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Growing Leaders: Tools for Cultivating Successful Learners

Stories, Structures, Strategies

PART 1: TOOLS for Your STUDENTS

In times of change, learners inherit the earth, while the learned find themselves beautifully equipped to deal with a world that no longer exists. Eric Hoffer

CHAPTER 1:

Perception of POWER: Tools for Self-Management

FOCUS: Teachers can create a classroom environment that allows children to see themselves as powerful in the best sense of the word.

If you think you can or you think you can’t, you’re right. Henry Ford

I think I can I think I can I think I can. The Little Engine that Could

SELF AWARENESS: “I can make good choices.”

- - TOOLS for developing EMOTIONAL Self-Awareness
    - - EMOTIONAL INTELLIGENCE (EQ)
      - CHARACTER EDUCATION
      - COUNSELING TEMPLATES: Anger Iceberg
      - “KID FRIENDLY” Behavioral Self-Assessment
      - Emotional Ladder
      - How Are You Feeling Today? (Google search – Olivia’s Flipbook!)
      - What Does “I Don’t Know” Mean? (TpT)
      - STAR PROBLEM SOLVING + Becky Bailey
      - DAN AMEN: Ant Control – (Riley Creek Drug Prevention)

- - TOOLS for developing ACADEMIC Self-Awareness
    - - PERSONAL PROFILES – Pacific Bridges
      - MIND MAPS – UCCS
      - Student Led Conference SELF-ASSESSMENTS
      - What Does “I Don’t Know?” Mean? (TpT)
      - Learning Barometer (TpT)

AUTONOMY and SELF MANAGEMENT: “I am in control of myself.”
- - Tools for Fostering EMOTIONAL Autonomy / Self-Management (EQ)
    - - SELF ESTEEM Definition
      - EMOTIONAL INTELLIGENCE
      - “Cut”
      - STAR PROBLEM SOLVING
      - DECISION MAKING
      - BULLY ISSUES
      - SUICIDE ISSUES

- - Tools for Fostering ACADEMIC Autonomy / Self-Management (EQ)
    - - INDIVIDUAL LEARNING PLAN: ILP
      - GOAL SETTING
      - RUBRIC DEVELOPMENT
      - KID FRIENDLY (POWER) STANDARDS
      - WORKING PORTFOLIOS

CAPABILITY: “I can be successful if I keep trying.”

- - Tools for expressing Personal Capability
    - - LEARNER INVOLVED FEEDBCK
      - SHOW PORTFOLIOS
      - Student Expert Seminars – UCCS
      - WORLD CLASS TEST LITERACY
      - UCCS CAREER RELATED STANDARDS and PROGRESS REPORT

CHAPTER 2:

Attitude of COOPERATION: Tools for Social Interaction

FOCUS: Teachers can create a classroom environment that allows children to learn healthy ways of thinking about themselves and others.

We’re all working together; that’s the secret. Sam Walton

PROBLEM SOLVING
- - CHARACTER EDUCATION
  - CLASS MEETINGS

DECISION MAKING
- - CLASS MEETINGS
  - PROJECT TEAMS (PBL)
  - GROUP SELF-ASSESSMENTS

COLLABORATION
- - CLASS MEETINGS
  - PROJECT TEAMS (PBL)
  - “PLUGGED-IN PROJECTS” (Autodesk – 1999)
  - READERS THEATRE

CHAPTER 3:

Experience of SUCCESS: Tools for Academic Empowerment

FOCUS: Teachers can create a classroom environment that allows children to develop skills that will serve them well as they grow into competent adults.

I thought I could, I thought I could, I thought I could. The Little Engine Who Could

RESPONSIBILITY and EMPOWERMENT
- - BRAIN FRIENDLY CLASSROOM
  - HOMEWORK
  - PROCESSES and PROCEDURES
  - LITERATURE RESPONSIS
  - SELF-ASSESSMENTS
OWNERSHIP
- - PROJECT TEAMS (PBL)
  - “PLUGGED-IN PROJECTS” (Autodesk – 1999)
  - INDIVIDUAL LEARNING PLANS (ILP’s)
  - WORKING ON THE WORK
  - WORKING PORTFOLIOS
  - BLOGS
LEADERSHIP
- - LEADERSHIP 101
  - STUDENT LED CONFERENCES
  - “EXPERT” SEMINARS
  - PEER AND CROSS-AGE TUTORING and MEDIATION
  - READING BUDDIES
  - BUSINESS EXPO ‘98
  - GOAL SETTING / STRATEGIC DESIGN – Holly Resolutions
  - LEADERSHIP and the BRAIN

PART 2: TOOLS for their PARENTS and/or CAREGIVERS

To a child, LOVE is spelled T-I-M-E.

