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Eliminating the Achievement Gap!. “The function of education is to teach one to think intensively and to think critically... Intelligence plus character – that is the goal of true education .” — Martin Luther King Jr. Educators. - PowerPoint PPT PresentationTRANSCRIPT
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• “The function of education is to teach one to think intensively and to think critically... Intelligence plus character – that is the goal of true education.” — Martin Luther King Jr.
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Educators
“Classroom teachers give young people what they sometimes get nowhere else in society – a sense that they have promise,
that they have talents, that they are special. If you’re a young person who is not quite sure that you are welcome in this society, one of the most important
people in your life could be a teacher who accepts you.”
-Parker J. Palmer
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Educators
• Our vision for our students future must be bigger than the vision the child has for him/herself.
• We are the yeast in our students lives…
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Clifton Taulbertand his Eight Habits of the
Heart
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Building Community… The Foundation for Excellence!
“No creature can fly with just one wing. Gifted leadership occurs where heart and head – feeling
and thought – meet. These are the two wings that allow a leader to
soar.” – Daniel Goleman, Author, Primal
Leadership: Learning to Lead with Emotional Intelligence
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Building Community… The Foundation for Excellence!
“No society can remain vital or even survive without a reasonable base of
shared values. Where community exists, it confers upon its members,
identity, a sense of belonging, a measure of security. A community has the power to motivate its members to exceptional performance. Community can set standards of expectations for
the individual and provide the climate in which great things happen.”
– JOHN W. GARDNER, FORMERPROFESSOR, STANFORD UNIVERSITY
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Building A School Community
• Building a positive school community should be our master plan:– Our school community is our blueprint– Clifton Taulbert’s Eight Habits of the Heart
are our construction materials:• Nurturing Attitude• Responsibility• Dependability• Friendship• Brotherhood• High Expectations• Courage• Hope
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In an Ideal School Community…
• There is consistent opportunity to invite, nurture, achieve, and reach full potential respectfully.
• Everyone respects others, fosters growth, and appreciates diversity while being nurturers and lifelong learners.
• There is an eager exchange of thought, where values and opinions are respected, modeled, and accepted.
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In an Ideal School Community…
• Diverse groups share goals, knowledge, and opportunity with support and encouragement from each other.
• Everyone demonstrates respect and cooperation, providing for interdependence among the members, while allowing for uniqueness and creativity.
• Members foster intrinsic motivation in an accepting and nurturing environment – one that values excellence and encourages all to achieve their maximum potential.
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Questions for Reflection:
• How can you make your students feel welcome in your school?
• How can you boost your students’ view of themselves?
• How do you propose to make each student in your school feel?
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THEFIRST HABIT
OF THE HEART:
NURTURING ATTITUDENURTURING ATTITUDE
In the community, a nurturing attitude is characterized by unselfish caring,
supportiveness, and a willingness to share
time.
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Strategies for Promoting a Nurturing Attitude
• Learn at least one personal interest or goal for each of your students. At least once a week, talk to each student about this interest or goal.
• Support your students’ endeavors. • Visit the cafeteria once a week and sit
with different students each time.• Look for what is right and how we can
grow it.
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Questions for Reflection:
• How can you use your position to build community?
• What actions can you take to ensure that you slow down to build relationships? Everything we do is about building relationships!
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THESECOND AND THIRD HABITS OF THE
HEART:
DEPENDABILITY AND DEPENDABILITY AND RESPONSIBILITYRESPONSIBILITY
Within the community, dependability is being there for others through all the times of their lives, a
steady influence that makes tomorrow a welcome event; and responsibility means showing and
encouraging a personal commitment to each task.
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Strategies for Promoting Responsibility
• Enforce established rules that students are to follow.
• Don’t tell others what to do; show them.• Arrive at work on time.• Help students to become in engaged in
their education.• Hold students accountable for meeting
established deadlines.• Are we busy or effective?
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Questions for Reflection:
• What does responsibility look like to you?
• How could you allow new staff members to tap into your wealth of experience as they become part of your teaching-learning community?
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Strategies for Promoting Dependability
• Never go into a classroom under prepared.
