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Capstone Project

Capstone Project. Peggy McNash Woodward Academy May 2013. Brain Cohort of E.E. Ford at Center For Teaching Westminster Schools, Atlanta. Question?.

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Capstone Project

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  1. Capstone Project Peggy McNash Woodward Academy May 2013 Brain Cohort of E.E. Ford at Center For Teaching Westminster Schools, Atlanta

  2. Question? Will guided breathing and instruction on the fixed-growth mindset improve the time-on-task rates and the completion rates for students in Writers Workshop CP class?

  3. http://www.stopandbreathe.org/images/StopandBreatheLogo.jpg

  4. Guided Breathing, Focused Attention Thanks to Nneka Robinson who taped the class.

  5. Dweck's Fixed-Growth Mindset The key, Dweck found, isn’t ability; it’s whether you look at ability as something inherent that needs to be demonstrated or as something that can be developed. http://www.thoughtfullearning.com/sites/default/files/blogpost/images/mindset.jpg Adapted from http://michaelgr.com/2007/04/15/fixed-mindset-vs-growth-mindset-which-one-are-you/.

  6. Data Quantitative: • Improvement SAT prompts • Fewer off-task behaviors; more on-task behaviors • Improved completion rates

  7. Data Qualitative: • Observer--Lynn Robinson--felt students were more focused post-intervention, even more so than 7 percent decrease in off-task behavior indicated. • Student perception of completion rates • Student perception of efficacy of guided breathing

  8. Qualitative Data (self-reported): 8% more 7% fewer 1% fewer

  9. Qualitative Data (self-reported): • 9 of 17 reported breathing exercises helped them focus and improve their time on task and completion rates. • 8 of 17 reported breathing exercises did not improve their focus, their time on task, or their completion rates.

  10. Two Student Comments: "I believe the breathing does help. It helps to cool me down and get my mind focused. An area I have used breathing is during track meets before I am about to run to get my mind focused on the race." File link "I think the breathing just distracted me. For some people it could help them a great deal to recognize that it's time to work and focus, but for me it just kind of distracts me." Wiki Link

  11. Opportunities to Share! Mentor-Intern January 2013 Woodward Academy, College Park, Georgia(on mini project)

  12. Next Presentations! Delta Kappa Gamma SE Regional Conference, July 2013 Orlando, "Using What Sisters Know about the Brain to Support Early Educators and Grow Chapters."

  13. GISA Conference: The Transformative Power of Education, November 2013, Woodward Academy, College Park.Co-presenter with two other WA Brain Cohort Members from 2011 and 2012 groups.

  14. Happy Learning, Period E!

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