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Choose Your Own Master Class
Urgent Ideas to Invigorate Your Professional Learning
Design your learning experience from stand-alone chapters to create your own education master class to suit your needs, interests, and schedule. Explore exciting ideas that span a wide range of disciplines, and engage in collaborative conversations to consider how to apply these ideas in your schools and classrooms.
Benefits
- Exercise choice in designing their professional learning.
- Improve individual efficacy and team collaboration skills.
- Increase equity by addressing decision fatigue.
- Cultivate self-awareness and emotional intelligence.
- Access strategies for balancing technology use in the classroom.
- Facilitate civil discourse among students.
- Support student growth and mastery through teacher leadership.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
Chapter 1: Cultivating Self-Awareness and Emotional Intelligence
Chapter 2: Balancing Technology Use in the Classroom
Chapter 3: Fostering Civil Classrooms for a More Civil Society
Chapter 4: Supporting Student Growth and Mastery Through Teacher Leadership
Chapter 5: Reducing Decision Fatigue to Increase Equity
Chapter 6: Telling Stories That Lead to Liberation
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Chapter 1
Chapter 2
- Figure 2.1: Chart for Redesigning Instructional Practices, Procedures, and Classroom Environments to Anchor Students in Time and Place
- Figure 2.2: Chart for Evaluating Tech Tools and Avoiding Duplication
- Figure 2.3: Chart for Planning How to Refuse in Place
- Figure 2.4: Chart for Creating a Classroom Environment Together
- Figure 2.5: My Conversation Quirks
- Figure 2.6: Ways My Conversation Style Has Changed
- Table 2.1: Learning About Surveillance Capitalism Across Content Areas
Chapter 3
- Figure 3.1: Chart for Valuing Our Beliefs and the Other
- Figure 3.2: Chart for Developing Baseline Assumptions and Norms
- Figure 3.3: Who Can Help? Chart
- Figure 3.4: Chart for Recognizing the Position of the Other
- Figure 3.5: Examples of Values
Chapter 4
- Figure 4.1: Chart for Overcoming Reactivity and Building Self-Awareness
- Figure 4.2: Chart for Cultivating Trust
- Figure 4.3: Chart for Amplifying Student Genius
- Figure 4.4: Chart for Identifying Values and Setting Atomic Habits
- Figure 4.5: Chart for Harnessing Individual Genius
Chapter 5
- Figure 5.1: Chart for Establishing Your Classroom Firm
- Figure 5.2: Chart for Implementing Decision Hygiene
- Figure 5.3: Chart for Considering Contributors to Decision Fatigue
- Figure 5.4: Chart for Deciding Who Decides
Chapter 6
- Figure 6.1: Chart for Using Asset-Framed Language in the Classroom
- Figure 6.2: Chart for Rethinking the Story You Tell Yourself
- Figure 6.3: Identity Map—Who Am I?
- Figure 6.4: Chart for Imagining Possibilities Through Storytelling
- Figure 6.5: Chart for Thinking Again
SUGGESTED RESOURCES
BOOKS
- Porosoff, L., & Weinstein, J. (2023). EMPOWER moves for social-emotional learning: Tools and strategies to evoke student values. Bloomington, IN: Solution Tree Press.
WEBSITES
- One School, One Book initiative
- Ten Percent Happier podcast
- We Can Do Hard Things podcast
- Exercises by Byron Katie
- Breethe
- Headspace
- Sanctuary With Rod Stryker
- Smiling Mind
- Google Keep
- Day One app
- National School Reform Faculty resource on the Critical Friends Groups protocol
- Brackett’s Mood Meter
- The Core Emotions
- International Institute for Restorative Practices
- CASEL
- Dare to Lead glossary
- Mood Meter app
- Stolen Focus
- Black Lives Matter at School
- The Center for Teaching Innovation
- The National Equity Project
- The On Being Project
- James Clear
- Dare to Lead list of values
- “Living Into Our Values” exercise
- James Clear’s 3-2-1 newsletter
- Gottman Institute
- The Pinkcast podcast
- Deborah Loewenberg Ball’s presidential keynote address
- Adam Grant
- Trabian Shorters
- “12 Truths I Learned From Life and Writing”
- On Being podcast
- “The Curiosity-Driven Life” podcast episode