Zig Zigler

CHAPTER 4:

Perception of PARTNERSHIP: Tools for Collaboration and Cooperation

FOCUS: Parents or Caregivers can create a home where children feel empowered and connected to their community and the world.

It takes collaboration across a community to develop better skills for better lives.

Jose Angel Gurria

PARTNERSHIP with CHILD
- - FAMILY MEETINGS
  - SPECTRUM ARTICLES – The Toy Landing Newsletters
  - PARENTING on PURPOSE
PARTNERSHIP with SCHOOL
- - Holly Blue Ribbon – Reciprocal Partnerships
PARTNERSHIP with COMMUNITY
- - Holly Blue Ribbon – Reciprocal Partnerships

CHAPTER 5:

Attitude of SERVICE: Tools for Listening and Bonding

FOCUS: Parents can create an emotionally healthy home that models caring and respect and that will be reflected as children interact with others.

Children have never been very good at listening to their elders, but they have never failed to imitate them. James Baldwin

- - - PARENTING on PURPOSE – essays
    - Developing Capable People – H. Stephen Glenn
    - Mistaken Goals of Misbehavior
    - “Are You Listening?”

CHAPTER 6:

Experience of Joy and Connection: Tools for Celebration

FOCUS: Parents or caregivers can structure an environment, both physical and emotional where joy and connection are the natural biproducts of both planned and spontaneous experiences.

The purpose of our lives is to be happy[1].

Dalia Lama

- - - FAMILY READING NIGHT
    - FAMILY MEETINGS – Event Planning (MAKE this as important as Problem Solving
    - “PiP” – PARENTS in PARTNERSHIP – Upper Chetco Charter School

PART 3 TOOLS for Yourself

Although attempting to bring about world peace through the internal transformation of individuals is difficult, it is the only way. H.H. The Dali Lama[2]

CHAPTER 7:

Perception of LEADERSHIP

FOCUS: A teacher’s function in a classroom is identical to the function of the C.E.0 of a multi-national corporation.

Do not wait on a leader … Look in the mirror!
Katherine Miracle

- - - - TEACHER CEO
      - PARADIGMS OF LEADERSHIP – Leadership 101
      - CLASSROOM MODELS

Chapter 8:

Attitude of Flexibility and Inclusion

FOCUS: A teacher can create an emotionally healthy classroom where all children feel nurtured, supported, and connected.

All students can learn and succeed – just not in the same way or on the same day.

William G. Spady

- - - CLASS MEETING AGENDA ITEM: JESSICA AND RHONDA
    - MULTIPLE INTELLIGENCES
    - LEARNING STYLES
    - DIFFERENT BRAINS, DIFFERENT LEARNERS – Eric Jensen
    - LOOPED CLASSES
    - HEARTLIGHT ESSAYS

Chapter 9:

Experience of Satisfaction and Success

FOCUS: The rewards of teaching are intrinsic, cumulative, and best understood In retrospect.

The greatest sign of success for a teacher…is to be able to say, ‘The children are now working as if I did not exist. Maria Montessori

- - - - Story: Bill Robertson: “They’re all on task!”
      - Essay: “Resolutions in Retrospect
      - DASH! “Island” … “Tickets to Talk” …. PhD Graduation picture (When a parent Friends you on Facebook!)

- - - - IDEA!!!!! Have teachers SUBMIT their own “SUCCESS STORIES!!!”

Conclusion

References and Resources:

Appendix:

Index:

OTHER COOL QUOTES for Appendix!

“We must become what we wish to teach.” —Nathaniel Branden

“To me education is a leading out of what is already there in the pupil’s soul.” —Muriel Spark, The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie. Next, check out the best book quotes from our favorite books.

[1] https://www.tcnorth.com/ethical-leadership/the-purpose-of-life-according-to-the-dalai-lama/

[2] Forward to Peace is Every Step. Thick Nhat Hanhl. 1991. Bantam Books