• Return graded papers when you promised.
• If a student is absent two days in a row, contact his or her home.
• Be consistent in your educational approach so that students know what to expect.
• Smile first thing and welcome students to school every morning – let them know you’re glad to see them, whether you are in a good mood or not. Start the day positive!
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Questions for Reflection:
• Does circumstance rule the day? What does circumstance vs. commitment mean?
• If you become Ma Ponk (Clifton’s great aunt), what could this type of commitment mean to a new teacher, a fellow employee, or a new or shy student?
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THEFOURTH HABITOF THE HEART:
FRIENDSHIPFRIENDSHIP
Within the community, friendship is the habit that binds people together when they take pleasure in each other’s company, listen,
laugh, and share good times and bad.
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Strategies for Promoting Friendship
• Be open and display a positive attitude.
• Listen to what the students have to say and extend support in the appropriate manner.
• Help students create a community of Friendship in school by finding that special talent each child might contribute to the community.
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Questions for Reflection:
• How can you use Friendship to make all students feel included?
• What happens to the student who feels like an outsider in class?
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THEFIFTH HABIT
OF THE HEART:
BROTHERHOODBROTHERHOOD
Within the community, brotherhood is the habit that reaches beyond comfortable relationships
to extend a welcome to those who may be different from yourself.
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Strategies for Promoting Brotherhood
• Leave your comfort zone and learn what each child needs to excel.
• Promote relationships through peer tutoring or cooperative learning activates.
• Spend time helping students find out what they have in common with others in class. Create common goals and require groups to work together as a team to achieve them.
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Questions for Reflection:
• When and where did you first practice Brotherhood? Who was the beneficiary of your unselfish act?
• What can you do immediately to put this habit into practice in your school?
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THESIXTH HABIT
OF THE HEART:
HIGH EXPECTATIONSHIGH EXPECTATIONS
Within the community, high expectations involve believing that others can be successful, telling them so, and praising their accomplishments.
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Strategies for Promoting High Expectations
• Create a positive-behavior bulletin board in the classroom, display a list of children and their positive behaviors. Catch them doing something good.
• Create a behavior grade by building it from good behaviors, not by taking away from it due to negative behaviors.
• Identify why it is possible!
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Questions for Reflection:
• How can you help your students to grow beyond their social and geographical limitations?
• What is your plan to lift students higher than they can imagine themselves to be?
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THESEVENTH HABITOF THE HEART:
COURAGECOURAGE
Within the community, courage is standing up and doing the right thing, speaking out on
behalf of others, and making a commitment to excellence in the face of adversity or the
absence of support.
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Strategies for Promoting Courage
• Consider doing what is best for the child no matter what.
• Plan activities that allow students to share life experiences that show the importance of Courage, and share courageous experiences of your own.
• Portray Courage in the classroom by not backing down when parents try to force you to change a grade.
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Questions for Reflection:
• When did you last experience an act of Courage within your school?
• What was your reaction to an act of Courage demonstrated by one of your peers?
• How can you be a courageous educator for your students?
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Questions for Reflection:
• Do we operate from what we are committed to?
• Do we operate out of fear or as a blessed person?
• Are we victims of decisions or creators of decisions?
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THEEIGHTH HABITOF THE HEART:
HOPEHOPE
Within the community, hope is believing in tomorrow – because you have learned to see
with your heart.
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Strategies for Promoting Hope
• Encourage students to set high goals for themselves.
• Have students keep journals of what they do each day to achieve their goals.
• Tell students several stories that explain Hope.
• Read biographies that show how someone who starts in modest circumstances can become a great person.
• Don’t plan on a bad day; start each day with an expectation of accomplishment.
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Questions for Reflection:
• Do we focus on what’s wrong or what’s possible?
• What inspires you?• What have you given up on?
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Mr. Meant-To:(The Book of Virtues)
Mr. Meant-To has a comrade,And his name is Didn’t Do;Have you ever chanced to meet them?Did they ever call on you?
These two fellows live together In the house of Never-Win,And I’m told that it is haunted By the ghost of Might-Have-Been.