy/Confidence • Creative Thinking/Innovation • Inquiry & Analysis • Self-Directed Learning • Critical Thinking • Integrative Thinking • Strategic Thinking • Strategic Thinking • Cultural Agility • Integrity • Systems Thinking • Systems Thinking • Systems Thinking • Decision-Making • Leadership • Time Management • Time Management • Design Thinking • Mindfulness
Help Seeking • Independence/Autonomy • Advocacy • Aesthetic Appreciation • Initiative • Conflict Resolution/Transformation • Computational Thinking • Perseverance/Resiliency • Civic-Mindedness • Design Thinking • Resourcefulness • Inclusivity/Inclusive Action • Entrepreneurship • Self-Directed Learning • Information Literacy • Networking • Self-Efficacy/Confidence • Integrative Thinking • Systems Thinking • Comfort with Ambiguity • Quantitative Reasoning • Humility • Strategic Thinking • Integrity • Systems Thinking • Mindfulness • Coaching/Mentoring • Open-Mindedness • Conflict Resolution/Transformation • Aesthetic Appreciation • Financial Literacy • Boundary Setting • Collaboration/Teamwork • Self-Care • Organization • Communication • Self-Control • Networking • Empathy • Time Management • Planning • Leadership • Strategic Thinking • Creative Thinking/Innovation • Cultural Agility • Time Management • Critical Thinking • Inclusivity/Inclusive Action • Decision-Making • Systems Thinking • Ethical Reasoning • Inquiry & Analysis • Problem Solving
SAIL Framework: Dimensions GLOBAL MINDSET Learners develop knowledge, skills and behaviors to live, work and communicate with people whose background, experience and perspectives are differentfrom their own as well as to consider the global impact of their decisions. INTELLECTUAL AGILITY Learners develop the ability to use knowledge, behaviors, skills, and experiences flexibly in new and unique situationsto innovatively contribute to their field. • Cultural agility • Inclusivity/inclusive action • Systems thinking • Aesthetic appreciation • Computational thinking • Entrepreneurship • Information literacy • Design thinking • Strategic thinking • Systems thinking • Quantitative reasoning • Integrative thinking SOCIAL CONSCIOUSNESS & COMMITMENT Learners develop the confidence, skills and values to effectively recognize the needs of individuals, communities, and societies andmake a commitment to constructively engage in social action. WELL-BEING • Advocacy • Civic-mindedness • Conflict resolution/transformation • Inclusivity/inclusive action • Networking • Systems thinking Learners develop knowledge, skills and behaviors necessary to live balanced and fulfilling lives. • Aesthetic appreciation • Self-control • Boundary setting • Self-care • Time management PROFESSIONAL & PERSONAL EFFECTIVENESS Learners develop the confidence, skills, behaviors and values to effectively discern life goals, form relationships and shape their personal and professional identities to achieve fulfillment. • Coaching/mentoring • Organization • Planning • Conflict resolution • Financial literacy • Networking • Strategic thinking • Time management
SAIL Framework: Foundational masteries ATTRIBUTES Comfort with Ambiguity Open-Mindedness Humility Integrity Mindfulness STRATEGIC TOOLKIT Inquiry & Analysis Creative Thinking/Innovation Critical Thinking Decision-Making Problem Solving Ethical Reasoning INTRAPERSONAL SKILLS Independence/Autonomy Initiative/Resourcefulness Perseverance/Resiliency Self-Efficacy/Confidence Self-regulated Learning Help Seeking INTERPERSONAL SKILLS Leadership Collaboration/Teamwork Communication Empathy
Empathizing with your learners Imagine your learners on the very first day of class, in the first course they are taking in the program. What questions or concerns do you think might be on their minds?
Will my online learning experience be impersonal? Will I feel isolated? Can I afford this degree … will it pay off? Are my skills as a “student” rusty? WHAT IF I FAIL? How will I balance the demands of work, family, and school?
The Value of Values Affirmation Students leverage their own independent values to overcome social identity threats (Tibbets) Removes psychological and emotional impediments of performance (Jordt) Particularly effective at a key time of academic transition (Borman) Positive effects persist years after the affirmation experience (Tibbets) (Jordt et. al., 2017, Borman, 2016, Tibbets et. al. 2016)
Example Where you are now in your life? What are your aspirations, your near-term goals? Identify one. How will the strengths you identified in the first exercise help you attain this goal? What other strengths might you want to develop or improve in order to attain the goal?
Embedding SAIL in a Course Experience Northeastern Students for Giving: Course in which students develop an understanding of the considerations and complexities of philanthropy through firsthand experience with grant making. • Beginning and End of Course: • What do you think are the 6most important competencies, skills, and attributes (CSAs) of a social change leader? Rank in order of importance. • Rate yourself on a scale of 1-10 and explain why. • Findings: • Ranking of systems thinking increased in perceived importance. • Process: • Each class begins with $10K • Manage all stages of the a funding cycle from conducting needs assessments through making grant determinations. • Many students gave themselves lower scores at the end of the course, explaining that they had not gotten worse, but had over-estimated their performance to begin with.
